Index | 2000s | 1990s | 1980s | 1970s | 1960s | 1950s | 1940s | 1930s | 1920s | All
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1980
Robert Redford – Ordinary People
David Lynch – The Elephant Man
Richard Rush – The Stunt Man
Roman Polanski – Tess
Martin Scorsese – Raging Bull
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1981
Warren Beatty – Reds
Hugh Hudson – Chariots of Fire
Louis Malle – Atlantic City
Mark Rydell – On Golden Pond
Steven Spielberg – Raiders of the Lost Ark
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1982
Richard Attenborough – Gandhi
Sidney Lumet – The Verdict
Wolfgang Petersen – Das Boot
Sydney Pollack – Tootsie
Steven Spielberg – E.T. - the Extra-Terrestrial
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1983
James L. Brooks – Terms of Endearment
Bruce Beresford – Tender Mercies
Ingmar Bergman – Fanny & Alexander
Mike Nichols – Silkwood
Peter Yates – The Dresser
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1984
Milos Forman – Amadeus
Woody Allen – Broadway Danny Rose
Robert Benton – Places in the Heart
Roland Joffe – The Killing Fields
David Lean – A Passage to India
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1985
Sydney Pollack – Out of Africa
Hector Babenco – Kiss of the Spider Woman
John Huston – Prizzi's Honor
Akira Kurosawa – Ran
Peter Weir – Witness
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1986
Oliver Stone – Platoon
Woody Allen – Hannah and Her Sisters
James Ivory – A Room with a View
Roland Joffe – Mission
David Lynch – Blue Velvet
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1987
Bernardo Bertolucci – The Last Emperor
John Boorman – Hope and Glory
Lasse Hallstrom – Mitt liv som hund (My Life as a Dog)
Norman Jewison – Moonstruck
Adrian Lyne – Fatal Attraction
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1988
Barry Levinson – Rain Man
Charles Crichton – A Fish Called Wanda
Mike Nichols – Working Girl
Alan Parker – Mississippi Burning
Martin Scorsese – The Last Temptation of Christ
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1989
Oliver Stone – Born on the Fourth of July
Woody Allen – Crimes and Misdemeanors
Kenneth Branagh – Henry V
Jim Sheridan – My Left Foot
Peter Weir – Dead Poets Society