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Danh sách cụ thể > Thập niên 1980

| Năm | Phim | Đạo diễn | Nhà sản xuất |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1980 | Ordinary People | Robert Redford | Ronald L. Schwary |
| 1980 | The Elephant Man | David Lynch | Jonathan Sanger |
| 1980 | The Ninth Configuration | William Peter Blatty | William Peter Blatty |
| 1980 | Raging Bull | Martin Scorsese | Robert Chartoff |
| 1980 | The Stunt Man | Richard Rush | Richard Rush |
| 1981 | On Golden Pond | Mark Rydell | Bruce Gilbert |
| 1981 | The French Lieutenant's Woman | Karel Reisz | Leon Clore |
| 1981 | Prince of the City | Sidney Lumet | Sidney Lumet |
| 1981 | Ragtime | Miloš Forman | Dino De Laurentiis |
| 1981 | Reds | Warren Beatty | Warren Beatty |
| 1982 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg | Steven Spielberg |
| 1982 | Missing | Costa-Gavras | Edward Lewis |
| 1982 | An Officer and a Gentleman | Taylor Hackford | Martin Elfand |
| 1982 | Sophie's Choice | Alan J. Pakula | Alan J. Pakula |
| 1982 | The Verdict | Sidney Lumet | David Brown |
| 1983 | Terms of Endearment | James L. Brooks | James L. Brooks |
| 1983 | Reuben, Reuben | Robert Ellis Miller | Julius J. Epstein |
| 1983 | The Right Stuff | Philip Kaufman | Irwin Winkler |
| 1983 | Silkwood | Mike Nichols | Alice Arlen |
| 1983 | Tender Mercies | Bruce Beresford | Philip Hobel |
| 1984 | Amadeus | Miloš Forman | Saul Zaentz |
| 1984 | The Cotton Club | Francis Ford Coppola | Robert Evans |
| 1984 | The Killing Fields | Roland Joffé | David Puttnam |
| 1984 | Places in the Heart | Robert Benton | Robert Benton |
| 1984 | A Soldier's Story | Norman Jewison | Norman Jewison |
| 1985 | Out of Africa | Sydney Pollack | Sydney Pollack |
| 1985 | The Color Purple | Steven Spielberg | Steven Spielberg |
| 1985 | Kiss of the Spider Woman | Hector Babenco | David Weisman |
| 1985 | Runaway Train | Andrei Konchalovsky | Richard Garcia |
| 1985 | Witness | Peter Weir | Edward Feldman |
| 1986 | Platoon | Oliver Stone | Arnold Kopelson |
| 1986 | Children of a Lesser God | Randa Haines | Chris Bender |
| 1986 | The Mission | Roland Joffé | Fernando Ghia |
| 1986 | Mona Lisa | Neil Jordan | Stephen Woolley |
| 1986 | A Room with a View | James Ivory | Ismail Merchant |
| 1986 | Stand by Me | Rob Reiner | Bruce A. Evans |
| 1987 | The Last Emperor | Bernardo Bertolucci | Jeremy Thomas |
| 1987 | Cry Freedom | Richard Attenborough | Richard Attenborough |
| 1987 | Empire of the Sun | Steven Spielberg | Kathleen Kennedy |
| 1987 | Fatal Attraction | Adrian Lyne | Stanley R. Jaffe |
| 1987 | La Bamba | Luis Valdez | Stuart Benjamin |
| 1987 | Nuts | Martin Ritt | Teri Schwartz |
| 1988 | Rain Man | Barry Levinson | Mark Johnson |
| 1988 | The Accidental Tourist | Lawrence Kasdan | Phyllis Carlyle |
| 1988 | A Cry in the Dark | Fred Schepisi | Yoram Globus |
| 1988 | Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey | Michael Apted | Peter Guber |
| 1988 | Mississippi Burning | Alan Parker | Robert F. Colesberry |
| 1988 | Running on Empty | Sidney Lumet | Griffin Dunne |
| 1988 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Philip Kaufman | Bertil Ohlsson |
| 1989 | Born on the Fourth of July | Oliver Stone | A. Kitman Ho |
| 1989 | Crimes and Misdemeanors | Woody Allen | Charles H Joffe |
| 1989 | Dead Poets Society | Peter Weir | Paul Junger Witt |
| 1989 | Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee | Spike Lee |
| 1989 | Glory | Edward Zwick | Freddie Fields |