1989
Cannes: sex, lies and videotape, by Steven Soderbergh (US)
Berlin: Rain Man, by Barry Levinson (US)
Venice: A City of Sadness, by Hsiao-Hsien Hou (Taiwan)
Oscar: Driving Miss Daisy, by Bruce Beresford
1988
Cannes: Pelle the Conqueror, by Bille August (Denmark)
Berlin: Red Sorghum, by Zhang Yimou (China)
Venice: The Legend of the Holy Drinker, by Ermano Olmi (Italy)
Oscar: Rain Man, by Barry Levinson
1987
Cannes: Under the Sun of Satan, by Maurice Pialat (France)
Berlin: The Theme, by Gleb Panfilov (Soviet Union)
Venice: Au revoir les enfants, by Louis Malle (France)
Oscar: The Last Emperor, by Bernardo Bertolucci
1986
Cannes: The Mission, by Roland Joffe (UK)
Berlin: Stammhein, by Reinhard Hauff (West Germany)
Venice: The Green Ray, by Eric Rohmer (France)
Oscar: Platoon, by Oliver Stone
1985
Cannes: When Father Was Away On Business, by Emir Kusturica (Yugoslavia)
Berlin: Tie - Wetherby, by David Hare (UK)
- Die Frau und der Fremde, by Rainer Simon (East Germany)
Venice: Vagabond, by Agnes Varda (France)
Oscar: Out of Africa, by Sidney Pollack
1984
Cannes: Paris Texas, by Wim Wenders (Germany)
Berlin: Love Streams, by John Cassavetes (US)
Venice: The Year of the Quiet Sun, by Krzysztof Zanussi (Poland)
Oscar: Amadeus, by Milos Forman
1983
Cannes: Ballad of Narayama, by Shohei Imamura (Japan)
Berlin: Tie - Ascendancy, by Edward Bennett (UK)
- The Beehiv, by Mario Camus (Spain)
Venice: First Name: Carmen, by Jean-Luc Godard (France)
Oscar: Terms of Endearment, by James L. Brooks
1982
Cannes: Tie - The Way, by Yilmaz Guney (Turkey)
- Missing, by Constantin Costa-Gavras (US)
Berlin: Veronica Voss, by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (West Germany)
Venice: The State of Things, by Wim Wenders (West Germany)
Oscar: Gandhi, by Richard Attenborough
1981
Cannes: Man of Iron, by Andrzej Wajda (Poland)
Berlin: Faster Faster, by Carlos Saura (Spain)
Venice: The German Sisters, by Margarethe von Trotta (West Germany)
Oscar: Chariots of Fire, by Hugh Hudson
1980
Cannes: Tie - All That Jazz, by Bob Fosse (US)
- Kagemusha, by Akira Kurosawa (Japan)
Berlin: Tie - Heartland, by Richard Pierec (US)
- Palermo or Wolfsburg, by Werner Schroeter (West Germany)
Venice: Tie - Gloria, by John Cassavetes (US)
- Atlantic City, by Louis Malle (US)
Oscar: Ordinary People, by Robert Redford