The 10 most shocking Oscars snubs of the 1980s

The 10 most egregious Oscars snubs of the 1980s The 1980s were a great decade for cinema, but a strange time for the Academy Awards. What's more damaging than the populism of '80s blockbusters was the very strange left turn that the Academy Awards took, in which the industry's biases began to show, and the most obvious issue with the decade's Oscar winners is in the 'Best Picture' category, as many of them are headscratchers. Questions arise about these confusing decisions like why did an entertaining, but generic sports drama like Chariots of Fire win over a political masterpiece like Reds or an all-time great adventure like Raiders of the Lost Ark, or how did Driving Miss Daisy take the top prize in a year over the moving education drama Dead Poets Society, the powerful anti-war film Born on the Fourth of July, the stirring biopic My Left Foot, or the classic weepie Field of Dreams? The term 'Oscar bait' was solidified towards the end of the '90s when Harvey Weinstein started to engineer campaigns that were more focused on issues and gossip than the actual films themselves, but the shift towards specific genres meant only to please the older members of the Academy Awards' voting body had its inception in the '80s. The 10 most head-scratching Oscars snubs of the 1980s