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1980's Academy Award 'Best Picture' Winners

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Listed in ascending order, beginning with 1980.

Each of the film’s Producers took home the coveted ‘Oscar’. Credit for coining the term ‘Oscar’ is given to Margaret Herrick, the Academy executive secretary. When she first saw the award in 1931, she said the statuette reminded her of “Uncle Oscar”, a nickname for her cousin Oscar Pierce.

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Movie: Ordinary People ( 1981 )

The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.

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Movie: Chariots of Fire ( 1981 )

Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics.

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Movie: Gandhi ( 1983 )

The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.

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Movie: Terms of Endearment ( 1983 )

Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.

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Movie: Amadeus ( 1984 )

The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.

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Movie: Out of Africa ( 1985 )

In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.

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Movie: Platoon ( 1987 )

Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.

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Movie: The Last Emperor ( 1987 )

The story of the final Emperor of China.

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Movie: Rain Man ( 1988 )

Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.

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Movie: Driving Miss Daisy ( 1990 )

An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.

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