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)

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