E.T. Was the Highest Grossing Movie From the 80s
Best Director
(Oscar Winners)
1980 - Robert Redford
Ordinary People
1981 - Warren Beatty
Reds
1982 - Richard Attenborough
Gandhi
1983 - James L. Brooks
Terms of Endearment
1984 - Miloš Forman
Amadeus
1985 - Sydney Pollack
Out of Africa Award
1986 - Oliver Stone
Platoon
1987 - Bernardo Bertolucci
The Last Emperor
1988 - Barry Levinson
Rain Man
1989 - Oliver Stone
Born on the Fourth of July
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Best Supporting Actor
1980 - Timothy Hutton
Ordinary People
1981 - John Gielgud
Arthur
1982 - Louis Gossett, Jr.
An Officer and a Gentleman
1983 - Jack Nicholson
Terms of Endearment
1984 - Haing S. Ngor
The Killing Fields
1985 - Don Ameche
Cocoon
1986 - Michael Caine
Hannah and Her Sisters
1987 - Sean Connery
The Untouchables
1988 - Kevin Kline
A Fish Called Wanda
1989 - Denzel Washington
Glory
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Best Supporting Actress
1980 - Mary Steenburgen
Melvin and Howard
1981 - Maureen Stapleton
Reds
1982 - Jessica Lange
Tootsie
1983 - Linda Hunt
The Year of Living Dangerously
1984 - Peggy Ashcroft
A Passage to India
1985 - Anjelica Huston
Prizzi's Honor
1986 - Dianne Wiest
Hannah and Her Sisters
1987 Olympia Dukakis
Moonstruck
1988 - Geena Davis
Accidental Tourist
1989 Brenda Fricker
My Left Foot
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Best Screenplay
1980 - Bo Goldman
Melvin and Howard
1981 - Colin Welland
Chariots of Fire
1982 - John Briley
Gandhi
1983 - Horton Foote
Tender Mercies
1984 - Robert Benton
Places in the Heart
1985 - William Kelley, Earl W. Wallace and Pamela Wallace
Witness
1986 - Woody Allen
Hannah and Her Sisters
1987 - John Patrick Shanley
Moonstruck
1988 - Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow
Rain Man
1989 - Tom Schulman
Dead Poets Society
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Best Original Song
1980 - "Fame"
Irene Cara
Movie: Fame
1981 - "Best That You Can Do"
Christopher Cross
Movie: Arthur
1982 - “Up Where We Belong”
Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes
Movie: An Officer and a Gentleman
1983 - "Flashdance... What a Feeling"
Irene Cara
Movie: Flashdance
1984 - "I Just Called to Say I Love You"
Stevie Wonder
Movie: The Woman in Red
1985 - "Say You, Say Me"
Lionel Richie
Movie: White Nights
1986 - "Take My Breath Away"
Berlin
Movie: Top Gun
1987 - "(I've Had) The Time of My Life"
Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes
Movie: Dirty Dancing
1988 - “Let the River Run”
Carly Simon
Movie: Working Girl
1989 - “Under the Sea”
Howard Ashman
Movie: The Little Mermaid
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Best Original Score
1980 - Michael Gore
Movie: Fame
1981 - Vangelis
Movie: Chariots of Fire
1982 - John Williams
Movie: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1983 - Bill Conti
Movie: The Right Stuff
1984 - Maurice Jarre
Movie: A Passage to India
1985 - John Barry
Movie: Out of Africa
1986 - Herbie Hancock
Movie: Round Midnight
1987 - David Byrne, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Cong Su
Movie: The Last Emperor
1988 - Dave Grusin
Movie: The Milagro Beanfield War
1989 - Alan Menken
The Little Mermaid
Platoon Won an Academy Award for Best Picture Despite Using the"F" Word 159 Times, Which Was the 2nd Most Behind Scarface (207) at the Time
Platoon
In 1989 Michael Douglas Became the First Presenter to Say “and the Oscar Goes To” Instead of the Traditional “And The Winner Is” When Dustin Hoffman Won Best Actor at the 61st Academy Awards
Michael Douglas
Beverly Hills Cop Was Originally Written For Sylvester Stallone, But He Left the Movie Because He Didn't Think Audiences Would Accept Him as Axel Foli
Supergirl
Sarah Jessica Parker Made Her Film Debut in the 1983 Fim, Somewhere Tomorrow as a Girl Named Lori Who Fell For a Boy Only She Can See Because of a Head Injury
80s Movies
Sarah Jessica Parker
Heaven's Gate
Rob Lowe Made His Film Debut as "Sodapop" Curtis in the 1983 Film, The Outsiders
Axel Foli
Rob Lowe
Helen Slater Made Her Film Debut in 1984 as Supergirl
With a $44 million budget Heaven's Gate only grossed $3.5 million dollars making it one of the Biggest busts of all time.
Because of all the animal abuse during production, like real cockfights, decapitating chickens and torchered horses, the Screen Actors Guild authorized the American Humane Society to monitor the use of all animals on film.
Fun Fact!
Willem DeFoe Made His Film Debut in Heaven's Gate as a Cockfighter
Highest Grossing Movies From the 80s
(Domestic Only)
1. E.T. (1982)
$359,197,037
2. Return of the Jedi (1983)
$252,583,617
3. Batman (1989)
$251,188,924
4. Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
$234,760,478
5. Ghostbusters (1984)
$229,242,289
6. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
$212,222.025
7. Back to the Future (1985)
$210,609,762
8. Empire Strikes Back (1980)
$209,398,025
9. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
$197,191,806
10 . Top Gun (1986)
$176,781,728
Did You Know?
Gone With the Wind is Considered the Highest Grossing Movie of All-Time
* With Inflation Included
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Best Picture
(Academy Awards)
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
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Fun Fact!
Dustin Hoffman Thought He Was Doing a Horrible Acting Job in Rain Man and Wanted Off the Movie
* Hoffman Won "Best Actor" and the Movie Won "Best Picture"
View Every Best Picture Winner Since 1927
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Best Actor
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
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Fun Fact!
In 1981 Donald Sutherland Didn't Receive an Oscar Nomination for Ordinary People
* Entertainment Weekly Said it Was One of the Worst Acting Snubs in the History of the Academy Awards
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Best Actress
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
Did You Know?
Katharine Hepburn Has the Record With 4 Best Actress Awards and Meryl Streep Has the Most Nominations (17)
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Raspberry Awards
(Worst Movie of the Year)
1980 - Can't Stop the Music
Starring: Steve Guttenberg and The Village People
1981 - Mommie Dearest
Starring: Faye Dunaway and Mari Hobel
1982 - Inchon
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Richard Roundtree, and David Janssen
1983 - The Lonely Lady
Starring: Pia Zadora and Ray Liotta
1984 - Bolero
Starring: Bo Derek
1985 - Rambo: First Blood Part II
Starring: Sylvester Stallone
1986 - Howard the Duck
Starring: Lea Thompson
Under the Cherry Moon
Starring: Tim Robbins
1987 - Leonard Part 6
Starring: Bill Cosby
1988 - Cocktail
Starring: Tom Cruise and Elisabeth Shue
1989 - Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Starring: William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy
Fun Fact!
Molly Ringwald Turned Down the Role of Jordan in the Movie Cocktail