Best Picture Winners of the 1980s

27/03/2006 by Academy Awards
Academy Awards has put together a list of the Best Picture Winners of the 1980s. Check out the list below.
1

Ordinary People

Ordinary People
Ordinary PeopleOrdinary People is an Academy Award winning 1980 American motion picture drama and the directorial debut of Robert Redford ***


2

Chariots of Fire

Chariots of Fire
Chariots of FireChariots of Fire is a British film released in 1981 ***


3

Gandhi

Gandhi
GandhiMohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement ***


4

Terms of Endearment

Terms of Endearment
Terms of EndearmentTerms of Endearment is a 1983 American drama film and romantic comedy adapted by James L. ***


5

Amadeus

Amadeus
AmadeusAmadeus is the title of a stage play written in 1979 by Peter Shaffer, loosely based on the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri ***


6

Out of Africa

Out of Africa
Out of AfricaOut of Africa is a memoir by Isak Dinesen, first published in 1937 ***


7

Platoon

Platoon
PlatoonA platoon is a military unit, typically composed of two to four sections or squads and containing about 30 to 50 soldiers ***


8

The Last Emperor

The Last Emperor
The Last EmperorThe Last Emperor is an Academy Award-winning 1987 biopic about the life of the last Emperor of China ***


9

Rain Man

Rain Man
Rain ManRain Man is an Academy Award-winning 1988 drama film which tells the story of an abrasive, selfish yuppie, Charlie Babbitt. ***


10

Driving Miss Daisy

Driving Miss Daisy
Driving Miss DaisyDriving Miss Daisy is a 1987 play by Alfred Uhry about the relationship an elderly Southern Jewish lady shares with her African-American chauffeur, Hoke Colburn, over the span of several decades ***