Nominees for Best Picture - 1980s

Name the films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in the 1980s.
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Year
Director
Cast
Film
1989
Bruce Beresford
Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone, Esther Rolle
Driving Miss Daisy
Oliver Stone
Tom Cruise, Kyra Sedgwick, Raymond J. Barry, Jerry Levine, Frank Whaley, Willem Dafoe
Born on the Fourth of July
Peter Weir
Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles, Gale Hansen, Norman Lloyd
Dead Poets Society
Phil Alden Robinson
Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta, Burt Lancaster
Field of Dreams
Jim Sheridan
Daniel Day-Lewis, Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker, Cyril Cusack, Fiona Shaw, Hugh O'Conor, Adrian Dunbar, Ruth McCabe, Alison Whelan
My Left Foot
1988
Barry Levinson
Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino
Rain Man
Lawrence Kasdan
William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Geena Davis, Bill Pullman
The Accidental Tourist
Stephen Frears
Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Swoosie Kurtz, Keanu Reeves, Mildred Natwick, Uma Thurman
Dangerous Liaisons
Alan Parker
Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey
Mississippi Burning
Mike Nichols
Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Melanie Griffith, Alec Baldwin, Joan Cusack, Philip Bosco, Nora Dunn, Oliver Platt
Working Girl
1987
Bernardo Bertolucci
John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ying Ruocheng, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun, Ryuichi Sakamoto
The Last Emperor
James L. Brooks
William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Robert Prosky, Lois Chiles, Joan Cusack
Broadcast News
Adrian Lyne
Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer
Fatal Attraction
John Boorman
Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Derrick O'Connor, Susan Wooldridge, Sammi Davis, Ian Bannen, Sebastian Rice-Edwards
Hope and Glory
Norman Jewison
Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello
Moonstruck
1986
Oliver Stone
Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Keith David, Forest Whitaker, Francesco Quinn, Kevin Dillon
Platoon
Randa Haines
William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie, Philip Bosco
Children of a Lesser God
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, Michael Caine, Mia Farrow, Carrie Fisher, Barbara Hershey, Lloyd Nolan, Maureen O'Sullivan, Daniel Stern, Max von Sydow, Dianne Wiest
Hannah and Her Sisters
Roland Joffé
Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Aidan Quinn, Cherie Lunghi, Ronald Pickup, Chuck Low, Liam Neeson
The Mission
James Ivory
Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott, Judi Dench, Simon Callow, Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, Daniel Day-Lewis, Fabia Drake, Patrick Godfrey, Rupert Graves, Joan Henley, Rosemary Leach
A Room with a View
1985
Sydney Pollack
Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer
Out of Africa
Steven Spielberg
Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Laurence Fishburne
The Color Purple
Héctor Babenco
William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, José Lewgoy, Milton Gonçalves, Denise Dumont
Kiss of the Spider Woman
John Huston
Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Anjelica Huston, Robert Loggia, John Randolph
Prizzi's Honor
Peter Weir
Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer, Lukas Haas, Danny Glover, Patti LuPone, Viggo Mortensen
Witness
1984
Miloš Forman
F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice, Christine Ebersole, Jeffrey Jones, Charles Kay
Amadeus
Roland Joffé
Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, Craig T. Nelson, John Malkovich, Athol Fugard
The Killing Fields
David Lean
Peggy Ashcroft, Judy Davis, James Fox, Alec Guinness, Nigel Havers, Victor Banerjee, Roshan Seth
A Passage to India
Robert Benton
Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Ray Baker, Amy Madigan, John Malkovich, Danny Glover, Terry O'Quinn
Places in the Heart
Norman Jewison
Howard E. Rollins Jr., Adolph Caesar, Art Evans, David Alan Grier, David Harris
A Soldier's Story
1983
James L. Brooks
Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels, John Lithgow
Terms of Endearment
Lawrence Kasdan
Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, JoBeth Williams
The Big Chill
Peter Yates
Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Zena Walker, Eileen Atkins, Michael Gough, Cathryn Harrison
The Dresser
Philip Kaufman
Charles Frank, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Lance Henriksen, Scott Paulin, Dennis Quaid, Sam Shepard, Fred Ward, Kim Stanley, Barbara Hershey, Veronica Cartwright, Pamela Reed
The Right Stuff
Bruce Beresford
Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley, Ellen Barkin
Tender Mercies
1982
Richard Attenborough
Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Martin Sheen
Gandhi
Steven Spielberg
Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Costa-Gavras
Sissy Spacek, Jack Lemmon, Melanie Mayron, John Shea
Missing
Sydney Pollack
Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning
Tootsie
Sidney Lumet
Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason, Milo O'Shea
The Verdict
1981
Hugh Hudson
Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nigel Havers, Cheryl Campbell, Alice Krige, Lindsay Anderson, Dennis Christopher, Nigel Davenport, Brad Davis, Peter Egan, John Gielgud, Ian Holm, Patrick Magee
Chariots of Fire
Louis Malle
Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, Robert Joy, Hollis McLaren, Michel Piccoli, Al Waxman
Atlantic City
Mark Rydell
Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Doug McKeon, Dabney Coleman, William Lanteau
On Golden Pond
Steven Spielberg
Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-Davies, Denholm Elliott
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski, Jack Nicholson, Paul Sorvino
Reds
1980
Robert Redford
Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton, Elizabeth McGovern, M. Emmet Walsh
Ordinary People
Michael Apted
Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo, Levon Helm
Coal Miner's Daughter
David Lynch
John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller
The Elephant Man
Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, Nicholas Colasanto, Theresa Saldana, Frank Vincent
Raging Bull
Roman Polanski
Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson, John Collin, Rosemary Martin, Carolyn Pickles
Tess
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