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Kazananlar ve adaylar > 1980'ler

| Yıl | Film | Senarist |
| --- | --- | --- |

1980 (53rd): 
| 1980 (53rd) | Ordinary People | Alvin Sargent |
| 1980 (53rd) | Breaker Morant | Jonathan Hardy David Stevens Bruce Beresford |
| 1980 (53rd) | Coal Miner's Daughter | Tom Rickman |
| 1980 (53rd) | The Elephant Man | Christopher De Vore Eric Bergren David Lynch |
| 1980 (53rd) | The Stunt Man | Lawrence B. Marcus  Richard Rush |
1981 (54th): 
| 1981 (54th) | On Golden Pond | Ernest Thompson |
| 1981 (54th) | The French Lieutenant's Woman | Harold Pinter |
| 1981 (54th) | Pennies from Heaven | Dennis Potter |
| 1981 (54th) | Prince of the City | Jay Presson Allen Sidney Lumet |
| 1981 (54th) | Ragtime | Michael Weller |
1982 (55th): 
| 1982 (55th) | Missing | Costa-Gavras Donald E. Stewart |
| 1982 (55th) | Das Boot | Wolfgang Petersen |
| 1982 (55th) | Sophie's Choice | Alan J. Pakula |
| 1982 (55th) | The Verdict | David Mamet |
| 1982 (55th) | Victor/Victoria | Blake Edwards |
1983 (56th): 
| 1983 (56th) | Terms of Endearment | James L. Brooks |
| 1983 (56th) | Betrayal | Harold Pinter |
| 1983 (56th) | The Dresser | Ronald Harwood |
| 1983 (56th) | Educating Rita | Willy Russell |
| 1983 (56th) | Reuben, Reuben | Julius J. Epstein |
1984 (57th): 
| 1984 (57th) | Amadeus | Peter Shaffer |
| 1984 (57th) | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | P.H. Vazak Michael Austin |
| 1984 (57th) | The Killing Fields | Bruce Robinson |
| 1984 (57th) | A Passage to India | David Lean |
| 1984 (57th) | A Soldier's Story | Charles Fuller |
1985 (58th): 
| 1985 (58th) | Out of Africa | Kurt Luedtke |
| 1985 (58th) | The Color Purple | Menno Meyjes |
| 1985 (58th) | Kiss of the Spider Woman | Leonard Schrader |
| 1985 (58th) | Prizzi's Honor | Richard Condon Janet Roach |
| 1985 (58th) | The Trip to Bountiful | Horton Foote |
1986 (59th): 
| 1986 (59th) | A Room with a View | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
| 1986 (59th) | Children of a Lesser God | Hesper Anderson Mark Medoff |
| 1986 (59th) | The Color of Money | Richard Price |
| 1986 (59th) | Crimes of the Heart | Beth Henley |
| 1986 (59th) | Stand by Me | Raynold Gideon Bruce A. Evans |
1987 (60th): 
| 1987 (60th) | The Last Emperor | Bernardo Bertolucci Mark Peploe |
| 1987 (60th) | The Dead | Tony Huston |
| 1987 (60th) | Fatal Attraction | James Dearden |
| 1987 (60th) | Full Metal Jacket | Gustav Hasford Michael Herr Stanley Kubrick |
| 1987 (60th) | My Life as a Dog | Brasse Brännström Per Berglund Lasse Hallström Reidar Jönsson |
1988 (61st): 
| 1988 (61st) | Dangerous Liaisons | Christopher Hampton |
| 1988 (61st) | The Accidental Tourist | Frank Galati Lawrence Kasdan |
| 1988 (61st) | Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey | Anna Hamilton Phelan  Tab Murphy |
| 1988 (61st) | Little Dorrit | Christine Edzard |
| 1988 (61st) | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Jean-Claude Carrière Philip Kaufman |
1989 (62nd): 
| 1989 (62nd) | Driving Miss Daisy | Alfred Uhry |
| 1989 (62nd) | Born on the Fourth of July | Ron Kovic Oliver Stone |
| 1989 (62nd) | Enemies, A Love Story | Paul Mazursky Roger L. Simon |
| 1989 (62nd) | Field of Dreams | Phil Alden Robinson |
| 1989 (62nd) | My Left Foot | Shane Connaughton Jim Sheridan |