Each year the Academy publishes a booklet for its members called the Reminder List of Eligible Releases. Listed below are the films that were eligible for Academy Award consideration according to the rules of 1988. The symbol appears next to those films which ultimately received an Academy Award nomination.
Click on the name of one of those films to display more information about it. Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the Reminder List for that year.
Above the Law
Action Jackson
Alien Nation
Aloha Summer
Amsterdamned
And God Created Woman
Anguish
Another Woman
Appointment with Death
Apprentice to Murder
Aria
Arthur 2 On the Rocks
Bad Dreams
Bat 21
The Beast
The Beat
Beatrice
Beethoven’s Nephew
Bellman and True
Betrayed
The Big Blue
Big Business
Big Time
Big Top Pee-Wee
Biloxi Blues
The Blob
Bloodsport
The Boost
Braddock: Missing in Action III
Break of Dawn
Bright Lights, Big City
Bulletproof
Burning Secret
Business as Usual
Caddyshack II
Call Me
Candy Mountain
Carefree Goddesses
Casual Sex?
Child’s Play
The Chocolate War
Clara’s Heart
Clean and Sober
Cocktail
Cocoon: The Return
Colors
Commissar
Consuming Passions
Cop
The Couch Trip
“Crocodile” Dundee II
Crossing Delancey
Da
Dangerous Love
Dead Heat
The Dead Pool
Dead Ringers
Deadly Illusion
Debajo del Mundo (Under the Earth)
The Deceivers
The Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Distant Thunder
D.O.A.
Dominick and Eugene
The Dressmaker
Eight Men Out
18 Again!
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
End of the Line
Ernest Saves Christmas
Everybody’s All-American
Far North
Father
Fear
Feds
Five Corners
For Keeps
Frantic
Freeway
Fresh Horses
Friday the 13th Part VII—The New Blood
Full Moon in Blue Water
Funny Farm
The Girl in a Swing
The Good Mother
The Great Department Store Robbery
The Great Outdoors
Ground Zero
Guys Who Never Learn
Guys Who Never Learn II
Hairspray
Hanna’s War
Haunted Summer
Heartbreak Hotel
The Heartbreak Yakuza
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Hero and the Terror
High Season
High Spirits
Hope and Pain
Hot to Trot
The House on Carroll Street
Imagine: John Lennon
Iron Eagle II
It Takes Two
Johnny Be Good
Julia and Julia
A Killing Afair
The Kiss
The Kitchen Toto
Lady Camellia (Tsubakihime)
Lady in White
The Lair of the White Worm
The Land Before Time
Le Grand Chemin
License to Drive
Light Years
The Lighthorsemen
Little Nikita
Long Live the Lady!
Lurkers
Mac and Me
Madame Sousatzka
Masquerade
Matador
Memories of Me
Messenger of Death
Midnight Crossing
Midnight Run
Miles from Home
Mr. North
The Moderns
Monkey Shines
A Month in the Country
Moon over Parador
Mother
Moving
My Best Friend Is a Vampire
My Stepmother Is an Alien
Mystic Pizza
The Naked Gun from the Files of Police Squad
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
A New Life
A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
1969
Off Limits
Oliver & Company
Pascali’s Island
Patti Rocks
Patty Hearst
Penitentiary III
Permanent Record
Phantasm II
Platoon Leader
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
Poltergeist III
Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw
Powaqqatsi
The Presidio
Prison
Promised Land
Punchline
Purple People Eater
Rambo III
Red Heat
Red Sorghum
Rent-a-Cop
The Rescue
Return of the Living Dead Part II
Return to Snowy River
Rikky and Pete
Rocket Gibraltar
Salome’s Last Dance
Salsa
Satisfaction
School Daze
The Serpent and the Rainbow
The Seventh Sign
Shakedown
Shame
She’s Having a Baby
Shinran: Path to Purity
Shiro and Marilyn
Shoot to Kill
Short Circuit 2
Sister Sister
Someone to Love
Sorceress
Spellbinder
Spike of Bensonhurst
Stars and Bars
Static
Stealing Home
Sticky Fingers
Stormy Monday
A Summer Story
Sweet Hearts Dance
Switching Channels
Talk Radio
Tapeheads
The Telephone
Testimony
They Live
The Thin Blue Line
Things Change
This Story of Love
A Tiger’s Tale
Tiger Warsaw
A Time of Destiny
Tokyo Pop
Tora-San Plays Daddy
Torch Song Trilogy
Track 29
Travelling North
Twins
Two Moon Junction
U2 Rattle and Hum
The Unholy
Vibes
Vice Versa
The Wash
Waxwork
White Mischief
Without a Clue
The Wizard of Loneliness
Women Who Do Not Divorce
A World Apart
World Gone Wild
The Wrong Guys
The Year My Voice Broke
You Can’t Hurry Love
Young Guns
Zelly and Me