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The Writers Guild of America, West has announced its 2014 Feature Access Project honorees, recognizing nine Wgaw members who competed in the Guild’s diversity screenwriting program. This year’s Fap honorees and their screenplays are: Radha Bharadwaj – Final Boarding Soo-Hyun Chung – Faith Q.Terah Jackson III – Rustin Joy Kecken – All-In Tianna Majumdar-Langham & Chris Bessounian – Guns and Saris Latoya Morgan – Same River Twice Nayan Padrai – Billion Dollar Raja Galen Tong – The Monkey King Coordinated by the Wgaw Diversity Department, the Guild project seeks to identify outstanding diverse writers and make...

As all lovers of crime, suspense thriller, war, western, horror and science fiction films know, creating a truly great cinematic villain is no easy task. When it happens, it’s virtually impossible to forget that character.

We’ll now take a look at the greatest film villains of the 1980’s.

The criteria for this article is the same as my previous article Cinema’s Greatest Villains: The 1970’s: the villains must be from live-action films-no animated features-and must pose some type of direct or indirect lethal threat. The villains can be either individuals or small groups that act as one unit.

The villains must be human or human in appearance, so no shape-shifting alien from John Carpenter’s amazing 1982 The Thing, no Aliens from James Cameron’s classic 1986 sequel and no Predator from John McTiernan’s beloved 1987 film of the same name.

Also, individuals that are the central protagonists/antiheroes...