1920s
- 1927/1928: Wings (1927)
- *Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans *Winner of Best Unique and Artistic Picture*
- 1928/1929: The Broadway Melody (1929)
1930s
- 1929/1930: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
- 1930/1931: Cimarron (1931)
- 1931/1932: Grand Hotel (1932)
- 1932/1933: Cavalcade (1933)
- 1934: It Happened One Night (1934)
- 1935: Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
- 1936: The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
- 1937: The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
- 1938: You Can’t Take It With You (1938)
- 1939: Gone With The Wind (1939)
1940s
- 1940: Rebecca (1940)
- 1941: How Green Was My Valley (1941)
- 1942: Mrs. Minivar (1942)
- 1943: Casablanca (1942)
- 1944: Going My Way (1944)
- 1945: The Lost Weekend (1945)
- 1946: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
- 1947: Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)
- 1948: Hamlet (1948)
- 1949: All the King’s Men (1949)
1950s
- 1950: All About Eve (1950)
- 1951: An American in Paris (1951)
- 1952: The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
- 1953: From Here to Eternity (1953)
- 1954: On The Waterfront (1954)
- 1955: Marty (1955)
- 1956: Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
- 1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- 1958: Gigi (1958)
- 1959: Ben-Hur (1959)
1960s
- 1960: The Apartment (1960)
- 1961: West Side Story (1961)
- 1962: Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- 1963: Tom Jones (1963)
- 1964: My Fair Lady (1964)
- 1965: The Sound Of Music (1965)
- 1966: A Man For All Seasons (1966)
- 1967: In the Heat of the Night (1967)
- 1968: Oliver! (1968)
- 1969: Midnight Cowboy (1969)
1970s
- 1970: Patton (1970)
- 1971: The French Connection (1971)
- 1972: The Godfather (1972)
- 1973: The Sting (1973)
- 1974: The Godfather Part II (1974)
- 1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
- 1976: Rocky (1976)
- 1977: Annie Hall (1977)
- 1978: The Deer Hunter (1978)
- 1979: Kramer vs. Kramer (1978)
1980s
- 1980: Ordinary People (1980)
- 1981: Chariots of Fire (1981)
- 1982: Gandhi (1982)
- 1983: Terms of Endearment (1983)
- 1984: Amadeus (1984)
- 1985: Out of Africa (1985)
- 1986: Platoon (1986)
- 1987: The Last Emperor (1987)
- 1988: Rain Man (1988)
- 1989: Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
1990s
- 1990: Dances With Wolves (1990)
- 1991: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- 1992: Unforgiven (1992)
- 1993: Schindler’s List (1993)
- 1994: Forrest Gump (1994)
- 1995: Braveheart (1995)
- 1996: The English Patient (1996)
- 1997: Titanic (1997)
- 1998: Shakespeare in Love (1998)
- 1999: American Beauty (1999)
2000s
- 2000: Gladiator (2000)
- 2001: A Beautiful Mind (2001)
- 2002: Chicago (2002)
- 2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
- 2004: Million Dollar Baby (2004)
- 2005: Crash (2004)
- 2006: The Departed (2006)
- 2007: No Country For Old Men (2007)
- 2008: Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
- 2009: The Hurt Locker (2008)
2010s
- 2010: The King’s Speech (2010)
- 2011: The Artist (2011)
- 2012: Argo (2012)
- 2013: 12 Years a Slave (2013)
- 2014: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
- 2015: Spotlight (2015)
- 2016: Moonlight (2016)
- 2017: The Shape of Water (2017)
- 2018: Green Book (2018)
- 2019: Parasite (2019)
2020s
- 2020: Nomadland (2020)
- 2021: CODA (2021)
- 2022: Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
- 2023: Oppenheimer (2023)
- 2024: Anora (2024)
- 2025: One Battle After Another (2025)