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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
Private Benjamin
Raging Bull
2. Which 1981 Best Picture nominee lost to Chariots of Fire?
Pennies from Heaven
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The French Lieutenant's Woman
3. Which 1982 Best Picture nominee lost to Gandhi?
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Das Boot
An Officer and a Gentleman
4. Which 1983 Best Picture nominee lost to Terms of Endearment ?
WarGames
The Right Stuff
Silkwood
5. Which 1984 Best Picture nominee lost to Amadeus?
Ghostbusters
The Killing Fields
The Karate Kid
6. Which 1985 Best Picture nominee lost to Out of Africa?
Witness
A Chorus Line
Back to the Future
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?
Empire of the Sun
Fatal Attraction
Good Morning, Vietnam
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?
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Dead Poets Society
Do the Right Thing
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