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