Nolte: What Should’ve Won the Best Picture Oscar – 1980 to 1989 23 Apr 2021 In part seven of this series we look at the movies that should have won the Best Picture Oscar between 1980 and 1989. Like the fifties, because a Republican president very much defined the era, the eighties continue to be unfairly maligned as a terrible decade for movies by foo foo critics. As you will see below this is an outrageous and anti-science lie. Let’s begin… Raging Bull and only Raging Bull should’ve won Best Picture, Robert Redford’s Oscar-winning directorial debut is constantly attacked as something along the lines of a subpar movie of the week.