The Year in Film: 1988


Best Picture
#1: Dead Ringers (dir: David Cronenberg)
#2: The Vanishing (dir: George Sluizer)
#3: The Last Temptation of Christ (dir: Martin Scorsese)
#4: The Thin Blue Line (dir: Errol Morris)
#5: Another Woman (dir: Woody Allen)
#6: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (dir: Philip Kaufman)
#7: Pelle the Conquerer (dir: Bille August)
#8: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
 (dir: Pedro Almodovar)
#9: A Fish Called Wanda
 (dir: Charles Crichton)
#10: Cinema Paradiso (dir: Giuseppe Tornatore)

Honorable Mentions: 
Working Girl (dir: Mike Nichols)Tucker: The Man and His Dream (dir: Francis Ford Coppola), Talk Radio (dir: Oliver Stone), Mississippi Burning (dir: Alan Parker)Bird (dir: Clint Eastwood), Who Framed Roger Rabbit?  (dir: Robert Zemeckis), Running on Empty (dir: Sidney Lumet)Murder of Mary Phagan (dir: Billy Hale), Beetlejuice (dir: Tim Burton), Salaam Bombay!(dir: Mira Nair)and My Neighbor Totoro (dir: Hiyao Miyazaki).