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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1. Which 1980 Best Picture nominee lost to Ordinary People?
The Empire Strikes Back
Private Benjamin
Raging Bull
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?
Das Boot
An Officer and a Gentleman
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
4. Which 1983 Best Picture nominee lost to Terms of Endearment ?
Silkwood
The Right Stuff
WarGames
5. Which 1984 Best Picture nominee lost to Amadeus?
The Karate Kid
Ghostbusters
The Killing Fields
6. Which 1985 Best Picture nominee lost to Out of Africa?
Witness
Back to the Future
A Chorus Line
7. Which 1986 Best Picture nominee lost to Platoon?
Stand By Me
The Mission
Crocodile Dundee
8. Which 1987 Best Picture nominee lost to The Last Emperor?
Good Morning, Vietnam
Fatal Attraction
Empire of the Sun
9. Which 1988 Best Picture nominee lost to Rain Man?
Gorillas in the Mist
Dangerous Liaisons
Big
10. Which 1989 Best Picture nominee lost to Driving Miss Daisy?
Do the Right Thing
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Dead Poets Society
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