Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry.

In the lists below, the winner of the award for each year is listed first, followed by the runners-up. The year is the year in which the award was made; the candidate films must have been released in the USA during the previous calendar year. For example, films released in 2005 were eligible for consideration for the 2006 Best Picture Oscar.

Each individual entry shows the title followed by the production company, and the producer. When the film was produced in a country other than the United States, the name of the country of origin is shown in parentheses after the production company.

This award was originally called Best Production.
 

1920s
 

1927–1928 Wings - Paramount Famous Lasky - Lucien Hubbard
The Racket - Caddo, United Artists - Howard Hughes
Seventh Heaven - Fox - William Fox
Best Picture, Unique and Artistic Production also known as "Best Artistic Quality of Production" was only presented in the first year.

1927–1928 Sunrise - Fox - William Fox
Chang - Paramount - Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
The Crowd - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg
Best Production (Not official nominations, according to AMPAS records for 1928/29)

1928–1929 The Broadway Melody - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Harry Rapt
Alibi - Feature Productions, United Artists -Roland West
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Harry Rapt
In Old Arizona - Fox - Winfield Sheehan, studio head
The Patriot - Paramount - Ernst Lubitsch

1929–1930 All Quiet on the Western Front - Universal - Carl Laemmle Jr.
The Big House - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg
Disraeli - Warner Bros. - Jack L. Warner with Darryl F. Zanuck
The Divorcee - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Robert Z. Leonard
The Love Parade - Paramount - Ernst Lubitsch

1930s
 

1930–1931 Cimarron - RKO Radio - William LeBaron
East Lynne - Fox - Winfield Sheehan, studio head
The Front Page - Caddo, United Artists - Howard Hughes
Skippy - Paramount - Adolph Zukor
Trader Horn - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving G. Thalberg

1931–1932 Grand Hotel - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg
Arrowsmith - Goldwyn, United Artists - Samuel Goldwyn
Bad Girl - Fox - Winfield Sheehan studio head
The Champ - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - King Vidor
Five Star Final - First National - Hal B. Wallis
One Hour with You - Paramount - Ernst Lubitsch
Shanghai Express - Paramount - Adolph Zukor
The Smiling Lieutenant - Paramount - Ernst Lubitsch

1932–1933 Cavalcade - Fox - Winfield Sheehan studio head
42nd Street - Warner Bros. - Darryl F. Zanuck
A Farewell to Arms - Paramount - Adolph Zukor
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis
Lady for a Day - Columbia - Frank Capra
Little Women - RKO Radio - Merian C. Cooper with Kenneth MacGowan
The Private Life of Henry VIII - London Films, United Artists (British) - Alexander Korda
She Done Him Wrong - Paramount - William LeBaron
Smilin' Through - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg
State Fair - Fox - Winfield Sheehan studio head

1934 It Happened One Night - Columbia - Harry Cohn
The Barretts of Wimpole Street - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg
Cleopatra - Paramount - Cecil B. DeMille
Flirtation Walk - First National - Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis with Robert Lord
The Gay Divorcee - RKO Radio - Pandro S. Berman
Here Comes the Navy - Warner Bros. - Lou Edelman
The House of Rothschild - Twentieth Century Pictures, United Artists - Darryl F. Zanuck with William Goetz and Raymond Griffith
Imitation of Life - Universal - John M. Stahl
One Night of Love - Columbia - Harry Cohn with Everett Riskin
The Thin Man - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Hunt Stromberg
Viva Villa! - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - David O. Selznick
The White Parade - Fox - Jesse L. Lasky

1935 Mutiny on the Bounty - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg with Albert Lewin
Alice Adams - RKO Radio - Pandro S. Berman
Broadway Melody of 1936 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - John W. Considine Jr.
Captain Blood - Warner Bros.-Cosmopolitan - Hal B. Wallis with Harry Joe Brown and Gordon Hollingshead
David Copperfield - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - David O. Selznick
The Informer - RKO Radio - Cliff Reid
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer - Paramount - Louis D. Lighton
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Warner Bros. - Henry Blanke
Les Misérables - 20th Century, United Artists - Darryl F. Zanuck
Naughty Marietta - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Hunt Stromberg
Ruggles of Red Gap - Paramount - Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
Top Hat - RKO Radio - Pandro S. Berman

1936 The Great Ziegfeld - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Hunt Stromberg
Anthony Adverse - Warner Bros. - Henry Blanke
Dodsworth - Goldwyn, United Artists - Samuel Goldwyn with Merritt Hulbert
Libeled Lady - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Lawrence Weingarten
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town - Columbia - Frank Capra
Romeo and Juliet - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg
San Francisco - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - John Emerson and Bernard H. Hyman
The Story of Louis Pasteur - Warner Bros. - Henry Blanke
A Tale of Two Cities - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - David O. Selznick
Three Smart Girls - Universal - Joe Pasternak with Charles R. Rogers

1937 The Life of Emile Zola - Warner Bros. - Henry Blanke
The Awful Truth - Columbia - Leo McCarey with Everett Riskin
Captains Courageous - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Louis Lighton
Dead End - Goldwyn, United Artists - Samuel Goldwyn with Merritt Hulbert
The Good Earth - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg with Albert Lewin
In Old Chicago - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck with Kenneth MacGowan
Lost Horizon - Columbia - Frank Capra
One Hundred Men and a Girl - Universal - Charles R. Rogers with Joe Pasternak
Stage Door - RKO Radio - Pandro S. Berman
A Star Is Born - Selznick International, United Artists - David O. Selznick

1938 You Can't Take it With You - Columbia - Frank Capra
The Adventures of Robin Hood - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis with Henry Blanke
Alexander's Ragtime Band - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck with Harry Joe Brown
Boys Town - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - John W. Considine, Jr.
The Citadel - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (British) - Victor Saville
Four Daughters - Warner Bros.-First National - Hal B. Wallis with Henry Blanke
La Grande illusion - R. A. O., World Pictures (French) - Frank Rollmer, and Albert Pinkovitch
Jezebel - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis with Henry Blanke
Pygmalion - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (British) - Gabriel Pascal
Test Pilot - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Louis Lighton

1939 Gone with the Wind - Selznick, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - David O. Selznick
Dark Victory - Warner Bros. - David Lewis
Goodbye, Mr. Chips - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (British)- Victor Saville
Love Affair - RKO Radio - Leo McCarey
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Columbia - Frank Capra
Ninotchka - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sidney Franklin
Of Mice and Men - Roach, United Artists - Lewis Milestone
Stagecoach - United Artists - Walter Wanger
The Wizard of Oz - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Mervyn LeRoy
Wuthering Heights - Goldwyn, United Artists - Samuel Goldwyn

1940s
 

1940 Rebecca - Selznick, United Artists - David O. Selznick
All This and Heaven Too - Warner Bros. - Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis, with David Lewis
Foreign Correspondent - Wanger, United Artists - Walter Wanger
The Grapes of Wrath - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck with Nunnally Johnson
The Great Dictator - Chaplin, United Artists - Charles Chaplin
Kitty Foyle - RKO Radio - David Hempstead
The Letter - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis
The Long Voyage Home - Argosy Wanger, United Artists - John Ford
Our Town - Lesser, United Artists - Sol Lesser
The Philadelphia Story - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Joseph L. Mankiewicz

1941 How Green Was My Valley - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck
Blossoms in the Dust - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Asher
Citizen Kane - RKO Radio - Orson Welles
Here Comes Mr. Jordan - Columbia - Everett Riskin
Hold Back the Dawn - Paramount - Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
The Little Foxes - Goldwyn, RKO Radio - Samuel Goldwyn
The Maltese Falcon - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis
One Foot in Heaven - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis
Sergeant York - Warner Bros. - Jesse L. Lasky and Hal B. Wallis
Suspicion - RKO Radio - Alfred Hitchcock

1942 Mrs. Miniver - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sidney Franklin
Forty-Ninth Parallel- Ortus, Columbia (British) - Michael Powell
Kings Row - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis
The Magnificent Ambersons - Mercury, RKO Radio - Orson Welles
The Pied Piper - 20th Century-Fox - Nunnally Johnson
The Pride of the Yankees - Goldwyn, RKO Radio - Samuel Goldwyn
Random Harvest - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sidney Franklin
The Talk of the Town - Columbia - George Stevens
Wake Island - Paramount - Joseph Sistrom
Yankee Doodle Dandy - Warner Bros. - Jack Warner, Hal B. Wallis, William Cagney

1943 Casablanca - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Paramount - Sam Wood
Heaven Can Wait - 20th Century-Fox - Ernst Lubitsch
The Human Comedy - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Clarence Brown
In Which We Serve - Two Cities, United Artists (British) - Noel Coward
Madame Curie - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sidney Franklin
The More the Merrier - Columbia - George Stevens
The Ox-Bow Incident - 20th Century-Fox - Lamar Trotti
The Song of Bernadette - 20th Century-Fox - William Perlberg
Watch on the Rhine - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis

1944 Going My Way - Paramount - Leo McCarey
Double Indemnity - Paramount - Joseph Sistrom
Gaslight - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
Since You Went Away - Selznick, United Artists - David O. Selznick
Wilson - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck

1945 The Lost Weekend - Paramount - Charles Bracken
Anchors Aweigh - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Joe Pasternak
The Bells of St. Mary's - Rainbow, RKO Radio - Leo McCarey
Mildred Pierce - Warner Bros. - Jerry Wald
Spellbound - Selznick, United Artists - David O. Selznick

1946 The Best Years of Our Lives - Goldwyn, RKO Radio - Samuel Goldwyn
Henry V - Rank-Two Cities, United Artists (British) - Laurence Olivier
It's a Wonderful Life - Liberty, RKO Radio - Frank Capra
The Razor's Edge - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck
The Yearling - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sidney Franklin

1947 Gentleman's Agreement - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck
The Bishop's Wife - Goldwyn, RKO Radio - Samuel Goldwyn
Crossfire - RKO Radio - Adrian Scott
Great Expectations - Rank-Cineguild, U-I (British) - Ronald Neame
Miracle on 34th Street - 20th Century-Fox - William Perlberg

1948 Hamlet - J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films, U-I (British) - Laurence Olivier
Johnny Belinda - Warner Bros. - Jerry Wald
The Red Shoes - Rank-Archers, Eagle-Lion (British) - Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
The Snake Pit - 20th Century-Fox - Anatole Litvak and Robert Bassler
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - Warner Bros. - Henry Blanke

1949 All the King's Men - Rossen, Columbia - Robert Rossen
Battleground - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Dore Schary
The Heiress - Paramount - William Wyler
A Letter to Three Wives - 20th Century-Fox - Sol C. Siegel
Twelve O'Clock High - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck

1950s
 

1950 All About Eve - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck
Born Yesterday - Columbia - S. Sylvan Simon
Father of the Bride - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Pandro S. Berman
King Solomon's Mines - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sam Zimbalist
Sunset Boulevard - Paramount - Charles Brackett

1951 An American in Paris - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Arthur Freed
Decision Before Dawn - 20th Century-Fox - Anatole Litvak and Frank McCarthy
A Place in the Sun - Paramount - George Stevens
Quo Vadis - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sam Zimbalist
A Streetcar Named Desire - Feldman, Warner Bros. - Charles K. Feldman

1952 The Greatest Show on Earth - DeMille, Paramount - Cecil B. DeMille
High Noon - United Artists - Stanley Kramer
Ivanhoe - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Pandro S. Berman
Moulin Rouge - United Artists - John Huston
The Quiet Man - Argosy, Republic - John Ford and Merian C. Cooper

1953 From Here to Eternity - Columbia - Buddy Adler
Julius Caesar - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - John Houseman
The Robe - 20th Century-Fox - Frank Ross
Roman Holiday - Paramount - William Wyler
Shane - Paramount - George Stevens

1954 On the Waterfront - Horizon-American, Columbia - Sam Spiegel
The Caine Mutiny - Kramer, Columbia - Stanley Kramer
The Country Girl - Perlberg-Seaton, Paramount - William Perlberg
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Jack Cummings
Three Coins in the Fountain - 20th Century-Fox - Sol C. Siegel

1955 Marty - Hecht-Lancaster, United Artists - Harold Hecht
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - 20th Century-Fox - Buddy Adler
Mister Roberts - Orange, Warner Bros. - Leland Hayward
Picnic - Columbia - Fred Kohlmar
The Rose Tattoo - Wallis, Paramount - Hal B. Wallis

1956 Around the World in Eighty Days - Todd, United Artists - Michael Todd
Friendly Persuasion - Allied Artists - William Wyler
Giant - Warner Bros. - George Stevens and Henry Ginsberg
The King and I - 20th Century-Fox - Charles Brackett
The Ten Commandments - DeMille, Paramount - Cecil B. DeMille

1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai - Horizon, Columbia - Sam Spiegel
Peyton Place - 20th Century-Fox - Jerry Wald
Sayonara - Goetz, Warner Bros. - William Goetz
12 Angry Men - Orion-Nova, United Artists - Henry Fonda, and Reginald Rose
Witness for the Prosecution - Small-Hornblow, United Artists - Arthur Hornblow, Jr.

1958 Gigi - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Arthur Freed
Auntie Mame - Warner Bros. - Jack L. Warner
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Lawrence Weingarten
The Defiant Ones - Kramer, United Artists - Stanley Kramer
Separate Tables - Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, United Artists - Harold Hecht

1959 Ben-Hur - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sam Zimbalist
Anatomy of a Murder - Preminger, Columbia - Otto Preminger
The Diary of Anne Frank - 20th Century-Fox - George Stevens
The Nun's Story - Warner Bros. - Henry Blanke
Room at the Top - Romulus, Continental (British) - John Woolf and James Woolf

1960s
 

1960 The Apartment - Mirisch, United Artists - Billy Wilder
The Alamo - Batjac, United Artists - John Wayne
Elmer Gantry - Lancaster-Brooks, United Artists - Bernard Smith
Sons and Lovers - Wald, 20th Century-Fox - Jerry Wald
The Sundowners - Warner Bros. - Fred Zinnemann

1961 West Side Story - Mirisch-B&P Enterprises, United Artists - Robert Wise
Fanny - Mannsfield, Warner Bros. - Joshua Logan
The Guns of Navarone - Foreman, Columbia - Carl Foreman
The Hustler - Rossen, 20th Century-Fox - Robert Rossen
Judgment at Nuremberg - Kramer, United Artists - Stanley Kramer

1962 Lawrence of Arabia - Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia - Sam Spiegel
The Longest Day - Zanuck, 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck
The Music Man - Warner Bros. - Morton DaCosta
Mutiny on the Bounty - Arcola, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Aaron Rosenberg
To Kill a Mockingbird - Pakula, Mulligan, Brentwood, U-I - Alan J. Pakula

1963 Tom Jones - Woodfall, United Artists-Lopert (British) - Tony Richardson
America, America - Athena, Warner Bros. - Elia Kazan
Cleopatra - Wanger, 20th Century-Fox - Walter Wanger
How the West Was Won - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Cinerama - Bernard Smith
Lilies of the Field - Rainbow, United Artists - Ralph Nelson

1964 My Fair Lady - Warner Bros. - Jack L. Warner
Zorba the Greek - Rochley, International Classics/20th Century-Fox - Michael Cacoyannis
Becket - Wallis, Paramount - Hal B. Wallis
Dr. Strangelove or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Hawk Films, Columbia - Stanley Kubrick
Mary Poppins - Disney, Buena Vista - Walt Disney, Bill Walsh

1965 The Sound of Music - Argyle, 20th Century-Fox - Robert Wise
Darling - Anglo-Amalgamated, Embassy (British) - Joseph Janni
Doctor Zhivago - Ponti, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Carlo Ponti
Ship of Fools - Kramer, Columbia - Stanley Kramer
A Thousand Clowns - Harrell, United Artists - Fred Coe

1966 A Man for All Seasons - Highland, Columbia - Fred Zinnemann
Alfie - Sheldrake, Paramount (British) - Lewis Gilbert
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming - Mirisch, United Artists - Norman Jewison
The Sand Pebbles - Argyle-Solar, 20th Century-Fox - Robert Wise
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Chenault, Warner Bros. - Ernest Lehman

1967 In the Heat of the Night - Mirisch, United Artists - Walter Mirisch
Bonnie and Clyde - Tatira-Hiller, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts - Warren Beatty
Doctor Dolittle - Apjac, 20th Century-Fox - Arthur P. Jacobs
The Graduate - Nichols-Turman, Embassy - Lawrence Turman
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - Kramer, Columbia - Stanley Kramer

1968 Oliver! - Romulus, Columbia - John Woolf
Funny Girl - Rastar, Columbia - Ray Stark
The Lion in Winter - Hawarth, Avco Embassy - Martin Poll
Rachel, Rachel - Kayos, Warner Bros. - Paul Newman
Romeo and Juliet - B.H.E.-Verona-De Laurentis, Paramount - Anthony Havelock-Allan, John Brabourne

1969 Midnight Cowboy Hellman-Schlesinger, United Artists - Jerome Hellman
Anne of the Thousand Days - Wallis, Universal - Hal B. Wallis
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Hill-Monash, 20th Century-Fox - John Foreman
Hello, Dolly! - Chenault, 20th Century-Fox - Ernest Lehman
Z - Reggane Films-O.N.C.I.C., Cinema V (Algerian) - Jacques Perrin, Ahmed Rachedi
 

1970s
 

1970 Patton - 20th Century-Fox - Frank McCarthy
Airport - Hunter, Universal - Ross Hunter
Five Easy Pieces - BBS Productions, Columbia - Bob Rafelson, Richard Wechsler
Love Story - Paramount - Howard G. Minsky
M*A*S*H - Aspen, 20th Century-Fox - Ingo Preminger

1971 The French Connection - D'Antoni-Schine-Moore, 20th Century-Fox - Philip D'Antoni
A Clockwork Orange - Haek Films, Warner Bros. - Stanley Kubrick
Fiddler on the Roof - Mirisch-Cartier, United Artists - Norman Jewison
The Last Picture Show - BBS Productions, Columbia - Stephen J. Friedman
Nicholas and Alexandra - Horizon, Columbia - Sam Spiegel

1972 The Godfather - Ruddy, Paramount - Albert S. Ruddy
Cabaret - ABC Pictures, Allied Artists - Cy Feuer
Deliverance - Warner Bros. - John Boorman
Sounder - Radnitz/Mattel, 20th Century-Fox - Robert B. Radnitz
The Emigrants - Svensk Filmindusttri, Warner Bros. (Swedish)- Bengt Forslund

1973 The Sting - Bill/Phillips-Hill, Zanuck/Brown, Universal - Tony Bill, Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips
American Graffiti - Lucasfilm/Coppola Company, Universal - Francis Ford Coppola and Gary Kurtz
The Exorcist - Hoya, Warner Bros. - William Peter Blatty
A Touch of Class - Brut Prods., Avco Embassy - Melvin Frank
Cries and Whispers - Svenska Filminstitutet-Cinematograph AB Prod., New World Pictures (Swedish) - Ingmar Bergman

1974 The Godfather, Part II - Coppola Company, Paramount - Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson, Fred Roos
Chinatown - Evans, Paramount - Robert Evans
The Conversation - Directors Company, Paramount - Francis Ford Coppola
Lenny - Worth, United Artists - Marvin Worth
The Towering Inferno - Irwin Allen, 20th Century-Fox/Warner Bros. - Irwin Allen

1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Fantasy Films, United Artists - Saul Zaentz, Michael Douglas
Barry Lyndon - Hawk Films, Warner Bros. - Stanley Kubrick
Dog Day Afternoon - Warner Bros. - Martin Bregman, Martin Elfand
Jaws - Zanuck/Brown, Universal - Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown
Nashville - ABC Entertainment-Weintraub-Altman, Paramount - Robert Altman

1976 Rocky - Chartoff-Winkler, United Artists - Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff
All the President's Men - Wildwood, Warner Bros. - Walter Coblenz
Bound for Glory - United Artists - Robert F. Blumofe, Harold Leventhal
Network - Gottfried/Chayefsky, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists - Howard Gottfried
Taxi Driver Bill/Phillips-Scorsese - Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips

1977 Annie Hall - Rollins-Joffe, United Artists - Charles H. Joffe
The Goodbye Girl - Stark, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Warner Bros. - Ray Stark
Julia - 20th Century-Fox - Richard Roth
Star Wars - 20th Century-Fox - Gary Kurtz
The Turning Point - Hera Productions, 20th Century-Fox - Herbert Ross and Arthur Laurents

1978 The Deer Hunter - EMI Films/Cimino, Universal - Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, John Peverall
Coming Home - Hellman, United Artists - Jerome Hellman
Heaven Can Wait - Dogwood, Paramount - Warren Beatty
Midnight Express - Casablanca-Filmworks, Columbia - Alan Marshall and David Puttnam
An Unmarried Woman - 20th Century-Fox - Paul Mazursky and Tony Ray

1979 Kramer vs. Kramer - Jaffe, Columbia - Stanley R. Jaffe
Apocalypse Now - Omni Zoetrope, United Artists - Francis Ford Coppola with Fred Roos, Gray Frederickson and Tom Sternberg
All That Jazz - Columbia/20th Century-Fox - Robert Alan Aurthur
Breaking Away - 20th Century-Fox - Peter Yates
Norma Rae - 20th Century-Fox - Tamara Aseyev and Alex Rose
 

1980s
 

1980 Ordinary People - Wildwood, Paramount - Ronald L. Schwary
Coal Miner's Daughter - Schwartz, Universal - Bernard Schwartz
The Elephant Man - Brooksfilms, Paramount - Jonathan Sanger
Raging Bull - Chartoff-Winkler, United Artists - Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff
Tess - Renn-Burrill Société Française de Production (S.F.P.), Columbia - Claude Berri and Timothy Burrill

1981 Chariots of Fire - Enigma, The Ladd Company/Warner Bros. - David Puttnam
Atlantic City - International Cinema Corporation, Paramount - Denis Heroux
On Golden Pond - ITC Films/IPC Films, Universal/Associated Film Distribution - Bruce Gilbert
Raiders of the Lost Ark - Lucasfilm, Paramount - Frank Marshall
Reds - J.R.S., Paramount - Warren Beatty

1982 Gandhi - Indo-British Films, Columbia - Richard Attenborough
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Universal - Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy
Missing - Universal/PolyGram, Universal - Edward Lewis and Mildred Lewis
Tootsie - Mirage/Punch, Columbia - Sydney Pollack and Dick Richards
The Verdict - Fox-Zanuck/Brown, 20th Century Fox - Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown

1983 Terms of Endearment - Brooks, Paramount - James L. Brooks
The Big Chill - Carson Productions Group, Columbia - Michael Shamberg
The Dresser - Goldcrest/Television Limited/World Film Services, Columbia - Peter Yates
The Right Stuff - Chartoff-Winkler, Ladd Company, Warner Bros. - Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff
Tender Mercies - EMI-Antron Media, Universal/AFD - Philip S. Hobel

1984 Amadeus - Barrandov Studios - Zaentz, Orion - Saul Zaentz
The Killing Fields - Goldcrest/International Film Investors, Warner Bros. - David Puttnam
A Passage to India - G. W. Films Ltd., Columbia - John Brabourne and Richard Goodwin
Places in the Heart - Tri-Star - Arlene Donovan
A Soldier's Story - Caldix, Columbia - Norman Jewison, Ronald L. Schwary and Patrick Palmer

1985 Out of Africa - Universal - Sydney Pollack
The Color Purple - Warner Bros. - Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Quincy Jones
Kiss of the Spider Woman - H. B. Filmes/Sugarloaf Films, Island Alive - David Weisman
Prizzi's Honor - ABC Motion Pictures, 20th Century Fox/Producers Sales Organization - John Foreman
Witness - Feldman, Paramount - Edward S. Feldman

1986 Platoon - Hemdale, Orion - Arnold Kopelson
Children of a Lesser God - Sugarman, Paramount - Burt Sugarman, Patrick J. Palmer
Hannah and Her Sisters - Rollins-Joffe, Orion - Robert Greenhut
The Mission - Warner Bros./Goldcrest/Kingsmere, Warner Bros. - Fernando Ghia, David Puttnam
A Room with a View - Merchant Ivory, Cinecom - Ismail Merchant

1987 The Last Emperor - Hemdale, Columbia - Jeremy Thomas
Broadcast News - 20th Century-Fox - James L. Brooks
Fatal Attraction - Jaffe/Lansing, Paramount - Stanley R. Jaffe, Sherry Lansing
Hope and Glory - Davros Production Services Ltd., Columbia/Nelson Entertainment - John Boorman
Moonstruck - Palmer & Jewison, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Patrick J. Palmer, Norman Jewison

1988 Rain Man - Mirage Entertainment, Star Partners II, United Artists - Mark Johnson
The Accidental Tourist - Warner Bros. - Lawrence Kasdan, Charles Okun, Michael Grillo
Dangerous Liaisons - Lorimar Film Entertainment, NFH Productions, Warner Bros. - Norma Heyman, Hank Moonjean
Mississippi Burning - Orion Pictures Corp. - Frederick Zollo, Robert F. Colesberry
Working Girl - 20th Century Fox - Douglas Wick

1989 Driving Miss Daisy - Majestic Films International, Zanuck Company., Warner Bros. - Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck
Born on the Fourth of July - Ixtlan Corp., Universal - A. Kitman Ho, Oliver Stone
Dead Poets Society - Silver Screen Partners IV, Touchstone Pictures - Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas
Field of Dreams - Gordon Company, Universal - Lawrence Gordon, Charles Gordon
My Left Foot - Ferndale Films, Granada, Raidio Teilifis Eireann - Noel Pearson

1990s
 

1990 Dances With Wolves - Tig Productions, Majestic Films International, Orion Pictures Corp. - Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner
Awakenings - Columbia Pictures Corp. - Walter F. Parkes, Lawrence Lasker
Ghost - Paramount Pictures - Lisa Weinstein
The Godfather, Part III - Paramount Pictures, Zoetrope Studios - Francis Ford Coppola
Goodfellas - Warner Bros. - Irwin Winkler

1991 The Silence of the Lambs - Orion Pictures Corp. - Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman
Beauty and the Beast - Walt Disney Pictures - Don Hahn - The ONLY animated film ever nominated for Best Picture.
Bugsy - Baltimore Pictures, Desert Vision, Mulholland Productions, TriStar Pictures - Mark Johnson, Barry Levinson, Warren Beatty
JFK - Alcor Films, Camelot, Ixtlan Corp., Le Studio Canal+, Regency Enterprises, Warner Bros. - A. Kitman Ho, Oliver Stone
The Prince of Tides - Barwood Films, Columbia Pictures, Longfellow Pictures - Barbra Streisand, Andrew S. Karsch

1992 Unforgiven - Malpaso Productions, Warner Bros. - Clint Eastwood
The Crying Game - British Screen, Channel Four Films, Eurotrustees, Nippon Film Development and Finance, Palace, Miramax Films - (UK) - Stephen Woolley
A Few Good Men - Castle Rock Entertainment, Columbia Pictures Corp. - David Brown, Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman
Howards End - Channel Four Films, Cinema 10, Ide Films, Imagica, Japan Satellite Broadcasting, Merchant-Ivory Productions, Nippon Film Development and Finance, Sumitomo (Japan/UK in English), Sony Pictures Classics - Ismail Merchant
Scent of a Woman - City Light Films, Universal Pictures - Martin Brest

1993 Schindler's List - Amblin Entertainment, Universal Pictures - Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, Branko Lustig
The Fugitive - Warner Bros. - Arnold Kopelson
In the Name of the Father - Hell's Kitchen Films, Universal Pictures - Jim Sheridan
The Piano (Australia, France, New Zealand) (in English, Sign Language and Maori) - Australian Film Commission, CiBy 2000, New South Wales Film and Television Office - Jane Campion
The Remains of the Day - Columbia Pictures Corp., Merchant-Ivory Productions - Mike Nichols, John Calley, Ismail Merchant

1994 Forrest Gump - Paramount Pictures - Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch, Steve Starkey
Four Weddings and a Funeral (United Kingdom) - Channel Four Films, PolyGram Film Entertainment, Working Title Films - Duncan Kenworthy
Pulp Fiction - A Band Apart, Jersey Films, Miramax Films - Lawrence Bender
Quiz Show - Baltimore Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Wildwood Enterprises - Michael Jacobs, Julian Krainin, Michael Nozick, Robert Redford
The Shawshank Redemption - Castle Rock Entertainmen, Columbia Pictures Corp. - Niki Marvin

1995 Braveheart - 20th Century Fox, B. H. Finance C. V., Icon Entertainment International, Paramount Pictures, The Ladd Company - Mel Gibson, Alan Ladd, Jr., Bruce Davey
Apollo 13 - Imagine Entertainment, Universal Pictures - Brian Grazer
Babe - Kennedy Miller Productions, Universal Pictures - Bill Miller, George Miller, Doug Mitchell
Il Postino (France, Italy, Belgium) (in Italian and Spanish) - Blue Dahlia Productions, Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica, Esterno Mediterraneo Film, Penta Films S. L., Miramax - Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Gaetano Danieli
Sense and Sensibility - Columbia Pictures Corp., Mirage - Lindsay Doran

1996 The English Patient - J&M Entertainment, Miramax Films, Tiger Moth Productions - Saul Zaentz
Fargo - Gramercy Pictures, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Working Title Films - Ethan Coen
Jerry Maguire - Gracie Films, TriStar Pictures - James L. Brooks, Laurence Mark, Richard Sakai, Cameron Crowe
Secrets & Lies - Channel Four Films, CiBy 2000, Thin Man Films, October Films - Simon Channing-Williams
Shine (Australia) - AFFC, Film Victoria, Momentum Films, Fine Line Features - Jane Scott

1997 Titanic - 20th Century Fox, Lightstorm Entertainment, Paramount Pictures - James Cameron, Jon Landau
As Good as It Gets - Gracie Films, TriStar Pictures - James L. Brooks, Bridget Johnson, Kristi Zea
The Full Monty - 20th Century Fox, Channel Four Films, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Redwave Films - Uberto Pasolini
Good Will Hunting - Be Gentlemen Limited Partnership, Lawrence Bender Productions, Miramax Films - Lawrewnce Bender
L.A. Confidential - Monarchy Enterprises B. V., Regency Enterprises, Warner Bros. - Curtis Hanson, Arnon Milchan, Michael G. Nathanson

1998 Shakespeare in Love - Bedford Falls Productions, Miramax Films, Universal Pictures - David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick, Marc Norman
Elizabeth - Channel Four Films, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Working Title Films - Alison Owen, Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan
Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella) (Italy) - Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica, Melampo Cinematografica, Miramax Films - Elda Ferri, Gianluigi Braschi
Saving Private Ryan - Amblin Entertainment, DreamWorks SKG, Mark Gordon Productions, Mutual Film Company, Paramount Pictures - Steven Spielberg, Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon, Gary Levinsohn
The Thin Red Line - Fox 2000 Pictures, Geisler-Roberdeau, Phoenix Pictures - Robert Michael Geisler, John Roberdeau, Grant Hill.

1999 American Beauty - DreamWorks SKG, Jinks/Cohen Company - Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks
The Sixth Sense - Hollywood Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, The Kennedy/Marshall Company - Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel
The Cider House Rules - Film Colony, Miramax Films - Richard N. Gladstein
The Green Mile - Castle Rock Entertainment, Darkwoods Productions, Warner Bros. - Frank Darabont, David Valdes
The Insider - Blue Light Productions, Forward Pass, Kaitz Productions, Mann/Roth Productions, Touchstone Pictures - Pirter an Brugge, Michael Mann

2000s
 

2000 Gladiator - Universal & DreamWorks -Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, & Branko Lustig
Chocolat - David Brown, Kit Golden, & Leslie Holleran
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long, Republic of China) - Sony Pictures Classics - William Kong, Li-Kong Hsu, & Ang Lee
Erin Brockovich - Columbia & Universal -Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, & Stacey Sher
Traffic - USA Films - Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, & Laura Bickford

2001 A Beautiful Mind - Universal & DreamWorks - Brian Grazer & Ron Howard
Gosford Park - USA Films - Robert Altman, Bob Balaban & David Levy
In the Bedroom - Miramax - Graham Leader, Ross Katz & Todd Field
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - New Line - Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh & Barrie M. Osborne
Moulin Rouge! - 20th Century Fox - Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann & Fred Baron

2002 Chicago - Miramax - Martin Richards
Gangs of New York - Miramax - Alberto Grimaldi & Harvey Weinstein
The Hours - Paramount & Miramax - Scott Rudin & Robert Fox
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - New Line - Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh & Peter Jackson
The Pianist - Focus Features

2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - New Line - Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, & Fran Walsh
Lost in Translation - Focus Features - Ross Katz & Sofia Coppola
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World - Universal, 20th Century Fox & Miramax - Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., Peter Weir & Duncan Henderson
Mystic River - Warner Brothers - Robert Lorenz, Judie G. Hoyt & Clint Eastwood
Seabiscuit - Universal, DreamWorks, Spyglass - Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall & Gary Ross

2004 Million Dollar Baby - Warner Brothers - Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, & Tom Rosenburg
The Aviator - Miramax, Initial Entertainment Group, Warner Brothers - Michael Mann & Graham King
Finding Neverland - Miramax - Richard N. Gladstein & Nellie Bellflower
Ray - Universal - Taylor Hackford, Stuart Benjamin & Howard Baldwin
Sideways - Fox Searchlight, 20th Century Fox - Michael London

2005 Crash - Lions Gate, DEJ Productions, Bob Yari Productions & ApolloProScreen GmbH & Co. Filmproduktion KG (Canada & Germany) - Paul Haggis & Cathy Schulman
Brokeback Mountain - Focus Features - Diana Ossana & James Schamus
Capote - United Artists & Sony Pictures Classics - Caroline Baron, William Vince, & Michael Ohoven
Good Night, and Good Luck - Warner Bros. - Grant Heslov
Munich - DreamWorks & Universal - Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy & Barry Mendel