1984

* = winner

BEST MOVIE:

Amadeus

Beverly Hills Cop*

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Streets of Fire

This Is Spinal Tap


BEST DIRECTOR:

Martin Brest, Beverly Hills Cop

James Cameron, The Terminator

Milos Forman, Amadeus

Walter Hill, Streets of Fire*

Steven Spielberg, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom


BEST MALE PERFORMANCE:

Philip Baker Hall, Secret Honor

John Hurt, The Hit

Eddie Murphy, Beverly Hills Cop*

Terence Stamp, The Hit

Harry Dean Stanton, Paris, Texas


BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE:

Mia Farrow, Broadway Danny Rose

Melanie Griffith, Body Double

Nastassja Kinski, Paris, Texas*

Jessica Lange, Country

Frances McDormand, Blood Simple


BEST SCREENPLAY:

Amadeus

Beverly Hills Cop

Blood Simple

The Hit

This Is Spinal Tap*


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Amadeus

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Once Upon a Time in America*

Paris, Texas

Streets of Fire


BEST EDITING:

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Romancing the Stone

Stop Making Sense*

Streets of Fire

This Is Spinal Tap


BEST MUSIC:

Amadeus

Beverly Hills Cop*

Footloose

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Once Upon a Time in America


BEST PRODUCTION:

Amadeus

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom*

Once Upon a Time in America

Streets of Fire

The Terminator


BEST CAST:

Beverly Hills Cop*

Footloose

Once Upon a Time in America

Sixteen Candles

This Is Spinal Tap


BEST COLLABORATION:

F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce, Amadeus

John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands, Love Streams

Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, Romancing the Stone

Fire Inc. and Jim Steinman, (“Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young”) Streets of Fire*

Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita, The Karate Kid


BEST ARTIST:

Jonathan Demme and Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense

Milos Forman, Amadeus*

Sergio Leone, Once Upon a Time in America

Prince, Purple Rain

Wim Wenders, Paris, Texas

1985

* = winner

BEST MOVIE:

After Hours

Back to the Future

The Breakfast Club

Police Story*

To Live and Die in L.A.


BEST DIRECTOR:

Jackie Chan, Police Story

Elem Klimov, Come and See

William Friedkin, To Live and Die in L.A.*

Martin Scorsese, After Hours

Robert Zemeckis, Back to the Future


BEST MALE PERFORMANCE:

Jackie Chan, Police Story*

Harrison Ford, Witness

William Hurt, Kiss of the Spider Woman

Raul Julia, Kiss of the Spider Woman

Aleksey Kravchenko, Come and See


BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE:

Rosanna Arquette, After Hours

Sandrine Bonnaire, Vagabond

Whoopi Goldberg, The Color Purple

Joyce Hyser, Just One of the Guys

Grazyna Szapolowska, No End*


BEST SCREENPLAY:

After Hours*

Back to the Future

The Breakfast Club

Clue

Tampopo


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

After Hours

Come and See

Flesh + Blood

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Ran*


BEST EDITING:

After Hours

Back to the Future

Police Story*

Re-Animator

To Live and Die in L.A.


BEST MUSIC:

Back to the Future

The Breakfast Club*

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Police Story

To Live and Die in L.A.


BEST PRODUCTION:

Back to the Future*

Brazil

Legend

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

Ran


BEST CAST:

Back to the Future

The Breakfast Club

Clue*

The Goonies

A Room with a View


BEST COLLABORATION:

Rosanna Arquette and Madonna, Desperately Seeking Susan*

Albert Brooks and Julie Hagerty, Lost in America

John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga, The Sure Thing

Sally Field and James Garner, Murphy’s Romance

William Hurt and Raul Julia, Kiss of the Spider Woman


BEST ARTIST:

Jackie Chan, Police Story

Terry Gilliam, Brazil

Jean-Luc Godard, Hail Mary

Lasse Hallström, My Life as a Dog

Elem Klimov, Come and See*

1986

* = winner

BEST MOVIE:

Aliens

Blue Velvet

Ferris Bueller's Day Off*

Hoosiers

Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring


BEST DIRECTOR:

Claude Berri, Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring

James Cameron, Aliens

Leos Carax, Mauvais Sang

David Lynch, Blue Velvet*

Tian Zhuangzhuang, The Horse Thief


BEST MALE PERFORMANCE:

Dexter Gordon, ‘Round Midnight

Rutger Hauer, The Hitcher

Paul Hogan, Crocodile Dundee

Paul Newman, The Color of Money

Gary Oldman, Sid and Nancy*


BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE:

Béatrice Dalle, Betty Blue

Tracy Camilla Johns, She’s Gotta Have It

Marlee Matlin, Children of a Lesser God

Sigourney Weaver, Aliens*

Chloe Webb, Sid and Nancy


BEST SCREENPLAY:

Blue Velvet

Ferris Bueller's Day Off*

Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring

Mona Lisa

Platoon


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Blue Velvet

The Horse Thief*

Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring

Manhunter

The Sacrifice


BEST EDITING:

Aliens

Blue Velvet

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Mauvais Sang*

Platoon


BEST MUSIC:

Hoosiers*

The Mission

‘Round Midnight

Sid and Nancy

Top Gun


BEST PRODUCTION:

Aliens*

The Fly

Platoon

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Top Gun


BEST CAST:

Blue Velvet

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring

Mona Lisa

Platoon*


BEST COLLABORATION:

Angelo Badalamenti, Julee Cruise, and David Lynch, (“Mysteries of Love”) Blue Velvet

Roberto Benigni, John Lurie, and Tom Waits, Down by Law*

Corey Feldman, Jerry O’Connell, River Phoenix, and Wil Wheaton, Stand by Me

C. Thomas Howell and Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hitcher

Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb, Sid and Nancy


BEST ARTIST:

Claude Berri, Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring*

Aki Kaurismäki, Shadows in Paradise

David Lynch, Blue Velvet

Andrei Tarkovsky, The Sacrifice

Tian Zhuangzhuang, The Horse Thief

1987

* = winner

BEST MOVIE:

Beverly Hills Cop II

Lethal Weapon*

Little Dorrit

The Monster Squad

The Untouchables


BEST DIRECTOR:

Brian De Palma, The Untouchables

Richard Donner, Lethal Weapon

Christine Edzard, Little Dorrit*

Tony Scott, Beverly Hills Cop II

Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire


BEST MALE PERFORMANCE:

Christian Bale, Empire of the Sun*

Robert Downey Jr., Less Than Zero

Richard E. Grant, Withnail & I

Mark Harmon, Summer School

Mickey Rourke, Barfly


BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE:

Cher, Moonstruck

Holly Hunter, Broadcast News*

Anjelica Huston, The Dead

Mary Stuart Masterson, Some Kind of Wonderful

Sarah Pickering, Little Dorrit


BEST SCREENPLAY:

Broadcast News

Lethal Weapon*

The Monster Squad

The Princess Bride

The Year My Voice Broke


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Empire of the Sun

The Last Emperor

The Untouchables

Wings of Desire*

Wolf’s Hole


BEST EDITING:

Blind Chance

Evil Dead II

Full Metal Jacket

Lethal Weapon*

The Untouchables


BEST MUSIC:

Angel Heart

Dirty Dancing

Empire of the Sun

The Last Emperor

The Untouchables*


BEST PRODUCTION:

Empire of the Sun

The Last Emperor

Lethal Weapon

The Princess Bride*

The Untouchables


BEST CAST:

Broadcast News

Little Dorrit

Matewan

The Princess Bride

The Untouchables*


BEST COLLABORATION:

John Ashton, Eddie Murphy, and Judge Reinhold, Beverly Hills Cop II*

Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman, Ishtar

John Candy and Steve Martin, Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Susan Sarandon, The Witches of Eastwick

Mel Gibson and Danny Glover, Lethal Weapon


BEST ARTIST:

Christine Edzard, Little Dorrit

Krzysztof Kieślowski, Blind Chance

Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket

Sam Raimi, Evil Dead II

Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire*

1988

* = winner

BEST MOVIE:

Cinema Paradiso

Die Hard*

Miracle Mile

A Short Film About Love

Tucker: The Man and His Dream


BEST DIRECTOR:

Francis Ford Coppola, Tucker: The Man and His Dream

Steve De Jarnatt, Miracle Mile

Krzysztof Kieślowski, A Short Film About Killing

John McTiernan, Die Hard

Giuseppe Tornatore, Cinema Paradiso*


BEST MALE PERFORMANCE:

Kevin Kline, A Fish Called Wanda

Bill Murray, Scrooged

Philippe Noiret, Cinema Paradiso

Forest Whitaker, Bird

Bruce Willis, Die Hard*


BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE:

Isabelle Adjani, Camille Claudel

Glenn Close, Dangerous Liaisons

Jamie Lee Curtis, A Fish Called Wanda*

Jodie Foster, The Accused

Meryl Streep, A Cry in the Dark


BEST SCREENPLAY:

Cinema Paradiso

Die Hard*

A Fish Called Wanda

A Short Film About Love

The Vanishing


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Cinema Paradiso

Distant Voices, Still Lives

A Short Film About Killing*

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

The Unbearable Lightness of Being


BEST EDITING:

Cinema Paradiso

Die Hard*

Miracle Mile

The Thin Blue Line

Tucker: The Man and His Dream


BEST MUSIC:

Beetlejuice

Big Time

Cinema Paradiso*

My Neighbor Totoro

A Short Film About Love


BEST PRODUCTION:

Beetlejuice

Dangerous Liaisons

Die Hard*

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

Who Framed Roger Rabbit


BEST CAST:

Die Hard

A Fish Called Wanda*

Running on Empty

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Working Girl


BEST COLLABORATION:

Michael Caine and Steve Martin, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin, Midnight Run

Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham, Miracle Mile

Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, and Lili Taylor, Mystic Pizza

Olaf Lubaszenko and Grazyna Szapolowska, A Short Film About Love*


BEST ARTIST:

Krzysztof Kieślowski, A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love*

Mira Nair, Salaam Bombay!

Martin Scorsese, The Last Temptation of Christ

Isao Takahata, Grave of the Fireflies

Giuseppe Tornatore, Cinema Paradiso

2022 (music)

Fun fact: I saw this year's ROTY and SOTY winners open for my AOTY winner on that album cycle.

* = winner

Album of the Year:

Blue Rev - Alvvays

Crybaby - Tegan and Sara*

Expert In A Dying Field - The Beths

i don’t know who needs to hear this… - Tomberlin

Tough Boy - Carlie Hanson


Record of the Year:

“608” - Carlie Hanson*

“Free” - Florence and the Machine

“I Can’t Grow Up” - Tegan and Sara

“Shotgun” - Soccer Mommy

“Unconditional II (Race and Religion)” - Arcade Fire ft. Peter Gabriel


Song of the Year:

“2am” - The Beths

“Belinda Says” - Alvvays

“happy accident” - Tomberlin*

“The Heart Part 5” - Kendrick Lamar

“Illusion” - Carlie Hanson


Performance of the Year:

“Belinda Says” - Alvvays*

“Expert In A Dying Field” - The Beths

“happy accident” - Tomberlin

“The Heart Part 5” - Kendrick Lamar

“Whatever That Was” - Tegan and Sara


Artist of the Year:

Alvvays

Dehd

Harry Styles

Tegan and Sara*

Wet Leg

1989

Note: Twin Peaks is the international version of the pilot episode, which was released as a film.

* = winner

BEST MOVIE:

The ‘Burbs

Do the Right Thing

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Twin Peaks*

Weekend at Bernie’s


BEST DIRECTOR:

Tim Burton, Batman

Joe Dante, The ‘Burbs

Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing*

David Lynch, Twin Peaks

Steven Spielberg, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade


BEST MALE PERFORMANCE:

Kenneth Branagh, Henry V

Beau Bridges, The Fabulous Baker Boys

Jeff Bridges, The Fabulous Baker Boys*

Daniel Day-Lewis, My Left Foot

Denzel Washington, Glory


BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE:

Pauline Collins, Shirley Valentine

Andie MacDowell, Sex, Lies, and Videotape

Michelle Pfeiffer, The Fabulous Baker Boys*

Meg Ryan, When Harry Met Sally…

Laura San Giacomo, Sex, Lies, and Videotape


BEST SCREENPLAY:

Do the Right Thing

The Fabulous Baker Boys

Sex, Lies, and Videotape*

The War of the Roses

When Harry Met Sally…


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

The Abyss

Batman

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

Do the Right Thing*

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade


BEST EDITING:

The Abyss

Do the Right Thing*

The Fabulous Baker Boys

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

The Killer


BEST MUSIC:

Batman*

Do the Right Thing

Field of Dreams

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

The Little Mermaid


BEST PRODUCTION:

The Abyss

Back to the Future Part II

Batman

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade*

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier


BEST CAST:

The ‘Burbs

Dead Poets Society

Do the Right Thing

Major League

Twin Peaks*


BEST COLLABORATION:

Sean Connery and Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan, When Harry Met Sally…

Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, The War of the Roses

Mel Gibson and Danny Glover, Lethal Weapon 2

Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman, Weekend at Bernie’s*


BEST ARTIST:

Denys Arcand, Jesus of Montreal

Peter Greenaway, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

Michael Haneke, The Seventh Continent

Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing*

David Lynch, Twin Peaks