Academy Award untuk Film Terbaik

The Academy Award for Best Picture (Film Terbaik) adalah penghargaan Oscar untuk film-film yang dianggap terbaik dalam suatu tahun perfilman.

Superlatif

Kategori	Film	Superlatif	Tahun	Keterangan
Penghargaan Terbanyak	Ben-Hur	11 penghargaan	1959	Penghargaan dari 12 nominasi.
Penghargaan Terbanyak	Titanic	11 penghargaan	1997	Penghargaan dari 14 nominasi.
Penghargaan Terbanyak	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	11 penghargaan	2003	Penghargaan dari 11 nominasi.
Nominasi Terbanyak	All About Eve	14 nominasi	1950	Nominasi menghasilkan 6 penghargaan.
Nominasi Terbanyak	Titanic	14 nominasi	1997	Nominasi menghasilkan 11 penghargaan.

Pemenang dan nominasi

1920-an

• 1927-1928 (1st) Wings (Best Production) Paramount Famous Players-Lasky - Lucien Hubbard
  • The Racket - Caddo, United Artists - Howard Hughes
  • Seventh Heaven - Fox - William Fox

• 1927-1928 (1st) Sunrise (Best Picture, Unique and Artistic Production) Fox - William Fox
  • Chang - Paramount - Merian Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack
  • The Crowd - MGM - Irving Thalberg

• 1928-1929 (2nd) The Broadway Melody Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Harry Rapf
  • Alibi - Feature Productions, United Artists -Roland West
  • The Hollywood Revue of 1929 - MGM - Harry Rapf
  • In Old Arizona - Fox - Winfield Sheehan, studio head
  • The Patriot - Paramount - Ernst Lubitsch

1930-an

• 1929-1930 (3rd) All Quiet on the Western Front - Universal - Carl Laemmle Jr.
  • The Big House - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg
  • Disraeli - Warner Bros. - Jack Warner with Darryl Zanuck
  • The Divorcee - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Robert Leonard
  • The Love Parade - Paramount - Ernst Lubitsch

Nama penghargaan berubah menjadi Best Picture (Film Terbaik).

• 1930-1931 (4th) 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 (5th) 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 (6th) 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 - Alexander Korda
  • She Done Him Wrong - Paramount - William LeBaron
  • Smilin' Through - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg
  • State Fair - Fox - Winfield Sheehan studio head

• 1934 (7th) 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 (8th) 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 - Twentieth Century Pictures, 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 (9th) 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 (10th) 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 (11th) 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 - Victor Saville
  • Four Daughters - Warner Bros.-First National - Hal B. Wallis with Henry Blanke
  • The Grande Illusion (La Grande illusion) - R. A. O., World Pictures - Frank Rollmer, and Albert Pinkovitch
  • Jezebel - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis with Henry Blanke
  • Pygmalion - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Gabriel Pascal
  • Test Pilot - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Louis Lighton

• 1939 (12th) Gone with the Wind - Selznick, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - David O. Selznick
  • Dark Victory - Warner Bros. - David Lewis
  • Goodbye, Mr. Chips - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - 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

1940-an

• 1940 (13th) 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 (14th) 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 (15th) Mrs. Miniver - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sidney Franklin
  • Forty-Ninth Parallel - Ortus, Columbia - Michael Powell
  • King's 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 (16th) 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 - 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 (17th) 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 (18th) The Lost Weekend - Paramount - Charles Brackett
  • 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 (19th) The Best Years of Our Lives - Goldwyn, RKO Radio - Samuel Goldwyn
  • Henry V - Rank-Two Cities, United Artists - 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 (20th) 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 - Ronald Neame
  • Miracle on 34th Street - 20th Century-Fox - William Perlberg

• 1948 (21st) Hamlet - J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films, U-I - Laurence Olivier
  • Johnny Belinda - Warner Bros. - Jerry Wald
  • The Red Shoes - Rank-Archers, Eagle-Lion - 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 (22nd) 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

1950-an

• 1950 (23rd) 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

From 1951 on, the individual producer (rather than the production company) receives this award.

• 1951 (24th) 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 (25th) 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 (26th) 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 (27th) 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 (28th) 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 (29th) 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 (30th) 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 (31st) 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 (32nd) 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 - John Woolf and James Woolf

1960-an

• 1960 (33rd) 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 (34th) 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 (35th) 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 (36th) Tom Jones - Woodfall, United Artists-Lopert - 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 (37th) 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 (38th) The Sound of Music - Argyle, 20th Century-Fox - Robert Wise
  • Darling - Anglo-Amalgamated, Embassy - 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 (39th) A Man for All Seasons - Highland, Columbia - Fred Zinnemann
  • Alfie - Sheldrake, Paramount - 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 (40th) 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 (41st) 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 (42nd) 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 - Jacques Perrin, Ahmed Rachedi

1970-an

• 1970 (43rd) 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
  • MASH - Aspen, 20th Century-Fox - Ingo Preminger

• 1971 (44th) 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 (45th) 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 (Utvandrarna) - Svensk Filmindusttri, Warner Bros. (Swedish)- Bengt Forslund

• 1973 (46th) 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 (47th) 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 (48th) 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 (49th) 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 (50th) 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 - Lucasfilm, 20th Century-Fox - Gary Kurtz
  • The Turning Point - Hera Productions, 20th Century-Fox - Herbert Ross and Arthur Laurents

• 1978 (51st) 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 (52nd) 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

1980-an

• 1980 (53rd) 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 (54th) 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 (55th) 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 (56th) 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 (57th) 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 (58th) 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 (59th) 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 (60th) The Last Emperor (末代皇帝) - 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 (61st) 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 (62nd) 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 Éireann - Noel Pearson

1990-an

• 1990 (63rd) Dances with Wolves - Tig Productions, Majestic Films International, Orion Pictures Corp. - Michael Flynn, 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 (64th) The Silence of the Lambs - Orion Pictures Corp. - Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman
  • Beauty and the Beast - Walt Disney Pictures - Don Hahn
  • 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 (65th) Unforgiven - Malpaso Productions, Warner Bros. - Clint Eastwood
  • The Crying Game - British Screen, Channel Four Films, Eurotrustees, Nippon Film Development and Finance, Palace, Miramax Films - 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, Sony Pictures Classics - Ismail Merchant
  • Scent of a Woman - City Light Films, Universal Pictures - Martin Brest

• 1993 (66th) 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 - 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 (67th) Forrest Gump - Paramount Pictures - Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch, Steve Starkey
  • Four Weddings and a Funeral - 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 Entertainment, Columbia Pictures Corp. - Niki Marvin

• 1995 (68th) 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 (The Postman) - 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 (69th) 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 - AFFC, Film Victoria, Momentum Films, Fine Line Features - Jane Scott

• 1997 (70th) 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 - Umberto Pasolini
  • Good Will Hunting - Be Gentlemen Limited Partnership, Lawrence Bender Productions, Miramax Films - Lawrence Bender
  • L.A. Confidential - Monarchy Enterprises B. V., Regency Enterprises, Warner Bros. - Curtis Hanson, Arnon Milchan, Michael G. Nathanson

• 1998 (71st) 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) - 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 (72nd) American Beauty - DreamWorks SKG, Jinks/Cohen Company - Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks
  • 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
  • The Sixth Sense - Hollywood Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, The Kennedy/Marshall Company - Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel

2000-an

• 2000 (73rd) Gladiator - Universal & DreamWorks -Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, & Branko Lustig
  • Chocolat - Miramax - David Brown, Kit Golden, & Leslie Holleran
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long臥虎藏龍) - 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 (74th) 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 (75th) 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 - Roman Polanski, Robert Benmussa & Alain Sarde

• 2003 (76th) 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 Bros. - Robert Lorenz, Judie G. Hoyt & Clint Eastwood
  • Seabiscuit - Universal, DreamWorks, Spyglass - Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall & Gary Ross

• 2004 (77th) Million Dollar Baby - Warner Bros. - Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, & Tom Rosenburg
  • The Aviator - Miramax, Initial Entertainment Group, Warner Bros. - 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 (78th) 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

• 2006 (79th) The Departed - Warner Bros. - Graham King
  • Babel - Paramount Vantage - Alejandro González Iñárritu, Steve Golin, & Jon Kilik
  • Letters from Iwo Jima - Warner Bros. - Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, & Robert Lorenz
  • Little Miss Sunshine - Fox Searchlight - David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, & Marc Turtletaub
  • The Queen - Pathé Pictures, Granada Productions - Andy Harries, Christine Langan, & Tracey Seaward

• 2007 (80th) No Country for Old Men - Miramax Films, Paramount Vantage - Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
  • Atonement - Focus Features - Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster
  • Juno - Fox Searchlight Pictures - Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick, Russell Smith
  • Michael Clayton - Warner Bros. - Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox, Kerry Orent
  • There Will Be Blood - Paramount Vantage, Miramax Films - JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi

• 2008 (81st) Slumdog Millionaire - Fox Searchlight, Warner Bros., Pathé - Christian Colson
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Paramount & Warner Bros. - Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Cean Chaffin
  • Frost/Nixon - Universal - Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Eric Fellner
  • Milk - Focus Features - Dan Jinks, Bruce Cohen
  • The Reader - The Weinstein Company - Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti, Redmond Morris
  • WALL-E - Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios - Andrew Stanton

• 2009 (82nd) The Hurt Locker - Summit Entertainment - Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro
  • Avatar - 20th Century Fox - James Cameron, Jon Landau
  • The Blind Side - Warner Bros. - Gil Netter, Andrew A. Kosove, Broderick Johnson
  • District 9 - TriStar Pictures - Peter Jackson, Carolynne Cunningham
  • An Education - Sony Pictures Classics - Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey
  • Inglourious Basterds - The Weinstein Company, Universal Studios - Lawrence Bender
  • Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire - Lions Gate Entertainment - Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness
  • A Serious Man - Focus Features - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
  • Up - Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios - Jonas Rivera
  • Up in the Air - Paramount Pictures - Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman