Academy Award for Best Picture
This page should also list nominees for each year, instead of just listing the winners...
Credited for each film are its producers, prior to 1950 the production company. The films are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 went to the best film produced in 1999.
- 2001 not yet awarded. Nominees are as follows:
- A Beautiful Mind
- Gosford Park
- In the Bedroom
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Moulin Rouge
- 2000 Gladiator - Ridley Scott
- also nominated:
- Chocolat
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Erin Brockovich
- Traffic
- 1999 American Beauty - Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks
- 1998 Shakespeare in Love - David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick, Marc Norman
- 1997 Titanic - James Cameron, Jon Landau
- 1996 The English Patient - Saul Zaentz
- 1995 Braveheart - Mel Gibson, Alan Ladd, Jr., Bruce Davey
- 1994 Forrest Gump - Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch, Steve Starkey
- 1993 Schindler's List - Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, Branko Lustig
- 1992 Unforgiven - Clint Eastwood
- 1991 The Silence of the Lambs - Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman
- 1990 Dances With Wolves - Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner
- 1989 Driving Miss Daisy - Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck
- 1988 Rain Man - Mark Johnson
- 1987 The Last Emperor - Jeremy Thomas
- 1986 Platoon - Arnold Kopelson
- 1985 Out of Africa - Sydney Pollack
- 1984 Amadeus - Saul Zaentz
- 1983 Terms of Endearment - James L. Brooks
- 1982 Gandhi - Richard Attenborough
- 1981 Chariots of Fire - David Puttnam
- 1980 Ordinary People - Ronald L. Schwary
- 1979 Kramer Vs. Kramer - Stanley R. Jaffe
- 1978 The Deer Hunter - Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, John Peverall
- 1977 Annie Hall - Charles H. Joffe
- 1976 Rocky - Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff
- 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Saul Zaentz, Michael Douglas
- 1974 The Godfather Part II - Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson, Fred Roos
- 1973 The Sting - Tony Bill, Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips
- 1972 The Godfather - Albert S. Ruddy
- 1971 The French Connection - Philip D'Antoni
- 1970 Patton - Frank McCarthy
- 1969 Midnight Cowboy - Jerome Hellman
- 1968 Oliver! - John Woolf
- 1967 In the Heat of the Night - Walter Mirisch
- 1966 A Man for All Seasons - Fred Zinnemann
- 1965 The Sound of Music - Robert Wise
- 1964 My Fair Lady - Jack L. Warner
- Zorba the Greek - Michael Cacoyannis
- Becket - Hal B. Wallis
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Stanley Kubrick
- Mary Poppins - Walt Disney, Bill Walsh
- 1963 Tom Jones - Tony Richardson
- America, America - Elia Kazan
- Cleopatra - Walter Wanger
- [[How the West Was Won – Bernard Smith
- Lilies of the Field – Ralph Nelson
- 1962 Lawrence of Arabia - Sam Spiegel
- The Longest Day - Darryl F. Zanuck
- The Music Man - Morton DaCosta
- Mutiny on the Bounty - Aaron Rosenberg
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Alan J. Pakula
1961 West Side Story - Mirisch-B&P Enterprises, United Artists - Robert Wise
- Fanny - Mannsfield, Warner Bros. - Joshue Logan
- The Guns of Navaronne - Foreman, Columbia - Carl Foreman
- The Hustler - Rossen, 20th Century-Fox - Robert Rossen
- Judgment at Nuremberg - Kramer, United Artists - Stanley Kramer
- 1960 The Apartment - Mirisch, United Artists - Billy Wilder
- The Alamo - Batjac, United Artists - John Wayne
- Elmer Gantry - Lancaster-Brooks, United Artists - Bernard Smith
- Sons and Lovers - Wald, 20th Century-Fox - Jerry Wald
- The Sundowners - Warner Bros. - Fred Zinnemann
- 1959 Ben-Hur - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sam Zimbalist
- Anatomy of a Murder - Preminger, Columbia - Otto Preminger
- The Diary of Anne Frank - 20th Century-Fox - George Stevens
- The Nun's Story - Warner Bros. - Henry Blanke
- Room at the Top - Romulus, Continental (British) - John Woolf and James Woolf
- 1958 Gigi - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Arthur Freed
- Auntie Mame - Warner Bros. - Jack L. Warner
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Lawrence Weingarten
- The Defiant Ones - Kramer, United Artists - Stanley Kramer
- Separate Tables - Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, United Artists - Harold Hecht
- 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai - Horizon, Columbia - Sam Spiegel
- Peyton Place - 20th Century-Fox - Jerry Wald
- Sayonara - Goetz, Warner Bros. - William Goetz
- 12 Angry Men - Orion-Nova, United Artists - Henry Fonda, and Reginald Rose
- Witness for the Prosecution - Small-Hornblow, United Artists - Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
- 1956 Around the World in Eighty Days - Todd, United Artists - Michael Todd
- Friendly Persuasion - Allied Artists - William Wyler
- Giant - Warner Bros. - George Stevens and Henry Ginsberg
- The King and I - 20th Century-Fox - Charles Brackett
- The Ten Commandments - DeMille, Paramount - Cecil B. DeMille
- 1955 Marty - Hecht-Lancaster, United Artists - Harold Hecht
- Love is a Many-Splendored Thing - 20th Century-Fox - Buddy Adler
- Mister Roberts - Orange, Warner Bros. - Leland Hayward
- Picnic - Columbia - Fred Kohlmar
- The Rose Tatoo - Wallis, Paramount - Hal Wallis
- 1954 On the Waterfront - Horizon-American, Columbia - Sam Spiegel
- The Caine Mutiny - Kramer, Columbia - Stanley Kramer
- The Country Girl - Perlberg-Seaton, Paramount - William Perlberg
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Jack Cummings
- Three Coins in the Fountain - 20th Century-Fox - Sol C. Siegel
- 1953 From Here to Eternity - Columbia - Buddy Adler
- Julius Caesar) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - John Houseman
- The Robe - 20th Century-Fox - Frank Ross
- Roman Holiday - Paramount - William Wyler
- Shane - Paramount - George Stevens
- 1952 The Greatest Show on Earth - DeMille, Paramount - Cecil B. DeMille
- High Noon - United Artists - Stanley Kramer
- Ivanhoe - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Pandro S. Berman
- Moulin Rouge - United Artists - John Huston
- The Quiet Man - Argosy, Republic - John Ford and Merian C. Cooper
- 1951 An American in Paris - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Arthur Freed
- Decision Before Dawn - 20th Century-Fox - Anatole Litvak and Frank McCarthy
- A Place in the Sun - Paramount - George Stevens
- Quo Vadis - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sam Zimbalist
- A Streetcar Named Desire - Feldman, Warner Bros. - Charles K. Feldman
- 1950 All About Eve - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck
- Born Yesterday - Columbia - S. Sylvan Simon
- Father of the Bride - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Pandro S. Berman
- King Solomon's Mines - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sam Zimbalist
- Sunset Boulevard - Paramount - Charles Brackett
- 1949 All the King's Men - Rossen, Columbia - Robert Rossen
- Battleground - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Dore Schary
- The Heiress - Paramount - William Wyler
- A Letter to Three Wives - 20th Century-Fox - Sol C. Siegel
- 12 O'Clock High - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck
- 1948 Hamlet - J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films, U-I (British) - Laurence Olivier
- Johnny Belinda - Warner Bros. - Jerry Wald
- The Red Shoes - Rank-Archers, Eagle-Lion (British) - Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
- The Snake Pit - 20th Century-Fox - Anatole Litvak and Robert Bassler
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - Warner Bros. - Henry Blanke
- 1947 Gentleman's Agreement - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck
- The Bishop's Wife - Goldwyn, RKO Radio - Samuel Goldwyn
- Crossfire - RKO Radio - Adrian Scott
- Great Expectations - Rank-Cineguild, U-I (British) - Ronald Neame
- Miracle on 34th Street - 20th Century-Fox - William Perlberg
- 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives - Goldwyn, RKO Radio - Samuel Goldwyn
- Henry V - Rank-Two Cities, United Artists (British) - Laurence Olivier
- It's a Wonderful Life - Liberty, RKO Radio - Frank Capra
- The Razor's Edge - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck
- The Yearling - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sidney Franklin
- 1945 The Lost Weekend - Paramount - Charles Bracken
- Anchors Aweigh - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Joe Pasternak
- The Bells of St. Mary's - Rainbow, RKO Radio - Leo McCarey
- Mildred Pierce - Warner Bros. - Jerry Wald
- Spellbound - Selznick, United Artists - David O. Selznick
- 1944 Going My Way - Paramount - Leo McCarey
- Double Indemnity - Paramount - Joseph Sistrom
- Gaslight - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
- Since You Went Away - Selznick, United Artists - David O. Selznick
- Wilson - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck
- 1943 Casablanca - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis
- For Whom the Bell Tolls - Paramount - Sam Wood
- Heaven Can Wait - 20th Century-Fox - Ernst Lubitsch
- The Human Comedy - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Clarence Brown
- In Which We Serve - Two Cities, United Artists (British) - Noel Coward
- Madame Curie - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sidney Franklin
- The More the Merrier - Columbia - George Stevens
- The Ox-Bow Incident - 20th Century-Fox - Lamar Trotti
- The Song of Bernadette - 20th Century-Fox - William Perlberg
- Watch on the Rhine - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis
- 1942 Mrs. Miniver - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sidney Franklin
- The Invaders - Ortus, Columbia (British) - Michael Powell
- Kings Row - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis
- The Magnificent Ambersons - Mercury, RKO Radio - Orson Welles
- The Pied Piper - 20th Century-Fox - Nunnally Johnson
- The Pride of the Yankees - Goldwyn, RKO Radio - Samuel Goldwyn
- Random Harvest - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sidney Franklin
- The Talk of the Town - Columbia - George Stevens
- Wake Island - Paramount - Joseph Sistrom
- Yankee Doodle Dandy - Warner Bros. - Jack Warner, Hal B. Wallis, William Cagney
- 1941 How Green Was My Valley - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck
- Blossoms in the Dust - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Asher
- Citizen Kane - RKO Radio - Orson Welles
- Her Comes Mr. Jordan - Columbia - Everett Riskin
- Hold Back the Dawn - Paramount - Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
- The Little Foxes - Goldwyn, RKO Radio - Samuel Goldwyn
- The Maltese Falcon - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis
- One Foot in Heaven - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis
- Sergeant York - Warner Bros. - Jesse L. Lasky and Hal B. Wallis
- Suspicion - RKO Radio - Alfred Hitchcock
- 1940 Rebecca - Selznick, United Artists - David O. Selznick
- All This and Heaven Too - Warner Bros. - Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis, with David Lewis
- Foreign Correspondent - Wanger, United Artists - Walter Wanger
- The Grapes of Wrath - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck with Nunnally Johnson
- The Great Dictator - Chaplin, United Artists - Charles Chaplin
- Kitty Foyle - RKO Radio - [[David Hempstead]
- The Letter - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis
- The Long Voyage Home - Argosy Wanger, United Artists - John Ford
- Our Town - Lesser, United Artists - Sol Lesser
- The Philadelphia Story - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- 1939 Gone With the Wind - Selznick, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - David O. Selznick
- Dark Victory - Warner Bros. - David Lewis
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (British)- Victor Saville
- Love Affair - RKO Radio - Leo McCarey
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Columbia - Frank Capra
- Ninotchka - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sidney Franklin
- Of Mice and Men - Roach, United Artists - Lewis Milestone
- Stagecoach - United Artists - Walter Wanger
- The Wizard of Oz - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Mervyn LeRoy
- Wuthering Heights - Goldwyn, United Artists - Samuel Goldwyn
- 1938 You Can't Take it With You - Columbia - Frank Capra
- The Adventures of Robin Hood - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis with Henry Blanke
- Alexander's Ragtime Band - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck with Harry Joe Brown
- Boys Town - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - John W. Considine, Jr.
- The Citadel - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (British) - Victor Saville
- Four Daughters - Warner Bros.-First National - Hal B. Wallis with Henry Blanke
- La Grande illusion - R. A. O., World Pictures (French) - Frank Rollmer, and Albert Pinkovitch
- Jezebel - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis with Henry Blanke
- Pygmalion - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (British) - Gabriel Pascal
- Test Pilot - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Louis Lighton
- 1937 The Life of Emile Zola - Warner Bros. - Henry Blanke
- The Awful Truth - Columbia - Leo McCarey with Everett Riskin
- Captains Courageous - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Louis Lighton
- Dead End - Goldwyn, United Artists - Samuel Goldwyn with Merritt Hulbert
- The Good Earth - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg with Albert Lewin
- In Old Chicago - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck with Kenneth MacGowan
- Lost Horizon - Columbia - Frank Capra
- One Hundred Men and a Girl - Universal - Charles R. Rogers with Joe Pasternak
- Stage Door - RKO Radio - Pendro S. Berman
- A Star Is Born - Selznick International, United Artists - David O. Selznick
- 1936 The Great Ziegfeld - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Hunt Stromberg
- Anthony Adverse - Warner Bros. - Henry Blanke
- Dodsworth - Goldwyn, United Artists - Samuel Goldwyn with Merritt Hulbert
- Libeled Lady - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Lawrence Weingarten
- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town - Columbia - Frank Capra
- Romeo and Juliet - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg
- San Francisco - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - John Emerson and Bernard H. Hyman
- The Story of Louis Pasteur - Warner Bros. - Henry Blanke
- A Tale of Two Cities - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - David O. Selznick
- Three Smart Girls - Universal - Joe Pasternak with Charles R. Rogers
- 1935 Mutiny on the Bounty - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg with Albert Lewin
- Alice Adams - RKO Radio - Pendro S. Berman
- Broadway Melody of 1936 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - John W. Considine Jr.
- Captain Blood - Warner Bros.-Cosmopolitan - Hal Wallis with Harry Joe Brown and Gordon Hollingshead
- David Copperfield - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - David O. Selznick
- The Informer - RKO Radio - Cliff Reid
- The Lives of a Bengal Lancer - Paramount - Louis D. Lighton
- A Midsummer Night's Dream - Warner Bros. - Henry Blanke
- Les Miserables - 20th Century, United Artists - Darryl F. Zanuck
- Naughty Marietta - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Hunt Stromberg
- Ruggles of Red Gap - Paramount - Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
- Top Hat - RKO Radio - Pendro S. Berman
- 1934 It Happened One Night - Columbia - Harry Cohn
- The Barretts of Wimpole Street - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg
- Cleopatra - Paramount - Cecil B. DeMille
- Flirtation Walk - First National - Jack L. Warner, Hal Wallis with Robert Lord
- The Gay Divorcee - RKO Radio - Pendro S. Berman
- Here Comes the Navy - Warner Bros. - Lou Edelman
- The House of Rothschild - 20th Century, United Artists - Darryl F. Zanuck with William Goetz and Raymond Griffith
- Imitiation of Life - Universal - John M. Stahl
- One Night of Love - Columbia - Harry Cohn with Everett Riskin
- The Thin Man - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Hunt Stromberg
- Viva Villa! - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - David O. Selznick
- The White Parade -Fox - Jesse L. Lasky
- 1932-33 Cavalcade - Fox - Winfield Sheehan studio head
- 42nd Street - Warner Bros. - Darryl F. Zanuck
- A Farewell to Arms - Paramount - Adolph Zukor
- I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis
- Lady for a Day - Columbia - Frank Capra
- Little Women - RKO Radio - Merian C. Cooper with Kenneth MacGowan
- The Private Life of Henry VIII - London Films, United Artists (British) - Alexander Korda
- She Done Him Wrong - Paramount - William LeBaron
- Smilin' Through - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg
- State Fair - Fox - Winfield Sheehan studio head
- 1931-32 Grand Hotel - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg
- Arrowsmith - Goldwyn, United Artists - Samuel Goldwyn
- Bad Girl - Fox - Winfield Sheehan studio head
- The Champ - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - King Vidor
- Five Star Final - First National - Hal B. Wallis
- One Hour with You - Paramount - Ernst Lubitsch
- Shanghai Express - Paramount - Adolph Zukor
- The Smiling Lieutenant - Paramount - Ernst Lubitsch
- 1930-31 Cimarron - RKO Radio - William LeBaron
- East Lynne - Fox - Winfield Sheehan
- The Front Page - Caddo, United Artists - Howard Hughes
- Skippy - Paramount - Adolph Zukor
- Trader Horn - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving G. Thalberg
- 1929-30 All Quiet on the Western Front - Universal
- The Big House - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg
- Disraeli
- The Divorcee
- The Love Parade - Paramount - Ernst Lubitsch
- 1928-29 The Broadway Melody - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Alibi
- The Hollywood Review of 1929
- In Old Arizona
- The Patriot - Paramount - Ernst Lubitsch
- 1927-28 Wings - Paramount Famous Lasky (Best Picture, Production)
- The Last Command
- The Racket
- Seventh Heaven
- The Way of All Flesh - Paramount - Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky
- 1927-28 Sunrise - Twentieth Century Fox (Best Picture, Unique and Artistic Production)
- See also : Academy Awards