List of filmmakers that received the BAFTA Award for Best Film by the British Academy Film Awards.

BAFTA Award for Best Film

1940s
The Best Years of Our Lives (1947) Hamlet (1948) Bicycle Thieves (1949)

1950s
All About Eve (1950) La Ronde (1951) The Sound Barrier (1952) Forbidden Games (1953) The Wages of Fear (1954) Richard III (1955) Gervaise (1956) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Room at the Top (1958) Ben-Hur (1959)

1960s

The Apartment – Billy Wilder (1960)
Ballad of a Soldier – Grigori Chukhrai / The Hustler – Robert Rossen (1961)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Tom Jones (1963)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
My Fair Lady (1965)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Mike Nichols (1966)
A Man for All Seasons – Fred Zinnemann (1967)
The Graduate – Mike Nichols (1968)
Midnight Cowboy – John Schlesinger (1969)

1970s
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1970) Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) Cabaret (1972) Day for Night (1973) Lacombe, Lucien (1974) Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1975) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1976) Annie Hall – Charles H. Joffe and Jack Rollins (1977) Julia – Richard Roth (1978) Manhattan (1979)

1980s

The Elephant Man – David Lynch (1980)
Chariots of Fire – David Puttnam (1981)
Gandhi – Richard Attenborough (1982)
Educating Rita – Lewis Gilbert (1983)
The Killing Fields – David Puttnam (1984)
The Purple Rose of Cairo – Woody Allen and Robert Greenhut (1985)
A Room with a View – James Ivory and Ismail Merchant (1986)
Jean de Florette – Claude Berri (1987)
The Last Emperor – Bernardo Bertolucci and Jeremy Thomas (1988)
Dead Poets Society – Peter Weir, Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, and Tony Thomas (1989)

1990s

Goodfellas – Martin Scorsese, Robert Chartoff, and Irwin Winkler (1990)
The Commitments – Alan Parker, Lynda Myles, and Roger Randall-Cutler (1991)
Howards End – James Ivory and Ismail Merchant (1992)
Schindler's List – Steven Spielberg, Branko Lustig, and Gerald R. Molen (1993)
Four Weddings and a Funeral – Mike Newell and Duncan Kenworthy (1994)
Sense and Sensibility – Ang Lee and Lindsay Doran (1995)
The English Patient – Anthony Minghella and Saul Zaentz (1996)
The Full Monty – Peter Cattaneo and Uberto Pasolini (1997)
Shakespeare in Love – Donna Gigliotti, Marc Norman, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, and Edward Zwick (1998)
American Beauty – Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks (1999)

2000s

Gladiator – David Franzoni, Branko Lustig, and Douglas Wick (2000)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, Tim Sanders, and Fran Walsh (2001)
The Pianist – Robert Benmussa, Roman Polanski, and Alain Sarde (2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, and Fran Walsh (2003)
The Aviator – Sandy Climan, Charles Evans Jr., Graham King, and Michael Mann (2004)
Brokeback Mountain – Diana Ossana and James Schamus (2005)
The Queen – Andy Harries, Christine Langan, and Tracey Seaward (2006)
Atonement – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Paul Webster (2007)
Slumdog Millionaire – Christian Colson (2008)
The Hurt Locker – Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, and Greg Shapiro (2009)

2010s

The King's Speech – Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Gareth Unwin (2010)
The Artist – Thomas Langmann (2011)
Argo – Ben Affleck, George Clooney, and Grant Heslov (2012)
12 Years a Slave – Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, and Brad Pitt (2013)
Boyhood – Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland (2014)
The Revenant – Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Arnon Milchan, Mary Parent, and Keith Redmon (2015)
La La Land – Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, and Marc Platt (2016)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, and Martin McDonagh (2017)
Roma – Nicolás Celis, Alfonso Cuarón, and Gabriela Rodríguez (2018)
1917 – Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Sam Mendes, and Jayne-Ann Tenggren (2019)

2020s
Nomadland – Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, and Chloé Zhao (2020) The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion, Iain Canning, Roger Frappier, Tanya Seghatchian, and Emile Sherman (2021) All Quiet on the Western Front – Malte Grunert (2022)

BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film

1940s
Odd Man Out – Carol Reed (1947) The Fallen Idol – Carol Reed (1948) The Third Man – Carol Reed (1949)

1950s

The Blue Lamp – Basil Dearden and Michael Balcon (1950)
The Lavender Hill Mob – Charles Crichton and Michael Balcon (1951)
The Sound Barrier – David Lean (1952)
Genevieve – Henry Cornelius (1953)
Hobson's Choice – David Lean (1954)
Richard III – Laurence Olivier (1955)
Reach for the Sky – Lewis Gilbert and Daniel M. Angel (1956)
The Bridge on the River Kwai – David Lean and Sam Spiegel (1957)
Room at the Top – Jack Clayton, John and James Woolf (1958)
Sapphire – Basil Dearden and Michael Relph (1959)

1960s

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Karel Reisz and Tony Richardson (1960)
A Taste of Honey – Tony Richardson (1961)
Lawrence of Arabia – David Lean and Sam Spiegel (1962)
Tom Jones – Tony Richardson (1963)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb – Stanley Kubrick (1964)
The Ipcress File – Sidney J. Furie and Harry Saltzman (1965)
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold – Martin Ritt (1966)
A Man for All Seasons – Fred Zinnemann (1967)

1990s

The Crying Game – Neil Jordan and Stephen Woolley (1992)
Shadowlands – Richard Attenborough and Brian Eastman (1993)
Shallow Grave – Danny Boyle and Andrew MacDonald (1994)
The Madness of King George – Nicholas Hytner, Stephen Evans, and David Parfitt (1995)
Secrets & Lies – Mike Leigh and Simon Channing Williams (1996)
Nil by Mouth – Gary Oldman, Luc Besson, and Douglas Urbanski (1997)
Elizabeth – Shekhar Kapur, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Alison Owen (1998)
East Is East – Damien O'Donnell and Leslee Udwin (1999)

2000s

Billy Elliot – Stephen Daldry, Greg Brenman, and Jon Finn (2000)
Gosford Park – Robert Altman, Bob Balaban, and David Levy (2001)
The Warrior – Asif Kapadia and Bertrand Faivre (2002)
Touching the Void – Kevin Macdonald and John Smithson (2003)
My Summer of Love – Paweł Pawlikowski, Chris Collins, and Tanya Seghatchian (2004)
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit – Steve Box, Nick Park, Bob Baker, Claire Jennings, and David Sproxton (2005)
The Last King of Scotland – Kevin Macdonald, Lisa Bryer, Andrea Calderwood, Peter Morgan, and Charles Steel (2006)
This Is England – Shane Meadows and Mark Herbert (2007)
Man on Wire – James Marsh and Simon Chinn (2008)
Fish Tank – Andrea Arnold, Kees Kasander, and Nick Laws (2009)

2010s

The King's Speech – Tom Hooper, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Gareth Unwin (2010)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Tomas Alfredson, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Bridget O'Connor, Robyn Slovo, and Peter Straughan (2011)
Skyfall – Sam Mendes, Barbara Broccoli, John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and Michael G. Wilson (2012)
Gravity – Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón, and David Heyman (2013)
The Theory of Everything – James Marsh, Tim Bevan, Lisa Bruce, Eric Fellner, and Anthony McCarten (2014)
Brooklyn – John Crowley, Finola Dwyer, Nick Hornby, and Amanda Posey (2015)
I, Daniel Blake – Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, and Rebecca O'Brien (2016)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, and Peter Czernin (2017)
The Favourite – Yorgos Lanthimos, Deborah Davis, Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, and Tony McNamara (2018)
1917 – Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Jayne-Ann Tenggren, and Krysty Wilson-Cairns (2019)

2020s
Promising Young Woman – Emerald Fennell, Ben Browning, Ashley Fox, and Josey McNamara (2020) Belfast – Kenneth Branagh, Laura Berwick, Becca Kovacik, and Tamar Thomas (2021) The Banshees of Inisherin – Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, and Peter Czernin (2022)