Best Picture - 1980s

1989
1. Field of Dreams - A
2. Driving Miss Daisy - A
3. My Left Foot - B+
4. Dead Poets Society - B
5. Born on the Fourth of July - D-

1988
1. Mississippi Burning - A+
2. Rain Man - A+
3. Working Girl - B
4. Dangerous Liaisons - D
5. The Accidental Tourist - D-

1987
1. Moonstruck - A-
2. Hope and Glory - B
3. Fatal Attraction - B
4. The Last Emperor - B
5. Broadcast News - D

1986
1. Platoon - A+
2. A Room With a View - B+
3. Hannah and Her Sisters - B
4. Children of a Lesser God - B
5. The Mission - B

1985
1. Out of Africa - B+
2. The Color Purple - B+
3. Kiss of the Spider Woman - B
4. Witness - B-
5. Prizzi's Honor - D

1984
1. The Killing Fields - A
2. A Passage to India - B
3. Amadeus - B-
4. A Soldier's Story - B-
5. Places in the Heart - B-

1983
1. The Right Stuff - A-
2. The Dresser - B+
3. Terms of Endearment - B
4. The Big Chill - C+
5. Tender Mercies - C

1982
1. Tootsie - A+
2. Missing - A
3. Gandhi - B
4. The Verdict - B
5. E.T. - the Extra-Terrestrial - C+

1981
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark - A+
2. Atlantic City - A-
3. On Golden Pond - B+
4. Reds - B+
5. Chariots of Fire - B

1980
1. The Elephant Man - A
2. Coal Miner's Daughter - B+
3. Ordinary People - B
4. Tess - B-
5. Raging Bull - F