1927/28: Wings

1928/29: The broadway melody

Photo: Universal

1929/30: All quiet on the western front

1930/31: Cimarron

1931/32: Grand hotel

1932/33: Cavalcade

Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. Photo: Columbia

1934: It happened one night

Clark Gable and Charles Laughton. Photo: MGM

1935: Mutiny on the bounty

1936: The Great ziegfeld

1937: The life of Emile Zola

1938: you can’t take it with you

Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. Photo: MGM

1939: gone with the wind

Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson. Photo: United Artists

1940: Rebecca

1941: How green was my valley

1942: Mrs. Miniver

Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. Photo: Warner

1943: casablanca

1944: going my way

1945: the lost weekend

1946: The best years of our lives

1947: gentleman’s agreement

Laurence Olivier. Photo: Rank Film

1948: hamlet

1949: all the king’s men

Bette Davis and Gary Merrill. Photo: 20th Century Fox

1950: all about eve

Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron. Photo: MGM

1951: an american in paris

1952: The greatest show on earth

1953: from here to eternity

Marlon Brando. Photo: Columbia

1954: on the waterfront

1955: Marty

1956: around the world in eighty days

Photo: Columbia

1957: The bridge on the river kwai

1958: Gigi

Charlton Heston. Photo: MGM

1959: Ben-Hur

1960: The apartment

1961: West side story

Peter O’Toole. Photo: Columbia

1962: lawrence of arabia

1963: tom Jones

1964: my fair lady

1965: The sound of music

1966: a man for all seasons

Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. Photo: United Artists

1967: in the heat of the night

1968: Oliver!

1969: midnight cowboy

George C. Scott. Photo: 20th Century Fox

1970: Patton

1971: The french connection

Marlon Brando. Photo: Paramount

1972: the godfather

1973: the sting

Al Pacino. Photo: Paramount

1974: the godfather, part II

Photo: United Artists

1975: one flew over the cuckoo’s nest

1976: rocky

Diane Keaton and Woody Allen. Photo: United Artists

1977: annie hall

Robert De Niro. Photo: Universal

1978: the deer hunter

Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep and Justin Henry. Photo: Columbia

1979: kramer vs. kramer

1980: ordinary people

1981: chariots of fire

1982: gandhi

Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger and Jack Nicholson. Photo: Paramount

1983: terms of endearment

Tom Hulce. Photo: Orion Pictures

1984: amadeus

1985: out of africa

Photo: Orion

1986: platoon

1987: the last emperor

1988: Rain man

1989: Driving miss daisy

1990: Dances with wolves

Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster. Photo: Orion

1991: the silence of the lambs

1992: unforgiven

Liam Neeson and Ben Kingsley. Photo: Universal

1993: schindler’s list

1994: forrest gump

1995: braveheart

1996: The english patient

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. Photo: 20th Century Fox

1997: Titanic

1998: shakespeare in love

Mena Suvari. Photo: DreamWorks

1999: american beauty

Russell Crowe. Photo: Universal

2000: gladiator

2001: a beautiful mind

2002: chicago

2003: the lord of the rings: the return of the king

2004: million dollar baby

2005: crash

Leonardo DiCaprio and Jack Nicholson. Photo: Warner

2006: the departed

Javier Bardem. Photo: Miramax

2007: no country for old men

2008: slumdog millionaire

2009: the hurt locker

Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush. Photo: The Weinstein Company

2010: the king’s speech

2011: the artist

2012: argo

Benedict Cumberbatch and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures

2013: 12 years a slave

2014: birdman

2015: spotlight

Alex Hibbert and Mahershala Ali. Photo: A24

2016: moonlight

2017: the shape of water

2018: green book

Choi Woo-shik, Song Kang-ho, Jang Hye-jin and Park So-dam. Photo: CJ Entertainment

2019: parasite

2020: nomadland

2021: coda

2022: everything everywhere all at once

Cillian Murphy. Photo: Universal

2023: oppenheimer

2024: anora