| Bob Fenster | Arizona Republic | 1989 | Yes |
| Patrick Taggart | Austin American Stateman | 1989 | Yes |
| Stephen Hunter | Baltimore Sun | 1989 | Yes |
| Jeff Simon | Buffalo News | 1989 | No |
| Cahiers du Cinema | | 1989 | No |
| Jonathan Rosenbaum | Chicago Reader | 1989 | Yes |
| Dave Kehr | Chicago Tribune | 1989 | Yes |
| David Sterritt | Christian Science Monitor | 1989 | Yes |
| Guy Flatley | Cosmopolitan Magazine | 1989 | Yes |
| Eleanor Ringel | Cox News Service | 1989 | No |
| Jerry Roberts | Daily Breeze | 1989 | No |
| Philip Wuntch | Dallas Morning News | 1989 | Yes |
| Gary Mullinax | Deleware News Journal | 1989 | No |
| Joan Bunke | Des Moines Register | 1989 | No |
| Tom Long | Detroit Free Press | 1989 | Yes |
| Roger Ebert | Chicago Sun-Times | 1989 | Yes |
| Edmonton Journal | | 1989 | No |
| Richard Corliss | Film Comment | 1989 | Yes |
| Harlen Jacobson | Film Comment | 1989 | No |
| Gavin Smith | Film Comment | 1989 | Yes |
| Anne Thompson | Film Comment | 1989 | Yes |
| Desmond White | Film Comment | 1989 | No |
| Jack Garner | Gannett News Service | 1989 | Yes |
| Joel Siegel | Good Morning America | 1989 | Yes |
| Derek Malcolm | The Guardian | 1989 | No |
| Malcolm Johnson | Hartford Courant | 1989 | No |
| Peter Rosegg | Honolulu Star-Advertiser | 1989 | No |
| David Mannweiler | Indianapolis News | 1989 | No |
| Joanna Langfield | LBS Radio Network | 1989 | Yes |
| L Kent Wolgamott | Lincoln Journal Star | 1989 | No |
| Tom Jacobs | Los Angeles Daily News | 1989 | Yes |
| Bob Strauss | Los Angeles Daily News | 1989 | Yes |
| Sheila Benson | Los Angeles Times | 1989 | Yes |
| Peter Rainer | Los Angeles Times | 1989 | Yes |
| Kevin Thomas | Los Angeles Times | 1989 | Yes |
| Michael Wilmington | Los Angeles Times | 1989 | Yes |
| Peter Mathews | Los Angeles Times | 1989 | No |
| Bill Cosford | Miami Herald | 1989 | No |
| Duane Dudek | Milwaukee Sentinel | 1989 | Yes |
| Paul Willistein and Amy Longsdorf | Morning Call | 1989 | No |
| Keith Roysdon | Muncie Evening Press | 1989 | No |
| National Board of Review | | 1989 | No |
| Arch Campbell | NBC | 1989 | No |
| Robert DiMatteo | NEA | 1989 | No |
| Joe Belk | New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung | 1989 | No |
| David Baron | New Orleans Times-Picayune | 1989 | Yes |
| Andrew Sarris | New York Observer | 1989 | Yes |
| Jami Bernard | New York Post | 1989 | Yes |
| Vincent Canby | New York Times | 1989 | Yes |
| Janet Maslin | New York Times | 1989 | Yes |
| Richard Freedman | Newhouse Newspapers | 1989 | Yes |
| Newsday | | 1989 | No |
| NewsOK | | 1989 | No |
| Northwest Florida Daily News | | 1989 | No |
| Jeffrey Westhoff | Northwest Herald | 1989 | Yes |
| Chuck Davis | The Oklahoman | 1989 | No |
| Jim Emerson | Orange County Register | 1989 | Yes |
| Jay Boyar | Orlando Sentinel | 1989 | Yes |
| Jeff Bahr and Jim Delmont | Omaha World-Herald | 1989 | No |
| The Orgeonian Staff | The Oregonian | 1989 | No |
| Michael Mills | Palm Beach Post | 1989 | No |
| Dan Craft | Pantagraph | 1989 | No |
| Paris News | Paris News | 1989 | No |
| People Magazine | | 1989 | No |
| Carrie Rickey | Philadelphia Inquirer | 1989 | Yes |
| Desmond Ryan | Philadelphia Inquirer | 1989 | Yes |
| George Anderson | Pittsburgh Post Gazette | 1989 | Yes |
| Marylynn Uricchio | Pittsburgh Post Gazette | 1989 | Yes |
| Ed Blank | Pittsburgh Press | 1989 | No |
| Premiere | | 1989 | No |
| Michael Janusonis | Providence Journal | 1989 | Yes |
| George Hatza | Reading Eagle | 1989 | No |
| Tony Lucia | Reading Eagle | 1989 | No |
| Al Walentis | Reading Eagle | 1989 | No |
| Diane Maychick | The Record | 1989 | No |
| Carole Kass | Richmond Times-Dispatch | 1989 | No |
| Daniel Neman | Richmond Times-Dispatch | 1989 | Yes |
| Peter Travers | Rolling Stone | 1989 | Yes |
| J. Rosenbaum | | 1989 | No |
| Joe Baltake | Sacramento Bee | 1989 | Yes |
| Ron Cowan | Salem Statesman Journal | 1989 | No |
| Dick Fleming | Salisbury Daily Times | 1989 | No |
| David Elliott | San Diego Union-Tribune | 1989 | Yes |
| Bill Hagen | San Diego Union Times | 1989 | No |
| Guthmann | San Francisco Chronicle | 1989 | No |
| Judy Stone | San Francisco Chronicle | 1989 | Yes |
| Glenn Lovell | San Jose Mercury News | 1989 | Yes |
| Rick Chatenever | Santa Cruz Sentinel | 1989 | No |
| John Hartl | Seattle Times | 1989 | Yes |
| Gene Siskel | Chicago Tribun | 1989 | No |
| Jeffrey Lyons | Sneak Previews | 1989 | Yes |
| Joe Pollack | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 1989 | Yes |
| Hal Lipper | St. Petersburg Times | 1989 | No |
| Pat Berman | The State | 1989 | No |
| Martin Moynihan | Times Union | 1989 | No |
| Peter Goddard | Toronto Star | 1989 | Yes |
| Ron Wolfe | Tulsa Weekly | 1989 | Yes |
| Dennis King | Tulsa World | 1989 | Yes |
| Mike Clark | USA Today | 1989 | Yes |
| Marshall Fine | USA Today | 1989 | Yes |
| Washington Post | | 1989 | No |
| Stewart Klein | WNYW-TV NY | 1989 | No |
| Vancouver Sun | | 1989 | No |
| Stephen Schiff | Vanity Fair | 1989 | No |
| Georgia Brown | Village Voice | 1989 | No |
| Manohla Dargis | Village Voice | 1989 | No |
| Hoberman | Village Voice | 1989 | No |
| Elliott Stein | Village Voice | 1989 | Yes |
| Taubin | Village Voice | 1989 | No |
| Desson Howe | Washington Post | 1989 | No |
| John Laycock | Windsor Star | 1989 | No |