25th Anniversary Award: Best Film, 1985

1. Brazil (dir. Terry Gilliam) [144 points / 21 votes]

2. Ran (Akira Kurosawa) [128/19]
3. After Hours (Martin Scorsese) [110/19]
4. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis) [84/13]
5. Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (Tim Burton) [78/14]

6. The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen) [58/10]
7. Lost in America (Albert Brooks) [46/7]
8. Come and See (Elem Klimov) [37/6]
9. The Breakfast Club (John Hughes) [32/5]
10. Mishima (Paul Schrader) [30/5]
11. Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon) [28/5]
12. Vagabond (Agnes Varda) [25/5]
13. Prizzi’s Honor (John Huston) [25/4]
14 (tie). Return of the Living Dead (Dan O’Bannon) [22/3]
Shoah (Claude Lanzmann) [22/3]
16. Day of the Dead (George A. Romero) [18/4]
17. 28 Up (Michael Apted) [18/3]
18. Witness (Peter Weir) [9/2]
19. My Life As a Dog (Lasse Hallstrom) [8/2]

The following films received one vote apiece:

Alpine Fire
Crime Wave
Desperately Seeking Susan
Explorers
Fletch
Fright Night
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Matador
My Beautiful Launderette
O.C. and Stiggs
Out of Africa
Pale Rider
Rocky IV
A Time to Live and a Time to Die
To Live and Die in L.A.
Vampires in Havana
Wetherby