2010 The Hurt Locker
 
 2009 Slumdog Millionaire

 2008 No Country for Old Men

 2007 The Departed

 2006 Crash

 2005 Million Dollar Baby

 2004 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of  The King

 2003 Chicago

 2002 A Beautiful Mind

 2001 Gladiator

 2000 American Beauty

 1999 Shakespeare in Love

 1998 Titanic

 1997 The English Patient

 1996 Braveheart

 1995 Forrest Gump

 1994 Schindler's List

 1993 Unforgiven 

 1992 The Silence Of The Lambs

 1991 Dances with Wolves

 1990 Driving Miss Daisy

 1989 Rain Man

 1988 The Last Emperor

 1987 Platoon

 1986 Out of Africa

 1985 Amadeus

 1984 Terms of Endearment

 1983 Gandhi

 1982 Chariots of Fire

 1981 Ordinary People

 1980 Kramer vs. Kramer

 1979 The Deer Hunter

 1978 Annie Hall

 1977 ROCKY

 1976 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

 1975 The Godfather II

 1974 The Sting

 1973 The Godfather

 1972 The French Connection

 1971 Patton

 1970 Midnight Cowboy

 1969 Oliver!

 1968 In the Heat of the Night

 1967 A Man for All Seasons

 1966 The Sound of Music

 1965 My Fair Lady

 1964 Tom Jones

 1963 Lawrence of Arabia

 1962 West Side Story

 1961 The Apartment

 1960 Ben-Hur

 1959 Gigi

 1958 The Bridge on the River Kwai

 1957 Around the World in Eighty Days

 1956 Marty

 1955 On the Waterfront

 1954 From Here to Eternity

 1953 The Greatest Show on Earth

 1952 An American in Paris

 1951 All About Eve

 1950 All the King's Men

 1949 Hamlet

 1948 Gentleman's Agreement

 1947 The Best Years of Our Lives

 1946 The Lost Weekend

 1945 Going My Way

 1944 Casablanca

 1943 Mrs. Miniver

 1942 How Green Was My Valley

 1941 Rebecca

 1940 Gone with the Wind

 1939 You Can't Take It with You

 1938 The Life of Emile Zola

 1937 The Great Ziegfeld

 1936 Mutiny on the Bounty

 1935 It Happened One Night 

 1934 Cavalcade

 1933 Grand Hotel

 1932 Cimarron

 1931 All Quiet on the Western Front

 1930 The Broadway Melody

 1929 Wings