# BAFTA Award for Best Film

The BAFTA Award for Best Film is a film award given annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and presented at the British Academy Film Awards. It has been given since the 1st BAFTA Awards, representing the best films of 1947, but until 1969 it was called the BAFTA Award for Best Film From Any Source. It is possible for films from any country to be nominated, although British films are also recognised in the category BAFTA Award for Best British Film and (since 1983) foreign-language films in BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language. As such, there have been multiple occasions of a film being nominated in two of these categories (and even winning both, for example Conclave).
There has been one tie for the Best Film Award when, in 1962, Ballad of a Soldier tied with The Hustler for Best Film From Any Source. Throughout the history of the category, the award has been given to the director(s), the producer(s) or both.
* Between 1949 and 1959, 1962–1965, 1970–1976, and in 1979; Only the film itself and not producers or directors received the award and nomination.
* Between 1960 and 1961, 1966–1969, and in 1980; Only directors received the award and nomination.
* Between 1988 and 1997; Both producers and directors received the award and nomination.
* Between 1977 and 1978, 1981–1987, and since 1998; Only producers counted as winners and nominees in this category.
In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year.

## Winners and nominees
### 1940s

| Year | Film | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country |
| Best Film from Any Source |||||
| 1947 (1st) | The Best Years of Our Lives | William Wyler | Samuel Goldwyn | United States |
| 1948 (2nd) | Hamlet | Laurence Olivier | Laurence Olivier | United Kingdom |
| 1948 (2nd) | Crossfire | Edward Dmytryk | Adrian Scott | United States |
| 1948 (2nd) | The Fallen Idol | Carol Reed | Carol Reed | United Kingdom |
| 1948 (2nd) | Monsieur Vincent | Maurice Cloche | Viscount George de la Grandiere | France |
| 1948 (2nd) | The Naked City | Jules Dassin | Mark Hellinger | United States |
| 1948 (2nd) | Paisan (Paisà) | Roberto Rossellini | Rod E. Geiger, Roberto Rossellini | Italy |
| 1948 (2nd) | Four Steps in the Clouds (Quattro passi fra le nuvole) | Alessandro Blasetti | Giuseppe Amato | Italy |
| 1949 (3rd) | Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette) | Vittorio De Sica | Giuseppe Amato | Italy |
| 1949 (3rd) | The Berliner (Berliner Ballade) | R. A. Stemmle | Alf Teichs | Germany |
| 1949 (3rd) | The Last Stage (Ostatni etap) | Wanda Jakubowska | Wanda Jakubowska, Gerda Schneider | Poland |
| 1949 (3rd) | The Set-Up | Robert Wise | Richard Goldstone | United States |
| 1949 (3rd) | The Third Man | Carol Reed | Carol Reed | United Kingdom |
| 1949 (3rd) | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | John Huston | Henry Blanke | United States |
| 1949 (3rd) | The Window | Ted Tetzlaff | Frederic Ullman Jr. | United States |

### 1950s

| Year | Film | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country |
| 1950 (4th) | All About Eve | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Darryl F. Zanuck | United States |
| 1950 (4th) | The Asphalt Jungle | John Huston | Arthur Hornblow Jr. | United States |
| 1950 (4th) | Beauty and the Devil (La Beauté du diable) | René Clair | Salvo D'Angelo | France |
| 1950 (4th) | Intruder in the Dust | Clarence Brown | Clarence Brown | United States |
| 1950 (4th) | The Men | Fred Zinnemann | Stanley Kramer | United States |
| 1950 (4th) | On the Town | Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | Arthur Freed | United States |
| 1950 (4th) | Orphée (US: Orpheus) | Jean Cocteau | André Paulvé | France |
| 1951 (5th) | La Ronde | Max Ophüls | Ralph Baum, Sacha Gordine | France |
| 1951 (5th) | An American in Paris | Vincente Minnelli | Arthur Freed | United States |
| 1951 (5th) | The Browning Version | Anthony Asquith | Teddy Baird | United Kingdom |
| 1951 (5th) | Detective Story | William Wyler | William Wyler | United States |
| 1951 (5th) | Sunday in August (Domenica d'agosto) | Luciano Emmer | Sergio Amidei | Italy |
| 1951 (5th) | Fourteen Hours | Henry Hathaway | Sol C. Siegel | United States |
| 1951 (5th) | Miss Julie (Fröken Julie) | Alf Sjöberg | Rune Waldekranz | Sweden |
| 1951 (5th) | The Lavender Hill Mob | Charles Crichton | Michael Balcon | United Kingdom |
| 1951 (5th) | The Magic Box (1951) | John Boulting | Ronald Neame | United Kingdom |
| 1951 (5th) | The Magic Garden | Donald Swanson | Donald Swanson | United Kingdom |
| 1951 (5th) | The Man in the White Suit | Alexander Mackendrick | Michael Balcon | United Kingdom |
| 1951 (5th) | No Resting Place | Paul Rotha | Colin Lesslie | United Kingdom |
| 1951 (5th) | The Red Badge of Courage | John Huston | Gottfried Reinhardt | United States |
| 1951 (5th) | The Small Miracle | Maurice Cloche, Ralph Smart | Anthony Havelock-Allan | United Kingdom |
| 1951 (5th) | The Sound of Fury | Cyril Endfield | Robert Stillman | United States |
| 1951 (5th) | A Walk in the Sun | Lewis Milestone | Lewis Milestone | United States |
| 1951 (5th) | White Corridors | Pat Jackson | John Croydon, Joseph Janni | United Kingdom |
| 1951 (5th) | Edward and Caroline (Édouard et Caroline) | Jacques Becker | Raymond Borderie | France |
| 1952 (6th) | The Sound Barrier | David Lean | David Lean | United Kingdom |
| 1952 (6th) | The African Queen | John Huston | Sam Spiegel | United Kingdom |
| 1952 (6th) | Angels One Five | George More O'Ferrall | John W. Gossage, Derek N. Twist | United Kingdom |
| 1952 (6th) | The Boy Kumasenu | Sean Graham | | Ghana |
| 1952 (6th) | Carrie | William Wyler | William Wyler | United States |
| 1952 (6th) | Casque d'Or | Jacques Becker | Robert and Raymond Hakim | France |
| 1952 (6th) | Cry, the Beloved Country | Zoltán Korda | Zoltán Korda, Alan Paton | United Kingdom |
| 1952 (6th) | Death of a Salesman | László Benedek | Stanley Kramer | United States |
| 1952 (6th) | Limelight | Charles Chaplin | Charles Chaplin | United States |
| 1952 (6th) | Mandy | Alexander Mackendrick, Fred F. Sears | Michael Balcon, Leslie Norman | United Kingdom |
| 1952 (6th) | Miracle in Milan (Miracolo a Milano) | Vittorio De Sica | Vittorio De Sica | Italy |
| 1952 (6th) | The Young and the Damned (Los olvidados) | Luis Buñuel | Óscar Dancigers, Sergio Kogan, Jaime A. Menasce | Mexico |
| 1952 (6th) | Outcast of the Islands | Carol Reed | Carol Reed | United Kingdom |
| 1952 (6th) | Rashomon (羅生門, Rashōmon) | Akira Kurosawa | Minoru Jingo | Japan |
| 1952 (6th) | The River | Jean Renoir | Kenneth McEldowney, Jean Renoir | United Kingdom |
| 1952 (6th) | Singin' in the Rain | Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | Arthur Freed | United States |
| 1952 (6th) | A Streetcar Named Desire | Elia Kazan | Charles K. Feldman | United States |
| 1952 (6th) | Viva Zapata! | Elia Kazan | Darryl F. Zanuck | United States |
| 1953 (7th) | Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits) | René Clément | Robert Dorfmann | France |
| 1953 (7th) | The Bad and the Beautiful | Vincente Minnelli | John Houseman | United States |
| 1953 (7th) | Come Back, Little Sheba | Daniel Mann | Hal B. Wallis | United States |
| 1953 (7th) | The Cruel Sea | Charles Frend | Leslie Norman | United Kingdom |
| 1953 (7th) | Two Cents Worth of Hope (Due soldi di speranza) | Renato Castellani | Sandro Ghenzi | Italy |
| 1953 (7th) | From Here to Eternity | Fred Zinnemann | Milo Adler-Gillies | United States |
| 1953 (7th) | Genevieve | Henry Cornelius | Henry Cornelius | United Kingdom |
| 1953 (7th) | The Heart of the Matter | George More O'Ferrall | Ian Dalrymple | United Kingdom |
| 1953 (7th) | Julius Caesar | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | John Houseman | United States |
| 1953 (7th) | The Kidnappers (US: The Little Kidnappers) | Philip Leacock | Sergei Nolbandov, Leslie Parkyn | United Kingdom |
| 1953 (7th) | Lili | Charles Walters | Edwin H. Knopf | United States |
| 1953 (7th) | The Medium (Il medium) | Gian-Carlo Menotti | Walther Lowendahl | Italy |
| 1953 (7th) | Mogambo | John Ford | Sam Zimbalist | United States |
| 1953 (7th) | Moulin Rouge | John Huston | John and James Woolf | United Kingdom |
| 1953 (7th) | Are We All Murderers? (Nous sommes tous des assassins) | André Cayatte | François Carron | France |
| 1953 (7th) | Little World of Don Camillo (Don Camillo) | Julien Duvivier | Giuseppe Amato | Italy France |
| 1953 (7th) | Roman Holiday | William Wyler | William Wyler | United States |
| 1953 (7th) | Shane | George Stevens | George Stevens | United States |
| 1953 (7th) | The Sun Shines Bright | John Ford | Merian C. Cooper, John Ford | United States |
| 1954 (8th) | The Wages of Fear (Le salaire de la peur) | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Raymond Borderie | France |
| 1954 (8th) | The Caine Mutiny | Edward Dmytryk | Stanley Kramer | United States |
| 1954 (8th) | Carrington V.C. | Anthony Asquith | Teddy Baird | United Kingdom |
| 1954 (8th) | The Divided Heart | Charles Crichton | Michael Truman | United Kingdom |
| 1954 (8th) | Doctor in the House | Ralph Thomas | Betty E. Box | United Kingdom |
| 1954 (8th) | Executive Suite | Robert Wise | John Houseman | United States |
| 1954 (8th) | For Better, for Worse | J. Lee Thompson | Kenneth Harper | United Kingdom |
| 1954 (8th) | Hobson's Choice | David Lean | David Lean | United Kingdom |
| 1954 (8th) | How to Marry a Millionaire | Jean Negulesco | Nunnally Johnson | United States |
| 1954 (8th) | Gate of Hell (地獄門, Jigokumon) | Teinosuke Kinugasa | Masaichi Nagata | Japan |
| 1954 (8th) | The Maggie | Alexander Mackendrick | Michael Truman | United Kingdom |
| 1954 (8th) | The Moon Is Blue | Otto Preminger | Otto Preminger | United States |
| 1954 (8th) | On the Waterfront | Elia Kazan | Sam Spiegel | United States |
| 1954 (8th) | Bread, Love and Dreams (Pane, amore e fantasia) | Luigi Comencini | Marcello Girosi | Italy |
| 1954 (8th) | The Purple Plain | Robert Parrish | John Bryan | United Kingdom |
| 1954 (8th) | Rear Window | Alfred Hitchcock | Alfred Hitchcock | United States |
| 1954 (8th) | Riot in Cell Block 11 | Don Siegel | Walter Wanger | United States |
| 1954 (8th) | Robinson Crusoe (Aventuras de Robinson Crusoe) | Luis Buñuel | Óscar Dancigers, Henry F. Ehrlich | Mexico |
| 1954 (8th) | Romeo and Juliet | Renato Castellani | Sandro Ghenzi, Joseph Janni | United Kingdom |
| 1954 (8th) | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | Stanley Donen | Jack Cummings | United States |
| 1955 (9th) | Richard III | Laurence Olivier | Laurence Olivier | United Kingdom |
| 1955 (9th) | Bad Day at Black Rock | John Sturges | Dore Schary | United States |
| 1955 (9th) | Carmen Jones | Otto Preminger | Otto Preminger | United States |
| 1955 (9th) | The Colditz Story | Guy Hamilton | Ivan Foxwell | United Kingdom |
| 1955 (9th) | The Dam Busters | Michael Anderson | Robert Clark, W. A. Whittaker | United Kingdom |
| 1955 (9th) | East of Eden | Elia Kazan | Elia Kazan | United States |
| 1955 (9th) | The Ladykillers | Alexander Mackendrick | Seth Holt, Michael Balcon | United Kingdom |
| 1955 (9th) | Marty | Delbert Mann | Harold Hecht | United States |
| 1955 (9th) | The Night My Number Came Up | Leslie Norman | Michael Balcon | United Kingdom |
| 1955 (9th) | The Prisoner | Peter Glenville | Vivian Cox | United Kingdom |
| 1955 (9th) | Seven Samurai (七人の侍, Shichinin no Samurai) | Akira Kurosawa | Sojiro Motoki | Japan |
| 1955 (9th) | Simba | Brian Desmond Hurst | Peter De Sarigny | United Kingdom |
| 1955 (9th) | La Strada | Federico Fellini | Dino De Laurentiis, Carlo Ponti | Italy |
| 1955 (9th) | Summertime | David Lean | Ilya Lopert | United Kingdom United States |
| 1956 (10th) | Gervaise | René Clément | Annie Dorfmann | France |
| 1956 (10th) | Friends for Life (Amici per la pelle) | Franco Rossi | Carlo Civallero | Italy |
| 1956 (10th) | Baby Doll | Elia Kazan | Elia Kazan, Tennessee Williams | United States |
| 1956 (10th) | The Battle of the River Plate | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | United Kingdom |
| 1956 (10th) | The Unfrocked One (Le Défroqué) | Léo Joannon | Alain Poiré, Roger Ribadeau-Dumas | France |
| 1956 (10th) | Guys and Dolls | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Samuel Goldwyn | United States |
| 1956 (10th) | The Killing | Stanley Kubrick | James B. Harris | United States |
| 1956 (10th) | The Man Who Never Was | Ronald Neame | André Hakim | United Kingdom |
| 1956 (10th) | The Man with the Golden Arm | Otto Preminger | Otto Preminger | United States |
| 1956 (10th) | Picnic | Joshua Logan | Fred Kohlmar | United States |
| 1956 (10th) | The Grasshopper (Попрыгунья, Poprygunya) | Samson Samsonov | Tatyana Berezantseva, Anatoliy Bobrovskiy | Soviet Union |
| 1956 (10th) | Reach for the Sky | Lewis Gilbert | Daniel M. Angel | United Kingdom |
| 1956 (10th) | Rebel Without a Cause | Nicholas Ray | David Weisbart | United States |
| 1956 (10th) | Shadow (Cień) | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | | Poland |
| 1956 (10th) | Smiles of a Summer Night (Sommarnattens leende) | Ingmar Bergman | Allan Ekelund | Sweden |
| 1956 (10th) | A Town Like Alice | Jack Lee | Joseph Janni | United Kingdom |
| 1956 (10th) | The Trouble with Harry | Alfred Hitchcock | Alfred Hitchcock | United States |
| 1956 (10th) | War and Peace | King Vidor | Dino De Laurentiis | United States Italy |
| 1956 (10th) | Yield to the Night | J. Lee Thompson | Kenneth Harper | United Kingdom |
| 1957 (11th) | The Bridge on the River Kwai | David Lean | Sam Spiegel | United Kingdom United States |
| 1957 (11th) | 12 Angry Men | Sidney Lumet | Henry Fonda, Reginald Rose | United States |
| 1957 (11th) | 3:10 to Yuma | Delmer Daves | David Heilweil | United States |
| 1957 (11th) | The Bachelor Party | Delbert Mann | Harold Hecht | United States |
| 1957 (11th) | He Who Must Die (Celui qui doit mourir) | Jules Dassin | Henri Bérard | France |
| 1957 (11th) | Edge of the City | Martin Ritt | David Susskind | United States |
| 1957 (11th) | Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison | John Huston | Buddy Adler, Eugene Frenke | United States |
| 1957 (11th) | Pather Panchali (পথের পাঁচালী, Pôther Pãchali) | Satyajit Ray | Government of West Bengal | India |
| 1957 (11th) | Paths of Glory | Stanley Kubrick | Kirk Douglas, James B. Harris, Stanley Kubrick | United States |
| 1957 (11th) | Gates of Paris (Porte des Lilas ) | René Clair | René Clair | France |
| 1957 (11th) | The Prince and the Showgirl | Laurence Olivier | Laurence Olivier | United Kingdom |
| 1957 (11th) | The Shiralee | Leslie Norman | Michael Balcon, Jack Rix | United Kingdom |
| 1957 (11th) | That Night! | John Newland | Himan Brown | United States |
| 1957 (11th) | The Tin Star | Anthony Mann | William Perlberg, George Seaton | United States |
| 1957 (11th) | A Man Escaped (Un condamné à mort s'est échappé) | Robert Bresson | Alain Poiré, Jean Thuillier | France |
| 1957 (11th) | Windom's Way | Ronald Neame | John Bryan | United Kingdom |
| 1958 (12th) | Room at the Top | Jack Clayton | John and James Woolf | United Kingdom |
| 1958 (12th) | Aparajito (অপরাজিত, Ôporajito) | Satyajit Ray | Satyajit Ray | India |
| 1958 (12th) | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Richard Brooks | Lawrence Weingarten | United States |
| 1958 (12th) | The Defiant Ones | Stanley Kramer | Stanley Kramer | United States |
| 1958 (12th) | Ice Cold in Alex | J. Lee Thompson | W.A. Whittaker | United Kingdom |
| 1958 (12th) | Indiscreet | Stanley Donen | Stanley Donen | United Kingdom |
| 1958 (12th) | The Cranes Are Flying (Летят журавли, Letyat zhuravli) | Mikhail Kalatozov | Mikhail Kalatozov | Soviet Union |
| 1958 (12th) | No Down Payment | Martin Ritt | Jerry Wald | United States |
| 1958 (12th) | Nights of Cabiria (Le notti di Cabiria) | Federico Fellini | Dino De Laurentiis | Italy |
| 1958 (12th) | Orders to Kill | Anthony Asquith | Anthony Havelock-Allan | United Kingdom |
| 1958 (12th) | Sea of Sand | Guy Green | Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman | United Kingdom |
| 1958 (12th) | The Sheepman | George Marshall | Edmund Grainger | United States |
| 1958 (12th) | Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället) | Ingmar Bergman | Allan Ekelund | Sweden |
| 1958 (12th) | The Young Lions | Edward Dmytryk | Al Lichtman | United States |
| 1959 (13th) | Ben-Hur | William Wyler | Sam Zimbalist | United States |
| 1959 (13th) | Anatomy of a Murder | Otto Preminger | Otto Preminger | United States |
| 1959 (13th) | The Magician (Ansiktet) | Ingmar Bergman | Allan Ekelund | Sweden |
| 1959 (13th) | The Big Country | William Wyler | Gregory Peck, William Wyler | United States |
| 1959 (13th) | Compulsion | Richard Fleischer | Richard D. Zanuck | United States |
| 1959 (13th) | Gigi | Vincente Minnelli | Arthur Freed | United States |
| 1959 (13th) | Look Back in Anger | Tony Richardson | Harry Saltzman | United Kingdom |
| 1959 (13th) | Maigret Sets a Trap (Maigret tend un piège) | Jean Delannoy | J.P. Guibert | France |
| 1959 (13th) | North West Frontier | J. Lee Thompson | Marcel Hellman | United Kingdom |
| 1959 (13th) | The Nun's Story | Fred Zinnemann | Henry Blanke | United States |
| 1959 (13th) | Ashes and Diamonds (Popiół i diament) | Andrzej Wajda | | Poland |
| 1959 (13th) | Sapphire | Basil Dearden | Michael Relph | United Kingdom |
| 1959 (13th) | Some Like It Hot | Billy Wilder | Billy Wilder | United States |
| 1959 (13th) | Tiger Bay | J. Lee Thompson | John Hawkesworth, Leslie Parkyn, Julian Wintle | United Kingdom |
| 1959 (13th) | Yesterday's Enemy | Val Guest | Michael Carreras | United Kingdom |

### 1960s

| Year | Film | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country |
| 1960 (14th) | The Apartment | Billy Wilder | Billy Wilder | United States |
| 1960 (14th) | The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups) | François Truffaut | François Truffaut, Georges Charlot | France |
| 1960 (14th) | The Angry Silence | Guy Green | Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes | United Kingdom |
| 1960 (14th) | The Adventure (L'avventura) | Michelangelo Antonioni | Cino Del Duca, Robert and Raymond Hakim, Amato Pennasilico, Luciano Perugia | Italy |
| 1960 (14th) | La Dolce Vita | Federico Fellini | Giuseppe Amato, Angelo Rizzoli | Italy France |
| 1960 (14th) | Elmer Gantry | Richard Brooks | Bernard Smith | United States |
| 1960 (14th) | Hiroshima mon amour (二十四時間の情事, Nijūyojikan'nojōji) | Alain Resnais | Anatole Dauman, Samy Halfon | France Japan |
| 1960 (14th) | Inherit the Wind | Stanley Kramer | Stanley Kramer | United States |
| 1960 (14th) | Let's Make Love | George Cukor | Jerry Wald | United States |
| 1960 (14th) | Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro) | Marcel Camus | Sacha Gordine | Brazil France |
| 1960 (14th) | Never on Sunday (Ποτέ την Κυριακή, Poté tin Kyriakí) | Jules Dassin | Jules Dassin | Greece United States |
| 1960 (14th) | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | Karel Reisz | Tony Richardson | United Kingdom |
| 1960 (14th) | Shadows | John Cassavetes | Maurice McEndree | United States |
| 1960 (14th) | Spartacus | Stanley Kubrick | Edward Lewis | United States |
| 1960 (14th) | The Testament of Orpheus (Le testament d'Orphée) | Jean Cocteau | Jean Thuillier | France |
| 1960 (14th) | The Trials of Oscar Wilde | Ken Hughes | Irving Allen, Albert R. Broccoli, Harold Huth | United Kingdom |
| 1960 (14th) | Tunes of Glory | Ronald Neame | Colin Lesslie | United Kingdom |
| 1961 (15th) | Ballad of a Soldier (Баллада о солдате, Ballada o soldate) (ex-æquo) | Grigori Chukhrai | M. Chernova | Soviet Union |
| 1961 (15th) | The Hustler (ex-æquo) | Robert Rossen | Robert Rossen | United States |
| 1961 (15th) | The World of Apu | Satyajit Ray | Satyajit Ray | India |
| 1961 (15th) | The Innocents | Jack Clayton | Jack Clayton | United Kingdom |
| 1961 (15th) | Judgment at Nuremberg | Stanley Kramer | Stanley Kramer | United States |
| 1961 (15th) | The Long and the Short and the Tall | Leslie Norman | Michael Balcon | United Kingdom |
| 1961 (15th) | Rocco and His Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli) | Luchino Visconti | Goffredo Lombardo | Italy |
| 1961 (15th) | The Sundowners | Fred Zinnemann | Gerry Blattner | United Kingdom |
| 1961 (15th) | A Taste of Honey | Tony Richardson | Tony Richardson | United Kingdom |
| 1961 (15th) | The Hole (Le Trou; US: The Night Watch) | Jacques Becker | Serge Silberman | France |
| 1961 (15th) | Whistle Down the Wind | Bryan Forbes | Richard Attenborough | United Kingdom |
| 1962 (16th) | Lawrence of Arabia | David Lean | Sam Spiegel | United Kingdom |
| 1962 (16th) | Last Year at Marienbad (L'Année dernière à Marienbad) | Alain Resnais | Pierre Courau, Raymond Froment | France Italy |
| 1962 (16th) | Billy Budd | Peter Ustinov | Peter Ustinov | United Kingdom |
| 1962 (16th) | The Elusive Corporal (Le Caporal épinglé) | Jean Renoir | Adry De Carbuccia, Roland Girard | France |
| 1962 (16th) | The Lady with the Dog ( Дама с собачкой, Dama s sobachkoy) | Iosif Kheifits | | Soviet Union |
| 1962 (16th) | The Naked Island (裸の島, Hadaka no Shima) | Kaneto Shindō | Kaneto Shindo, Matsuura Eisaku | Japan |
| 1962 (16th) | Jules and Jim (Jules et Jim) | François Truffaut | Marcel Berbert, François Truffaut | France |
| 1962 (16th) | A Kind of Loving | John Schlesinger | Joseph Janni | United Kingdom |
| 1962 (16th) | The L-Shaped Room | Bryan Forbes | Richard Attenborough, James Woolf | United Kingdom |
| 1962 (16th) | Lola | Jacques Demy | Georges de Beauregard, Carlo Ponti | France Italy |
| 1962 (16th) | The Manchurian Candidate | John Frankenheimer | George Axelrod, John Frankenheimer | United States |
| 1962 (16th) | The Miracle Worker | Arthur Penn | Fred Coe | United States |
| 1962 (16th) | Only Two Can Play | Sidney Gilliat | Leslie Gilliat | United Kingdom |
| 1962 (16th) | Phaedra (Φαίδρα) | Jules Dassin | Jules Dassin | Greece United States |
| 1962 (16th) | Through a Glass Darkly (Såsom i en spegel) | Ingmar Bergman | Allan Ekelund | Sweden |
| 1962 (16th) | Thou Shalt Not Kill (Tu ne tueras point) | Claude Autant-Lara | Moris Ergas | France Yugoslavia |
| 1962 (16th) | The Long Absence (Une aussi longue absence) | Henri Colpi | Alberto Barsanti, Claude Jaeger, Jacques Nahum | France Italy |
| 1962 (16th) | West Side Story | Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise | Robert Wise | United States |
| 1963 (17th) | Tom Jones | Tony Richardson | Tony Richardson | United Kingdom |
| 1963 (17th) | 8½ (Otto e mezzo) | Federico Fellini | Angelo Rizzoli | Italy |
| 1963 (17th) | Billy Liar | John Schlesinger | Joseph Janni | United Kingdom |
| 1963 (17th) | David and Lisa | Frank Perry | Paul Heller | United States |
| 1963 (17th) | Days of Wine and Roses | Blake Edwards | Martin Manulis | United States |
| 1963 (17th) | Divorce Italian Style (Divorzio all'italiana) | Pietro Germi | Franco Cristaldi | Italy |
| 1963 (17th) | Hud | Martin Ritt | Irving Ravetch, Martin Ritt | United States |
| 1963 (17th) | Knife in the Water (Nóż w wodzie) | Roman Polanski | Stanislaw Zylewicz | Poland |
| 1963 (17th) | The Four Days of Naples (Le quattro giornate di Napoli) | Nanni Loy | Goffredo Lombardo | Italy |
| 1963 (17th) | The Servant | Joseph Losey | Joseph Losey, Norman Priggen | United Kingdom |
| 1963 (17th) | This Sporting Life | Lindsay Anderson | Karel Reisz | United Kingdom |
| 1963 (17th) | To Kill a Mockingbird | Robert Mulligan | Alan J. Pakula | United States |
| 1964 (18th) | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Stanley Kubrick | Stanley Kubrick | United Kingdom United States |
| 1964 (18th) | Becket | Peter Glenville | Hal B. Wallis | United Kingdom |
| 1964 (18th) | The Pumpkin Eater | Jack Clayton | James Woolf | United Kingdom |
| 1964 (18th) | The Train | John Frankenheimer | Jules Bricken | United Kingdom |
| 1965 (19th) | My Fair Lady | George Cukor | Jack L. Warner | United States |
| 1965 (19th) | Hamlet (Гамлет, Gamlet) | Grigori Kozintsev | | Soviet Union |
| 1965 (19th) | The Hill | Sidney Lumet | Kenneth Hyman | United Kingdom |
| 1965 (19th) | The Knack ...and How to Get It | Richard Lester | Oscar Lewenstein | United Kingdom |
| 1965 (19th) | Zorba the Greek (Αλέξης Ζορμπάς, Alexis Zorbas) | Michael Cacoyannis | Michael Cacoyannis | Greece United States |
| 1966 (20th) | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Mike Nichols | Ernest Lehman | United States |
| 1966 (20th) | Doctor Zhivago | David Lean | David Lean, Carlo Ponti | United Kingdom Italy |
| 1966 (20th) | Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment | Karel Reisz | Leon Clore | United Kingdom |
| 1966 (20th) | The Spy Who Came in From The Cold | Martin Ritt | Martin Ritt | United Kingdom |
| 1967 (21st) | A Man For All Seasons | Fred Zinnemann | Fred Zinnemann | United Kingdom |
| 1967 (21st) | Bonnie and Clyde | Arthur Penn | Warren Beatty | United States |
| 1967 (21st) | In the Heat of the Night | Norman Jewison | Walter Mirisch | United States |
| 1967 (21st) | A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme) | Claude Lelouch | Claude Lelouch | France |
| Best Film |||||
| 1968 (22nd) | The Graduate | Mike Nichols | Mike Nichols | United States |
| 1968 (22nd) | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick | Stanley Kubrick | United Kingdom |
| 1968 (22nd) | Oliver! | Carol Reed | John Woolf | United Kingdom |
| 1968 (22nd) | Closely Observed Trains (Ostře sledované vlaky) | Jiří Menzel | Dr. Zdenek Oves | Czechoslovakia |
| 1969 (23rd) | Midnight Cowboy | John Schlesinger | Jerome Hellman | United States |
| 1969 (23rd) | Oh! What a Lovely War | Richard Attenborough | Richard Attenborough, Brian Duffy | United Kingdom |
| 1969 (23rd) | Women in Love | Ken Russell | Larry Kramer | United Kingdom |
| 1969 (23rd) | Z | Costa Gavras | Jacques Perrin, Ahmed Rachedi | Algeria France |

### 1970s

| Year | Film | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country |
| 1970 (24th) | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | George Roy Hill | John Foreman | United States |
| 1970 (24th) | Kes | Kenneth Loach | Tony Garnett | United Kingdom |
| 1970 (24th) | M*A*S*H | Robert Altman | Ingo Preminger | United States |
| 1970 (24th) | Ryan's Daughter | David Lean | Anthony Havelock-Allan | United Kingdom |
| 1971 (25th) | Sunday Bloody Sunday | John Schlesinger | Joseph Janni | United Kingdom |
| 1971 (25th) | The Go-Between | Joseph Losey | John Heyman, Denis Johnson, Norman Priggen | United Kingdom |
| 1971 (25th) | Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia) | Luchino Visconti | Luchino Visconti | Italy France |
| 1971 (25th) | Taking Off | Miloš Forman | Alfred W. Crown | United States |
| 1972 (26th) | Cabaret | Bob Fosse | Cy Feuer | United States |
| 1972 (26th) | A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick | Stanley Kubrick | United Kingdom |
| 1972 (26th) | The French Connection | William Friedkin | Philip D'Antoni | United States |
| 1972 (26th) | The Last Picture Show | Peter Bogdanovich | Stephen J. Friedman | United States |
| 1973 (27th) | Day for Night (La Nuit américaine) | François Truffaut | Marcel Berbert | France |
| 1973 (27th) | The Day of the Jackal | Fred Zinnemann | John Woolf | United Kingdom France |
| 1973 (27th) | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie) | Luis Buñuel | Serge Silberman | France Italy Spain |
| 1973 (27th) | Don't Look Now | Nicolas Roeg | Peter Katz | United Kingdom Italy |
| 1974 (28th) | Lacombe, Lucien | Louis Malle | Louis Malle, Claude Nedjar | France West Germany Italy |
| 1974 (28th) | Chinatown | Roman Polanski | Robert Evans | United States |
| 1974 (28th) | The Last Detail | Hal Ashby | Gerald Ayres | United States |
| 1974 (28th) | Murder on the Orient Express | Sidney Lumet | John Brabourne, Richard B. Goodwin | United Kingdom |
| 1975 (29th) | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Martin Scorsese | Audrey Maas, David Susskind | United States |
| 1975 (29th) | Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick | Stanley Kubrick | United Kingdom |
| 1975 (29th) | Dog Day Afternoon | Sidney Lumet | Martin Bregman, Martin Elfand | United States |
| 1975 (29th) | Jaws | Steven Spielberg | David Brown, Richard D. Zanuck | United States |
| 1976 (30th) | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Miloš Forman | Michael Douglas, Saul Zaentz | United States |
| 1976 (30th) | All the President's Men | Alan J. Pakula | Walter Coblenz | United States |
| 1976 (30th) | Bugsy Malone | Alan Parker | Alan Marshall | United Kingdom |
| 1976 (30th) | Taxi Driver | Martin Scorsese | Julia Phillips, Michael Phillips | United States |
| 1977 (31st) | Annie Hall | Woody Allen | Charles H. Joffe, Jack Rollins | United States |
| 1977 (31st) | A Bridge Too Far | Richard Attenborough | Joseph E. Levine, Richard P. Levine | United Kingdom United States |
| 1977 (31st) | Network | Sidney Lumet | Howard Gottfried | United States |
| 1977 (31st) | Rocky | John G. Avildsen | Robert Chartoff, Irwin Winkler | United States |
| 1978 (32nd) | Julia | Fred Zinnemann | Richard Roth | United States |
| 1978 (32nd) | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Steven Spielberg | Julia Phillips, Michael Phillips | United States |
| 1978 (32nd) | Midnight Express | Alan Parker | Alan Marshall, David Puttnam | United Kingdom |
| 1978 (32nd) | Star Wars | George Lucas | Gary Kurtz | United States |
| 1979 (33rd) | Manhattan | Woody Allen | Charles H. Joffe | United States |
| 1979 (33rd) | Apocalypse Now | Francis Coppola | Francis Coppola | United States |
| 1979 (33rd) | The China Syndrome | James Bridges | Michael Douglas | United States |
| 1979 (33rd) | The Deer Hunter | Michael Cimino | Michael Cimino, Michael Deeley, John Peverall, Barry Spikings | United States |

### 1980s

| Year | Film | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country |
| 1980 (34th) | The Elephant Man | David Lynch | Jonathan Sanger | United States |
| 1980 (34th) | Being There | Hal Ashby | Andrew Braunsberg | United States |
| 1980 (34th) | Kagemusha (影武者, Kagemusha) | Akira Kurosawa | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
| 1980 (34th) | Kramer vs. Kramer | Robert Benton | Stanley R. Jaffe | United States |
| 1981 (35th) | Chariots of Fire | Hugh Hudson | David Puttnam | United Kingdom |
| 1981 (35th) | Atlantic City | Louis Malle | Denis Héroux, John Kemeny | France Canada United States |
| 1981 (35th) | The French Lieutenant's Woman | Karel Reisz | Leon Clore | United Kingdom |
| 1981 (35th) | Gregory's Girl | Bill Forsyth | Davina Belling, Clive Parsons | United Kingdom |
| 1981 (35th) | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Steven Spielberg | Frank Marshall | United States |
| 1982 (36th) | Gandhi | Richard Attenborough | Richard Attenborough | United Kingdom India |
| 1982 (36th) | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg | Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg | United States |
| 1982 (36th) | Missing | Costa Gavras | Edward Lewis, Mildred Lewis | United States |
| 1982 (36th) | On Golden Pond | Mark Rydell | Bruce Gilbert | United States |
| 1983 (37th) | Educating Rita | Lewis Gilbert | Lewis Gilbert | United Kingdom |
| 1983 (37th) | Heat and Dust | James Ivory | Ismail Merchant | United Kingdom |
| 1983 (37th) | Local Hero | Bill Forsyth | David Puttnam | United Kingdom |
| 1983 (37th) | Tootsie | Sydney Pollack | Sydney Pollack, Dick Richards | United States |
| 1984 (38th) | The Killing Fields | Roland Joffé | David Puttnam | United Kingdom |
| 1984 (38th) | The Dresser | Peter Yates | Ronald Harwood, Peter Yates | United Kingdom |
| 1984 (38th) | Paris, Texas | Wim Wenders | Anatole Dauman, Don Guest | West Germany France |
| 1984 (38th) | A Private Function | Malcolm Mowbray | Mark Shivas | United Kingdom |
| 1985 (39th) | The Purple Rose of Cairo | Woody Allen | Robert Greenhut, Woody Allen | United States |
| 1985 (39th) | Amadeus | Miloš Forman | Saul Zaentz, Miloš Forman | United States |
| 1985 (39th) | Back to the Future | Robert Zemeckis | Neil Canton, Bob Gale, Robert Zemeckis | United States |
| 1985 (39th) | A Passage to India | David Lean | John Brabourne, Richard B. Goodwin, David Lean | United Kingdom |
| 1985 (39th) | Witness | Peter Weir | Edward S. Feldman, Peter Weir | United States |
| 1986 (40th) | A Room with a View | James Ivory | Ismail Merchant, James Ivory | United Kingdom |
| 1986 (40th) | Hannah and Her Sisters | Woody Allen | Robert Greenhut, Woody Allen | United States |
| 1986 (40th) | The Mission | Roland Joffé | Fernando Ghia, David Puttnam, Roland Joffé | United Kingdom |
| 1986 (40th) | Mona Lisa | Neil Jordan | Patrick Cassavetti, Stephen Woolley, Neil Jordan | United Kingdom |
| 1987 (41st) | Jean de Florette | Claude Berri | Claude Berri | France Switzerland Italy |
| 1987 (41st) | Cry Freedom | Richard Attenborough | Richard Attenborough | United Kingdom |
| 1987 (41st) | Hope and Glory | John Boorman | John Boorman | United Kingdom |
| 1987 (41st) | Radio Days | Woody Allen | Robert Greenhut | United States |
| 1988 (42nd) | The Last Emperor (L'ultimo imperatore) | Bernardo Bertolucci | Jeremy Thomas, Bernardo Bertolucci | United Kingdom Italy China |
| 1988 (42nd) | Au revoir les enfants | Louis Malle | Louis Malle | France West Germany |
| 1988 (42nd) | Babette's Feast | Gabriel Axel | Just Betzer, Bo Christensen | Denmark |
| 1988 (42nd) | A Fish Called Wanda | Charles Crichton | Michael Shamberg | United Kingdom United States |
| 1989 (43rd) | Dead Poets Society | Peter Weir | Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas | United States |
| 1989 (43rd) | My Left Foot | Jim Sheridan | Noel Pearson | Ireland |
| 1989 (43rd) | Shirley Valentine | Lewis Gilbert | Lewis Gilbert | United Kingdom |
| 1989 (43rd) | When Harry Met Sally... | Rob Reiner | Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman | United States |

### 1990s

| Year | Film | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country |
| 1990 (44th) | Goodfellas | Martin Scorsese | Robert Chartoff, Irwin Winkler | United States |
| 1990 (44th) | Crimes and Misdemeanors | Woody Allen | Robert Greenhut | United States |
| 1990 (44th) | Driving Miss Daisy | Bruce Beresford | Lili Fini Zanuck, Richard D. Zanuck | United States |
| 1990 (44th) | Pretty Woman | Garry Marshall | Arnon Milchan, Steven Reuther | United States |
| 1991 (45th) | The Commitments | Alan Parker | Lynda Myles, Roger Randall-Cutler | Ireland United Kingdom |
| 1991 (45th) | Dances with Wolves | Kevin Costner | Kevin Costner, Jim Wilson | United States |
| 1991 (45th) | The Silence of the Lambs | Jonathan Demme | Ron Bozman, Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt | United States |
| 1991 (45th) | Thelma & Louise | Ridley Scott | Mimi Polk Gitlin | United States |
| 1992 (46th) | Howards End | James Ivory | Ismail Merchant | United Kingdom |
| 1992 (46th) | The Crying Game | Neil Jordan | Stephen Woolley | United Kingdom Ireland |
| 1992 (46th) | The Player | Robert Altman | David Brown, Michael Tolkin, Nick Wechsler | United States |
| 1992 (46th) | Strictly Ballroom | Baz Luhrmann | Tristram Miall | Australia |
| 1992 (46th) | Unforgiven | Clint Eastwood | Clint Eastwood | United States |
| 1993 (47th) | Schindler's List | Steven Spielberg | Branko Lustig, Gerald R. Molen, Steven Spielberg | United States |
| 1993 (47th) | The Piano | Jane Campion | Jan Chapman | New Zealand Australia France |
| 1993 (47th) | The Remains of the Day | James Ivory | John Calley, Ismail Merchant, Mike Nichols, James Ivory | United Kingdom United States |
| 1993 (47th) | Shadowlands | Richard Attenborough | Richard Attenborough, Brian Eastman | United Kingdom |
| 1994 (48th) | Four Weddings and a Funeral | Mike Newell | Duncan Kenworthy | United Kingdom |
| 1994 (48th) | Forrest Gump | Robert Zemeckis | Wendy Finerman, Steve Starkey, Steve Tisch | United States |
| 1994 (48th) | Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino | Lawrence Bender | United States |
| 1994 (48th) | Quiz Show | Robert Redford | Michael Jacobs, Julian Krainin, Michael Nozik | United States |
| 1995 (49th) | Sense and Sensibility | Ang Lee | Lindsay Doran | United Kingdom |
| 1995 (49th) | Babe | Chris Noonan | Bill Miller, George Miller, Doug Mitchell | Australia United States |
| 1995 (49th) | The Madness of King George | Nicholas Hytner | Stephen Evans, David Parfitt | United Kingdom |
| 1995 (49th) | The Usual Suspects | Bryan Singer | Michael McDonnell | United States |
| 1996 (50th) | The English Patient | Anthony Minghella | Saul Zaentz | United States |
| 1996 (50th) | Fargo | Joel Coen | Ethan Coen | United States |
| 1996 (50th) | Secrets & Lies | Mike Leigh | Simon Channing-Williams | United Kingdom |
| 1996 (50th) | Shine | Scott Hicks | Jane Scott | Australia |
| 1997 (51st) | The Full Monty | Peter Cattaneo | Uberto Pasolini | United Kingdom |
| 1997 (51st) | L.A. Confidential | Curtis Hanson | Curtis Hanson, Arnon Milchan Michael Nathanson | United States |
| 1997 (51st) | Mrs Brown | John Madden | Sarah Curtis | United Kingdom |
| 1997 (51st) | Titanic | James Cameron | James Cameron, Jon Landau | United States |
| 1998 (52nd) | Shakespeare in Love | John Madden | Donna Gigliotti, Marc Norman, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick | United States |
| 1998 (52nd) | Elizabeth | Shekhar Kapur | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Alison Owen | United Kingdom |
| 1998 (52nd) | Saving Private Ryan | Steven Spielberg | Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon, Gary Levinsohn, Steven Spielberg | United States |
| 1998 (52nd) | The Truman Show | Peter Weir | Edward S. Feldman, Andrew Niccol, Scott Rudin, Adam Schroeder | United States |
| 1999 (53rd) | American Beauty | Sam Mendes | Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks | United States |
| 1999 (53rd) | East is East | Damien O'Donnell | Leslee Udwin | United Kingdom |
| 1999 (53rd) | The End of the Affair | Neil Jordan | Neil Jordan, Stephen Woolley | United Kingdom United States |
| 1999 (53rd) | The Sixth Sense | M. Night Shyamalan | Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel | United States |
| 1999 (53rd) | The Talented Mr. Ripley | Anthony Minghella | William Horberg, Tom Sternberg | United States |

### 2000s

| Year | Film | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country |
| 2000 (54th) | Gladiator | Ridley Scott | David Franzoni, Branko Lustig, Douglas Wick | United States United Kingdom |
| 2000 (54th) | Almost Famous | Cameron Crowe | Ian Bryce, Cameron Crowe | United States |
| 2000 (54th) | Billy Elliot | Stephen Daldry | Greg Brenman, Jon Finn | United Kingdom |
| 2000 (54th) | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (臥虎藏龍, Wò hǔ cáng lóng) | Ang Lee | Hsu Li-kong, Bill Kong, Ang Lee | Taiwan China Hong Kong |
| 2000 (54th) | Erin Brockovich | Steven Soderbergh | Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher | United States |
| 2001 (55th) | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Peter Jackson | Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, Tim Sanders, Fran Walsh | New Zealand United States |
| 2001 (55th) | Amélie | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Jean-Marc Deschamps, Claudie Ossard | France |
| 2001 (55th) | A Beautiful Mind | Ron Howard | Brian Grazer, Ron Howard | United States |
| 2001 (55th) | Moulin Rouge! | Baz Luhrmann | Fred Baron, Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann | Australia United States |
| 2001 (55th) | Shrek | Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson | Jeffrey Katzenberg, Aron Warner, John H. Williams | United States |
| 2002 (56th) | The Pianist | Roman Polanski | Robert Benmussa, Roman Polanski, Alain Sarde | France Germany United Kingdom Poland |
| 2002 (56th) | Chicago | Rob Marshall | Martin Richards | United States |
| 2002 (56th) | Gangs of New York | Martin Scorsese | Alberto Grimaldi, Harvey Weinstein | United States |
| 2002 (56th) | The Hours | Stephen Daldry | Robert Fox, Scott Rudin | United States United Kingdom |
| 2002 (56th) | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Peter Jackson | Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh | New Zealand United States |
| 2003 (57th) | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Peter Jackson | Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh | New Zealand United States |
| 2003 (57th) | Big Fish | Tim Burton | Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks, Richard D. Zanuck | United States |
| 2003 (57th) | Cold Mountain | Anthony Minghella | Albert Berger, William Horberg, Sydney Pollack, Ron Yerxa | United States United Kingdom |
| 2003 (57th) | Lost in Translation | Sofia Coppola | Sofia Coppola, Ross Katz | United States |
| 2003 (57th) | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Peter Weir | Samuel Goldwyn Jr., Duncan Henderson, Peter Weir | United States |
| 2004 (58th) | The Aviator | Martin Scorsese | Sandy Climan, Charles Evans, Jr., Graham King, Michael Mann | United States |
| 2004 (58th) | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Michel Gondry | Anthony Bregman, Steve Golin | United States |
| 2004 (58th) | Finding Neverland | Marc Forster | Nellie Bellflower, Richard N. Gladstein | United Kingdom United States |
| 2004 (58th) | The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de motocicleta) | Walter Salles | Michael Nozik, Edgard Tenenbaum, Karen Tenkhoff | Argentina Brazil |
| 2004 (58th) | Vera Drake | Mike Leigh | Simon Channing-Williams, Alain Sarde | United Kingdom |
| 2005 (59th) | Brokeback Mountain | Ang Lee | Diana Ossana, James Schamus | United States |
| 2005 (59th) | Capote | Bennett Miller | Caroline Baron, Michael Ohoven, William Vince | United States Canada |
| 2005 (59th) | The Constant Gardener | Fernando Meirelles | Simon Channing Williams | United Kingdom |
| 2005 (59th) | Crash | Paul Haggis | Don Cheadle, Cathy Schulman, Bob Yari | United States |
| 2005 (59th) | Good Night, and Good Luck | George Clooney | Grant Heslov | United States |
| 2006 (60th) | The Queen | Stephen Frears | Tracey Seaward, Christine Langan, Andy Harries | United Kingdom |
| 2006 (60th) | Babel | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik, Steve Golin | United States Mexico |
| 2006 (60th) | The Departed | Martin Scorsese | Brad Pitt, Brad Grey, Graham King | United States |
| 2006 (60th) | The Last King of Scotland | Kevin Macdonald | Andrea Calderwood, Lisa Bryer, Charles Steel | United Kingdom |
| 2006 (60th) | Little Miss Sunshine | Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris | David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub | United States |
| 2007 (61st) | Atonement | Joe Wright | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster | United Kingdom |
| 2007 (61st) | American Gangster | Ridley Scott | Brian Grazer, Ridley Scott | United States |
| 2007 (61st) | The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Quirin Berg, Max Wiedemann | Germany |
| 2007 (61st) | No Country for Old Men | Joel and Ethan Coen | Joel and Ethan Coen, Scott Rudin | United States |
| 2007 (61st) | There Will Be Blood | Paul Thomas Anderson | JoAnne Sellar, Daniel Lupi | United States |
| 2008 (62nd) | Slumdog Millionaire | Danny Boyle | Christian Colson | United Kingdom |
| 2008 (62nd) | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | David Fincher | Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Ray Stark | United States |
| 2008 (62nd) | Frost/Nixon | Ron Howard | Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner | United States United Kingdom |
| 2008 (62nd) | Milk | Gus Van Sant | Dan Jinks, Bruce Cohen | United States |
| 2008 (62nd) | The Reader | Stephen Daldry | Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Scott Rudin | United States Germany |
| 2009 (63rd) | The Hurt Locker | Kathryn Bigelow | Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro | United States |
| 2009 (63rd) | Avatar | James Cameron | James Cameron, Jon Landau | United States |
| 2009 (63rd) | An Education | Lone Scherfig | Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey | United States United Kingdom |
| 2009 (63rd) | Precious | Lee Daniels | Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness | United States |
| 2009 (63rd) | Up in the Air | Jason Reitman | Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, Daniel Dubiecki | United States |

### 2010s

| Year | Film | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country |
| 2010 (64th) | The King's Speech | Tom Hooper | Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin | United Kingdom Australia |
| 2010 (64th) | Black Swan | Darren Aronofsky | Darren Aronofsky, Scott Franklin, Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Brian Oliver | United States |
| 2010 (64th) | Inception | Christopher Nolan | Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas | United States United Kingdom |
| 2010 (64th) | The Social Network | David Fincher | David Fincher, Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Ceán Chaffin, Kevin Spacey | United States |
| 2010 (64th) | True Grit | Joel and Ethan Coen | Joel and Ethan Coen, Scott Rudin | United States |
| 2011 (65th) | The Artist | Michel Hazanavicius | Thomas Langmann | France |
| 2011 (65th) | The Descendants | Alexander Payne | Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor, Jim Burke | United States |
| 2011 (65th) | Drive | Nicolas Winding Refn | Adam Siegel, Marc Platt | United States |
| 2011 (65th) | The Help | Tate Taylor | Brunson Green, Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan | United States |
| 2011 (65th) | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Tomas Alfredson | Tim Bevan, Robyn Slovo, Eric Fellner | United States |
| 2012 (66th) | Argo | Ben Affleck | Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney | United States |
| 2012 (66th) | Les Misérables | Tom Hooper | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh | United States United Kingdom |
| 2012 (66th) | Life of Pi | Ang Lee | Gil Netter, Ang Lee, David Womark | United States Canada |
| 2012 (66th) | Lincoln | Steven Spielberg | Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy | United States |
| 2012 (66th) | Zero Dark Thirty | Kathryn Bigelow | Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Megan Ellison | United States |
| 2013 (67th) | 12 Years a Slave | Steve McQueen | Brad Pitt, Anthony Katagas, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen | United States United Kingdom |
| 2013 (67th) | American Hustle | David O. Russell | Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison, Jonathan Gordon | United States |
| 2013 (67th) | Captain Phillips | Paul Greengrass | Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca | United States |
| 2013 (67th) | Gravity | Alfonso Cuarón | Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman | United States United Kingdom |
| 2013 (67th) | Philomena | Stephen Frears | Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan, Tracey Seaward | United Kingdom |
| 2014 (68th) | Boyhood | Richard Linklater | Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland | United States |
| 2014 (68th) | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, James W. Skotchdopole | United States |
| 2014 (68th) | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Wes Anderson | Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, Jeremy Dawson | United States |
| 2014 (68th) | The Imitation Game | Morten Tyldum | Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, Teddy Schwarzman | United States |
| 2014 (68th) | The Theory of Everything | James Marsh | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten | United Kingdom |
| 2015 (69th) | The Revenant | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Arnon Milchan, Mary Parent, Keith Redmon | United States |
| 2015 (69th) | The Big Short | Adam McKay | Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Brad Pitt | United States |
| 2015 (69th) | Bridge of Spies | Steven Spielberg | Kristie Macosko Krieger, Marc Platt, Steven Spielberg | United States |
| 2015 (69th) | Carol | Todd Haynes | Elizabeth Karlsen, Christine Vachon, Stephen Woolley | United Kingdom United States |
| 2015 (69th) | Spotlight | Tom McCarthy | Blye Pagon Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin, Michael Sugar | United States |
| 2016 (70th) | La La Land | Damien Chazelle | Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, Marc Platt | United States |
| 2016 (70th) | Arrival | Denis Villeneuve | Dan Levine, Shawn Levy, David Linde, Aaron Ryder | United States |
| 2016 (70th) | I, Daniel Blake | Ken Loach | Rebecca O'Brien | United Kingdom |
| 2016 (70th) | Manchester by the Sea | Kenneth Lonergan | Lauren Beck, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Kimberly Steward, Kevin J. Walsh | United States |
| 2016 (70th) | Moonlight | Barry Jenkins | Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adele Romanski | United States |
| 2017 (71st) | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Martin McDonagh | Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Martin McDonagh | United States United Kingdom |
| 2017 (71st) | Call Me by Your Name | Luca Guadagnino | Emilie Georges, Luca Guadagnino, Marco Morabito, Peter Spears | Italy United States France |
| 2017 (71st) | Darkest Hour | Joe Wright | Tim Bevan, Lisa Bruce, Eric Fellner, Anthony McCarten, Douglas Urbanski | United Kingdom |
| 2017 (71st) | Dunkirk | Christopher Nolan | Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas | United Kingdom United States |
| 2017 (71st) | The Shape of Water | Guillermo del Toro | Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale | United States |
| 2018 (72nd) | Roma | Alfonso Cuarón | Alfonso Cuarón, Gabriela Rodriguez, Nicolas Celis | Mexico |
| 2018 (72nd) | BlacKkKlansman | Spike Lee | Jason Blum, Spike Lee, Raymond Mansfield, Sean McKittrick, Jordan Peele, Shaun Redick | United States |
| 2018 (72nd) | The Favourite | Yorgos Lanthimos | Cecil Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Yorgos Lanthimos | United Kingdom United States |
| 2018 (72nd) | Green Book | Peter Farrelly | Jim Burke, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga, Charles B. Wessler | United States |
| 2018 (72nd) | A Star is Born | Bradley Cooper | Bill Gerber, Lynette Howell Taylor | United States |
| 2019 (73rd) | 1917 | Sam Mendes | Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Sam Mendes, Jayne-Ann Tenggren | United Kingdom United States |
| 2019 (73rd) | The Irishman | Martin Scorsese | Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Martin Scorsese, Emma Tillinger Koskoff | United States |
| 2019 (73rd) | Joker | Todd Phillips | Bradley Cooper, Todd Phillips, Emma Tillinger Koskoff | United States |
| 2019 (73rd) | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Quentin Tarantino | David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh, Quentin Tarantino | United States United Kingdom |
| 2019 (73rd) | Parasite (기생충, Gisaengchung) | Bong Joon-ho | Bong Joon-ho, Kwak Sin-ae | South Korea |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country |
| 2020 (74th) | Nomadland | Chloé Zhao | Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Chloé Zhao | United States |
| 2020 (74th) | The Father | Florian Zeller | David Parfitt, Jean-Louis Livi, Philippe Carcassonne | United Kingdom |
| 2020 (74th) | The Mauritanian | Kevin Macdonald | Adam Ackland, Leah Clarke, Christine Holder, Beatriz Levin, Lloyd Levin | United Kingdom United States |
| 2020 (74th) | Promising Young Woman | Emerald Fennell | Josey McNamara, Ben Browning, Ashley Fox, Emerald Fennell | United States |
| 2020 (74th) | The Trial of the Chicago 7 | Aaron Sorkin | Stuart M. Besser, Marc Platt | United States |
| 2021 (75th) | The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion | Jane Campion, Iain Canning, Roger Frappier, Tanya Seghatchian, Emile Sherman | Australia New Zealand United States United Kingdom Canada |
| 2021 (75th) | Belfast | Kenneth Branagh | Laura Berwick [de], Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik [de], Tamar Thomas [de] | United Kingdom |
| 2021 (75th) | Don't Look Up | Adam McKay | Adam McKay, Kevin Messick | United States |
| 2021 (75th) | Dune | Denis Villeneuve | Mary Parent, Cayle Boyter, Denis Villeneuve | United States |
| 2021 (75th) | Licorice Pizza | Paul Thomas Anderson | Sara Murphy, Paul Thomas Anderson, Adam Somner | United States Canada |
| 2022 (76th) | All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues) | Edward Berger | Malte Grunert | Germany |
| 2022 (76th) | The Banshees of Inisherin | Martin McDonagh | Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, Martin McDonagh | Ireland United Kingdom United States |
| 2022 (76th) | Elvis | Baz Luhrmann | Gail Berman, Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Patrick McCormick [de], Schuyler Weiss [de] | Australia United States |
| 2022 (76th) | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert | Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang | United States |
| 2022 (76th) | Tár | Todd Field | Todd Field, Scott Lambert [de], Alexandra Milchan | United States Germany |
| 2023 (77th) | Oppenheimer | Christopher Nolan | Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, Christopher Nolan | United States |
| 2023 (77th) | Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d'une chute) | Justine Triet | Marie-Ange Luciani, David Thion | France |
| 2023 (77th) | The Holdovers | Alexander Payne | Mark Johnson, Bill Block, David Hemingson | United States |
| 2023 (77th) | Killers of the Flower Moon | Martin Scorsese | Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas, Martin Scorsese, Daniel Lupi | United States |
| 2023 (77th) | Poor Things | Yorgos Lanthimos | Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone | Ireland United Kingdom United States |
| 2024 (78th) | Conclave | Edward Berger | Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Michael A. Jackman | United Kingdom United States |
| 2024 (78th) | Anora | Sean Baker | Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, Sean Baker | United States |
| 2024 (78th) | The Brutalist | Brady Corbet | Nick Gordon, Brian Young, Andrew Morrison, D.J. Gugenheim, Brady Corbet | Hungary United Kingdom United States |
| 2024 (78th) | A Complete Unknown | James Mangold | Fred Berger, Alex Heineman, James Mangold | United States |
| 2024 (78th) | Emilia Pérez | Jacques Audiard | Pascal Caucheteux, Jacques Audiard | France |

## Longlist finalists

As of the 77th ceremony, the finalists are selected by the voting members during the first round. The Round Two voting determine the nominations. These are the additional films that appeared in the longlist.
| Year | Finalists |
| 2020 | Another RoundDa 5 BloodsThe DigMa Rainey's Black BottomMankNews of the WorldOne Night in Miami...SoulSound of MetalThe White Tiger |
| 2021 | Being the RicardosCODAThe French DispatchHouse of GucciKing RichardThe Lost DaughterNo Time to Dietick, tick... BOOM!The Tragedy of MacbethWest Side Story |
| 2022 | AftersunThe FabelmansLivingTop Gun: MaverickTriangle of Sadness |
| 2023 | All of Us StrangersBarbieMaestroPast LivesThe Zone of Interest |
| 2024 | The ApprenticeDune: Part TwoKneecapThe SubstanceWicked |