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 Outstanding 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).

BAFTA Award for Best Film
The 2025 recipient: Edward Berger for Conclave
Awarded for	Excellence in cinema
Location	United Kingdom
Presented by	British Academy of Film and Television Arts
Currently held by	Conclave (2024)
Website	bafta.org

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

  indicates the winner

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
	Crossfire	Edward Dmytryk	Adrian Scott	United States
	The Fallen Idol	Carol Reed	Carol Reed	United Kingdom
	Monsieur Vincent	Maurice Cloche	Viscount George de la Grandiere	France
	The Naked City	Jules Dassin	Mark Hellinger	United States
	Paisan (Paisà)	Roberto Rossellini	Rod E. Geiger, Roberto Rossellini	Italy
	Four Steps in the Clouds (Quattro passi fra le nuvole)	Alessandro Blasetti	Giuseppe Amato
1949 (3rd)	Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette)	Vittorio De Sica	Giuseppe Amato	Italy
	The Berliner (Berliner Ballade)	R. A. Stemmle	Alf Teichs	Germany
	The Last Stage (Ostatni etap)	Wanda Jakubowska	Wanda Jakubowska, Gerda Schneider	Poland
	The Set-Up	Robert Wise	Richard Goldstone	United States
	The Third Man	Carol Reed	Carol Reed	United Kingdom
	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	John Huston	Henry Blanke	United States
	The Window	Ted Tetzlaff	Frederic Ullman Jr.

1950s

Year	Film	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Country
1950 (4th)	All About Eve	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	Darryl F. Zanuck	United States
	The Asphalt Jungle	John Huston	Arthur Hornblow Jr.	United States
	Beauty and the Devil (La Beauté du diable)	René Clair	Salvo D'Angelo	France
	Intruder in the Dust	Clarence Brown	Clarence Brown	United States
	The Men	Fred Zinnemann	Stanley Kramer
	On the Town	Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly	Arthur Freed
	Orphée[1] (US: Orpheus)	Jean Cocteau	André Paulvé	France
1951 (5th)	La Ronde	Max Ophüls	Ralph Baum, Sacha Gordine	France
	An American in Paris	Vincente Minnelli	Arthur Freed	United States
	The Browning Version	Anthony Asquith	Teddy Baird	United Kingdom
	Detective Story	William Wyler	William Wyler	United States
	Sunday in August (Domenica d'agosto)	Luciano Emmer	Sergio Amidei	Italy
	Fourteen Hours	Henry Hathaway	Sol C. Siegel	United States
	Miss Julie (Fröken Julie)	Alf Sjöberg	Rune Waldekranz	Sweden
	The Lavender Hill Mob	Charles Crichton	Michael Balcon	United Kingdom
	The Magic Box (1951)[2]	John Boulting	Ronald Neame
	The Magic Garden	Donald Swanson	Donald Swanson
	The Man in the White Suit	Alexander Mackendrick	Michael Balcon
	No Resting Place	Paul Rotha	Colin Lesslie
	The Red Badge of Courage	John Huston	Gottfried Reinhardt	United States
	The Small Miracle	Maurice Cloche, Ralph Smart	Anthony Havelock-Allan	United Kingdom
	The Sound of Fury	Cyril Endfield	Robert Stillman	United States
	A Walk in the Sun	Lewis Milestone	Lewis Milestone
	White Corridors	Pat Jackson	John Croydon, Joseph Janni	United Kingdom
	Edward and Caroline (Édouard et Caroline)	Jacques Becker	Raymond Borderie	France
1952 (6th)	The Sound Barrier	David Lean	David Lean	United Kingdom
	The African Queen	John Huston	Sam Spiegel	United Kingdom
	Angels One Five	George More O'Ferrall	John W. Gossage, Derek N. Twist
	The Boy Kumasenu	Sean Graham		Ghana
	Carrie	William Wyler	William Wyler	United States
	Casque d'Or	Jacques Becker	Robert and Raymond Hakim	France
	Cry, the Beloved Country	Zoltán Korda	Zoltán Korda, Alan Paton	United Kingdom
	Death of a Salesman	László Benedek	Stanley Kramer	United States
	Limelight	Charles Chaplin	Charles Chaplin
	Mandy	Alexander Mackendrick, Fred F. Sears	Michael Balcon, Leslie Norman	United Kingdom
	Miracle in Milan (Miracolo a Milano)	Vittorio De Sica	Vittorio De Sica	Italy
	The Young and the Damned (Los olvidados)	Luis Buñuel	Óscar Dancigers, Sergio Kogan, Jaime A. Menasce	Mexico
	Outcast of the Islands	Carol Reed	Carol Reed	United Kingdom
	Rashomon (羅生門, Rashōmon)	Akira Kurosawa	Minoru Jingo	Japan
	The River	Jean Renoir	Kenneth McEldowney, Jean Renoir	United Kingdom
	Singin' in the Rain	Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly	Arthur Freed	United States
	A Streetcar Named Desire	Elia Kazan	Charles K. Feldman
	Viva Zapata!	Elia Kazan	Darryl F. Zanuck
1953 (7th)	Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits)	René Clément	Robert Dorfmann	France
	The Bad and the Beautiful	Vincente Minnelli	John Houseman	United States
	Come Back, Little Sheba	Daniel Mann	Hal B. Wallis
	The Cruel Sea	Charles Frend	Leslie Norman	United Kingdom
	Two Cents Worth of Hope (Due soldi di speranza)	Renato Castellani	Sandro Ghenzi	Italy
	From Here to Eternity	Fred Zinnemann	Milo Adler-Gillies	United States
	Genevieve	Henry Cornelius	Henry Cornelius	United Kingdom
	The Heart of the Matter	George More O'Ferrall	Ian Dalrymple
	Julius Caesar	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	John Houseman	United States
	The Kidnappers (US: The Little Kidnappers)	Philip Leacock	Sergei Nolbandov, Leslie Parkyn	United Kingdom
	Lili	Charles Walters	Edwin H. Knopf	United States
	The Medium (Il medium)	Gian-Carlo Menotti	Walther Lowendahl	Italy
	Mogambo	John Ford	Sam Zimbalist	United States
	Moulin Rouge	John Huston	John and James Woolf	United Kingdom
	Are We All Murderers? (Nous sommes tous des assassins)	André Cayatte	François Carron	France
	Little World of Don Camillo (Don Camillo)	Julien Duvivier	Giuseppe Amato	Italy France
	Roman Holiday	William Wyler	William Wyler	United States
	Shane	George Stevens	George Stevens
	The Sun Shines Bright	John Ford	Merian C. Cooper, John Ford
1954 (8th)	The Wages of Fear (Le salaire de la peur)	Henri-Georges Clouzot	Raymond Borderie	France
	The Caine Mutiny	Edward Dmytryk	Stanley Kramer	United States
	Carrington V.C.	Anthony Asquith	Teddy Baird	United Kingdom
	The Divided Heart	Charles Crichton	Michael Truman
	Doctor in the House	Ralph Thomas	Betty E. Box
	Executive Suite	Robert Wise	John Houseman	United States
	For Better, for Worse	J. Lee Thompson	Kenneth Harper	United Kingdom
	Hobson's Choice	David Lean	David Lean
	How to Marry a Millionaire	Jean Negulesco	Nunnally Johnson	United States
	Gate of Hell (地獄門, Jigokumon)	Teinosuke Kinugasa	Masaichi Nagata	Japan
	The Maggie	Alexander Mackendrick	Michael Truman	United Kingdom
	The Moon Is Blue	Otto Preminger	Otto Preminger	United States
	On the Waterfront	Elia Kazan	Sam Spiegel
	Bread, Love and Dreams (Pane, amore e fantasia)	Luigi Comencini	Marcello Girosi	Italy
	The Purple Plain	Robert Parrish	John Bryan	United Kingdom
	Rear Window	Alfred Hitchcock	Alfred Hitchcock	United States
	Riot in Cell Block 11	Don Siegel	Walter Wanger
	Robinson Crusoe (Aventuras de Robinson Crusoe)	Luis Buñuel	Óscar Dancigers, Henry F. Ehrlich	Mexico
	Romeo and Juliet	Renato Castellani	Sandro Ghenzi, Joseph Janni	United Kingdom
	Seven Brides for Seven Brothers	Stanley Donen	Jack Cummings	United States
1955 (9th)	Richard III	Laurence Olivier	Laurence Olivier	United Kingdom
	Bad Day at Black Rock	John Sturges	Dore Schary	United States
	Carmen Jones	Otto Preminger	Otto Preminger
	The Colditz Story	Guy Hamilton	Ivan Foxwell	United Kingdom
	The Dam Busters	Michael Anderson	Robert Clark, W. A. Whittaker
	East of Eden	Elia Kazan	Elia Kazan	United States
	The Ladykillers	Alexander Mackendrick	Seth Holt, Michael Balcon	United Kingdom
	Marty	Delbert Mann	Harold Hecht	United States
	The Night My Number Came Up	Leslie Norman	Michael Balcon	United Kingdom
	The Prisoner	Peter Glenville	Vivian Cox
	Seven Samurai (七人の侍, Shichinin no Samurai)	Akira Kurosawa	Sojiro Motoki	Japan
	Simba	Brian Desmond Hurst	Peter De Sarigny	United Kingdom
	La Strada[3]	Federico Fellini	Dino De Laurentiis, Carlo Ponti	Italy
	Summertime	David Lean	Ilya Lopert	United Kingdom United States
1956 (10th)	Gervaise	René Clément	Annie Dorfmann	France
	Friends for Life (Amici per la pelle)	Franco Rossi	Carlo Civallero	Italy
	Baby Doll	Elia Kazan	Elia Kazan, Tennessee Williams	United States
	The Battle of the River Plate	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger	United Kingdom
	The Unfrocked One (Le Défroqué)	Léo Joannon	Alain Poiré, Roger Ribadeau-Dumas	France
	Guys and Dolls	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	Samuel Goldwyn	United States
	The Killing	Stanley Kubrick	James B. Harris
	The Man Who Never Was	Ronald Neame	André Hakim	United Kingdom
	The Man with the Golden Arm	Otto Preminger	Otto Preminger	United States
	Picnic	Joshua Logan	Fred Kohlmar
	The Grasshopper (Попрыгунья, Poprygunya)	Samson Samsonov	Tatyana Berezantseva, Anatoliy Bobrovskiy	Soviet Union
	Reach for the Sky	Lewis Gilbert	Daniel M. Angel	United Kingdom
	Rebel Without a Cause	Nicholas Ray	David Weisbart	United States
	Shadow (Cień)	Jerzy Kawalerowicz		Poland
	Smiles of a Summer Night (Sommarnattens leende)	Ingmar Bergman	Allan Ekelund	Sweden
	A Town Like Alice	Jack Lee	Joseph Janni	United Kingdom
	The Trouble with Harry	Alfred Hitchcock	Alfred Hitchcock	United States
	War and Peace	King Vidor	Dino De Laurentiis	United States Italy
	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
	12 Angry Men	Sidney Lumet	Henry Fonda, Reginald Rose	United States
	3:10 to Yuma	Delmer Daves	David Heilweil
	The Bachelor Party	Delbert Mann	Harold Hecht
	He Who Must Die (Celui qui doit mourir)	Jules Dassin	Henri Bérard	France
	Edge of the City	Martin Ritt	David Susskind	United States
	Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison	John Huston	Buddy Adler, Eugene Frenke
	Pather Panchali (পথের পাঁচালী, Pôther Pãchali)	Satyajit Ray	Government of West Bengal	India
	Paths of Glory	Stanley Kubrick	Kirk Douglas, James B. Harris, Stanley Kubrick	United States
	Gates of Paris (Porte des Lilas )	René Clair	René Clair	France
	The Prince and the Showgirl	Laurence Olivier	Laurence Olivier	United Kingdom
	The Shiralee	Leslie Norman	Michael Balcon, Jack Rix
	That Night!	John Newland	Himan Brown	United States
	The Tin Star	Anthony Mann	William Perlberg, George Seaton
	A Man Escaped (Un condamné à mort s'est échappé)	Robert Bresson	Alain Poiré, Jean Thuillier	France
	Windom's Way	Ronald Neame	John Bryan	United Kingdom
1958 (12th)	Room at the Top	Jack Clayton	John and James Woolf	United Kingdom
	Aparajito (অপরাজিত, Ôporajito)	Satyajit Ray	Satyajit Ray	India
	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Richard Brooks	Lawrence Weingarten	United States
	The Defiant Ones	Stanley Kramer	Stanley Kramer
	Ice Cold in Alex	J. Lee Thompson	W.A. Whittaker	United Kingdom
	Indiscreet	Stanley Donen	Stanley Donen
	The Cranes Are Flying (Летят журавли, Letyat zhuravli)	Mikhail Kalatozov	Mikhail Kalatozov	Soviet Union
	No Down Payment	Martin Ritt	Jerry Wald	United States
	Nights of Cabiria (Le notti di Cabiria)	Federico Fellini	Dino De Laurentiis	Italy
	Orders to Kill	Anthony Asquith	Anthony Havelock-Allan	United Kingdom
	Sea of Sand	Guy Green	Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman
	The Sheepman	George Marshall	Edmund Grainger	United States
	Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället)	Ingmar Bergman	Allan Ekelund	Sweden
	The Young Lions	Edward Dmytryk	Al Lichtman	United States
1959 (13th)	Ben-Hur	William Wyler	Sam Zimbalist	United States
	Anatomy of a Murder	Otto Preminger	Otto Preminger	United States
	The Magician (Ansiktet)	Ingmar Bergman	Allan Ekelund	Sweden
	The Big Country	William Wyler	Gregory Peck, William Wyler	United States
	Compulsion	Richard Fleischer	Richard D. Zanuck
	Gigi	Vincente Minnelli	Arthur Freed
	Look Back in Anger	Tony Richardson	Harry Saltzman	United Kingdom
	Maigret Sets a Trap (Maigret tend un piège)	Jean Delannoy	J.P. Guibert	France
	North West Frontier	J. Lee Thompson	Marcel Hellman	United Kingdom
	The Nun's Story	Fred Zinnemann	Henry Blanke	United States
	Ashes and Diamonds (Popiół i diament)	Andrzej Wajda		Poland
	Sapphire	Basil Dearden	Michael Relph	United Kingdom
	Some Like It Hot	Billy Wilder	Billy Wilder	United States
	Tiger Bay	J. Lee Thompson	John Hawkesworth, Leslie Parkyn, Julian Wintle	United Kingdom
	Yesterday's Enemy	Val Guest	Michael Carreras

1960s

Year	Film	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Country
1960 (14th)	The Apartment	Billy Wilder	Billy Wilder	United States
	The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups)	François Truffaut	François Truffaut, Georges Charlot	France
	The Angry Silence	Guy Green	Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes	United Kingdom
	The Adventure (L'avventura)	Michelangelo Antonioni	Cino Del Duca, Robert and Raymond Hakim, Amato Pennasilico, Luciano Perugia	Italy
	La Dolce Vita	Federico Fellini	Giuseppe Amato, Angelo Rizzoli	Italy France
	Elmer Gantry	Richard Brooks	Bernard Smith	United States
	Hiroshima mon amour (二十四時間の情事, Nijūyojikan'nojōji)	Alain Resnais	Anatole Dauman, Samy Halfon	France Japan
	Inherit the Wind	Stanley Kramer	Stanley Kramer	United States
	Let's Make Love	George Cukor	Jerry Wald
	Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro)	Marcel Camus	Sacha Gordine	Brazil France
	Never on Sunday (Ποτέ την Κυριακή, Poté tin Kyriakí)	Jules Dassin	Jules Dassin	Greece United States
	Saturday Night and Sunday Morning	Karel Reisz	Tony Richardson	United Kingdom
	Shadows	John Cassavetes	Maurice McEndree	United States
	Spartacus	Stanley Kubrick	Edward Lewis
	The Testament of Orpheus (Le testament d'Orphée)	Jean Cocteau	Jean Thuillier	France
	The Trials of Oscar Wilde	Ken Hughes	Irving Allen, Albert R. Broccoli, Harold Huth	United Kingdom
	Tunes of Glory	Ronald Neame	Colin Lesslie
1961 (15th)	Ballad of a Soldier (Баллада о солдате, Ballada o soldate) (ex-æquo)	Grigori Chukhrai	M. Chernova	Soviet Union
	The Hustler (ex-æquo)	Robert Rossen	Robert Rossen	United States
	The World of Apu	Satyajit Ray	Satyajit Ray	India
	The Innocents	Jack Clayton	Jack Clayton	United Kingdom
	Judgment at Nuremberg	Stanley Kramer	Stanley Kramer	United States
	The Long and the Short and the Tall	Leslie Norman	Michael Balcon	United Kingdom
	Rocco and His Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli)	Luchino Visconti	Goffredo Lombardo	Italy
	The Sundowners	Fred Zinnemann	Gerry Blattner	United Kingdom
	A Taste of Honey	Tony Richardson	Tony Richardson
	The Hole (Le Trou; US: The Night Watch)	Jacques Becker	Serge Silberman	France
	Whistle Down the Wind	Bryan Forbes	Richard Attenborough	United Kingdom
1962 (16th)	Lawrence of Arabia	David Lean	Sam Spiegel	United Kingdom
	Last Year at Marienbad (L'Année dernière à Marienbad)	Alain Resnais	Pierre Courau, Raymond Froment	France Italy
	Billy Budd	Peter Ustinov	Peter Ustinov	United Kingdom
	The Elusive Corporal (Le Caporal épinglé)	Jean Renoir	Adry De Carbuccia, Roland Girard	France
	The Lady with the Dog ( Дама с собачкой, Dama s sobachkoy)	Iosif Kheifits		Soviet Union
	The Naked Island (裸の島, Hadaka no Shima)	Kaneto Shindō	Kaneto Shindo, Matsuura Eisaku	Japan
	Jules and Jim (Jules et Jim)	François Truffaut	Marcel Berbert, François Truffaut	France
	A Kind of Loving	John Schlesinger	Joseph Janni	United Kingdom
	The L-Shaped Room	Bryan Forbes	Richard Attenborough, James Woolf
	Lola	Jacques Demy	Georges de Beauregard, Carlo Ponti	France Italy
	The Manchurian Candidate	John Frankenheimer	George Axelrod, John Frankenheimer	United States
	The Miracle Worker	Arthur Penn	Fred Coe
	Only Two Can Play	Sidney Gilliat	Leslie Gilliat	United Kingdom
	Phaedra (Φαίδρα)	Jules Dassin	Jules Dassin	Greece United States
	Through a Glass Darkly (Såsom i en spegel)	Ingmar Bergman	Allan Ekelund	Sweden
	Thou Shalt Not Kill (Tu ne tueras point)	Claude Autant-Lara	Moris Ergas	France Yugoslavia
	The Long Absence (Une aussi longue absence)	Henri Colpi	Alberto Barsanti, Claude Jaeger, Jacques Nahum	France Italy
	West Side Story	Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise	Robert Wise	United States
1963 (17th)	Tom Jones	Tony Richardson	Tony Richardson	United Kingdom
	8½ (Otto e mezzo)	Federico Fellini	Angelo Rizzoli	Italy
	Billy Liar	John Schlesinger	Joseph Janni	United Kingdom
	David and Lisa	Frank Perry	Paul Heller	United States
	Days of Wine and Roses	Blake Edwards	Martin Manulis
	Divorce Italian Style (Divorzio all'italiana)	Pietro Germi	Franco Cristaldi	Italy
	Hud	Martin Ritt	Irving Ravetch, Martin Ritt	United States
	Knife in the Water (Nóż w wodzie)	Roman Polanski	Stanislaw Zylewicz	Poland
	The Four Days of Naples (Le quattro giornate di Napoli)	Nanni Loy	Goffredo Lombardo	Italy
	The Servant	Joseph Losey	Joseph Losey, Norman Priggen	United Kingdom
	This Sporting Life	Lindsay Anderson	Karel Reisz
	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
	Becket	Peter Glenville	Hal B. Wallis	United Kingdom
	The Pumpkin Eater	Jack Clayton	James Woolf
	The Train	John Frankenheimer	Jules Bricken
1965 (19th)	My Fair Lady	George Cukor	Jack L. Warner	United States
	Hamlet (Гамлет, Gamlet)	Grigori Kozintsev		Soviet Union
	The Hill	Sidney Lumet	Kenneth Hyman	United Kingdom
	The Knack ...and How to Get It	Richard Lester	Oscar Lewenstein
	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
	Doctor Zhivago	David Lean	David Lean, Carlo Ponti	United Kingdom Italy
	Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment	Karel Reisz	Leon Clore	United Kingdom
	The Spy Who Came in From The Cold	Martin Ritt	Martin Ritt
1967 (21st)	A Man For All Seasons	Fred Zinnemann	Fred Zinnemann	United Kingdom
	Bonnie and Clyde	Arthur Penn	Warren Beatty	United States
	In the Heat of the Night	Norman Jewison	Walter Mirisch
	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
	2001: A Space Odyssey	Stanley Kubrick	Stanley Kubrick	United Kingdom
	Oliver!	Carol Reed	John Woolf
	Closely Observed Trains (Ostře sledované vlaky)	Jiří Menzel	Dr. Zdenek Oves	Czechoslovakia
1969 (23rd)	Midnight Cowboy	John Schlesinger	Jerome Hellman	United States
	Oh! What a Lovely War	Richard Attenborough	Richard Attenborough, Brian Duffy	United Kingdom
	Women in Love	Ken Russell	Larry Kramer
	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
	Kes	Kenneth Loach	Tony Garnett	United Kingdom
	M*A*S*H	Robert Altman	Ingo Preminger	United States
	Ryan's Daughter	David Lean	Anthony Havelock-Allan	United Kingdom
1971 (25th)	Sunday Bloody Sunday	John Schlesinger	Joseph Janni	United Kingdom
	The Go-Between	Joseph Losey	John Heyman, Denis Johnson, Norman Priggen	United Kingdom
	Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia)	Luchino Visconti	Luchino Visconti	Italy France
	Taking Off	Miloš Forman	Alfred W. Crown	United States
1972 (26th)	Cabaret	Bob Fosse	Cy Feuer	United States
	A Clockwork Orange	Stanley Kubrick	Stanley Kubrick	United Kingdom
	The French Connection	William Friedkin	Philip D'Antoni	United States
	The Last Picture Show	Peter Bogdanovich	Stephen J. Friedman
1973 (27th)	Day for Night (La Nuit américaine)	François Truffaut	Marcel Berbert	France
	The Day of the Jackal	Fred Zinnemann	John Woolf	United Kingdom France
	The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie)	Luis Buñuel	Serge Silberman	France Italy Spain
	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
	Chinatown	Roman Polanski	Robert Evans	United States
	The Last Detail	Hal Ashby	Gerald Ayres
	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
	Barry Lyndon	Stanley Kubrick	Stanley Kubrick	United Kingdom
	Dog Day Afternoon	Sidney Lumet	Martin Bregman, Martin Elfand	United States
	Jaws	Steven Spielberg	David Brown, Richard D. Zanuck
1976 (30th)	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Miloš Forman	Michael Douglas, Saul Zaentz	United States
	All the President's Men	Alan J. Pakula	Walter Coblenz	United States
	Bugsy Malone	Alan Parker	Alan Marshall	United Kingdom
	Taxi Driver	Martin Scorsese	Julia Phillips, Michael Phillips	United States
1977 (31st)	Annie Hall	Woody Allen	Charles H. Joffe, Jack Rollins	United States
	A Bridge Too Far	Richard Attenborough	Joseph E. Levine, Richard P. Levine	United Kingdom United States
	Network	Sidney Lumet	Howard Gottfried	United States
	Rocky	John G. Avildsen	Robert Chartoff, Irwin Winkler
1978 (32nd)	Julia	Fred Zinnemann	Richard Roth	United States
	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Steven Spielberg	Julia Phillips, Michael Phillips	United States
	Midnight Express	Alan Parker	Alan Marshall, David Puttnam	United Kingdom
	Star Wars	George Lucas	Gary Kurtz	United States
1979 (33rd)	Manhattan	Woody Allen	Charles H. Joffe	United States
	Apocalypse Now	Francis Coppola	Francis Coppola	United States
	The China Syndrome	James Bridges	Michael Douglas
	The Deer Hunter	Michael Cimino	Michael Cimino, Michael Deeley, John Peverall, Barry Spikings

1980s

Year	Film	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Country
1980 (34th)	The Elephant Man	David Lynch	Jonathan Sanger	United States
	Being There	Hal Ashby	Andrew Braunsberg	United States
	Kagemusha (影武者, Kagemusha)	Akira Kurosawa	Akira Kurosawa	Japan
	Kramer vs. Kramer	Robert Benton	Stanley R. Jaffe	United States
1981 (35th)	Chariots of Fire	Hugh Hudson	David Puttnam	United Kingdom
	Atlantic City	Louis Malle	Denis Héroux, John Kemeny	France Canada United States
	The French Lieutenant's Woman	Karel Reisz	Leon Clore	United Kingdom
	Gregory's Girl	Bill Forsyth	Davina Belling, Clive Parsons
	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Steven Spielberg	Frank Marshall	United States
1982 (36th)	Gandhi	Richard Attenborough	Richard Attenborough	United Kingdom India
	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Steven Spielberg	Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg	United States
	Missing	Costa Gavras	Edward Lewis, Mildred Lewis
	On Golden Pond	Mark Rydell	Bruce Gilbert
1983 (37th)	Educating Rita	Lewis Gilbert	Lewis Gilbert	United Kingdom
	Heat and Dust	James Ivory	Ismail Merchant	United Kingdom
	Local Hero	Bill Forsyth	David Puttnam
	Tootsie	Sydney Pollack	Sydney Pollack, Dick Richards	United States
1984 (38th)	The Killing Fields	Roland Joffé	David Puttnam	United Kingdom
	The Dresser	Peter Yates	Ronald Harwood, Peter Yates	United Kingdom
	Paris, Texas	Wim Wenders	Anatole Dauman, Don Guest	West Germany France
	A Private Function	Malcolm Mowbray	Mark Shivas	United Kingdom
1985 (39th)	The Purple Rose of Cairo	Woody Allen	Robert Greenhut, Woody Allen	United States
	Amadeus	Miloš Forman	Saul Zaentz, Miloš Forman	United States
	Back to the Future	Robert Zemeckis	Neil Canton, Bob Gale, Robert Zemeckis
	A Passage to India	David Lean	John Brabourne, Richard B. Goodwin, David Lean	United Kingdom
	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
	Hannah and Her Sisters	Woody Allen	Robert Greenhut, Woody Allen	United States
	The Mission	Roland Joffé	Fernando Ghia, David Puttnam, Roland Joffé	United Kingdom
	Mona Lisa	Neil Jordan	Patrick Cassavetti, Stephen Woolley, Neil Jordan
1987 (41st)	Jean de Florette	Claude Berri	Claude Berri	France Switzerland Italy
	Cry Freedom	Richard Attenborough	Richard Attenborough	United Kingdom
	Hope and Glory	John Boorman	John Boorman
	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
	Au revoir les enfants	Louis Malle	Louis Malle	France West Germany
	Babette's Feast	Gabriel Axel	Just Betzer, Bo Christensen	Denmark
	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
	My Left Foot	Jim Sheridan	Noel Pearson	Ireland
	Shirley Valentine	Lewis Gilbert	Lewis Gilbert	United Kingdom
	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	Irwin Winkler	United States
	Crimes and Misdemeanors	Woody Allen	Robert Greenhut	United States
	Driving Miss Daisy	Bruce Beresford	Lili Fini Zanuck, Richard D. Zanuck
	Pretty Woman	Garry Marshall	Arnon Milchan, Steven Reuther
1991 (45th)	The Commitments	Alan Parker	Lynda Myles, Roger Randall-Cutler	Ireland United Kingdom
	Dances with Wolves	Kevin Costner	Kevin Costner, Jim Wilson	United States
	The Silence of the Lambs	Jonathan Demme	Ron Bozman, Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt
	Thelma & Louise	Ridley Scott	Mimi Polk Gitlin
1992 (46th)	Howards End	James Ivory	Ismail Merchant	United Kingdom
	The Crying Game	Neil Jordan	Stephen Woolley	United Kingdom Ireland
	The Player	Robert Altman	David Brown, Michael Tolkin, Nick Wechsler	United States
	Strictly Ballroom	Baz Luhrmann	Tristram Miall	Australia
	Unforgiven	Clint Eastwood	Clint Eastwood	United States
1993 (47th)	Schindler's List	Steven Spielberg	Branko Lustig, Gerald R. Molen, Steven Spielberg	United States
	The Piano	Jane Campion	Jan Chapman	New Zealand Australia France
	The Remains of the Day	James Ivory	John Calley, Ismail Merchant, Mike Nichols, James Ivory	United Kingdom United States
	Shadowlands	Richard Attenborough	Richard Attenborough, Brian Eastman	United Kingdom
1994 (48th)	Four Weddings and a Funeral	Mike Newell	Duncan Kenworthy	United Kingdom
	Forrest Gump	Robert Zemeckis	Wendy Finerman, Steve Starkey, Steve Tisch	United States
	Pulp Fiction	Quentin Tarantino	Lawrence Bender
	Quiz Show	Robert Redford	Michael Jacobs, Julian Krainin, Michael Nozik
1995 (49th)	Sense and Sensibility	Ang Lee	Lindsay Doran	United Kingdom
	Babe	Chris Noonan	Bill Miller, George Miller, Doug Mitchell	Australia United States
	The Madness of King George	Nicholas Hytner	Stephen Evans, David Parfitt	United Kingdom
	The Usual Suspects	Bryan Singer	Michael McDonnell	United States
1996 (50th)	The English Patient	Anthony Minghella	Saul Zaentz	United States
	Fargo	Joel Coen	Ethan Coen	United States
	Secrets & Lies	Mike Leigh	Simon Channing-Williams	United Kingdom
	Shine	Scott Hicks	Jane Scott	Australia
1997 (51st)	The Full Monty	Peter Cattaneo	Uberto Pasolini	United Kingdom
	L.A. Confidential	Curtis Hanson	Curtis Hanson, Arnon Milchan Michael Nathanson	United States
	Mrs Brown	John Madden	Sarah Curtis	United Kingdom
	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
	Elizabeth	Shekhar Kapur	Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Alison Owen	United Kingdom
	Saving Private Ryan	Steven Spielberg	Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon, Gary Levinsohn, Steven Spielberg	United States
	The Truman Show	Peter Weir	Edward S. Feldman, Andrew Niccol, Scott Rudin, Adam Schroeder
1999 (53rd) [4]	American Beauty	Sam Mendes	Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks	United States
	East is East	Damien O'Donnell	Leslee Udwin	United Kingdom
	The End of the Affair	Neil Jordan	Neil Jordan, Stephen Woolley	United Kingdom United States
	The Sixth Sense	M. Night Shyamalan	Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel	United States
	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Anthony Minghella	William Horberg, Tom Sternberg

2000s

Year	Film	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Country
2000 (54th) [5][6]	Gladiator	Ridley Scott	David Franzoni, Branko Lustig, Douglas Wick	United States United Kingdom
	Almost Famous	Cameron Crowe	Ian Bryce, Cameron Crowe	United States
	Billy Elliot	Stephen Daldry	Greg Brenman, Jon Finn	United Kingdom
	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
	Erin Brockovich	Steven Soderbergh	Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher	United States
2001 (55th) [7]	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
	Amélie	Jean-Pierre Jeunet	Jean-Marc Deschamps, Claudie Ossard	France
	A Beautiful Mind	Ron Howard	Brian Grazer, Ron Howard	United States
	Moulin Rouge!	Baz Luhrmann	Fred Baron, Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann	Australia United States
	Shrek	Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson	Jeffrey Katzenberg, Aron Warner, John H. Williams	United States
2002 (56th) [8]	The Pianist	Roman Polanski	Robert Benmussa, Roman Polanski, Alain Sarde	France Germany United Kingdom Poland
	Chicago	Rob Marshall	Martin Richards	United States
	Gangs of New York	Martin Scorsese	Alberto Grimaldi, Harvey Weinstein
	The Hours	Stephen Daldry	Robert Fox, Scott Rudin	United States United Kingdom
	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Peter Jackson	Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh	New Zealand United States
2003 (57th) [9]	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Peter Jackson	Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh	New Zealand United States
	Big Fish	Tim Burton	Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks, Richard D. Zanuck	United States
	Cold Mountain	Anthony Minghella	Albert Berger, William Horberg, Sydney Pollack, Ron Yerxa	United States United Kingdom
	Lost in Translation	Sofia Coppola	Sofia Coppola, Ross Katz	United States
	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Peter Weir	Samuel Goldwyn Jr., Duncan Henderson, Peter Weir
2004 (58th) [10]	The Aviator	Martin Scorsese	Sandy Climan, Charles Evans, Jr., Graham King, Michael Mann	United States
	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Michel Gondry	Anthony Bregman, Steve Golin	United States
	Finding Neverland	Marc Forster	Nellie Bellflower, Richard N. Gladstein	United Kingdom United States
	The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de motocicleta)	Walter Salles	Michael Nozik, Edgard Tenenbaum, Karen Tenkhoff	Argentina Brazil
	Vera Drake	Mike Leigh	Simon Channing-Williams, Alain Sarde	United Kingdom
2005 (59th) [11]	Brokeback Mountain	Ang Lee	Diana Ossana, James Schamus	United States
	Capote	Bennett Miller	Caroline Baron, Michael Ohoven, William Vince	United States Canada
	The Constant Gardener	Fernando Meirelles	Simon Channing Williams	United Kingdom
	Crash	Paul Haggis	Don Cheadle, Cathy Schulman, Bob Yari	United States
	Good Night, and Good Luck	George Clooney	Grant Heslov
2006 (60th) [12]	The Queen	Stephen Frears	Tracey Seaward, Christine Langan, Andy Harries	United Kingdom
	Babel	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik, Steve Golin	United States Mexico
	The Departed	Martin Scorsese	Brad Pitt, Brad Grey, Graham King	United States
	The Last King of Scotland	Kevin Macdonald	Andrea Calderwood, Lisa Bryer, Charles Steel	United Kingdom
	Little Miss Sunshine	Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris	David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub	United States
2007 (61st) [13]	Atonement	Joe Wright	Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster	United Kingdom
	American Gangster	Ridley Scott	Brian Grazer, Ridley Scott	United States
	The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	Quirin Berg, Max Wiedemann	Germany
	No Country for Old Men	Joel and Ethan Coen	Joel and Ethan Coen, Scott Rudin	United States
	There Will Be Blood	Paul Thomas Anderson	JoAnne Sellar, Daniel Lupi
2008 (62nd) [14]	Slumdog Millionaire	Danny Boyle	Christian Colson	United Kingdom
	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	David Fincher	Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Ray Stark	United States
	Frost/Nixon	Ron Howard	Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner	United States United Kingdom
	Milk	Gus Van Sant	Dan Jinks, Bruce Cohen	United States
	The Reader	Stephen Daldry	Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Scott Rudin	United States Germany
2009 (63rd) [15]	The Hurt Locker	Kathryn Bigelow	Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro	United States
	Avatar	James Cameron	James Cameron, Jon Landau	United States
	An Education	Lone Scherfig	Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey	United States United Kingdom
	Precious	Lee Daniels	Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness	United States
	Up in the Air	Jason Reitman	Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, Daniel Dubiecki

2010s

Year	Film	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Country
2010 (64th) [16]	The King's Speech	Tom Hooper	Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin	United Kingdom Australia
	Black Swan	Darren Aronofsky	Darren Aronofsky, Scott Franklin, Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Brian Oliver	United States
	Inception	Christopher Nolan	Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas	United States United Kingdom
	The Social Network	David Fincher	David Fincher, Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Ceán Chaffin, Kevin Spacey	United States
	True Grit	Joel and Ethan Coen	Joel and Ethan Coen, Scott Rudin
2011 (65th) [17]	The Artist	Michel Hazanavicius	Thomas Langmann	France
	The Descendants	Alexander Payne	Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor, Jim Burke	United States
	Drive	Nicolas Winding Refn	Adam Siegel, Marc Platt
	The Help	Tate Taylor	Brunson Green, Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan
	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	Tomas Alfredson	Tim Bevan, Robyn Slovo, Eric Fellner
2012 (66th) [18]	Argo	Ben Affleck	Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney	United States
	Les Misérables	Tom Hooper	Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh	United States United Kingdom
	Life of Pi	Ang Lee	Gil Netter, Ang Lee, David Womark	United States Canada
	Lincoln	Steven Spielberg	Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy	United States
	Zero Dark Thirty	Kathryn Bigelow	Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Megan Ellison
2013 (67th) [19]	12 Years a Slave	Steve McQueen	Brad Pitt, Anthony Katagas, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen	United States United Kingdom
	American Hustle	David O. Russell	Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison, Jonathan Gordon	United States
	Captain Phillips	Paul Greengrass	Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca
	Gravity	Alfonso Cuarón	Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman	United States United Kingdom
	Philomena	Stephen Frears	Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan, Tracey Seaward	United Kingdom
2014 (68th) [20]	Boyhood	Richard Linklater	Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland	United States
	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, James W. Skotchdopole	United States
	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Wes Anderson	Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, Jeremy Dawson
	The Imitation Game	Morten Tyldum	Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, Teddy Schwarzman
	The Theory of Everything	James Marsh	Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten	United Kingdom
2015 (69th) [21]	The Revenant	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Arnon Milchan, Mary Parent, Keith Redmon	United States
	The Big Short	Adam McKay	Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Brad Pitt	United States
	Bridge of Spies	Steven Spielberg	Kristie Macosko Krieger, Marc Platt, Steven Spielberg
	Carol	Todd Haynes	Elizabeth Karlsen, Christine Vachon, Stephen Woolley	United Kingdom United States
	Spotlight	Tom McCarthy	Blye Pagon Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin, Michael Sugar	United States
2016 (70th) [22]	La La Land	Damien Chazelle	Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, Marc Platt	United States
	Arrival	Denis Villeneuve	Dan Levine, Shawn Levy, David Linde, Aaron Ryder	United States
	I, Daniel Blake	Ken Loach	Rebecca O'Brien	United Kingdom
	Manchester by the Sea	Kenneth Lonergan	Lauren Beck, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Kimberly Steward, Kevin J. Walsh	United States
	Moonlight	Barry Jenkins	Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adele Romanski
2017 (71st) [23]	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Martin McDonagh	Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Martin McDonagh	United States United Kingdom
	Call Me by Your Name	Luca Guadagnino	Emilie Georges, Luca Guadagnino, Marco Morabito, Peter Spears	Italy United States France
	Darkest Hour	Joe Wright	Tim Bevan, Lisa Bruce, Eric Fellner, Anthony McCarten, Douglas Urbanski	United Kingdom
	Dunkirk	Christopher Nolan	Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas	United Kingdom United States
	The Shape of Water	Guillermo del Toro	Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale	United States
2018 (72nd) [24]	Roma	Alfonso Cuarón	Alfonso Cuarón, Gabriela Rodriguez, Nicolas Celis	Mexico
	BlacKkKlansman	Spike Lee	Jason Blum, Spike Lee, Raymond Mansfield, Sean McKittrick, Jordan Peele, Shaun Redick	United States
	The Favourite	Yorgos Lanthimos	Cecil Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Yorgos Lanthimos	United Kingdom United States
	Green Book	Peter Farrelly	Jim Burke, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga, Charles B. Wessler	United States
	A Star is Born	Bradley Cooper	Bill Gerber, Lynette Howell Taylor
2019 (73rd) [25][26]	1917	Sam Mendes	Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Sam Mendes, Jayne-Ann Tenggren	United Kingdom United States
	The Irishman	Martin Scorsese	Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Martin Scorsese, Emma Tillinger Koskoff	United States
	Joker	Todd Phillips	Bradley Cooper, Todd Phillips, Emma Tillinger Koskoff
	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Quentin Tarantino	David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh, Quentin Tarantino	United States United Kingdom
	Parasite (기생충, Gisaengchung)	Bong Joon-ho	Bong Joon-ho, Kwak Sin-ae	South Korea

2020s

Year	Film	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Country
2020 (74th) [27][28]	Nomadland	Chloé Zhao	Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Chloé Zhao	United States
	The Father	Florian Zeller	David Parfitt, Jean-Louis Livi, Philippe Carcassonne	United Kingdom
	The Mauritanian	Kevin Macdonald	Adam Ackland, Leah Clarke, Christine Holder, Beatriz Levin, Lloyd Levin	United Kingdom United States
	Promising Young Woman	Emerald Fennell	Josey McNamara, Ben Browning, Ashley Fox, Emerald Fennell	United States
	The Trial of the Chicago 7	Aaron Sorkin	Stuart M. Besser, Marc Platt
2021 (75th) [29][30]	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
	Belfast	Kenneth Branagh	Laura Berwick [de], Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik [de], Tamar Thomas [de]	United Kingdom
	Don't Look Up	Adam McKay	Adam McKay, Kevin Messick	United States
	Dune	Denis Villeneuve	Mary Parent, Cayle Boyter, Denis Villeneuve
	Licorice Pizza	Paul Thomas Anderson	Sara Murphy, Paul Thomas Anderson, Adam Somner	United States Canada
2022 (76th) [31]	All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues)	Edward Berger	Malte Grunert	Germany
	The Banshees of Inisherin	Martin McDonagh	Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, Martin McDonagh	Ireland United Kingdom United States
	Elvis	Baz Luhrmann	Gail Berman, Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Patrick McCormick [de], Schuyler Weiss [de]	Australia United States
	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert	Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang	United States
	Tár	Todd Field	Todd Field, Scott Lambert [de], Alexandra Milchan	United States Germany
2023 (77th) [32]	Oppenheimer	Christopher Nolan	Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, Christopher Nolan	United States
	Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d'une chute)	Justine Triet	Marie-Ange Luciani, David Thion	France
	The Holdovers	Alexander Payne	Mark Johnson, Bill Block, David Hemingson	United States
	Killers of the Flower Moon	Martin Scorsese	Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas, Martin Scorsese, Daniel Lupi	United States
	Poor Things	Yorgos Lanthimos	Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone	Ireland United Kingdom United States
2024 (78th) [33]	Conclave	Edward Berger	Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Michael A. Jackman	United Kingdom United States
	Anora	Sean Baker	Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, Sean Baker	United States
	The Brutalist	Brady Corbet	Nick Gordon, Brian Young, Andrew Morrison, D.J. Gugenheim, Brady Corbet	Hungary United Kingdom United States
	A Complete Unknown	James Mangold	Fred Berger, Alex Heineman, James Mangold	United States
	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.^[34] These are the additional films that appeared in the longlist.

Year	Finalists	Ref.
2020	Another Round Da 5 Bloods The Dig Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Mank News of the World One Night in Miami... Soul Sound of Metal The White Tiger	[35]
2021	Being the Ricardos CODA The French Dispatch House of Gucci King Richard The Lost Daughter No Time to Die tick, tick... BOOM! The Tragedy of Macbeth West Side Story	[36]
2022	Aftersun The Fabelmans Living Top Gun: Maverick Triangle of Sadness	[37]
2023	All of Us Strangers Barbie Maestro Past Lives The Zone of Interest	[38]
2024	The Apprentice Dune: Part Two Kneecap The Substance Wicked	[39]

See also

• Academy Award for Best Picture
• Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Picture
• Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama
• Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
• Guldbagge Award for Best Film
• Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture
• Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture