Partial list of eligible 1986 films

8 Million Ways to Die (Hal Ashby)
84 Charing Cross Road (David Hugh Jones)
About Last Night (Edward Zwick)
Aliens (James Cameron)
At Close Range (James Foley)
Back to School (Alan Metter)
A Better Tomorrow (John Woo)
Betty Blue (Jean-Jacques Beineix)
Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
Caravaggio (Derek Jarman)
Children of a Lesser God (Randa Haines)
The Color of Money (Martin Scorsese)
Crimes of the Heart (Bruce Beresford)
‘Crocodile’ Dundee (Peter Faiman)
The Delta Force (Menahem Golan)
Down and Out in Beverly Hills (Paul Mazursky)
Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch)
Dust in the Wind (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (John Hughes)
The Fly (David Cronenberg)
Ginger and Fred (Federico Fellini)
Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
Heartbreak Ridge (Clint Eastwood)
Heartburn (Mike Nichols)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (John MacNaughton)
Hoosiers (David Anspaugh)
Horse Thief (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
Jean de Florette (Claude Berri)
Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki)
Little Shop of Horrors (Frank Oz)
Lucas (David Seltzer)
Manhunter (Michael Mann)
Manon of the Spring (Claude Berri)
Matador (Pedro Almodovar)
Mauvais Sang (Leos Carax)
Melo (Alain Resnais)
The Mission (Roland Joffé)
Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan)
The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir)
Peggy Sue Got Married (Francis Ford Coppola)
Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark)
Phenomena (Dario Argento)
Platoon (Oliver Stone)
Pretty in Pink (Howard Deutch)
River’s Edge (Tim Hunter)
A Room With a View (James Ivory)
Ruthless People (Jerry Zucker/Jim Abrahams/David Zucker)
The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Salvador (Oliver Stone)
Shadows in Paradise (Aki Kaurismaki)
Sherman’s March (Ross McElwee)
She’s Gotta Have It (Spike Lee)
Sid and Nancy (Alex Cox)
Something Wild (Jonathan Demme)
Stand By Me (Rob Reiner)
Star Trek IV (Leonard Nimoy)
Summer / The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer)
Tampopo (Juzo Itami)
The Terrorizer (Edward Yang)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 2 (Tobe Hooper)
Three Amigos! (John Landis)
Top Gun (Tony Scott)
True Stories (David Byrne)
Two Friends (Jane Campion)
Under the Cherry Moon (Prince)