1927/28 – Wings (William A. Wellman)
1928/29 – The Broadway Melody (Harry Beaumont)
1929/30 – All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
1930/31 – Cimarron (Wesley Ruggles)
1931/32 – Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding)
1932/33 – Cavalcade (Frank Lloyd)
1934 – It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
1935 – Mutiny on the Bounty (Frank Lloyd)
1936 – The Great Ziegfeld (Robert Z. Leonard)
1937 – The Life of Emile Zola (William Dieterle)
1938 – You Can’t Take It with You (Frank Capra)
1939 – Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming)
1940 – Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
1941 – How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)
1942 – Mrs. Miniver (William Wyler)
1943 – Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
1944 – Going My Way (Leo McCarey)
1945 – The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder)
1946 – The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
1947 – Gentleman’s Agreement (Elia Kazan)
1948 – Hamlet (Laurence Olivier)
1949 – All the King’s Men (Robert Rossen)
1950 – All about Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
1951 – An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli)
1952 – The Greatest Show on Earth (Cecil B. DeMille)
1953 – From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinnemann)
1954 – On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
1955 – Marty (Delbert Mann)
1956 – Around the World in 80 Days (Michael Anderson)
1957 – The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean)
1958 – Gigi (Vincente Minnelli)
1959 – Ben-Hur (William Wyler)
1960 – The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
1961 – West Side Story (Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise)
1962 – Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
1963 – Tom Jones (Tony Richardson)
1964 – My Fair Lady (George Cukor)
1965 – The Sound of Music (Robert Wise)
1966 – A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann)
1967 – In the Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison)
1968 – Oliver! (Carol Reed)
1969 – Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
1970 – Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner)
1971 – The French Connection (William Friedkin)
1972 – The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
1973 – The Sting (George Roy Hill)
1974 – The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
1975 – One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman)
1976 – Rocky (John G. Avildsen)
1977 – Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
1978 – The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
1979 – Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton)
1980 – Ordinary People (Robert Redford)
1981 – Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)
1982 – Gandhi (Richard Attenborough)
1983 – Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks)
1984 – Amadeus (Milos Forman)
1985 – Out of Africa (Sydney Pollack)
1986 – Platoon (Oliver Stone)
1987 – The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci)
1988 – Rain Man (Barry Levinson)
1989 – Driving Miss Daisy (Bruce Beresford)
1990 – Dances with Wolves (Kevin Costner)
1991 – The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
1992 – Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
1993 – Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg)
1994 – Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
1995 – Braveheart (Mel Gibson)
1996 – The English Patient (Anthony Minghella)
1997 – Titanic (James Cameron)
1998 – Shakespeare in Love (John Madden)
1999 – American Beauty (Sam Mendes)
2000 – Gladiator (Ridley Scott)
2001 – A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard)
2002 – Chicago (Rob Marshall)
2003 – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
2004 – Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
2005 – Crash (Paul Haggis)
2006 – The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
2007 – No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
2008 – Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
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