1982

Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
Querelle (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

On Top of the Whale (Raul Ruiz)

Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)

Kamikaze 1989 (Wolf Gremm)

White Dog (Samuel Fuller)

The Thing (John Carpenter)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer)

E.T. The Extraterrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
Tron (Steven Lisberger)

Honorable mention: Conan the Barbarian (John Milius), Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman), Legendary Weapons of China (Liu Chia-Liang), Q (Larry Cohen)