wow... This was ridiculously hard and took way longer than I expected. I should have just done my favorites from every year since YOU were born. I'm getting old. There are some ties in here, and many amazing ones left out. 1975 - Barry Lindon/Holy Grail
1976 - Taxi Driver
1977 - A New Hope
1978 - Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (so bad it's good)
1979 - Being There/Mad Max/Breaking Away
1980 - Empire Strikes Back
1981 - Clash of the Titans (since thenewgreen already chose Raiders)
1982 - Blade Runner (honorable mentions, but not ties - TRON and Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
1983 - The Outsiders
1984 - Red Dawn (duh)
1985 - Breakfast Club
1986 - Big Trouble in Little China/Jean De Florette & Manon of the Spring (two movies - one long tragic french story)
1987 - The Last Emporer/Full Metal Jacket/Princess Bride
1988 - Die Hard/Cinema Paradiso
1989 - Dead Poets Society
1990 - Joe Versus the Volcano
1991 - Raise the Red Lantern
1992 - Stricly Ballroom/Reservoir Dogs
1993 - Benny & Joon
1994 - The Shawshank Redemption/Eat Drink Man Woman/The Hudsucker Proxy
1995 - Heat
1996 - Trainspotting/Bottle Rocket
1997 - Gattaca/The Fifth Element
1998 - Ronin/Waking Ned Devine
1999 - Magnolia
2000 - The Million Dollar Hotel/Drowning Mona
2001 - Moulin Rouge!
2002 - In America
2003 - Love Actually
2004 - Napolean Dynamite/Layer Cake
2005 - Serenity/Brick
2006 - Children of Men/This is England
2007 - There Will Be Blood (Control was amazing - but not quite a tie)
2008 - The Dark Knight
2009 - Everybody's Fine/The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series
2010 - Inception/Biutiful
2011 - The Intouchables
2012 - Moonrise Kingdom
2013 - ………