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1980s Best Picture Oscar Nominees - Multiple Choice
Identify the 80s films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture but lost.
Other decades in this quiz series here.
Wrong answers were nominated in categories other than Best Picture in the same year.
Year given is the year in film being awarded, not the date of the ceremony.
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| First submitted | October 3, 2019 |
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1.
Which 1980 Best Picture nominee lost to Ordinary People?
Raging Bull
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Private Benjamin
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The Empire Strikes Back
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2.
Which 1981 Best Picture nominee lost to Chariots of Fire?
Raiders of the Lost Ark
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
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Pennies from Heaven
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3.
Which 1982 Best Picture nominee lost to Gandhi?
Das Boot
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
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An Officer and a Gentleman
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4.
Which 1983 Best Picture nominee lost to Terms of Endearment ?
The Right Stuff
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WarGames
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Silkwood
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5.
Which 1984 Best Picture nominee lost to Amadeus?
The Killing Fields
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The Karate Kid
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Ghostbusters
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6.
Which 1985 Best Picture nominee lost to Out of Africa?
Back to the Future
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Witness
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A Chorus Line
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7.
Which 1986 Best Picture nominee lost to Platoon?
Stand By Me
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The Mission
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Crocodile Dundee
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8.
Which 1987 Best Picture nominee lost to The Last Emperor?
Good Morning, Vietnam
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Empire of the Sun
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Fatal Attraction
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9.
Which 1988 Best Picture nominee lost to Rain Man?
Big
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Gorillas in the Mist
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Dangerous Liaisons
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10.
Which 1989 Best Picture nominee lost to Driving Miss Daisy?
Crimes and Misdemeanors
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Dead Poets Society
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Do the Right Thing
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