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

2025: One Battle After Another