Statistics for Nominees for Best Picture - 1980s

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Year	Director	Cast	Film	% Correct
1989	Bruce Beresford	Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone, Esther Rolle	Driving Miss Daisy	96%
1988	Barry Levinson	Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino	Rain Man	79%
1984	Miloš Forman	F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice, Christine Ebersole, Jeffrey Jones, Charles Kay	Amadeus	61%
1982	Richard Attenborough	Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Martin Sheen	Gandhi	61%
1989	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	61%
1986	Oliver Stone	Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Keith David, Forest Whitaker, Francesco Quinn, Kevin Dillon	Platoon	57%
1982	Sydney Pollack	Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning	Tootsie	57%
1989	Peter Weir	Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles, Gale Hansen, Norman Lloyd	Dead Poets Society	54%
1987	Adrian Lyne	Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer	Fatal Attraction	54%
1983	James L. Brooks	Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels, John Lithgow	Terms of Endearment	54%
1982	Steven Spielberg	Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	50%
1981	Mark Rydell	Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Doug McKeon, Dabney Coleman, William Lanteau	On Golden Pond	50%
1981	Steven Spielberg	Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-Davies, Denholm Elliott	Raiders of the Lost Ark	50%
1985	Sydney Pollack	Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer	Out of Africa	46%
1989	Oliver Stone	Tom Cruise, Kyra Sedgwick, Raymond J. Barry, Jerry Levine, Frank Whaley, Willem Dafoe	Born on the Fourth of July	43%
1980	Robert Redford	Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton, Elizabeth McGovern, M. Emmet Walsh	Ordinary People	43%
1980	Martin Scorsese	Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, Nicholas Colasanto, Theresa Saldana, Frank Vincent	Raging Bull	43%
1985	Steven Spielberg	Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Laurence Fishburne	The Color Purple	43%
1987	Bernardo Bertolucci	John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ying Ruocheng, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun, Ryuichi Sakamoto	The Last Emperor	43%
1985	Peter Weir	Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer, Lukas Haas, Danny Glover, Patti LuPone, Viggo Mortensen	Witness	43%
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	39%
1987	Norman Jewison	Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello	Moonstruck	39%
1981	Warren Beatty	Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski, Jack Nicholson, Paul Sorvino	Reds	39%
1980	David Lynch	John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller	The Elephant Man	39%
1988	Mike Nichols	Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Melanie Griffith, Alec Baldwin, Joan Cusack, Philip Bosco, Nora Dunn, Oliver Platt	Working Girl	39%
1986	Randa Haines	William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie, Philip Bosco	Children of a Lesser God	36%
1989	Phil Alden Robinson	Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta, Burt Lancaster	Field of Dreams	36%
1986	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	36%
1988	Alan Parker	Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey	Mississippi Burning	36%
1980	Michael Apted	Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo, Levon Helm	Coal Miner's Daughter	32%
1988	Stephen Frears	Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Swoosie Kurtz, Keanu Reeves, Mildred Natwick, Uma Thurman	Dangerous Liaisons	32%
1985	Héctor Babenco	William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, José Lewgoy, Milton Gonçalves, Denise Dumont	Kiss of the Spider Woman	32%
1984	Roland Joffé	Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, Craig T. Nelson, John Malkovich, Athol Fugard	The Killing Fields	29%
1984	David Lean	Peggy Ashcroft, Judy Davis, James Fox, Alec Guinness, Nigel Havers, Victor Banerjee, Roshan Seth	A Passage to India	25%
1985	John Huston	Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Anjelica Huston, Robert Loggia, John Randolph	Prizzi's Honor	25%
1982	Sidney Lumet	Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason, Milo O'Shea	The Verdict	25%
1981	Louis Malle	Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, Robert Joy, Hollis McLaren, Michel Piccoli, Al Waxman	Atlantic City	21%
1987	James L. Brooks	William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Robert Prosky, Lois Chiles, Joan Cusack	Broadcast News	21%
1983	Lawrence Kasdan	Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, JoBeth Williams	The Big Chill	21%
1983	Peter Yates	Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Zena Walker, Eileen Atkins, Michael Gough, Cathryn Harrison	The Dresser	21%
1984	Robert Benton	Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Ray Baker, Amy Madigan, John Malkovich, Danny Glover, Terry O'Quinn	Places in the Heart	14%
1983	Bruce Beresford	Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley, Ellen Barkin	Tender Mercies	14%
1988	Lawrence Kasdan	William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Geena Davis, Bill Pullman	The Accidental Tourist	14%
1986	Roland Joffé	Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Aidan Quinn, Cherie Lunghi, Ronald Pickup, Chuck Low, Liam Neeson	The Mission	14%
1986	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	11%
1982	Costa-Gavras	Sissy Spacek, Jack Lemmon, Melanie Mayron, John Shea	Missing	11%
1980	Roman Polanski	Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson, John Collin, Rosemary Martin, Carolyn Pickles	Tess	7%
1983	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	7%
1984	Norman Jewison	Howard E. Rollins Jr., Adolph Caesar, Art Evans, David Alan Grier, David Harris	A Soldier's Story	4%
1987	John Boorman	Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Derrick O'Connor, Susan Wooldridge, Sammi Davis, Ian Bannen, Sebastian Rice-Edwards	Hope and Glory	4%