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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?
The Empire Strikes Back
Raging Bull
Private Benjamin
2. Which 1981 Best Picture nominee lost to Chariots of Fire?
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Pennies from Heaven
Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Which 1982 Best Picture nominee lost to Gandhi?
Das Boot
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
An Officer and a Gentleman
4. Which 1983 Best Picture nominee lost to Terms of Endearment ?
Silkwood
WarGames
The Right Stuff
5. Which 1984 Best Picture nominee lost to Amadeus?
Ghostbusters
The Karate Kid
The Killing Fields
6. Which 1985 Best Picture nominee lost to Out of Africa?
A Chorus Line
Witness
Back to the Future
7. Which 1986 Best Picture nominee lost to Platoon?
Crocodile Dundee
The Mission
Stand By Me
8. Which 1987 Best Picture nominee lost to The Last Emperor?
Good Morning, Vietnam
Empire of the Sun
Fatal Attraction
9. Which 1988 Best Picture nominee lost to Rain Man?
Big
Dangerous Liaisons
Gorillas in the Mist
10. Which 1989 Best Picture nominee lost to Driving Miss Daisy?
Dead Poets Society
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Do the Right Thing
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