Academy Award untuk Film Terbaik
Pemenang dan nominasi > 1980-an

| Tahun | Film | Nomine |
| --- | --- | --- |
1980 (ke-53): 
| 1980 (ke-53) | Ordinary People | Ronald L. Schwary |
| 1980 (ke-53) | Coal Miner's Daughter | Bernard Schwartz |
| 1980 (ke-53) | The Elephant Man | Jonathan Sanger |
| 1980 (ke-53) | Raging Bull | Irwin Winkler dan Robert Chartoff |
| 1980 (ke-53) | Tess | Claude Berri dan Timothy Burrill |
1981 (ke-54): 
| 1981 (ke-54) | Chariots of Fire | David Puttnam |
| 1981 (ke-54) | Atlantic City | Denis Héroux |
| 1981 (ke-54) | On Golden Pond | Bruce Gilbert |
| 1981 (ke-54) | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Frank Marshall |
| 1981 (ke-54) | Reds | Warren Beatty |
1982 (ke-55): 
| 1982 (ke-55) | Gandhi | Richard Attenborough |
| 1982 (ke-55) | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg dan Kathleen Kennedy |
| 1982 (ke-55) | Missing | Edward Lewis dan Mildred Lewis |
| 1982 (ke-55) | Tootsie | Sydney Pollack dan Dick Richards |
| 1982 (ke-55) | The Verdict | Richard D. Zanuck dan David Brown |
1983 (ke-56): 
| 1983 (ke-56) | Terms of Endearment | James L. Brooks |
| 1983 (ke-56) | The Big Chill | Michael Shamberg |
| 1983 (ke-56) | The Dresser | Peter Yates |
| 1983 (ke-56) | The Right Stuff | Irwin Winkler dan Robert Chartoff |
| 1983 (ke-56) | Tender Mercies | Philip S. Hobel |
1984 (ke-57): 
| 1984 (ke-57) | Amadeus | Saul Zaentz |
| 1984 (ke-57) | The Killing Fields | David Puttnam |
| 1984 (ke-57) | A Passage to India | John Brabourne dan Richard B. Goodwin |
| 1984 (ke-57) | Places in the Heart | Arlene Donovan |
| 1984 (ke-57) | A Soldier's Story | Norman Jewison, Ronald L. Schwary dan Patrick Palmer |
1985 (ke-58): 
| 1985 (ke-58) | Out of Africa | Sydney Pollack |
| 1985 (ke-58) | The Color Purple | Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall dan Quincy Jones |
| 1985 (ke-58) | Kiss of the Spider Woman | David Weisman |
| 1985 (ke-58) | Prizzi's Honor | John Foreman |
| 1985 (ke-58) | Witness | Edward S. Feldman |
1986 (ke-59): 
| 1986 (ke-59) | Platoon | Arnold Kopelson |
| 1986 (ke-59) | Children of a Lesser God | Burt Sugarman dan Patrick J. Palmer |
| 1986 (ke-59) | Hannah and Her Sisters | Robert Greenhut |
| 1986 (ke-59) | The Mission | Fernando Ghia dan David Puttnam |
| 1986 (ke-59) | A Room with a View | Ismail Merchant |
1987 (ke-60): 
| 1987 (ke-60) | The Last Emperor | Jeremy Thomas |
| 1987 (ke-60) | Broadcast News | James L. Brooks |
| 1987 (ke-60) | Fatal Attraction | Stanley R. Jaffe dan Sherry Lansing |
| 1987 (ke-60) | Hope and Glory | John Boorman |
| 1987 (ke-60) | Moonstruck | Patrick J. Palmer dan Norman Jewison |
1988 (ke-61): 
| 1988 (ke-61) | Rain Man | Mark Johnson |
| 1988 (ke-61) | The Accidental Tourist | Lawrence Kasdan, Charles Okun dan Michael Grillo |
| 1988 (ke-61) | Dangerous Liaisons | Norma Heyman dan Hank Moonjean |
| 1988 (ke-61) | Mississippi Burning | Frederick Zollo dan Robert F. Colesberry |
| 1988 (ke-61) | Working Girl | Douglas Wick |
1989 (ke-62): 
| 1989 (ke-62) | Driving Miss Daisy | Richard D. Zanuck dan Lili Fini Zanuck |
| 1989 (ke-62) | Born on the Fourth of July | A. Kitman Ho dan Oliver Stone |
| 1989 (ke-62) | Dead Poets Society | Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt dan Tony Thomas |
| 1989 (ke-62) | Field of Dreams | Lawrence Gordon dan Charles Gordon |
| 1989 (ke-62) | My Left Foot | Noel Pearson |