1995 BRAVEHEART - Mel Gibson
1994 FORREST GUMP - Robert Zemeckis
1993 SCHINDLER'S LIST - Steven Spielberg
1992 UNFORGIVEN - Clint Eastwood
1991 THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS - Jonathan Demme
1990 DANCES WITH WOLVES - Kevin Costner
1989 DRIVING MISS DAISY - Bruce Beresford
1988 RAIN MAN - Barry Levionson
1987 THE LAST EMPEROR - Bernardo Bertolucci
1986 PLATOON - Oliver Stone
1985 OUT OF AFRICA - Sydney Pollack
1984 AMADEUS - Milos Forman
1983 TERMS OF ENDEARMENT - James L. Brooks
1982 GANDHI - Richard Attenborough
1981 CHARIOTS OF FIRE - Hugh Hudson
1980 ORDINARY PEOPLE - Robert Redford
1979 KRAMER VS. KRAMER - Robert Benton II
1978 THE DEER HUNTER - Michael Cimino
1977 ANNIE HALL - Woodie Allen
1976 ROCKY - John G. Avidsen
1975 ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST - Milos Forman
1974 THE GODFATHER PART II - Francis Ford Coppola
1973 THE STING - George Roy Hill
1972 THE GODFATHER - Francis Ford Coppola
1971 THE FRENCH CONNECTION - William Friedkin
1970 PATTON - Franklin J. Schaffner
1969 MIDNIGHT COWBOY - John Schlesinger
1968 OLIVER! - Carol Reed
1967 IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT - Norman Jewison
1966 A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS - Fred Zinnemann
1965 THE SOUND OF MUSIC - Robert Wise
1964 MY FAIR LADY - George Cukor
1963 TOM JONES - Tony Richardson
1962 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA - David Lean
1961 WEST SIDE STORY - Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
1960 THE APARTMENT - Billy Wilder
1959 BEN-HUR - William Wyler
1958 GIGI - Vincente Minnelli
1957 THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI - David Lean
1956 AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS - Michael Anderson, Kevin McClory
1955 MARTY - Delbert Mann
1954 ON THE WATERFRONT - Elia Kazan
1953 FROM HERE TO ETERNITY - Fred Zimmerman
1952 THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH - Cecil B. DeMille
1951 AN AMERICAN IN PARIS - Vincente Minnelli
1950 ALL ABOUT EVE - Joseph Mankiewicz
1949 ALL THE KING'S MEN - Robert Rossen
1948 HAMLET (1948) - Laurence Olivier
1947 GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT - Elia Kazan
1946 THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES - William Wyler
1945 THE LOST WEEKEND - Billy Wilder
1944 GOING MY WAY - Leo McCarey
1943 CASABLANCA - Warner Bros.
1942 MRS. MINIVER - Michael Curtiz
1941 HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY - John Ford
1940 REBECCA - Alfred Hitchcock
1939 GONE WITH THE WIND - Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood
1938 YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU - Frank Capra
1937 THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA - William Dieterie
1936 THE GREAT ZIEGFELD - Robert Z. Leonard
1935 MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935) - Lewis Milestone
1934 IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT - Frank Capra
1933 CAVALCADE - Frank Lloyd
1932 GRAND HOTEL - Edmund Goulding
1931 CIMARRON (1930/31) - Wesley Ruggles
1930 ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT - Lewis Milestone
1929 THE BROADWAY MELODY - Harry Beaumont
1928 WINGS - William Wellman