1948 – The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
1949 – Hamlet (Laurence Olivier)
1950 – The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica)
1951 – All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
1952 – Roundabout (Max Ophüls)
1953 – The Sound Barrier (David Lean)
1954 – The Secret Game (René Clément)
1955 – The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
1956 – Richard III (Laurence Olivier)
1957 – Gervaise (René Clément)
1958 – The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean)
1959 – Room at the Top (Jack Clayton)
1960 – Ben-Hur (William Wyler)
1961 – The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
1962 – Ballad of a Soldier (Grigori Chukhrai), The Hustler (Robert Rossen)
1963 – Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
1964 – Tom Jones (Tony Richardson)
1965 – Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
1966 – My Fair Lady (George Cukor)
1967 – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols)
1968 – A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann)
1969 – The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
1970 – Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
1971 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)
1972 – Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Schlesinger)
1973 – Cabaret (Bob Fosse)
1974 – Day for Night (François Truffaut)
1975 – Lacombe, Lucien (Louis Malle)
1976 – Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese)
1977 – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman)
1978 – Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
1979 – Julia (Fred Zinnemann)
1980 – Manhattan (Woody Allen)
1981 – The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
1982 – Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)
1983 – Gandhi (Richard Attenborough)
1984 – Educating Rita (Lewis Gilbert)
1985 – The Killing Fields (Roland Joffé)
1986 – The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
1987 – A Room with a View (James Ivory)
1988 – Jean de Florette (Claude Berri)
1989 – The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci)
1990 – Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir)
1991 – Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
1992 – The Commitments (Alan Parker)
1993 – Howards End (James Ivory)
1994 – Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg)
1995 – Four Weddings and a Funeral (Mike Newell)
1996 – Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee)
1997 – The English Patient (Anthony Minghella)
1998 – The Full Monty (Peter Cattaneo)
1999 – Shakespeare in Love (John Madden)
2000 – American Beauty (Sam Mendes)
2001 – Gladiator (Ridley Scott)
2002 – The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings (Peter Jackson)
2003 – The Pianist (Roman Polanski)
2004 – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
2005 – The Aviator (Martin Scorsese)
2006 – Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
2007 – The Queen (Stephen Fry)
2008 – Atonement (Joe Wright)
2009 – Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
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