What is the best Best Picture winner of the 1980s?

Ten films took the top Oscar in the 1980s, and hindsight has been kinder to some than to others. Sweeping epics, quiet family dramas and one road movie now share the same shelf.

1. 1
   Amadeus

   Miloš Forman's 1984 drama about Mozart seen through the jealous eyes of rival composer Antonio Salieri.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Platoon

   Oliver Stone's 1986 Vietnam War drama drawn from his own tour of duty as an infantryman.
   874pts
3. 3
   Out of Africa

   Sydney Pollack's 1985 romance with Meryl Streep as Karen Blixen and Robert Redford on a Kenyan coffee farm.
   485pts
4. 4
   Gandhi

   Richard Attenborough's 1982 epic biopic with Ben Kingsley as Mahatma Gandhi, winner of eight Oscars.
   324pts
5. 5
   Driving Miss Daisy

   The 1989 comedy-drama about a Southern widow and her chauffeur, played by Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman.
   324pts
6. 6
   Ordinary People

   Robert Redford's 1980 directing debut about a grieving suburban family, which won Best Picture over Raging Bull.
   324pts
7. 7
   Chariots of Fire

   The 1981 British drama about two runners at the 1924 Paris Olympics, famous for Vangelis's synth score.
   324pts
8. 8
   Rain Man

   Barry Levinson's 1988 road movie with Dustin Hoffman as an autistic savant and Tom Cruise as his brother.
   221pts
9. 9
   The Last Emperor

   Bernardo Bertolucci's 1987 epic about Puyi, China's last emperor, the first Western film shot inside the Forbidden City.
   221pts
10. 10
    Terms of Endearment

    James L. Brooks's 1983 mother-daughter tearjerker starring Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger and Jack Nicholson.
    221pts

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