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Click for Google +1 The Academy Award winners by year for the 80s presents an interesting list. While there are around 20 award categories in total, here are the big three: Best film, Best actor in a leading role and Best actress in a leading role. Each year the Oscars are presented as the official trophy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards, but interestingly very few of the 80s blockbusters appear. The only film from the top 20 box office list to score in these categories was Rain Man (for more information see the Top 100 box office hits of the 80s). Neither of the Star Wars films (Empire or Jedi) picked up an award in these categories, but they did scoop many of the technical awards. Likewise ET, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Aliens all failed to pick up Best Picture or Best Actor/Actress. Winners: Best picture 1980 Ordinary People 1981 Chariots of Fire 1982 Gandhi 1983 Terms of Endearment 1984 Amadeus 1985 Out of Africa 1986 Platoon 1987 The Last Emperor 1988 Rain Man 1989 Driving Miss Daisy Winners: Best actor in a leading role 1980 Robert De Niro - Raging Bull 1981 Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond 1982 Ben Kingsley - Gandhi 1983 Robert Duvall - Tender Mercies 1984 F. Murray Abraham - Amadeus 1985 William Hurt - Kiss of the Spider Woman 1986 Paul Newman - The Color of Money 1987 Michael Douglas - Wall Street 1988 Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man 1989 Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot Winners: Best Actress in a Leading role 1980 Sissy Spacek - Coal Miner's Daughter 1981 Katharine Hepburn - On Golden Pond 1982 Meryl Streep - Sophie's Choice 1983 Shirley MacLaine - Terms of Endearment 1984 Sally Field - Places in the Heart 1985 Geraldine Page - The Trip to Bountiful 1986 Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser God 1987 Cher - Moonstruck 1988 Jodie Foster - The Accused 1989 Jessica Tandy - Driving Miss Daisy |
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