Can you name the 80s Academy Award Best Picture Nominees by Plot?

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A speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with a deaf woman who works there
An aging actor's assistant struggles to keep his employer's life together
An English teacher at a prep school inspires his students to change their lives of conformity through literature
A corn farmer heres voices that he believes are telling him to build baseball diamonds in his fields, and as he does the Chicago Black Sox begin to appear
The story of a mother and daughter who are very different and their relationship
A group of baby boomer college friends reunite after the death of a friend
A leftist revolutionary and a homosexual pedophile share a prison cell
Biography of country singer Loretta Lynn
Between two Thanksgivings, a woman's husband falls in love with her sister, and her ex-husband rekindles a relationship with another sister
The story of Puyi, Emperor of China
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom the friendship of an Indian doctor, Englishwoman engaged to a city magistrate and an English educator
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily deformed man living as a side-show freak
A nine year old boy grows up in London during the blitz of World War II
In colonial Kenya a Dutch baroness has a passionate but ultimately doomed love affair with a big game hunter
An unemployed actor with a reputation for being difficult disguises him self as a woman to get a role in a soap opera
Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Convenant before the Nazis
An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur have a relationship that grows of the years
A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when his former lover becomes obsessed with and begins stalking him
The Story of Mozart told from the point of view by Antonio Sallieri
A biography of the Indian lawyer who led his country in non-violent resistance against British rule
A young African-American woman named Celie must must live down the problems facing African-Americans in the early 1900s
A mob hit man and hit woman fall in love, even though they've been assigned to kill each other
Rich and bored aristocrats in Rococo France play in high-stakes games of passion and betrayal
The true story of American journalist Charles Horman who disappeared in the aftermath of the U.S. backed Chilean coup of 1973
A photographer is trapped in Cambodia during Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign
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A down-on-his-like alcoholic lawyer pushes a medical malpractice case in order to improve his own situation, but later realizes he is doing the right thing
The story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho approach to the space program
A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man
The story of two rival reporters and a television news producer who has daily emotional breakdowns
The accidental death of a younger son in an affluent family causes strains in the relationships of the other family members
A Texas widow tries to keep her farm together with the help of a blind man and an African-American man
A strong willed peasant girl earns the affection of two men and in the end falls tragically into the arms of one
A black officer is sent to investigate the murder of a black soldier in Louisiana near the end of World War II
The story of Ron Kovic, a Vietnam veteran who becomes and anti-war and pro-human rights activist
When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss's position
An emotionally detached writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and his marriage crumbles
A young Canadian woman's dream of a better life in the gambling business is interrupted when her drug dealing ex-husband returns
A detective must protect a young Amish boy who becomes the target of a ruthless killer after witnessing a murder
A widowed Brooklyn book keeper is torn between her fiancee and his brother
An aging couple who return to the same cottage every summer are visited by their daughter, her fiancee and his young son
A lonely boy befriends an alien stranded on Earth
A selfish yuppie's father leaves his inheritance to his savant brother; they travel cross country
An alcoholic country singer gets a new wife, tries to reach out to his long lost daughter and tries to put his troubled life behind him
The story of two British track athletes, one a determined Scottish Christian, the other a determined English Jew, who both compete in the 1924 Olympics
A boxer's violence and temper give him success in the ring but destroys his life outside it
18th Century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American Indian tribe from Portuguese slavers
Two FBI agents investigate the disappearance of three civil rights activists
A young English woman travels to early 1900s Italy and falls in love
A radical American journalist becomes involved in the Russian Revolution and hopes to bring their same idealism to the United States
The story of Christy Brown, who learned to write and paint despite having cerebral palsy
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80s Best Picture Nominees by Plot Quiz

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