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獲獎電影 > 1980年代

| 年份 | 電影 | 被提名者 |
| --- | --- | --- |
1980 (53rd): 
| 1980 (53rd) | Karl Hess: Toward Liberty | Roland Hallé and Peter Ladue |
| 1980 (53rd) | Don't Mess with Bill | John Watson and Pen Densham |
| 1980 (53rd) | The Eruption of Mount St. Helens | George Casey |
| 1980 (53rd) | It's the Same World | Dick Young |
| 1980 (53rd) | Luther Metke at 94 | Richard Hawkins and Jorge Preloran |
1981 (54th): 
| 1981 (54th) | Close Harmony | Nigel Noble |
| 1981 (54th) | Americas in Transition | Obie Benz |
| 1981 (54th) | Journey for Survival | Dick Young |
| 1981 (54th) | See What I Say | Linda Chapman, Pam LeBlanc and Freddi Stevens |
| 1981 (54th) | Urge to Build | Roland Hallé and John Hoover |
1982 (55th): 
| 1982 (55th) | If You Love This Planet | Edward Le Lorrain and Terre Nash |
| 1982 (55th) | Gods of Metal | Robert Richter |
| 1982 (55th) | The Klan: A Legacy of Hate in America | Charles Guggenheim and Werner Schumann |
| 1982 (55th) | To Live or Let Die | Freida Lee Mock |
| 1982 (55th) | Traveling Hopefully | John G. Avildsen |
1983 (56th): 
| 1983 (56th) | Flamenco at 5:15 | Cynthia Scott and Adam Symansky |
| 1983 (56th) | In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us? | Vivienne Verdon-Roe and Eric Thiermann |
| 1983 (56th) | Sewing Woman | Arthur Dong |
| 1983 (56th) | Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph | Robert Eisenhardt |
| 1983 (56th) | You Are Free (Ihr Zent Frei) | Dea Brokman and Ilene Landis |
1984 (57th): 
| 1984 (57th) | The Stone Carvers | Marjorie Hunt and Paul Wagner |
| 1984 (57th) | The Children of Soong Ching Ling | Gary Bush and Paul T.K. Lin |
| 1984 (57th) | Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing | Ben Achtenberg and Joan Sawyer |
| 1984 (57th) | The Garden of Eden | Lawrence R. Hott and Roger M. Sherman |
| 1984 (57th) | Recollections of Pavlovsk | Irina Kalinina |
1985 (58th): 
| 1985 (58th) | Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements | David Goodman |
| 1985 (58th) | The Courage to Care | Robert Gardner |
| 1985 (58th) | Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date | Michael Crowley and James Wolpaw |
| 1985 (58th) | Making Overtures: The Story of a Community Orchestra | Barbara Willis Sweete |
| 1985 (58th) | The Wizard of the Strings | Alan Edelstein |
1986 (59th): 
| 1986 (59th) | Women – for America, for the World | Vivienne Verdon-Roe |
| 1986 (59th) | Debonair Dancers | Alison Nigh-Strelich |
| 1986 (59th) | The Masters of Disaster | Sonya Friedman |
| 1986 (59th) | Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse | Thomas L. Neff and Madeline Bell |
| 1986 (59th) | Sam | Aaron D. Weisblatt |
1987 (60th): 
| 1987 (60th) | Young at Heart | Sue Marx and Pamela Conn |
| 1987 (60th) | Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller | Deborah Dickson |
| 1987 (60th) | In the Wee Wee Hours... | Dr. Frank Daniel and Izak Ben-Meir |
| 1987 (60th) | Language Says It All | Megan Williams |
| 1987 (60th) | Silver into Gold | Lynn Mueller |
1988 (61st): 
| 1988 (61st) | You Don't Have to Die | Malcolm Clarke and Bill Guttentag |
| 1988 (61st) | The Children's Storefront | Karen Goodman |
| 1988 (61st) | Family Gathering | Lise Yasui and Ann Tegnell |
| 1988 (61st) | Gang Cops | Thomas B. Fleming and Daniel J. Marks |
| 1988 (61st) | Portrait of Imogen | Nancy Hale and Meg Partridge |
1989 (62nd): 
| 1989 (62nd) | The Johnstown Flood | Charles Guggenheim |
| 1989 (62nd) | Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9 | David Petersen |
| 1989 (62nd) | Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future | Ray Errol Fox |