Index | 2000s | 1990s | 1980s | 1970s | 1960s | 1950s | 1940s | 1930s | 1920s | All
1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989
1980
Alvin Sargent – Ordinary People
Bruce Beresford, Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens – Breaker Morant
Tom Rickman – Coal Miner's Daughter
Eric Bergren, Christopher Devore, David Lynch – The Elephant Man
Lawrence Marcus, Richard Rush – The Stunt Man
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1981
Ernest Thompson – On Golden Pond
Harold Pinter – French Lieutenant's Woman
Dennis Potter – Pennies From Heaven
Jay Allen, Sidney Lumet – Prince of the City
Micheal Weller – Ragtime
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1982
Constantin Costa-Gavras, Donald Stewart – Missing
Wolfgang Petersen – Das Boot
Alan Pakula – Sophie's Choice
David Mamet – The Verdict
Blake Edwards – Victor/Victoria
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1983
James Brooks – Terms of Endearment
Harold Pinter – Betrayal
Ronald Harwood – The Dresser
Willy Russell – Educating Rita
Julius Epstein – Reuben, Reuben
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1984
Peter Shaffer – Amadeus
Michael Austin, P. H. Vazak – Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Bruce Robinson – The Killing Fields
David Lean – A Passage to India
Charles Fuller – A Soldier's Story
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1985
Kurt Luedtke – Out of Africa
Menno Meyjes – The Color Purple
Leonard Schrader – Kiss of the Spider Woman
Richard Condon, Janet Roach – Prizzi's Honor
Horton Foote – The Trip To Bountiful
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1986
Ruth Jhabvala – A Room With a View
Hesper Anderson, Mark Medoff – Children of a Lesser God
Richard Price – The Color of Money
Beth Henley – Crimes of the Heart
Bruce Evans, Raynold Gideon – Stand By Me
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1987
Bernardo Bertolucci, Mark Peploe – The Last Emperor
Tony Huston – The Dead
James Dearden – Fatal Attraction
Gustav Hasford, Michael Herr, Stanley Kubrick – Full Metal Jacket
Per Berglund, Brasse Brannstrom, Lasse Hallström, Reidar Jonsson – My Life As a Dog
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1988
Christopher Hampton – Dangerous Liaisons
Frank Galati, Lawrence Kasdan – The Accidental Tourist
Tab Murphy, Anna Phelan – Gorillas In the Mist
Christine Edzard – Little Dorrit
Jean-Claude Carrière, Philip Kaufman – The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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1989
Alfred Uhry – Driving Miss Daisy
Ron Kovic, Oliver Stone – Born On the Fourth of July
Paul Mazursky, Roger Simon – Enemies, A Love Story
Phil Robinson – Field of Dreams
Shane Connaughton, Jim Sheridan – My Left Foot