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2004 Million Dollar Baby, director Clint Eastwood: 77th Annual Academy Awards

2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, director Peter Jackson

2002 The Pianist director Roman Polanski

2001 A Beautiful Mind director Ron Howard

2000 Traffic, director Steven Soderbergh

1999 American Beauty, director Sam Mendes

1998 Saving Private Ryan, director Steven Spielberg

1997 Titanic," director James Cameron

1996 The English Patient, director Anthony Minghella

1995 Braveheart, director Mel Gibson

1994 Forrest Gump, director Robert Zemeckis

1993 Schindler's List, director Steven Spielberg

1992 Unforgiven, director Clint Eastwood

1991 The Silence of the Lambs, director Jonathan Demme

1990 Dances With Wolves, director Kevin Costner

1989 Born on the Fourth of July, director Oliver Stone

1988 Rain Man, director Barry Levinson

1987 The Last Emperor, director Bernardo Bertolucci

1986 Platoon, director Oliver Stone

1985 Out of Africa, director Sydney Pollack

1984 Amadeus, director Milos Forman

1983 Terms of Endearment, director James L. Brooks

1982 Gandhi, director Richard Attenborough

1981 Reds, director Warren Beatty

1980 Ordinary People, director Robert Redford

1979 Kramer vs. Kramer, director Robert Benton

1978 The Deer Hunter, director Michael Cimino

1977 Annie Hall, director Woody Allen

1976 Rocky, director John G. Avildsen

1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, director Milos Forman

1974 The Godfather Part II, director Francis Ford Coppola

1973 The Sting, director George Roy Hill

1972 Cabaret, director Bob Fosse

1971 The French Connection, director William Friedkin

1970 Patton, director Franklin J. Schaffner

1969 Midnight Cowboy, director John Schlesinger

1968 Oliver! , director Carol Reed

1967 The Graduate, director Mike Nichols

1966 A Man for All Seasons, director Fred Zinnemann

1965 The Sound of Music, director Robert Wise

1964 My Fair Lady, director George Cukor

1963 Tom Jones, director Tony Richardson

1962 Lawrence of Arabia, director David Lean

1961 West Side Story, director Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins

1960 The Apartment, director Billy Wilder

1959 Ben-Hur, director William Wyler

1958 Gigi, director Vincente Minnelli

1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai, director David Lean

1956 Giant, director George Stevens

1955 Marty, director Delbert Mann

1954 On the Waterfront, director Elia Kazan

1953 From Here to Eternity, director Fred Zinnemann

1952 The Quiet Man, director John Ford

1951 A Place in the Sun (1951), director George Stevens

1950 All about Eve, director Joseph L. Mankiewicz

1949 A Letter to Three Wives, director Joseph L. Mankiewicz

1948 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, director John Huston

1947 Gentleman's Agreement, director Elia Kazan

1946 The Best Years of Our Lives, director William Wyler

1945 The Lost Weekend, director Billy Wilder

1944 Going My Way, director Leo McCarey

1943 Casablanca, director Michael Curtiz

1942 Mrs. Miniver, director William Wyler

1941 How Green Was My Valley, director John Ford

1940 The Grapes of Wrath, director John Ford

1939 Gone with the Wind, director Victor Fleming

1938 You Can't Take It with You, director Frank Capra

1937 The Awful Truth, director Leo McCarey

1936 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, director Frank Capra

1935 The Informer, director John Ford

1934 It Happened One Night, director Frank Capra

1932/33 Cavalcade, director Frank Lloyd

1931/32 Bad Girl, director Frank Borzage

1930/31 Skippy, director Norman Taurog

1929/30 All Quiet on the Western Front, director Lewis Milestone

1928/29 The Divine Lady, director Frank Lloyd

1927/28 Two Arabian Knights (Comedy), director Lewis Milestone

1927/28 7th Heaven (Drama), director Frank Borzage