| Year |
Best Picture
Academy Award Winners |
Director
(of the winning Film) |
Studio or
Production Company |
|
| 1927-28 |
Wings(Best Production)
Sunrise (Unique and Artistic Picture) |
William A. Wellman |
Paramount Famous Lasky |
|
1928-29
|
The Broadway Melody(Best Production) |
Harry Beaumont |
MGM |
|
1929-30
|
All Quiet on the Western Front |
Lewis Milestone |
Universal |
|
1930-31
|
Cimarron |
Wesley Ruggles |
RKO Radio |
|
1931-32
|
Grand Hotel |
Edmund Goulding |
MGM |
|
1932-33
|
Cavalcade |
Frank Lloyd |
Fox |
|
1934
|
It Happened One Night |
Frank Capra |
Columbia |
|
1935
|
Mutiny on the Bounty |
Frank Lloyd |
MGM |
|
1936
|
The Great Ziegfeld |
Robert Z.Leonard |
MGM |
|
1937
|
The Life of Emile Zola |
William Dieterle |
Warner Bros |
|
1938
|
You Can't Take It With You |
Frank Capra |
Columbia |
|
1939
|
Gone With The Wind |
Victor Fleming |
MGM (Selznick) |
|
1940
|
Rebecca |
Alfred Hitchcock |
United Artists (Selznick) |
|
1941
|
How Green Was My Valley |
John Ford |
20th Century-Fox |
|
1942
|
Mrs. Miniver |
William Wyler |
MGM |
|
1943
|
Casablanca |
Michael Curtiz |
Warner Bros |
|
1944
|
Going My Way |
Leo McCarey |
Paramount |
|
1945
|
The Lost Weekend |
Billy Wilder |
Paramount |
|
1946
|
The Best Years of Our Lives |
William Wyler |
RKO Radio (Goldwyn) |
|
1947
|
Gentleman's Agreement |
Elia Kazan |
20th Century-Fox |
|
1948
|
Hamlet |
Laurence Olivier |
Universal-International (British) |
|
1949
|
All the King's Men |
Robert Rossen |
Columbia |
|
1950
|
All About Eve |
Joseph L.Mankiewicz |
20th Century-Fox |
|
1951
|
An American In Paris |
Vincente Minnelli |
MGM |
|
1952
|
The Greatest Show on Earth |
Cecil B.DeMille |
Paramount |
|
1953
|
From Here to Eternity |
Fred Zinnemann |
Columbia |
|
1954
|
On The Waterfront |
Elia Kazan |
Columbia |
|
1955
|
Marty |
Delbert Mann |
United Artists |
|
1956
|
Around the World in 80 Days |
Michael Anderson |
United Artists |
|
1957
|
The Bridge On The River Kwai |
David Lean |
Columbia |
|
1958
|
Gigi |
Vincente Minnelli |
MGM |
|
1959
|
Ben-Hur |
William Wyler |
MGM |
|
1960
|
The Apartment |
Billy Wilder |
United Artists |
|
1961
|
West Side Story |
Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins |
United Artists |
|
1962
|
Lawrence of Arabia |
David Lean |
Columbia |
|
1963
|
Tom Jones |
Tony Richardson |
United Artists |
|
1964
|
My Fair Lady |
George Cukor |
Warner Bros |
|
1965
|
The Sound of Music |
Robert Wise |
20th Century Fox |
|
1966
|
A Man for All Seasons |
Fred Zinnemann |
Columbia |
|
1967
|
In the Heat of the Night |
Norman Jewison |
United Artists |
|
1968
|
Oliver! |
Carol Reed |
Columbia |
|
1969
|
Midnight Cowboy |
John Schlesinger |
United Artists |
|
1970
|
Patton |
Franklin J.Schaffner |
20th Century Fox |
|
1971
|
The French Connection |
William Friedkin |
20th Century Fox |
|
1972
|
The Godfather |
Francis Ford Coppola |
Paramount |
|
1973
|
The Sting |
George Roy Hill |
Universal |
|
1974
|
The Godfather Part II |
Francis Ford Coppola |
Paramount |
|
1975
|
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest |
Milos Forman |
United Artists |
|
1976
|
Rocky |
John G.Avildsen |
United Artists |
|
1977
|
Annie Hall |
Woody Allen |
United Artists |
|
1978
|
The Deer Hunter |
Michael Cimino |
Universal |
|
1979
|
Kramer vs. Kramer |
Robert Benton |
Columbia |
|
1980
|
Ordinary People |
Robert Redford |
Paramount |
|
1981
|
Chariots of Fire |
Hugh Hudson |
The Ladd Co./Warner Bros. |
|
1982
|
Gandhi |
Richard Attenborough |
Columbia |
|
1983
|
Terms of Endearment |
James L.Brooks |
Paramount |
|
1984
|
Amadeus |
Milos Forman |
Orion |
|
1985
|
Out of Africa |
Sydney Pollack |
Universal |
|
1986
|
Platoon |
Oliver Stone |
Orion |
|
1987
|
The Last Emperor |
Bernardo Bertolucci |
Columbia |
|
1988
|
Rain Man |
Barry Levinson |
United Artists |
|
1989
|
Driving Miss Daisy |
Bruce Beresford |
Warner Bros |
|
1990
|
Dances with Wolves |
Kevin Costner |
Orion |
|
1991
|
The Silence of the Lambs |
Jonathan Demme |
Orion |
|
1992
|
Unforgiven |
Clint Eastwood |
Warner Bros. |
|
1993
|
Schindler's List |
Steven Spielberg |
Universal/Amblin |
|
1994
|
Forrest Gump |
Robert Zemeckis |
Paramount |
|
1995
|
Braveheart |
Mel Gibson |
Paramount |
|
1996
|
The English Patient |
Anthony Minghella |
Miramax |
|
1997
|
Titanic |
James Cameron |
Paramount/20th Century Fox |
|
1998
|
Shakespeare in Love |
John Madden |
Miramax |
|
1999
|
American Beauty |
Sam Mendes |
DreamWorks |
|
2000
|
Gladiator |
Ridley Scott |
DreamWorks |
|
2001
|
A Beautiful Mind |
Ron Howard |
DreamWorks/Universal |
|
2002
|
Chicago |
Rob Marshall |
Miramax |
|
2003
|
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
Peter Jackson |
New Line |
|
2004
|
Million Dollar Baby |
Clint Eastwood |
Warner Bros. |
|
2005
|
Crash |
Paul Haggis |
Lions Gate Films |
|
2006
|
The Departed |
Martin Scorsese |
Warner Bros. |
|
2007
|
No Country For Old Men |
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen |
Paramount |
|
2008
|
Slumdog Millionaire |
Danny Boyle |
Celador Films |
|
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