1980s
- 1980 Manhattan by Woody Allen
- 1981 All That Jazz by Bob Fosse
- 1982 The Four Seasons by Alan Alda
- 1983 Tootsie by Sydney Pollack
- 1984 Zelig by Woody Allen
- 1985 The Right Stuff by Philip Kaufman
- 1986 The Purple Rose of Cairo by Woody Allen
- 1987 Hannah and Her Sisters by Woody Allen
- 1988 Down by Law by Jim Jarmusch
- 1989 The Dead by John Huston
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