From Driving Miss Daisy to Amadeus, these 10 movies were the Best Picture winners of the 1980s. How do they rank?
The 1980s were an extremely transformative decade in the history of cinema. After the creative highs of the 1970s under the New Hollywood system, studios turned their eyes towards blockbuster titles and began developing more franchise properties. These films began to dominate the box office, but many of the films that took home the Academy Award for Best Picture were highly successful as well.
'Out of Africa' Sydney Pollack’s romantic epic Out of Africa hasn’t aged that well, and the film certainly could have done more to detail the plight of the native African villagers that it seems so keen to victimize. Nonetheless, Pollack is a traditionalist in his filmmaking techniques, and the sappy, old-fashioned romance between Robert Redford’s Denys Finch Hatton and Meryl Streep’s Karen Blixen is quite charming.
'Gandhi' Gandhi is the type of film often shown in schools for its educational value, and it certainly takes a certain amount of patience to watch in its entirety . Terms of Endearment is a melodrama, but it’s one that is so finely acted and assembled that the tearjerking final moments don’t feel like a slight. Both Shirley MacLaine and an excellent Jack Nicholson deservedly took home trophies for their performances.
The chemistry between Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise in one of his finest roles as the brothers Charlie and Raymond Babbitt is simply delightful, touching, and hilarious. Hoffman took home the Best Actor award, although in hindsight it may have been a case where Cruise was equally worthy of a nomination.
'Platoon' Hollywood had been reckoning with the Vietnam War for well over a decade thanks to the success of The Deer Hunter and Apocalypse Now, but Oliver Stone’s masterpiece Platoon was still a sensational achievement in 1986. The film did not mince words when it came to its hostility towards the American war effort.
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