Sudden Death: Best Picture Oscars, 1980s

Ten of the films listed won an Academy Award for Best Picture between 1980 and 1989. The rest were among the competition. Select the ten films that won without selecting any that didn’t.

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Moonstruck
Ordinary People
Platoon
Witness
On Golden Pond
Out of Africa
My Left Foot
Driving Miss Daisy
Field of Dreams
Gandhi
The Color Purple
Amadeus
Dead Poets Society
Tootsie
Hannah and Her Sisters
Room with a View
The Right Stuff
Raging Bull
Children of a Lesser God
The Elephant Man
Mississippi Burning
Dangerous Liaisons
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
The Last Emperor
Rain Man
Coal Miner’s Daughter
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Prizzi’s Honor
Broadcast News
Born on the Fourth of July
Fatal Attraction
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Terms of Endearment
Chariots of Fire
Working Girl
The Big Chill
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