best films 1981

Blind chance  (Poland)  Kyrzystof Kieslowski
Fanny and alexander  (Sweden)  Ingmar Bergman
Francisca  (Portugal)  Manuel Oliviera
Lola  (Germany)  Reiner Fassbinder
Man of iron  (Poland)  Andrsej Wajda
Modern romance  (Usa)  Albert Brooks
On top of the whale  (Denmark/Chile)  Raul Ruiz
The aviators wife  (France)  Eric Rohmer
The prodigal son  (Hong kong)  Sammo Hung
Thief  (Usa)  Michael Mann



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Man of Iron
Best Director:  Ingmar Bergman

Achievement Award: Raul Ruiz

best films 1980

Berlin alexanderplatz  (Germany)  Reiner Fassbinder
Bronco billy  (Usa)  Clint Eastwood

Germany pale mother (Germany) Helma Brahms
Loulou  (France)  Maurice Pialat
Mandala  (Korea) Im Kwon Taek
Melvin and howard  (Usa)  John Demme
My american uncle  (France)  Alain Resnais
The big red one  (Usa)  Sam Fuller
The shining  (Britain/Usa)  Stanley Kubrick
Gregorys girl (Britain) Bill Forsyth


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Berlin Alexanderplatz
Best Director:  Stanley Kubrick

Achievement Award:  Maurice Pialat


The Hall of Fame

Alfred Hitchcock 38

Howard Hawks 29

Kenji Mizoguchi 28

Victor Sjostrom 28

Yasujiro Ozu 26

Georges Melies 26

Carl Dreyer 25

Luis Bunuel 24
Jean Renoir 24

Albert Capellani 24
Robert Bresson 23
Roberto Rossellini 21
Jean Luc Godard 21
Yevgeni Bauer 21

Sergei Eisenstein 18

Reiner Fassbinder 18

Mikio Naruse 18

Satyajit Ray 16
Michael Powell 16
Maz Ophuls 16

DW Griffiths 16 

Orson Welles 16

Andrei Tarkovsky 15

Stanley Kubrick 15

Michaelangelo Antonioni 15

Josef Sternberg 15

John Ford  15
Jean Epstein 14
Eric Rohmer 14

Charlie Chaplin 13
Ernst Lubitsch 13

Nicholas Ray 13

Alexander Dovshenko 13

FW Murnau 13

Fritz Lang 13

Billy Wilder 13
Frederic Fellini 12
Mauritz Stiller 12
Werner Herzog 12
Ferdinand Zecca 11

Luchino Visconte 10

Leo Mccarey 10
King Vidor 9
John  Cassavetes 9

Terence Malick 9
Maurice Tourneur 9
Ladislas Starevich 9

cine-o-meter: Usa 229 Fra 122 Jap 54 Ger 44 Ita 40  Rus 39 Bri 33 Ind 23 Swe 19 Den 7 Mex 7 Cze 6 Chi 6

best films 1979

Alexandria why  (Egypt)  Youseff Chahine
Ekdin pratidin  (India)  Mrinal Sen

From the clouds to the resistance (Italy/France) Jean marie Straub
My brilliant career  (Australia)  Gillian Armstrong
Stalker  (Russia)  Andrei Tarkovsky
Tale of tales  (Russia)  Yuri Norstein
Ten  (Usa)  Blake Edwards
The hypothesis of the stolen painting  (France/Chile)  Raul Ruiz 
The marriage of maria braun  (Germany)  Rainer Fassbinder
Vengeance is mine  (Japan)  Shohei Imamura




The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Stalker
Best Director: Rainer Fassbinder

Achievement Award: Youssef Chahine

best films 1978

An unmarried woman (Usa)  Paul Mazursky
Days of heaven  (Usa)  Terence Malick
Doomed love  (Portugal)  Manuel Oliviera
Fedora  (Germany/Austria)  Billy Wilder

Graduate first  (France)  Maurice Pialat
Halloween  (Usa)  John Carpenter 

Meetings of anna (France/Belgium) Chantal Ackerman
Perceval  (France)  Eric Rohmer
The driver  (Usa)  Walter Hill
Violette noziere  (France)  Claude Chabrol

The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Days of heaven
Best Director: Manoel Oliviera

Achievement Award:  Walter Hill