1985 Academy Awards – Best Picture Winner and Nominees

Amadeus

Saul Zaentz

The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart’s talent and claimed to have murdered him.

A Passage to India

John Brabourne

A Soldier’s Story

Norman Jewison

Places in the Heart

Arlene Donovan

The Killing Fields

David Puttnam