The 1985 Retro Hollmann Awards in 2021

And the nominees for the 1985 Retro Hollmann Awards are:

Best Visual Effects

Back to the Future

Kevin Pike, special effects supervisor

Ken Ralston, supervisor of visual effects (ILM)

Cocoon

Greg Cannom, special alien creatures and effects

Peter Anderson, creature development / visual effects

Ken Ralston, visual effects supervisor

Mitch Suskin, visual effects production supervisor

Enemy Mine

Bob MacDonald, Jr., special effects supervisor

Don Dow, visual effects supervisor

Lifeforce

John Gant, special effects

John Dykstra, special visual effects

Robert Shepherd, special effects producer

Young Sherlock Holmes

Stephen Norrington, animatronics supervisor

Kit West, special effects supervisor

Dennis Muren, visual effects supervisor

More, after the jump....

Top Ten of 1985

Honorable Mentions: Fright Night, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, The Return of the Living Dead, Smooth Talk, The Trip to Bountiful, Trouble in Mind, Twice in a Lifetime, Wetherby.

And now, the Top Ten, in alphabetical order.

Horror '85

Many agree that the genre films of the 1980s are unlike anything that came before and cast long shadows over that which came after. This particular genre, horror, is a favorite of mine, and 1985 seems a particularly fertile year for it. Vampires and zombies, some fantasy (though I've saved pure fantasy for another day), a good balance of scares and laughs, here is the year in horror (going by US release dates).