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1980s Oscar Best Actress Nominees

Try to name the actresses who received an Oscar nomination for Best Leading Actress from 1980-1989.
Year = year of the ceremony honoring the previous year's films
Winners in bold
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1989
The Accused
Jodie Foster
Dangerous Liaisons
Glenn Close
Working Girl
Melanie Griffith
A Cry in the Dark
Meryl Streep
Gorillas in the Mist
Sigourney Weaver
 
 
1988
Moonstruck
Cher
Fatal Attraction
Glenn Close
Broadcast News
Holly Hunter
Anna
Sally Kirkland
Ironweed
Meryl Streep
 
 
1987
Children of a Lesser God
Marlee Matlin
The Morning After
Jane Fonda
Crimes of the Heart
Sissy Spacek
Peggy Sue Got Married
Kathleen Turner
Aliens
Sigourney Weaver
 
Aliens
The Trip to Bountiful
Geraldine Page
Agnes of God
Anne Bancroft
The Color Purple
Whoopi Goldberg
Sweet Dreams
Jessica Lange
Out of Africa
Meryl Streep
 
1985
Places in the Heart
Sally Field
A Passage to India
Judy Davis
Country
Jessica Lange
The Bostonians
Venessa Redgrave
The River
Sissy Spacek
1984
Terms of Endearment
Shirley MacLaine
Testament
Jane Alexander
Silkwood
Meryl Streep
Educating Rita
Julie Walters
Terms of Endearment
Debra Winger
 
 
1983
Sophie's Choice
Meryl Streep
Victor/Victoria
Julie Andrews
Frances
Jessica Lange
Missing
Sissy Spacek
An Officer and a Gentleman
Debra Winger
 
1982
On Golden Pond
Katharine Hepburn
Reds
Diane Keaton
Only When I Laugh
Marsha Mason
Atlantic City
Susan Sarandon
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Meryl Streep
 
1981
Coal Miner's Daughter
Sissy Spacek
Resurrection
Ellen Burstyn
Private Benjamin
Goldie Hawn
Ordinary People
Mary Tyler Moore
Gloria
Gena Rowlands
 
1980
Norma Rae
Sally Field
Starting Over
Jill Clayburgh
The China Syndrome
Jane Fonda
Chapter Two
Marsha Mason
The Rose
Bette Midler
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Level 24
Nov 19, 2021
Answer for Resurrection is wrong
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Level 55
Mar 31, 2022
And it's "Broadcast News" not "Broadway News".