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

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
      The name of the award becomes Best Picture
      
      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
        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
                                              From 1951 on, the individual producer (rather than the production company) receives this award.
                                              
                                              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
                                                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 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