Academy Award for Best Picture (1980s) facts for kids

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the most important awards given out each year. These awards are also known as the Oscars. They are given to people who work in the movie industry by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). The Best Picture award goes to the movie that is considered the best film of the year.

Best Picture Winners of the 1980s

This section lists the movies that won the Best Picture Oscar from 1980 to 1989. For each year, the winning movie is listed first, followed by the other movies that were nominated.

1980

• Ordinary People
  • Coal Miner's Daughter
  • The Elephant Man
  • Raging Bull
  • Tess

1981

• Chariots of Fire
  • Atlantic City
  • On Golden Pond
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • Reds

1982

• Gandhi
  • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
  • Missing
  • Tootsie
  • The Verdict

1983

• Terms of Endearment
  • The Big Chill
  • The Dresser
  • The Right Stuff
  • Tender Mercies

1984

• Amadeus
  • The Killing Fields
  • A Passage to India
  • Places in the Heart
  • A Soldier's Story

1985

• Out of Africa
  • The Color Purple
  • Kiss of the Spider Woman
  • Prizzi's Honor
  • Witness

1986

• Platoon
  • Children of a Lesser God
  • Hannah and Her Sisters
  • The Mission
  • A Room with a View

1987

• The Last Emperor
  • Broadcast News
  • Fatal Attraction
  • Hope and Glory
  • Moonstruck

1988

• Rain Man
  • The Accidental Tourist
  • Dangerous Liaisons
  • Mississippi Burning
  • Working Girl

1989

• Driving Miss Daisy
  • Born on the Fourth of July
  • Dead Poets Society
  • Field of Dreams
  • My Left FootAcademy Award for Best Picture#1980s