Academy Awards for Best Picture

1920s

* 1927-1928 (1st) Wings (Best Production) Paramount Famous Players-Lasky - Lucien Hubbard
o The Racket - Caddo, United Artists - Howard Hughes
o Seventh Heaven - Fox - William Fox

* 1927-1928 (1st) Sunrise (Best Picture, Unique and Artistic Production) Fox - William Fox
o Chang - Paramount - Merian Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack
o The Crowd - MGM - Irving Thalberg

* 1928-1929 (2nd) The Broadway Melody Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Harry Rapf
o Alibi - Feature Productions, United Artists -Roland West
o The Hollywood Revue of 1929 - MGM - Harry Rapf
o In Old Arizona - Fox - Winfield Sheehan, studio head
o The Patriot - Paramount - Ernst Lubitsch

1930s

* 1929-1930 (3rd) All Quiet on the Western Front - Universal - Carl Laemmle Jr.
o The Big House - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg
o Disraeli - Warner Bros. - Jack Warner with Darryl Zanuck
o The Divorcee - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Robert Leonard
o The Love Parade - Paramount - Ernst Lubitsch

The name of the award becomes Best Picture

* 1930-1931 (4th) Cimarron - RKO Radio - William LeBaron
o East Lynne - Fox - Winfield Sheehan, studio head
o The Front Page - Caddo, United Artists - Howard Hughes
o Skippy - Paramount - Adolph Zukor
o Trader Horn - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving G. Thalberg

* 1931-1932 (5th) Grand Hotel - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg
o Arrowsmith - Goldwyn, United Artists - Samuel Goldwyn
o Bad Girl - Fox - Winfield Sheehan studio head
o The Champ - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - King Vidor
o Five Star Final - First National - Hal B. Wallis
o One Hour with You - Paramount - Ernst Lubitsch
o Shanghai Express - Paramount - Adolph Zukor
o The Smiling Lieutenant - Paramount - Ernst Lubitsch

* 1932-1933 (6th) Cavalcade - Fox - Winfield Sheehan studio head
o 42nd Street - Warner Bros. - Darryl F. Zanuck
o A Farewell to Arms - Paramount - Adolph Zukor
o I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis
o Lady for a Day - Columbia - Frank Capra
o Little Women - RKO Radio - Merian C. Cooper with Kenneth MacGowan
o The Private Life of Henry VIII - London Films, United Artists - Alexander Korda
o She Done Him Wrong - Paramount - William LeBaron
o Smilin' Through - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg
o State Fair - Fox - Winfield Sheehan studio head

* 1934 (7th) It Happened One Night - Columbia - Harry Cohn
o The Barretts of Wimpole Street - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg
o Cleopatra - Paramount - Cecil B. DeMille
o Flirtation Walk - First National - Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis with Robert Lord
o The Gay Divorcee - RKO Radio - Pandro S. Berman
o Here Comes the Navy - Warner Bros. - Lou Edelman
o The House of Rothschild - Twentieth Century Pictures, United Artists - Darryl F. Zanuck with William Goetz and Raymond Griffith
o Imitation of Life - Universal - John M. Stahl
o One Night of Love - Columbia - Harry Cohn with Everett Riskin
o The Thin Man - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Hunt Stromberg
o Viva Villa! - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - David O. Selznick
o The White Parade - Fox - Jesse L. Lasky

* 1935 (8th) Mutiny on the Bounty - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg with Albert Lewin
o Alice Adams - RKO Radio - Pandro S. Berman
o Broadway Melody of 1936 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - John W. Considine Jr.
o Captain Blood - Warner Bros.-Cosmopolitan - Hal B. Wallis with Harry Joe Brown and Gordon Hollingshead
o David Copperfield - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - David O. Selznick
o The Informer - RKO Radio - Cliff Reid
o The Lives of a Bengal Lancer - Paramount - Louis D. Lighton
o A Midsummer Night's Dream - Warner Bros. - Henry Blanke
o Les Misérables - Twentieth Century Pictures, United Artists - Darryl F. Zanuck
o Naughty Marietta - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Hunt Stromberg
o Ruggles of Red Gap - Paramount - Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
o Top Hat - RKO Radio - Pandro S. Berman

* 1936 (9th) The Great Ziegfeld - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Hunt Stromberg
o Anthony Adverse - Warner Bros. - Henry Blanke
o Dodsworth - Goldwyn, United Artists - Samuel Goldwyn with Merritt Hulbert
o Libeled Lady - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Lawrence Weingarten
o Mr. Deeds Goes to Town - Columbia - Frank Capra
o Romeo and Juliet - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg
o San Francisco - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - John Emerson and Bernard H. Hyman
o The Story of Louis Pasteur - Warner Bros. - Henry Blanke
o A Tale of Two Cities - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - David O. Selznick
o Three Smart Girls - Universal - Joe Pasternak with Charles R. Rogers

* 1937 (10th) The Life of Emile Zola - Warner Bros. - Henry Blanke
o The Awful Truth - Columbia - Leo McCarey with Everett Riskin
o Captains Courageous - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Louis Lighton
o Dead End - Goldwyn, United Artists - Samuel Goldwyn with Merritt Hulbert
o The Good Earth - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg with Albert Lewin
o In Old Chicago - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck with Kenneth MacGowan
o Lost Horizon - Columbia - Frank Capra
o One Hundred Men and a Girl - Universal - Charles R. Rogers with Joe Pasternak
o Stage Door - RKO Radio - Pandro S. Berman
o A Star Is Born - Selznick International, United Artists - David O. Selznick

* 1938 (11th) You Can't Take It with You - Columbia - Frank Capra
o The Adventures of Robin Hood - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis with Henry Blanke
o Alexander's Ragtime Band - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck with Harry Joe Brown
o Boys Town - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - John W. Considine, Jr.
o The Citadel - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Victor Saville
o Four Daughters - Warner Bros.-First National - Hal B. Wallis with Henry Blanke
o The Grande Illusion (La Grande illusion) - R. A. O., World Pictures - Frank Rollmer, and Albert Pinkovitch
o Jezebel - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis with Henry Blanke
o Pygmalion - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Gabriel Pascal
o Test Pilot - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Louis Lighton

* 1939 (12th) Gone with the Wind - Selznick, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - David O. Selznick
o Dark Victory - Warner Bros. - David Lewis
o Goodbye, Mr. Chips - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Victor Saville
o Love Affair - RKO Radio - Leo McCarey
o Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Columbia - Frank Capra
o Ninotchka - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sidney Franklin
o Of Mice and Men - Roach, United Artists - Lewis Milestone
o Stagecoach - United Artists - Walter Wanger
o The Wizard of Oz - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Mervyn LeRoy
o Wuthering Heights - Goldwyn, United Artists - Samuel Goldwyn

1940s

* 1940 (13th) Rebecca - Selznick, United Artists - David O. Selznick
o All This and Heaven Too - Warner Bros. - Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis, with David Lewis
o Foreign Correspondent - Wanger, United Artists - Walter Wanger
o The Grapes of Wrath - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck with Nunnally Johnson
o The Great Dictator - Chaplin, United Artists - Charles Chaplin
o Kitty Foyle - RKO Radio - David Hempstead
o The Letter - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis
o The Long Voyage Home - Argosy Wanger, United Artists - John Ford
o Our Town - Lesser, United Artists - Sol Lesser
o The Philadelphia Story - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Joseph L. Mankiewicz

* 1941 (14th) How Green Was My Valley - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck
o Blossoms in the Dust - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Asher
o Citizen Kane - RKO Radio - Orson Welles
o Here Comes Mr. Jordan - Columbia - Everett Riskin
o Hold Back the Dawn - Paramount - Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
o The Little Foxes - Goldwyn, RKO Radio - Samuel Goldwyn
o The Maltese Falcon - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis
o One Foot in Heaven - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis
o Sergeant York - Warner Bros. - Jesse L. Lasky and Hal B. Wallis
o Suspicion - RKO Radio - Alfred Hitchcock

* 1942 (15th) Mrs. Miniver - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sidney Franklin
o Forty-Ninth Parallel - Ortus, Columbia - Michael Powell
o King's Row - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis
o The Magnificent Ambersons - Mercury, RKO Radio - Orson Welles
o The Pied Piper - 20th Century-Fox - Nunnally Johnson
o The Pride of the Yankees - Goldwyn, RKO Radio - Samuel Goldwyn
o Random Harvest - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sidney Franklin
o The Talk of the Town - Columbia - George Stevens
o Wake Island - Paramount - Joseph Sistrom
o Yankee Doodle Dandy - Warner Bros. - Jack Warner, Hal B. Wallis, William Cagney

* 1943 (16th) Casablanca - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis
o For Whom the Bell Tolls - Paramount - Sam Wood
o Heaven Can Wait - 20th Century-Fox - Ernst Lubitsch
o The Human Comedy - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Clarence Brown
o In Which We Serve - Two Cities, United Artists - Noel Coward
o Madame Curie - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sidney Franklin
o The More the Merrier - Columbia - George Stevens
o The Ox-Bow Incident - 20th Century-Fox - Lamar Trotti
o The Song of Bernadette - 20th Century-Fox - William Perlberg
o Watch on the Rhine - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis

* 1944 (17th) Going My Way - Paramount - Leo McCarey
o Double Indemnity - Paramount - Joseph Sistrom
o Gaslight - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
o Since You Went Away - Selznick, United Artists - David O. Selznick
o Wilson - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck

* 1945 (18th) The Lost Weekend - Paramount - Charles Brackett
o Anchors Aweigh - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Joe Pasternak
o The Bells of St. Mary's - Rainbow, RKO Radio - Leo McCarey
o Mildred Pierce - Warner Bros. - Jerry Wald
o Spellbound - Selznick, United Artists - David O. Selznick

* 1946 (19th) The Best Years of Our Lives - Goldwyn, RKO Radio - Samuel Goldwyn
o Henry V - Rank-Two Cities, United Artists - Laurence Olivier
o It's a Wonderful Life - Liberty, RKO Radio - Frank Capra
o The Razor's Edge - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck
o The Yearling - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sidney Franklin

* 1947 (20th) Gentleman's Agreement - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck
o The Bishop's Wife - Goldwyn, RKO Radio - Samuel Goldwyn
o Crossfire - RKO Radio - Adrian Scott
o Great Expectations - Rank-Cineguild, U-I - Ronald Neame
o Miracle on 34th Street - 20th Century-Fox - William Perlberg

* 1948 (21st) Hamlet - J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films, U-I - Laurence Olivier
o Johnny Belinda - Warner Bros. - Jerry Wald
o The Red Shoes - Rank-Archers, Eagle-Lion - Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
o The Snake Pit - 20th Century-Fox - Anatole Litvak and Robert Bassler
o The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - Warner Bros. - Henry Blanke

* 1949 (22nd) All the King's Men - Rossen, Columbia - Robert Rossen
o Battleground - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Dore Schary
o The Heiress - Paramount - William Wyler
o A Letter to Three Wives - 20th Century-Fox - Sol C. Siegel
o Twelve O'Clock High - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck

1950s

* 1950 (23rd) All About Eve - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck
o Born Yesterday - Columbia - S. Sylvan Simon
o Father of the Bride - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Pandro S. Berman
o King Solomon's Mines - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sam Zimbalist
o Sunset Boulevard - Paramount - Charles Brackett


* 1951 (24th) An American in Paris - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Arthur Freed
o Decision Before Dawn - 20th Century-Fox - Anatole Litvak and Frank McCarthy
o A Place in the Sun - Paramount - George Stevens
o Quo Vadis - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sam Zimbalist
o A Streetcar Named Desire - Feldman, Warner Bros. - Charles K. Feldman

* 1952 (25th) The Greatest Show on Earth - DeMille, Paramount - Cecil B. DeMille
o High Noon - United Artists - Stanley Kramer
o Ivanhoe - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Pandro S. Berman
o Moulin Rouge - United Artists - John Huston
o The Quiet Man - Argosy, Republic - John Ford and Merian C. Cooper

* 1953 (26th) From Here to Eternity - Columbia - Buddy Adler
o Julius Caesar - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - John Houseman
o The Robe - 20th Century-Fox - Frank Ross
o Roman Holiday - Paramount - William Wyler
o Shane - Paramount - George Stevens

* 1954 (27th) On the Waterfront - Horizon-American, Columbia - Sam Spiegel
o The Caine Mutiny - Kramer, Columbia - Stanley Kramer
o The Country Girl - Perlberg-Seaton, Paramount - William Perlberg
o Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Jack Cummings
o Three Coins in the Fountain - 20th Century-Fox - Sol C. Siegel

* 1955 (28th) Marty - Hecht-Lancaster, United Artists - Harold Hecht
o Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - 20th Century-Fox - Buddy Adler
o Mister Roberts - Orange, Warner Bros. - Leland Hayward
o Picnic - Columbia - Fred Kohlmar
o The Rose Tattoo - Wallis, Paramount - Hal B. Wallis

* 1956 (29th) Around the World in Eighty Days - Todd, United Artists - Michael Todd
o Friendly Persuasion - Allied Artists - William Wyler
o Giant - Warner Bros. - George Stevens and Henry Ginsberg
o The King and I - 20th Century-Fox - Charles Brackett
o The Ten Commandments - DeMille, Paramount - Cecil B. DeMille

* 1957 (30th) The Bridge on the River Kwai - Horizon, Columbia - Sam Spiegel
o Peyton Place - 20th Century-Fox - Jerry Wald
o Sayonara - Goetz, Warner Bros. - William Goetz
o 12 Angry Men - Orion-Nova, United Artists - Henry Fonda, and Reginald Rose
o Witness for the Prosecution - Small-Hornblow, United Artists - Arthur Hornblow, Jr.

* 1958 (31st) Gigi - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Arthur Freed
o Auntie Mame - Warner Bros. - Jack L. Warner
o Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Lawrence Weingarten
o The Defiant Ones - Kramer, United Artists - Stanley Kramer
o Separate Tables - Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, United Artists - Harold Hecht

* 1959 (32nd) Ben-Hur - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sam Zimbalist
o Anatomy of a Murder - Preminger, Columbia - Otto Preminger
o The Diary of Anne Frank - 20th Century-Fox - George Stevens
o The Nun's Story - Warner Bros. - Henry Blanke
o Room at the Top - Romulus, Continental - John Woolf and James Woolf

1960s

* 1960 (33rd) The Apartment - Mirisch, United Artists - Billy Wilder
o The Alamo - Batjac, United Artists - John Wayne
o Elmer Gantry - Lancaster-Brooks, United Artists - Bernard Smith
o Sons and Lovers - Wald, 20th Century-Fox - Jerry Wald
o The Sundowners - Warner Bros. - Fred Zinnemann

* 1961 (34th) West Side Story - Mirisch-B&P Enterprises, United Artists - Robert Wise
o Fanny - Mannsfield, Warner Bros. - Joshua Logan
o The Guns of Navarone - Foreman, Columbia - Carl Foreman
o The Hustler - Rossen, 20th Century-Fox - Robert Rossen
o Judgment at Nuremberg - Kramer, United Artists - Stanley Kramer

* 1962 (35th) Lawrence of Arabia - Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia - Sam Spiegel
o The Longest Day - Zanuck, 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck
o The Music Man - Warner Bros. - Morton DaCosta
o Mutiny on the Bounty - Arcola, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Aaron Rosenberg
o To Kill a Mockingbird - Pakula, Mulligan, Brentwood, U-I - Alan J. Pakula

* 1963 (36th) Tom Jones - Woodfall, United Artists-Lopert - Tony Richardson
o America, America - Athena, Warner Bros. - Elia Kazan
o Cleopatra - Wanger, 20th Century-Fox - Walter Wanger
o How the West Was Won - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Cinerama - Bernard Smith
o Lilies of the Field - Rainbow, United Artists - Ralph Nelson

* 1964 (37th) My Fair Lady - Warner Bros. - Jack L. Warner
o Zorba the Greek - Rochley, International Classics/20th Century-Fox - Michael Cacoyannis
o Becket - Wallis, Paramount - Hal B. Wallis
o Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Hawk Films, Columbia - Stanley Kubrick
o Mary Poppins - Disney, Buena Vista - Walt Disney, Bill Walsh

* 1965 (38th) The Sound of Music - Argyle, 20th Century-Fox - Robert Wise
o Darling - Anglo-Amalgamated, Embassy - Joseph Janni
o Doctor Zhivago - Ponti, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Carlo Ponti
o Ship of Fools - Kramer, Columbia - Stanley Kramer
o A Thousand Clowns - Harrell, United Artists - Fred Coe

* 1966 (39th) A Man for All Seasons - Highland, Columbia - Fred Zinnemann
o Alfie - Sheldrake, Paramount - Lewis Gilbert
o The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming - Mirisch, United Artists - Norman Jewison
o The Sand Pebbles - Argyle-Solar, 20th Century-Fox - Robert Wise
o Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Chenault, Warner Bros. - Ernest Lehman

* 1967 (40th) In the Heat of the Night - Mirisch, United Artists - Walter Mirisch
o Bonnie and Clyde - Tatira-Hiller, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts - Warren Beatty
o Doctor Dolittle - Apjac, 20th Century-Fox - Arthur P. Jacobs
o The Graduate - Nichols-Turman, Embassy - Lawrence Turman
o Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - Kramer, Columbia - Stanley Kramer

* 1968 (41st) Oliver! - Romulus, Columbia - John Woolf
o Funny Girl - Rastar, Columbia - Ray Stark
o The Lion in Winter - Hawarth, Avco Embassy - Martin Poll
o Rachel, Rachel - Kayos, Warner Bros. - Paul Newman
o 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
o Anne of the Thousand Days - Wallis, Universal - Hal B. Wallis
o Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Hill-Monash, 20th Century-Fox - John Foreman
o Hello, Dolly! - Chenault, 20th Century-Fox - Ernest Lehman
o Z - Reggane Films-O.N.C.I.C., Cinema V - Jacques Perrin, Ahmed Rachedi

1970s

* 1970 (43rd) Patton - 20th Century-Fox - Frank McCarthy
o Airport - Hunter, Universal - Ross Hunter
o Five Easy Pieces - BBS Productions, Columbia - Bob Rafelson, Richard Wechsler
o Love Story - Paramount - Howard G. Minsky
o MASH - Aspen, 20th Century-Fox - Ingo Preminger

* 1971 (44th) The French Connection - D'Antoni-Schine-Moore, 20th Century-Fox - Philip D'Antoni
o A Clockwork Orange - Haek Films, Warner Bros. - Stanley Kubrick
o Fiddler on the Roof - Mirisch-Cartier, United Artists - Norman Jewison
o The Last Picture Show - BBS Productions, Columbia - Stephen J. Friedman
o Nicholas and Alexandra - Horizon, Columbia - Sam Spiegel

* 1972 (45th) The Godfather - Ruddy, Paramount - Albert S. Ruddy
o Cabaret - ABC Pictures, Allied Artists - Cy Feuer
o Deliverance - Warner Bros. - John Boorman
o Sounder - Radnitz/Mattel, 20th Century-Fox - Robert B. Radnitz
o 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
o American Graffiti - Lucasfilm/Coppola Company, Universal - Francis Ford Coppola and Gary Kurtz
o The Exorcist - Hoya, Warner Bros. - William Peter Blatty
o A Touch of Class - Brut Prods., Avco Embassy - Melvin Frank
o 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
o Chinatown - Evans, Paramount - Robert Evans
o The Conversation - Directors Company, Paramount - Francis Ford Coppola
o Lenny - Worth, United Artists - Marvin Worth
o 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
o Barry Lyndon - Hawk Films, Warner Bros. - Stanley Kubrick
o Dog Day Afternoon - Warner Bros. - Martin Bregman, Martin Elfand
o Jaws - Zanuck/Brown, Universal - Richard D. Zanuck, (producer)
o Nashville - ABC Entertainment-Weintraub-Altman, Paramount - Robert Altman

* 1976 (49th) Rocky - Chartoff-Winkler, United Artists - Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff
o All the President's Men - Wildwood, Warner Bros. - Walter Coblenz
o Bound for Glory - United Artists - Robert F. Blumofe, Harold Leventhal
o Network - Gottfried/Chayefsky, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists - Howard Gottfried
o Taxi Driver Bill/Phillips-Scorsese - Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips

* 1977 (50th) Annie Hall - Rollins-Joffe, United Artists - Charles H. Joffe
o The Goodbye Girl - Stark, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Warner Bros. - Ray Stark
o Julia - 20th Century-Fox - Richard Roth
o Star Wars - Lucasfilm, 20th Century-Fox - Gary Kurtz
o 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
o Coming Home - Hellman, United Artists - Jerome Hellman
o Heaven Can Wait - Dogwood, Paramount - Warren Beatty
o Midnight Express - Casablanca-Filmworks, Columbia - Alan Marshall and David Puttnam
o An Unmarried Woman - 20th Century-Fox - Paul Mazursky and Tony Ray

* 1979 (52nd) Kramer vs. Kramer - Jaffe, Columbia - Stanley R. Jaffe
o Apocalypse Now - Omni Zoetrope, United Artists - Francis Ford Coppola with Fred Roos, Gray Frederickson and Tom Sternberg
o All That Jazz - Columbia/20th Century-Fox - Robert Alan Aurthur
o Breaking Away - 20th Century-Fox - Peter Yates
o Norma Rae - 20th Century-Fox - Tamara Aseyev and Alex Rose

1980s

* 1980 (53rd) Ordinary People - Wildwood, Paramount - Ronald L. Schwary
o Coal Miner's Daughter - Schwartz, Universal - Bernard Schwartz
o The Elephant Man - Brooksfilms, Paramount - Jonathan Sanger
o Raging Bull - Chartoff-Winkler, United Artists - Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff
o Tess - Renn-Burrill Société Française de Production (S.F.P.), Columbia - Claude Berri and Timothy Burrill

* 1981 (54th) Chariots of Fire - Enigma, The Ladd Company/Warner Bros. - David Puttnam
o Atlantic City - International Cinema Corporation, Paramount - Denis Heroux
o On Golden Pond - ITC Films/IPC Films, Universal/Associated Film Distribution - Bruce Gilbert
o Raiders of the Lost Ark - Lucasfilm, Paramount - Frank Marshall
o Reds - J.R.S., Paramount - Warren Beatty

* 1982 (55th) Gandhi - Indo-British Films, Columbia - Richard Attenborough
o E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Universal - Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy
o Missing - Universal/PolyGram, Universal - Edward Lewis and Mildred Lewis
o Tootsie - Mirage/Punch, Columbia - Sydney Pollack and Dick Richards
o The Verdict - Fox-Zanuck/Brown, 20th Century Fox - Richard D. Zanuck and (producer)

* 1983 (56th) Terms of Endearment - Brooks, Paramount - James L. Brooks
o The Big Chill - Carson Productions Group, Columbia - Michael Shamberg
o The Dresser - Goldcrest/Television Limited/World Film Services, Columbia - Peter Yates
o The Right Stuff - Chartoff-Winkler, Ladd Company, Warner Bros. - Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff
o Tender Mercies - EMI-Antron Media, Universal/AFD - Philip S. Hobel

* 1984 (57th) Amadeus - Barrandov Studios - Zaentz, Orion - Saul Zaentz
o The Killing Fields - Goldcrest/International Film Investors, Warner Bros. - David Puttnam
o A Passage to India - G. W. Films Ltd., Columbia - John Brabourne and Richard Goodwin
o Places in the Heart - Tri-Star - Arlene Donovan
o A Soldier's Story - Caldix, Columbia - Norman Jewison, Ronald L. Schwary and Patrick Palmer

* 1985 (58th) Out of Africa - Universal - Sydney Pollack
o The Color Purple - Warner Bros. - Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Quincy Jones
o Kiss of the Spider Woman - H. B. Filmes/Sugarloaf Films, Island Alive - David Weisman
o Prizzi's Honor - ABC Motion Pictures, 20th Century Fox/Producers Sales Organization - John Foreman
o Witness - Feldman, Paramount - Edward S. Feldman

* 1986 (59th) Platoon - Hemdale, Orion - Arnold Kopelson
o Children of a Lesser God - Sugarman, Paramount - Burt Sugarman, Patrick J. Palmer
o Hannah and Her Sisters - Rollins-Joffe, Orion - Robert Greenhut
o The Mission - Warner Bros./Goldcrest/Kingsmere, Warner Bros. - Fernando Ghia, David Puttnam
o A Room with a View - Merchant Ivory, Cinecom - Ismail Merchant

* 1987 (60th) The Last Emperor (末代皇帝) - Hemdale, Columbia - Jeremy Thomas
o Broadcast News - 20th Century-Fox - James L. Brooks
o Fatal Attraction - Jaffe/Lansing, Paramount - Stanley R. Jaffe, Sherry Lansing
o Hope and Glory - Davros Production Services Ltd., Columbia/Nelson Entertainment - John Boorman
o Moonstruck - Palmer & Jewison, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Patrick J. Palmer, Norman Jewison

* 1988 (61st) Rain Man - Mirage Entertainment, Star Partners II, United Artists - Mark Johnson
o The Accidental Tourist - Warner Bros. - Lawrence Kasdan, Charles Okun, Michael Grillo
o Dangerous Liaisons - Lorimar Film Entertainment, NFH Productions, Warner Bros. - Norma Heyman, Hank Moonjean
o Mississippi Burning - Orion Pictures Corp. - Frederick Zollo, Robert F. Colesberry
o Working Girl - 20th Century Fox - Douglas Wick

* 1989 (62nd) Driving Miss Daisy - Majestic Films International, Zanuck Company., Warner Bros. - Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck
o Born on the Fourth of July - Ixtlan Corp., Universal - A. Kitman Ho, Oliver Stone
o Dead Poets' Society - Silver Screen Partners IV, Touchstone Pictures - Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas
o Field of Dreams - Gordon Company, Universal - Lawrence Gordon, Charles Gordon
o My Left Foot - Ferndale Films, Granada, Raidio Teilifis Éireann - Noel Pearson

1990s

* 1990 (63rd) Dances with Wolves - Tig Productions, Majestic Films International, Orion Pictures Corp. - Michael Flynn, Kevin Costner
o Awakenings - Columbia Pictures Corp. - Walter F. Parkes, Lawrence Lasker
o Ghost - Paramount Pictures - Lisa Weinstein
o The Godfather, Part III - Paramount Pictures, Zoetrope Studios - Francis Ford Coppola
o Goodfellas - Warner Bros. - Irwin Winkler

* 1991 (64th) The Silence of the Lambs - Orion Pictures Corp. - Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman
o Beauty and the Beast - Walt Disney Pictures - Don Hahn
o Bugsy - Baltimore Pictures, Desert Vision, Mulholland Productions, TriStar Pictures - Mark Johnson, Barry Levinson, Warren Beatty
o JFK - Alcor Films, Camelot, Ixtlan Corp., Le Studio Canal+, Regency Enterprises, Warner Bros. - A. Kitman Ho, Oliver Stone
o The Prince of Tides - Barwood Films, Columbia Pictures, Longfellow Pictures - Barbra Streisand, Andrew S. Karsch

* 1992 (65th) Unforgiven - Malpaso Productions, Warner Bros. - Clint Eastwood
o The Crying Game - British Screen, Channel Four Films, Eurotrustees, Nippon Film Development and Finance, Palace, Miramax Films - Stephen Woolley
o A Few Good Men - Castle Rock Entertainment, Columbia Pictures Corp. - (producer), Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman
o 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
o 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
o The Fugitive - Warner Bros. - Arnold Kopelson
o In the Name of the Father - Hell's Kitchen Films, Universal Pictures - Jim Sheridan
o The Piano - Australian Film Commission, CiBy 2000, New South Wales Film and Television Office - Jane Campion
o 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
o Four Weddings and a Funeral - Channel Four Films, PolyGram Film Entertainment, Working Title Films - Duncan Kenworthy
o Pulp Fiction - A Band Apart, Jersey Films, Miramax Films - Lawrence Bender
o Quiz Show - Baltimore Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Wildwood Enterprises - Michael Jacobs, Julian Krainin, Michael Nozick, Robert Redford
o 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
o Apollo 13 - Imagine Entertainment, Universal Pictures - Brian Grazer
o Babe - Kennedy Miller Productions, Universal Pictures - Bill Miller, George Miller (producer), Doug Mitchell
o 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
o Sense and Sensibility - Columbia Pictures Corp., Mirage - Lindsay Doran

* 1996 (69th) The English Patient - J&M Entertainment, Miramax Films, Tiger Moth Productions - Saul Zaentz
o Fargo - Gramercy Pictures, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Working Title Films - Ethan Coen
o Jerry Maguire - Gracie Films, TriStar Pictures - James L. Brooks, Laurence Mark, Richard Sakai, Cameron Crowe
o Secrets & Lies - Channel Four Films, CiBy 2000, Thin Man Films, October Films - Simon Channing-Williams
o 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
o As Good as It Gets - Gracie Films, TriStar Pictures - James L. Brooks, Bridget Johnson, Kristi Zea
o The Full Monty - 20th Century Fox, Channel Four Films, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Redwave Films - Umberto Pasolini
o Good Will Hunting - Be Gentlemen Limited Partnership, Lawrence Bender Productions, Miramax Films - Lawrence Bender
o 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
o Elizabeth - Channel Four Films, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Working Title Films - Shekhar Kapur, Alison Owen, Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan
o Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella) - Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica, Melampo Cinematografica, Miramax Films - Elda Ferri, Gianluigi Braschi
o Saving Private Ryan - Amblin Entertainment, DreamWorks SKG, Mark Gordon Productions, Mutual Film Company, Paramount Pictures - Steven Spielberg, Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon, Gary Levinsohn
o 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
o The Cider House Rules - Film Colony, Miramax Films - Richard N. Gladstein
o The Green Mile - Castle Rock Entertainment, Darkwoods Productions, Warner Bros. - Frank Darabont, David Valdes
o The Insider - Blue Light Productions, Forward Pass, Kaitz Productions, Mann/Roth Productions, Touchstone Pictures - Pieter Jan Brugge, Michael Mann
o The Sixth Sense - Hollywood Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, The Kennedy/Marshall Company - Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel

2000s

* 2000 (73rd) Gladiator - Universal & DreamWorks -Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, & Branko Lustig
o Chocolat - Miramax - David Brown, Kit Golden, & Leslie Holleran
o Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long臥虎藏龍) - Sony Pictures Classics - William Kong, Li-Kong Hsu, & Ang Lee
o Erin Brockovich - Columbia & Universal -Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, & Stacey Sher
o Traffic - USA Films - Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, & Laura Bickford

* 2001 (74th) A Beautiful Mind - Universal & DreamWorks - Brian Grazer & Ron Howard
o Gosford Park - USA Films - Robert Altman, Bob Balaban & David Levy
o In the Bedroom - Miramax - Graham Leader, Ross Katz & Todd Field
o The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - New Line - Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh & Barrie M. Osborne
o Moulin Rouge! - 20th Century Fox - Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann & Fred Baron

* 2002 (75th) Chicago - Miramax - Martin Richards
o Gangs of New York - Miramax - Alberto Grimaldi & Harvey Weinstein
o The Hours - Paramount & Miramax - Scott Rudin & Robert Fox
o The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - New Line - Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh & Peter Jackson
o The Pianist - Focus Features - Roman Polanski, Robert Benmussa & Alain Sarde

* 2003 (76th) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - New Line - Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, & Fran Walsh
o Lost in Translation - Focus Features - Ross Katz & Sofia Coppola
o Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World - Universal, 20th Century Fox & Miramax - Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., Peter Weir & Duncan Henderson
o Mystic River - Warner Bros. - Robert Lorenz, Judie G. Hoyt & Clint Eastwood
o Seabiscuit - Universal, DreamWorks, Spyglass - Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall & Gary Ross

* 2004 (77th) Million Dollar Baby - Warner Bros. - Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, Paul Haggis & Tom Rosenburg
o The Aviator - Miramax, Initial Entertainment Group, Warner Bros. - Michael Mann & Graham King
o Finding Neverland - Miramax - Richard N. Gladstein & Nellie Bellflower
o Ray - Universal - Taylor Hackford, Stuart Benjamin & Howard Baldwin
o Sideways - Fox Searchlight, 20th Century Fox - Michael London

* 2005 (78th) Crash - Lions Gate, DEJ Productions, Bob Yari Productions & ApolloProScreen GmbH & Co. Filmproduktion KG (Canada & Germany) - Paul Haggis & Cathy Schulman
o Brokeback Mountain - Focus Features - Diana Ossana & James Schamus
o Capote - United Artists & Sony Pictures Classics - Caroline Baron, William Vince, & Michael Ohoven
o Good Night, and Good Luck. - Warner Bros. - Grant Heslov
o Munich - DreamWorks & Universal - Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy & Barry Mendel

* 2006 (79th) The Departed - Warner Bros. - Graham King
o Babel - Paramount Vantage - Alejandro González Iñárritu, Steve Golin, & Jon Kilik
o Letters from Iwo Jima - Warner Bros. - Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, & Robert Lorenz
o Little Miss Sunshine - Fox Searchlight - David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, & Marc Turtletaub
o The Queen - Pathé Pictures, Granada Productions - Andy Harries, Christine Langan, & Tracey Seaward