Best Picture Winners and Nominees -- Movies To See
Submitted by Ellsinore on Sun, 05/17/2009 - 12:38
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1920s
1927-1928 Wings - Paramount Famous Players-Lasky - Lucien Hubbard
- The Racket - Caddo, United Artists - Howard Hughes
- Seventh Heaven - Fox - William Fox
1928-1929 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
1929-1930 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
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 - 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 - 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 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 - Victor Saville
- Four Daughters - Warner Bros.-First National - Hal B. Wallis with Henry Blanke
- Grand 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 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
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 - 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
- 49th 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 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 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 Brackett
- Anchors Aweigh - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Joe Pasternak
- The Bells of St. Mary's - RKO Radio - Leo McCarey
- Mildred Pierce - Warner Bros. - Jerry Wald
- Spellbound - United Artists - David O. Selznick
1946 The Best Years of Our Lives - RKO Radio - Samuel Goldwyn
- Henry V - United Artists - Laurence Olivier
- It's a Wonderful Life - 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 - 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 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 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 - Warner Bros. - Charles K. Feldman
1952 The Greatest Show on Earth - 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 - 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 - Columbia - Sam Spiegel
- The Caine Mutiny - Columbia - Stanley Kramer
- The Country Girl - 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 - United Artists - Harold Hecht
- Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - 20th Century-Fox - Buddy Adler
- Mister Roberts - Warner Bros. - Leland Hayward
- Picnic - Columbia - Fred Kohlmar
- The Rose Tattoo - Paramount - Hal B. Wallis
1956 Around the World in 80 Days - 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 - Paramount - Cecil B. DeMille
1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai - Columbia - Sam Spiegel
- Peyton Place - 20th Century-Fox - Jerry Wald
- Sayonara - Warner Bros. - William Goetz
- 12 Angry Men - United Artists - Henry Fonda, and Reginald Rose
- Witness for the Prosecution - 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 - United Artists - Harold Hecht
1959 Ben-Hur - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sam Zimbalist (posthumous award)
- Anatomy of a Murder - 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 - Continental - John Woolf and James Woolf
1960s
1960 The Apartment - United Artists - Billy Wilder
- The Alamo - United Artists - John Wayne
- Elmer Gantry - United Artists - Bernard Smith
- Sons and Lovers - 20th Century-Fox - Jerry Wald
- The Sundowners - Warner Bros. - Fred Zinnemann
1961 West Side Story - United Artists - Robert Wise
- Fanny - Warner Bros. - Joshua Logan
- The Guns of Navarone - Columbia - Carl Foreman
- The Hustler - 20th Century-Fox - Robert Rossen
- Judgment at Nuremberg - United Artists - Stanley Kramer
1962 Lawrence of Arabia - Columbia - Sam Spiegel
- The Longest Day - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck
- The Music Man - Warner Bros. - Morton DaCosta
- Mutiny on the Bounty - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Aaron Rosenberg
- To Kill a Mockingbird - U-I - Alan J. Pakula
1963 Tom Jones - United Artists - Tony Richardson
- America, America - Warner Bros. - Elia Kazan
- Cleopatra - 20th Century-Fox - Walter Wanger
- How the West Was Won - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Cinerama - Bernard Smith
- Lilies of the Field - United Artists - Ralph Nelson
1964 My Fair Lady - Warner Bros. - Jack L. Warner
- Becket - Paramount - Hal B. Wallis
- Dr. Strangelove - Columbia - Stanley Kubrick
- Mary Poppins - Disney, Buena Vista - Walt Disney, Bill Walsh
- Zorba the Greek - 20th Century-Fox - Michael Cacoyannis
1965 The Sound of Music - 20th Century-Fox - Robert Wise
- Darling - Embassy - Joseph Janni
- Doctor Zhivago - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Carlo Ponti
- Ship of Fools - Columbia - Stanley Kramer
- A Thousand Clowns - United Artists - Fred Coe
1966 A Man for All Seasons - Columbia - Fred Zinnemann
- Alfie - Paramount - Lewis Gilbert
- The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming - United Artists - Norman Jewison
- The Sand Pebbles - 20th Century-Fox - Robert Wise
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Warner Bros. - Ernest Lehman
1967 In the Heat of the Night - United Artists - Walter Mirisch
- Bonnie and Clyde - Warner Bros.-Seven Arts - Warren Beatty
- Doctor Dolittle - 20th Century-Fox - Arthur P. Jacobs
- The Graduate - Embassy - Lawrence Turman
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - Columbia - Stanley Kramer
1968 Oliver! - Columbia - John Woolf
- Funny Girl - Columbia - Ray Stark
- The Lion in Winter - Avco Embassy - Martin Poll
- Rachel, Rachel - Warner Bros. - Paul Newman
- Romeo and Juliet - Paramount - Anthony Havelock-Allan, John Brabourne
1969 Midnight Cowboy - United Artists - Jerome Hellman
- Anne of the Thousand Days - Universal - Hal B. Wallis
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - 20th Century-Fox - John Foreman
- Hello, Dolly! - 20th Century-Fox - Ernest Lehman
- Z - Cinema V - Jacques Perrin, Ahmed Rachedi
1970s
1970 Patton - 20th Century-Fox - Frank McCarthy
- Airport - Universal - Ross Hunter
- Five Easy Pieces - Columbia - Bob Rafelson, Richard Wechsler
- Love Story - Paramount - Howard G. Minsky
- MASH - 20th Century-Fox - Ingo Preminger
1971 The French Connection - 20th Century-Fox - Philip D'Antoni
- A Clockwork Orange - Warner Bros. - Stanley Kubrick
- Fiddler on the Roof - United Artists - Norman Jewison
- The Last Picture Show - Columbia - Stephen J. Friedman
- Nicholas and Alexandra - Columbia - Sam Spiegel
1972 The Godfather - Paramount - Albert S. Ruddy
- Cabaret - Allied Artists - Cy Feuer
- Deliverance - Warner Bros. - John Boorman
- Sounder - 20th Century-Fox - Robert B. Radnitz
- The Emigrants (Utvandrarna) - Warner Bros. (Swedish) - Bengt Forslund
1973 The Sting - Universal - Tony Bill, Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips
- American Graffiti - Universal - Francis Ford Coppola and Gary Kurtz
- The Exorcist - Warner Bros. - William Peter Blatty
- A Touch of Class - Avco Embassy - Melvin Frank
- Cries and Whispers - New World Pictures (Swedish) - Ingmar Bergman
1974 The Godfather Part II - Paramount - Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson, Fred Roos
- Chinatown - Paramount - Robert Evans
- The Conversation - Paramount - Francis Ford Coppola
- Lenny - United Artists - Marvin Worth
- The Towering Inferno - 20th Century-Fox/Warner Bros. - Irwin Allen
1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - United Artists - Saul Zaentz, Michael Douglas
- Barry Lyndon - Warner Bros. - Stanley Kubrick
- Dog Day Afternoon - Warner Bros. - Martin Bregman, Martin Elfand
- Jaws - Universal - Richard D. Zanuck
- Nashville - Paramount - Robert Altman
1976 Rocky - United Artists - Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff
- All the President's Men - Warner Bros. - Walter Coblenz
- Bound for Glory - United Artists - Robert F. Blumofe, Harold Leventhal
- Network - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists - Howard Gottfried
- Taxi Driver - Columbia - Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips
1977 Annie Hall - United Artists - Charles H. Joffe
- The Goodbye Girl - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Warner Bros. - Ray Stark
- Julia - 20th Century-Fox - Richard Roth
- Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - 20th Century-Fox - Gary Kurtz
- The Turning Point - 20th Century-Fox - Herbert Ross and Arthur Laurents
1978 The Deer Hunter - Universal - Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, John Peverall
- Coming Home - United Artists - Jerome Hellman
- Heaven Can Wait - Paramount - Warren Beatty
- Midnight Express - Columbia - Alan Marshall and David Puttnam
- An Unmarried Woman - 20th Century-Fox - Paul Mazursky and Tony Ray
1979 Kramer vs. Kramer - Columbia - Stanley R. Jaffe
- Apocalypse Now - United Artists - Francis Ford Coppola with Fred Roos, Gray Frederickson and Tom Sternberg
- All That Jazz - 20th Century-Fox - Robert Alan Aurthur (posthumous nomination)
- Breaking Away - 20th Century-Fox - Peter Yates
- Norma Rae - 20th Century-Fox - Tamara Asseyev and Alex Rose
1980s
1980 Ordinary People - Paramount - Ronald L. Schwary
- Coal Miner's Daughter - Universal - Bernard Schwartz
- The Elephant Man - Paramount - David Lynch
- Raging Bull - United Artists - Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff
- Tess - Columbia - Claude Berri and Timothy Burrill
1981 Chariots of Fire - The Ladd Company/Warner Bros. - David Puttnam
- Reds - Paramount - Warren Beatty
- Atlantic City - Paramount - Denis Heroux
- On Golden Pond - ITC Films - Bruce Gilbert
- Raiders of the Lost Ark - Paramount - Frank Marshall
1982 Gandhi - Columbia - Richard Attenborough
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Universal - Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy
- Missing - Universal - Edward Lewis and Mildred Lewis
- The Verdict - 20th Century Fox - Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown
- Tootsie - Columbia - Sydney Pollack and Dick Richards
1983 Terms of Endearment - Paramount - James L. Brooks
- Tender Mercies - Universal/AFD - Philip S. Hobel
- The Big Chill - Columbia - Michael Shamberg
- The Dresser - Columbia - Peter Yates
- The Right Stuff - The Ladd Company/Warner Bros. - Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff
1984 Amadeus - Orion - Saul Zaentz
- A Passage to India - Columbia - John Brabourne and Richard Goodwin
- A Soldier's Story - Columbia - Norman Jewison, Ronald L. Schwary and Patrick Palmer
- Places in the Heart - Tri-Star - Arlene Donovan
- The Killing Fields - Warner Bros. - David Puttnam
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 - Island Alive - David Weisman
- Prizzi's Honor - ABC Motion Pictures, 20th Century Fox - John Foreman
- Witness - Paramount - Edward S. Feldman
1986 Platoon - Orion - Arnold Kopelson
- Children of a Lesser God - Paramount - Burt Sugarman, Patrick J. Palmer
- Hannah and Her Sisters - Orion - Robert Greenhut
- The Mission - Warner Bros. - Fernando Ghia, David Puttnam
- A Room with a View - Cinecom - Ismail Merchant
1987 The Last Emperor - Columbia - Jeremy Thomas
- Broadcast News - 20th Century-Fox - James L. Brooks
- Fatal Attraction - Paramount - Stanley R. Jaffe, Sherry Lansing
- Hope and Glory - Columbia - John Boorman
- Moonstruck - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Patrick J. Palmer, Norman Jewison
1988 Rain Man - United Artists - Mark Johnson
- The Accidental Tourist - Warner Bros. - Lawrence Kasdan, Charles Okun, Michael Grillo
- Dangerous Liaisons - Warner Bros. - Norma Heyman, Hank Moonjean
- Mississippi Burning - Orion - Frederick Zollo, Robert F. Colesberry
- Working Girl - 20th Century Fox - Douglas Wick
1989 Driving Miss Daisy - Warner Bros. - Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck
- Born on the Fourth of July - Universal - A. Kitman Ho, Oliver Stone
- Dead Poets Society - Touchstone Pictures - Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas
- Field of Dreams - Universal - Lawrence Gordon, Charles Gordon
- My Left Foot - Miramax - Noel Pearson
1990s
1990 Dances with Wolves - Orion - Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner
- Awakenings - Columbia - Walter F. Parkes, Lawrence Lasker
- Ghost - Paramount - Lisa Weinstein
- The Godfather Part III - Paramount - Francis Ford Coppola
- Goodfellas - Warner Bros. - Irwin Winkler
1991 The Silence of the Lambs - Orion - Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman
- Beauty and the Beast - Walt Disney Pictures - Don Hahn
- Bugsy - TriStar - Mark Johnson, Barry Levinson, Warren Beatty
- JFK - Warner Bros. - A. Kitman Ho, Oliver Stone
- The Prince of Tides - Columbia - Barbra Streisand, Andrew S. Karsch
1992 Unforgiven - Warner Bros. - Clint Eastwood
- The Crying Game - Miramax - Stephen Woolley
- A Few Good Men - Castle Rock Entertainment, Columbia - Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman
- Howards End - Sony Pictures Classics - Ismail Merchant
- Scent of a Woman - Universal - Martin Brest
1993 Schindler's List - Universal - Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, Branko Lustig
- The Fugitive - Warner Bros. - Arnold Kopelson
- In the Name of the Father - Universal - Jim Sheridan
- The Piano - Miramax - Jane Campion
- The Remains of the Day - Columbia - Mike Nichols, John Calley, Ismail Merchant
1994 Forrest Gump - Paramount - Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch, Steve Starkey
- Four Weddings and a Funeral - PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Working Title Films - Duncan Kenworthy
- Pulp Fiction - Miramax - Lawrence Bender
- Quiz Show - Hollywood Pictures - Michael Jacobs, Julian Krainin, Michael Nozick, Robert Redford
- The Shawshank Redemption - Castle Rock Entertainment, Columbia - Niki Marvin
1995 Braveheart - Paramount - Mel Gibson, Alan Ladd, Jr., Bruce Davey
- Apollo 13 - Imagine Entertainment, Universal - Brian Grazer
- Babe - Universal - Bill Miller, George Miller, Doug Mitchell
- Il Postino - Miramax - Mario Cecchi Gori (posthumous nomination), Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Gaetano Daniele
- Sense and Sensibility - Columbia - Lindsay Doran
1996 The English Patient - Miramax - Saul Zaentz
- Fargo - Gramercy Pictures - Ethan Coen
- Jerry Maguire - TriStar- James L. Brooks, Laurence Mark, Richard Sakai, Cameron Crowe
- Secrets & Lies - October Films - Simon Channing-Williams
- Shine - Fine Line Features - Jane Scott
1997 Titanic - Paramount, 20th Century Fox - James Cameron, Jon Landau
- As Good as It Gets - TriStar - James L. Brooks, Bridget Johnson, Kristi Zea
- The Full Monty - Fox Searchlight - Umberto Pasolini
- Good Will Hunting - Miramax - Lawrence Bender
- L.A. Confidential - Warner Bros. - Curtis Hanson, Arnon Milchan, Michael G. Nathanson
1998 Shakespeare in Love - Miramax, Universal - David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick, Marc Norman
- Elizabeth - PolyGram Filmed Entertainment - Shekhar Kapur, Alison Owen, Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan
- Life Is Beautiful - Miramax - Elda Ferri, Gianluigi Braschi
- Saving Private Ryan - DreamWorks SKG, Paramount - Steven Spielberg, Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon, Gary Levinsohn
- The Thin Red Line - 20th Century Fox - Robert Michael Geisler, John Roberdeau, Grant Hill
1999 American Beauty - DreamWorks SKG - Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks
- The Cider House Rules - Miramax - Richard N. Gladstein
- The Green Mile - Castle Rock Entertainment, Warner Bros. - Frank Darabont, David Valdes
- The Insider - Touchstone Pictures - Pieter Jan Brugge, Michael Mann
- The Sixth Sense - Hollywood Pictures - Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel, M. Night Shyamalan
2000s
2000 Gladiator - DreamWorks & Universal - Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, Branko Lustig
- Chocolat - Miramax - David Brown, Kit Golden, Leslie Holleran
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Sony Pictures Classics - William Kong, Li-Kong Hsu, Ang Lee
- Erin Brockovich - Universal & Columbia - 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
- Moulin Rouge! - 20th Century Fox - Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann, Fred Baron
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - New Line & Warner Bros. - Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Barrie M. Osborne
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 & Warner Bros. - Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson
- The Pianist - Focus Features - Roman Polanski, Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - New Line Cinema - 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 - 20th Century Fox, Miramax & Universal - Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., Peter Weir, Duncan Henderson
- Mystic River - Warner Bros. - Robert Lorenz, Judie G. Hoyt, Clint Eastwood
- Seabiscuit - Universal, DreamWorks - Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Gary Ross
2004 Million Dollar Baby - Warner Bros. - Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, Tom Rosenburg
- The Aviator - Miramax & 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 - Michael London
2005 Crash - Lions Gate - 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 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 - Miramax - Andy Harries, Christine Langan, Tracey Seaward
2007 No Country for Old Men - Miramax & Paramount Vantage - Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- Atonement - Focus Features - Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster
- Juno - Fox Searchlight - Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick, Russell Smith
- Michael Clayton - Warner Bros. - Jennifer Fox, Kerry Orent, Sydney Pollack
- There Will Be Blood - Paramount Vantage & Miramax - Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi, JoAnne Sellar
2008 Slumdog Millionaire - Fox Searchlight - 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 (Posthumous nomination), Sydney Pollack (Posthumous nomination), Donna Gigliotti, Redmond Morris
Original list stolen from Wikipedia.