My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with me or inspire, both at the time, and still today. Subject to alter choices if new viewings are worthy enough. Other published Film Honors posts can be found at the menu at the top of the page.
Picture Editing
Die Hard
Mississippi Burning
Powaqqatsi
Salaam Bombay!
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Actress Support
Juliette Binoche (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
Anita Kanwar (Salaam Bombay!)
Jodhi May (A World Apart)
Linda Mvusi (A World Apart)
Michelle Pfeiffer (Dangerous Liaisons)
Sound Designing
Beetlejuice
Die Hard
Gorillas in the Mist
Mississippi Burning
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Special Effects
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Beetlejuice
Die Hard
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Willow
Actress Lead
Glenn Close (Dangerous Liaisons)
Jodie Foster (The Accused)
Barbara Hershey (A World Apart)
Isabelle Huppert (Une affaire de femmes)
Sigourney Weaver (Gorillas in the Mist)
Cinematography
Graham Berry, Leonidas Zourdoumis (Powaqqatsi)
Peter Biziou (A World Apart)
Blasco Giurato (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso)
Philippe Rousselot (Dangerous Liaisons)
Carlo Varini (The Big Blue)
Set Designing
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Beetlejuice
Dangerous Liaisons
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Willow
Costume Designing
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Beetlejuice
Dangerous Liaisons
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Willow
Score Composing
Danny Elfman (Beetlejuice)
Philip Glass (Powaqqatsi)
James Horner (Willow)
Maurice Jarre (Gorillas in the Mist)
Ennio Morricone, Andrea Morricone (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso)
Cast Ensemble
A Fish Called Wanda
Beetlejuice
Dangerous Liaisons
Salaam Bombay!
Scrooged
Actor Support
Salvatore Cascio (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso)
Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda)
Michael Palin (A Fish Called Wanda)
Alan Rickamn (Die Hard)
Shafiq Syed (Salaam Bombay!)
Actor Lead
Gene Hackman (Mississippi Burning)
Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man)
Michael Keaton (Beetlejuice)
John Malkovich (Dangerous Liaisons)
Philippe Noiret (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso)
Directing
Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liaisons)
Krzysztof Kieślowski (Krótki film o milosci)
Krzysztof Kieślowski (Krótki film o zabijaniu)
John McTiernan (Die Hard)
Mira Nair (Salaam Bombay!)
Giuseppe Tornatore (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso)
Screenwriting Adapted
Jean-Claude Carrière, Philip Kaufman (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
Mitch Glazer, Michael O’Donoghue (Scrooged)
Anna Hamilton Phelan, Tab Murphy (Gorillas in the Mist)
Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons)
Isao Takahata (Hotaru no haka)
Screenwriting Original
John Cleese, Charles Crichton (A Fish Called Wanda)
Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz (Krótki film o milosci)
Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz (Krótki film o zabijaniu)
Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
Anne Spielberg, Gary Ross (Big)
Giuseppe Tornatore (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso)
Motion Picture
A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton) UK / USA
Beetlejuice (Tim Burton) USA
Big (Penny Marshall) USA
Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears) USA
Die Hard (John McTiernan) USA
Hotaru no haka (Isao Takahata) Japan
Krótki film o milosci (Krzysztof Kieślowski) Poland
Krótki film o zabijaniu (Krzysztof Kieślowski) Poland
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore) Italy
Salaam Bombay! (Mira Nair) India
Scrooged (Richard Donner) USA
A World Apart (Chris Menges) UK / Zimbabwe
A pretty strong year for solid comedy films, with a wide range of drama spreading the wealth for the cinema of 1988. Let us know your thoughts on the year in the comments below.
Filmotomy 
So what you’re saying is I need to see Salaam Bombay! (which I’ve never even heard of before), along with Dangerous Liaisons, and A World Apart. I really enjoyed Cinema Paradiso which I just saw the first time a few weeks back, but for me, this year is all about Die Hard.
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Yeah Die Hard is great. This year was tough.
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