Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama is a Golden Globe Award that has been awarded annually since 1944 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).^[1] Since its institution in 1943, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is an organization of journalists who cover the film industry in the United States, but are affiliated with publications outside North America.

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama
Awarded for	Best Drama Picture
Location	United States
Presented by	Hollywood Foreign Press Association
Currently held by	The Brutalist (2024)
Website	www.goldenglobes.com

When the awards were introduced, there was a single category for Best Picture. Starting with the 9th Golden Globe Awards, the Golden Globes split the Acting and Best Picture awards into Drama and Musical or Comedy categories.^[2] Since 1951, the only time the awards were reunified was in 1953.^[3]

This award goes to the producers of the film. In the following lists, the first titles listed are winners. These are also in bold and in blue background; those not in bold are nominees.

The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year.

Winners and Nominees

1940s

Year	Film	Director[4]	Producer/s[5]
1943	The Song of Bernadette	Henry King	William Perlberg
1944	Going My Way	Leo McCarey	Leo McCarey
1945	The Lost Weekend	Billy Wilder	Charles Brackett
1946	The Best Years of Our Lives	William Wyler	Samuel Goldwyn
1947	Gentleman's Agreement	Elia Kazan	Darryl F. Zanuck
1948	Johnny Belinda	Jean Negulesco	Jerry Wald
	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	John Huston	Henry Blanke
1949	All the King's Men	Robert Rossen	Robert Rossen
	Come to the Stable	Henry Koster	Samuel G. Engel

1950s

Year	Film	Director[4]	Producer/s[5]
1950	Sunset Boulevard	Billy Wilder	Charles Brackett
	All About Eve	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	Darryl F. Zanuck
	Born Yesterday	George Cukor	S. Sylvan Simon
	Cyrano de Bergerac	Michael Gordon	Stanley Kramer
	Harvey	Henry Koster	John Beck
1951	A Place in the Sun	George Stevens	George Stevens
	Bright Victory	Mark Robson	Robert Buckner
	Detective Story	William Wyler
	Quo Vadis	Mervyn LeRoy	Sam Zimbalist
	A Streetcar Named Desire	Elia Kazan	Charles K. Feldman
1952	The Greatest Show on Earth	Cecil B. DeMille	Cecil B. DeMille
	Come Back, Little Sheba	Daniel Mann	Hal B. Wallis
	The Happy Time	Richard Fleischer	Earl Fenton
	High Noon	Fred Zinnemann	Stanley Kramer
	The Thief	Russell Rouse	Clarence Greene
1953	The Robe	Henry Koster	Frank Ross
1954[6][7]	On the Waterfront	Elia Kazan	Sam Spiegel
1955[8][9]	East of Eden	Elia Kazan	Elia Kazan
1956	Around the World in 80 Days	Michael Anderson	Kevin McClory
	Giant	George Stevens	Henry Ginsberg
	Lust for Life	Vincente Minnelli	John Houseman
	The Rainmaker	Joseph Anthony	Hal B. Wallis
	War and Peace	King Vidor	Dino De Laurentiis
1957	The Bridge on the River Kwai	David Lean	Sam Spiegel
	12 Angry Men	Sidney Lumet	Henry Fonda
	Sayonara	Joshua Logan	William Goetz
	Wild Is the Wind	George Cukor	Hal B. Wallis
	Witness for the Prosecution	Billy Wilder	Arthur Hornblow Jr.
1958	The Defiant Ones	Stanley Kramer	Stanley Kramer
	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Richard Brooks	Lawrence Weingarten
	Home Before Dark	Mervyn LeRoy	Mervyn LeRoy
	I Want to Live!	Robert Wise	Claude Miller
	Separate Tables	Delbert Mann	Harold Hecht
1959	Ben-Hur	William Wyler	Sam Zimbalist
	Anatomy of a Murder	Otto Preminger	Otto Preminger
	The Diary of Anne Frank	George Stevens
	The Nun's Story	Fred Zinnemann	Henry Blanke
	On the Beach	Stanley Kramer	Stanley Kramer

1960s

Year	Film	Director[4]	Producer/s[5]
1960	Spartacus	Stanley Kubrick	Kirk Douglas
	Elmer Gantry	Richard Brooks	Bernard Smith
	Inherit the Wind	Stanley Kramer
	Sons and Lovers	Jack Cardiff	Jerry Wald
	Sunrise at Campobello	Vincent J. Donehue	Dore Schary
1961	The Guns of Navarone	J. Lee Thompson	Carl Foreman
	El Cid	Anthony Mann	Samuel Bronston
	Fanny	Joshua Logan	Ben Kadish
	Judgment at Nuremberg	Stanley Kramer
	Splendor in the Grass	Elia Kazan	Elia Kazan
1962	Lawrence of Arabia	David Lean	Sam Spiegel
	The Chapman Report	George Cukor	Darryl F. Zanuck
	Days of Wine and Roses	Blake Edwards	Martin Manulis
	Freud: The Secret Passion	John Huston	Wolfgang Reinhardt
	Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man	Martin Ritt	Jerry Wald
	Lisa	Philip Dunne	Mark Robson
	The Longest Day	Ken Annakin	Darryl F. Zanuck
	The Miracle Worker	Arthur Penn	Fred Coe
	Mutiny on the Bounty	Lewis Milestone	Aaron Rosenberg
	To Kill a Mockingbird	Robert Mulligan	Alan J. Pakula
1963	The Cardinal	Otto Preminger	Martin C. Schute
	America America	Elia Kazan
	Captain Newman, M.D.	David Miller	Robert Arthur
	The Caretakers	Hall Bartlett
	Cleopatra	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	Walter Wanger
	The Great Escape	John Sturges
	Hud	Martin Ritt	Irving Ravetch
	Lilies of the Field	Ralph Nelson
1964	Becket	Peter Glenville	Hal B. Wallis
	The Chalk Garden	Ronald Neame	Ross Hunter
	Dear Heart	Delbert Mann	Martin Manulis
	The Night of the Iguana	John Huston
	Zorba the Greek	Michael Cacoyannis
1965	Doctor Zhivago	David Lean	Carlo Ponti
	The Collector	William Wyler	Jud Kinberg
	The Flight of the Phoenix	Robert Aldrich
	A Patch of Blue	Guy Green
	Ship of Fools	Stanley Kramer
1966	A Man for All Seasons	Fred Zinnemann
	Born Free	James H. Hill	Sam Jaffe
	The Professionals	Richard Brooks
	The Sand Pebbles	Robert Wise
	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Mike Nichols	Ernest Lehman
1967	In the Heat of the Night	Norman Jewison	Walter Mirisch
	Bonnie and Clyde	Arthur Penn	Warren Beatty
	Far from the Madding Crowd	John Schlesinger	Joseph Janni
	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Stanley Kramer	George Glass
	In Cold Blood	Richard Brooks
1968	The Lion in Winter	Anthony Harvey	Martin Poll
	CHAЯLY	Ralph Nelson
	The Fixer	John Frankenheimer	Edward Lewis
	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter	Robert Ellis Miller	Joel Freeman
	The Shoes of the Fisherman	Michael Anderson	George Englund
1969	Anne of the Thousand Days	Charles Jarrott	Hal B. Wallis
	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	George Roy Hill	John Foreman
	Midnight Cowboy	John Schlesinger	Jerome Hellman
	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Ronald Neame	James Cresson
	They Shoot Horses, Don't They?	Sydney Pollack	Robert Chartoff

1970s

Year	Film	Director[4]	Producer/s[5]
1970	Love Story	Arthur Hiller	Howard G. Minsky
	Airport	George Seaton	Ross Hunter
	Five Easy Pieces	Bob Rafelson	Robert Daley
	I Never Sang for My Father	Gilbert Cates
	Patton	Franklin J. Schaffner	Frank Caffey
1971	The French Connection	William Friedkin	Philip D'Antoni
	A Clockwork Orange	Stanley Kubrick	Si Litvinoff
	The Last Picture Show	Peter Bogdanovich	Stephen J. Friedman
	Mary, Queen of Scots	Charles Jarrott	Hal B. Wallis
	Summer of ‘42	Robert Mulligan	Richard A. Roth
1972	The Godfather	Francis Ford Coppola	Albert S. Ruddy
	Deliverance	John Boorman
	Frenzy	Alfred Hitchcock	William Hill
	The Poseidon Adventure	Ronald Neame	Irwin Allen
	Sleuth	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	Morton Gottlieb
1973	The Exorcist	William Friedkin	William Peter Blatty
	Cinderella Liberty	Mark Rydell
	The Day of the Jackal	Fred Zinnemann	John Woolf
	Last Tango in Paris	Bernardo Bertolucci	Alberto Grimaldi
	Save the Tiger	John G. Avildsen	Edward S. Feldman
	Serpico	Sidney Lumet	Dino De Laurentiis
1974	Chinatown	Roman Polanski	Robert Evans
	The Conversation	Francis Ford Coppola
	Earthquake	Mark Robson
	The Godfather Part II	Francis Ford Coppola
	A Woman Under the Influence	John Cassavetes	Sam Shaw
1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Miloš Forman	Michael Douglas
	Barry Lyndon	Stanley Kubrick
	Dog Day Afternoon	Sidney Lumet	Martin Bregman
	Jaws	Steven Spielberg	David Brown
	Nashville	Robert Altman
1976	Rocky	John G. Avildsen	Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler
	All the President's Men	Alan J. Pakula	Walter Coblenz
	Bound for Glory	Hal Ashby	Robert Blumofe
	Network	Sidney Lumet	Howard Gottfried
	Voyage of the Damned	Stuart Rosenberg	Robert Fryer
1977	The Turning Point	Herbert Ross	Arthur Laurents
	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Steven Spielberg	Julia Phillips
	I Never Promised You a Rose Garden	Anthony Page	Daniel H. Blatt
	Julia	Fred Zinnemann	Richard A. Roth
	Star Wars	George Lucas	Gary Kurtz
1978	Midnight Express	Alan Parker	Alan Marshall
	Coming Home	Hal Ashby	Robert C. Jones
	Days of Heaven	Terrence Malick	Bert Schneider
	The Deer Hunter	Michael Cimino	Barry Spikings
	An Unmarried Woman	Paul Mazursky
1979	Kramer vs. Kramer	Robert Benton	Stanley R. Jaffe
	Apocalypse Now	Francis Ford Coppola
	The China Syndrome	James Bridges	Michael Douglas
	Manhattan	Woody Allen	Charles H. Joffe
	Norma Rae	Martin Ritt	Alexandra Rose

1980s

Year	Film	Director[4]	Producer/s[5]
1980	Ordinary People	Robert Redford	Ronald L. Schwary
	The Elephant Man	David Lynch	Jonathan Sanger
	The Ninth Configuration	William Peter Blatty
	Raging Bull	Martin Scorsese	Robert Chartoff
	The Stunt Man	Richard Rush
1981	On Golden Pond	Mark Rydell	Bruce Gilbert
	The French Lieutenant's Woman	Karel Reisz	Leon Clore
	Prince of the City	Sidney Lumet
	Ragtime	Miloš Forman	Dino De Laurentiis
	Reds	Warren Beatty
1982	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Steven Spielberg	Steven Spielberg
	Missing	Costa-Gavras	Edward Lewis
	An Officer and a Gentleman	Taylor Hackford	Martin Elfand
	Sophie's Choice	Alan J. Pakula
	The Verdict	Sidney Lumet	David Brown
1983	Terms of Endearment	James L. Brooks	James L. Brooks
	Reuben, Reuben	Robert Ellis Miller	Julius J. Epstein
	The Right Stuff	Philip Kaufman	Irwin Winkler
	Silkwood	Mike Nichols	Alice Arlen
	Tender Mercies	Bruce Beresford	Philip Hobel
1984	Amadeus	Miloš Forman	Saul Zaentz
	The Cotton Club	Francis Ford Coppola	Robert Evans
	The Killing Fields	Roland Joffé	David Puttnam
	Places in the Heart	Robert Benton
	A Soldier's Story	Norman Jewison	Norman Jewison
1985	Out of Africa	Sydney Pollack	Sydney Pollack
	The Color Purple	Steven Spielberg
	Kiss of the Spider Woman	Hector Babenco	David Weisman
	Runaway Train	Andrei Konchalovsky	Richard Garcia
	Witness	Peter Weir	Edward S. Feldman
1986	Platoon	Oliver Stone	Arnold Kopelson
	Children of a Lesser God	Randa Haines	Chris Bender
	The Mission	Roland Joffé	Fernando Ghia
	Mona Lisa	Neil Jordan	Stephen Woolley
	A Room with a View	James Ivory	Ismail Merchant
	Stand by Me	Rob Reiner	Bruce A. Evans
1987	The Last Emperor	Bernardo Bertolucci	Jeremy Thomas
	Cry Freedom	Richard Attenborough
	Empire of the Sun	Steven Spielberg	Kathleen Kennedy
	Fatal Attraction	Adrian Lyne	Stanley R. Jaffe
	La Bamba	Luis Valdez	Stuart Benjamin
	Nuts	Martin Ritt	Teri Schwartz
1988	Rain Man	Barry Levinson	Mark Johnson
	The Accidental Tourist	Lawrence Kasdan	Phyllis Carlyle
	A Cry in the Dark	Fred Schepisi	Yoram Globus
	Gorillas in the Mist	Michael Apted	Peter Guber
	Mississippi Burning	Alan Parker	Robert F. Colesberry
	Running on Empty	Sidney Lumet	Griffin Dunne
	The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Philip Kaufman	Bertil Ohlsson
1989	Born on the Fourth of July	Oliver Stone	A. Kitman Ho
	Crimes and Misdemeanors	Woody Allen	Charles H. Joffe
	Dead Poets Society	Peter Weir	Paul Junger Witt
	Do the Right Thing	Spike Lee
	Glory	Edward Zwick	Freddie Fields

1990s

Year	Film	Director[4]	Producer/s[5]
1990	Dances with Wolves	Kevin Costner	Jim Wilson and Kevin Costner
	Avalon	Barry Levinson	Mark Johnson
	The Godfather Part III	Francis Ford Coppola
	Goodfellas	Martin Scorsese	Irwin Winkler
	Reversal of Fortune	Barbet Schroeder	Edward R. Pressman
1991	Bugsy	Barry Levinson	Warren Beatty
	JFK	Oliver Stone	Arnon Milchan
	The Prince of Tides	Barbra Streisand	Andrew Karsch
	The Silence of the Lambs	Jonathan Demme	Kenneth Utt
	Thelma & Louise	Ridley Scott	Mimi Polk Gitlin
1992	Scent of a Woman	Martin Brest
	The Crying Game	Neil Jordan	Stephen Woolley
	A Few Good Men	Rob Reiner	David Brown
	Howards End	James Ivory	Ismail Merchant
	Unforgiven	Clint Eastwood
1993	Schindler's List	Steven Spielberg
	The Age of Innocence	Martin Scorsese	Barbara De Fina
	In the Name of the Father	Jim Sheridan
	The Piano	Jane Campion
	The Remains of the Day	James Ivory	Ismail Merchant
1994	Forrest Gump	Robert Zemeckis	Wendy Finerman
	Legends of the Fall	Edward Zwick	Marshall Herskovitz
	Nell	Michael Apted	Jodie Foster
	Pulp Fiction	Quentin Tarantino	Lawrence Bender
	Quiz Show	Robert Redford
1995	Sense and Sensibility	Ang Lee	Lindsay Doran
	Apollo 13	Ron Howard	Brian Grazer
	Braveheart	Mel Gibson
	The Bridges of Madison County	Clint Eastwood
	Leaving Las Vegas	Mike Figgis	Lila Cazès
1996	The English Patient	Anthony Minghella	Saul Zaentz
	Breaking the Waves	Lars von Trier	Peter Aalbæk Jensen
	The People vs. Larry Flynt	Miloš Forman	Oliver Stone
	Secrets & Lies	Mike Leigh	Simon Channing-Williams
	Shine	Scott Hicks	Jane Scott
1997	Titanic	James Cameron	James Cameron and Jon Landau
	Amistad	Steven Spielberg	Debbie Allen
	The Boxer	Jim Sheridan	Arthur Lappin
	Good Will Hunting	Gus Van Sant	Lawrence Bender
	L.A. Confidential	Curtis Hanson
1998	Saving Private Ryan	Steven Spielberg	Steven Spielberg
	Elizabeth	Shekhar Kapur	Tim Bevan
	Gods and Monsters	Bill Condon	Paul Colichman
	The Horse Whisperer	Robert Redford	Patrick Markey
	The Truman Show	Peter Weir	Edward S. Feldman
1999	American Beauty	Sam Mendes	Bruce Cohen
	The End of the Affair	Neil Jordan	Neil Jordan
	The Hurricane	Norman Jewison	Armyan Bernstein
	The Insider	Michael Mann	Pieter Jan Brugge
	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Anthony Minghella	William Horberg

2000s

Year	Film	Director	Producers
2000[10]	Gladiator	Ridley Scott	Douglas Wick
	Billy Elliot	Stephen Daldry	Charles Brand
	Erin Brockovich	Steven Soderbergh	Danny DeVito
	Sunshine	István Szabó	András Hámori
	Traffic	Steven Soderbergh	Edward Zwick
	Wonder Boys	Curtis Hanson
2001	A Beautiful Mind	Ron Howard	Brian Grazer
	In the Bedroom	Todd Field	Todd Field
	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Peter Jackson	Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh
	The Man Who Wasn't There	Joel Coen	Ethan Coen
	Mulholland Drive	David Lynch	Pierre Edelman
2002	The Hours	Stephen Daldry	Robert Fox and Scott Rudin
	About Schmidt	Alexander Payne	Michael Besman
	Gangs of New York	Martin Scorsese	Alberto Grimaldi
	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Peter Jackson	Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh
	The Pianist	Roman Polanski
2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Peter Jackson	Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh
	Cold Mountain	Anthony Minghella	Albert Berger
	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Peter Weir
	Mystic River	Clint Eastwood	Robert Lorenz
	Seabiscuit	Gary Ross	Kathleen Kennedy
2004	The Aviator	Martin Scorsese	Michael Mann
	Closer	Mike Nichols	Patrick Marber
	Finding Neverland	Marc Forster	Richard N. Gladstein
	Hotel Rwanda	Terry George	Terry George
	Kinsey	Bill Condon	Gail Mutrux
	Million Dollar Baby	Clint Eastwood	Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, Tom Rosenberg
2005	Brokeback Mountain	Ang Lee	Diana Ossana
	The Constant Gardener	Fernando Meirelles	Simon Channing-Williams
	Good Night, and Good Luck	George Clooney	Grant Heslov
	A History of Violence	David Cronenberg	Chris Bender
	Match Point	Woody Allen	Letty Aronson
2006	Babel	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Steve Golin
	Bobby	Emilio Estevez	Anthony Hopkins
	The Departed	Martin Scorsese	Brad Grey
	Little Children	Todd Field	Albert Berger
	The Queen	Stephen Frears	François Ivernel
2007	Atonement	Joe Wright	Tim Bevan
	American Gangster	Ridley Scott	Brian Grazer
	Eastern Promises	David Cronenberg	Paul Webster
	The Great Debaters	Denzel Washington	Oprah Winfrey
	Michael Clayton	Tony Gilroy	Sydney Pollack
	No Country for Old Men	Joel and Ethan Coen	Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Scott Rudin
	There Will Be Blood	Paul Thomas Anderson
2008	Slumdog Millionaire	Danny Boyle	Christian Colson
	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	David Fincher	Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Ray Stark
	Frost/Nixon	Ron Howard	Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard
	The Reader	Stephen Daldry	Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Scott Rudin
	Revolutionary Road	Sam Mendes	Bobby Cohen, Sam Mendes, Scott Rudin
2009	Avatar	James Cameron	James Cameron and Jon Landau
	The Hurt Locker	Kathryn Bigelow	Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Tony Mark, Donall McCusker, Greg Shapiro
	Inglourious Basterds	Quentin Tarantino	Lawrence Bender
	Precious	Lee Daniels	Lisa Cortes, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Valerie Hoffman, Asger Hussain, Gary Magness, Mark G. Mathis, Berrgen Swason, Simone Sheffield
	Up in the Air	Jason Reitman	Daniel Dubiecki, Jeffrey Clifford, Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman

2010s

Year	Film	Director	Producers
2010	The Social Network	David Fincher	Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Ceán Chaffin
	Black Swan	Darren Aronofsky	Mike Medavoy, Scott Franklin, Arnold Messer, Brian Oliver
	The Fighter	David O. Russell	David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman, Ryan Kavanaugh, Mark Wahlberg, Dorothy Aufiero, Paul Tamasy
	Inception	Christopher Nolan	Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas
	The King's Speech	Tom Hooper	Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
2011	The Descendants	Alexander Payne	Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
	The Help	Tate Taylor	Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan, Brunson Green
	Hugo	Martin Scorsese	Johnny Depp, Timothy Headington, Graham King, Martin Scorsese
	The Ides of March	George Clooney	George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Brian Oliver
	Moneyball	Bennett Miller	Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz, Brad Pitt
	War Horse	Steven Spielberg	Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy
2012[11]	Argo	Ben Affleck	Ben Affleck, George Clooney, Grant Heslov
	Django Unchained	Quentin Tarantino	Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin, Pilar Savone
	Life of Pi	Ang Lee	Ang Lee, Gil Netter, David Womark
	Lincoln	Steven Spielberg	Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy
	Zero Dark Thirty	Kathryn Bigelow	Kathryn Bigelow, Colin Wilson, Greg Shapiro, Ted Schipper, Megan Ellison
2013[12]	12 Years a Slave	Steve McQueen	Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Bill Pohlad, Steve McQueen, Arnon Milchan, Anthony Katagas
	Captain Phillips	Paul Greengrass	Michael De Luca, Dana Brunetti, Scott Rudin
	Gravity	Alfonso Cuarón	Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman
	Philomena	Stephen Frears	Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan, Tracey Seaward
	Rush	Ron Howard	Andrew Eaton, Eric Fellner, Brian Oliver, Peter Morgan, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard
2014[13]	Boyhood	Richard Linklater	Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland, Jonathan Sehring, John Sloss
	Foxcatcher	Bennett Miller	Bennett Miller, Megan Ellison, Jon Kilik, Anthony Bregman
	The Imitation Game	Morten Tyldum	Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, Teddy Schwarzman
	Selma	Ava DuVernay	Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey
	The Theory of Everything	James Marsh	Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten
2015[14]	The Revenant	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Arnon Milchan, Mary Parent, Keith Redmon
	Carol	Todd Haynes	Elizabeth Karlsen, Christine Vachon, Stephen Woolley
	Mad Max: Fury Road	George Miller	Doug Mitchell, George Miller, P. J. Voeten
	Room	Lenny Abrahamson	Ed Guiney, David Gross
	Spotlight	Tom McCarthy	Steve Golin, Blye Pagon Faust, Nicole Rocklin, Michael Sugar
2016	Moonlight	Barry Jenkins	Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adele Romanski
	Hacksaw Ridge	Mel Gibson	Terry Benedict, Paul Currie, Bruce Davey, William D. Johnson, Bill Mechanic, Brian Oliver, David Permut
	Hell or High Water	David Mackenzie	Peter Berg, Carla Hacken, Sidney Kimmel, Gigi Pritzker, Rachel Shane, Julie Yorn
	Lion	Garth Davis	Iain Canning, Angie Fielder, Emile Sherman
	Manchester by the Sea	Kenneth Lonergan	Lauren Beck, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Kimberly Steward, Kevin J. Walsh
2017	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Martin McDonagh	Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Martin McDonagh
	Call Me by Your Name	Luca Guadagnino	Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Rodrigo Teixeira, Marco Morabito, James Ivory, Howard Rosenman
	Dunkirk	Christopher Nolan	Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas
	The Post	Steven Spielberg	Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Amy Pascal
	The Shape of Water	Guillermo del Toro	Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale
2018	Bohemian Rhapsody	Bryan Singer	Graham King and Jim Beach
	Black Panther	Ryan Coogler	Kevin Feige
	BlacKkKlansman	Spike Lee	Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Shaun Redick, Jordan Peele, Spike Lee
	If Beale Street Could Talk	Barry Jenkins	Adele Romanski, Sara Murphy, Barry Jenkins, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner
	A Star Is Born	Bradley Cooper	Bill Gerber, Bradley Cooper, Lynette Howell Taylor
2019	1917	Sam Mendes	Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Jayne-Ann Tenggren, Callum McDougall, and Brian Oliver
	The Irishman	Martin Scorsese	Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Irwin Winkler, Gerald Chamales, Gastón Pavlovich, Randall Emmett, Gabriele Israilovici
	Joker	Todd Phillips	Todd Phillips, Bradley Cooper, Emma Tillinger Koskoff
	Marriage Story	Noah Baumbach	David Heyman, Noah Baumbach
	The Two Popes	Fernando Meirelles	Dan Lin, Jonathan Eirich, Tracey Seaward

2020s

Year	Film	Director	Producers
2020	Nomadland	Chloé Zhao	Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Chloé Zhao
	The Father	Florian Zeller	David Parfitt, Jean-Louis Livi, Philippe Carcassonne
	Mank	David Fincher	Ceán Chaffin, Eric Roth, Douglas Urbanski
	Promising Young Woman	Emerald Fennell	Josey McNamara, Ben Browning, Ashley Fox, Emerald Fennell
	The Trial of the Chicago 7	Aaron Sorkin	Stuart M. Besser, Marc Platt
2021	The Power of the Dog	Jane Campion	Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Roger Frappier, Jane Campion, Tanya Seghatchian
	Belfast	Kenneth Branagh	Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik, Tamar Thomas
	CODA	Sian Heder	Fabrice Gianfermi, Philippe Rousselet, Jerôme Seydoux, Patrick Wachsberger
	Dune	Denis Villeneuve	Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve, Cale Boyter, Joe Caracciolo Jr.
	King Richard	Reinaldo Marcus Green	Tim White, Trevor White, Will Smith
2022	The Fabelmans	Steven Spielberg	Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner
	Avatar: The Way of Water	James Cameron	James Cameron, Jon Landau
	Elvis	Baz Luhrmann	Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick, Schuyler Weiss
	Tár	Todd Field	Todd Field, Alexandra Milchan, Scott Lambert
	Top Gun: Maverick	Joseph Kosinski	Jerry Bruckheimer, Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison
2023	Oppenheimer	Christopher Nolan	Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, Christopher Nolan
	Anatomy of a Fall	Justine Triet	Marie-Ange Luciani, David Thion
	Killers of the Flower Moon	Martin Scorsese	Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas, Martin Scorsese, Daniel Lupi
	Maestro	Bradley Cooper	Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Bradley Cooper, Fred Berner, Amy Durning, Kristie Macosko Krieger
	Past Lives	Celine Song	David Hinojosa, Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler
	The Zone of Interest	Jonathan Glazer	James Wilson, Ewa Puszczyńska
2024[15][16]	The Brutalist	Brady Corbet	Trevor Matthews, Nick Gordon, Brian Young, Andrew Morrison, Andrew Lauren, D.J. Gugenheim, Brady Corbet
	A Complete Unknown	James Mangold	Fred Berger, James Mangold, Alex Heineman, Bob Bookman, Peter Jaysen, Alan Gasmer, Jeff Rosen, Timothée Chalamet
	Conclave	Edward Berger	Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Michael Jackman, Alice Dawson, Robert Harris
	Dune: Part Two	Denis Villeneuve	Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Patrick McCormick, Tanya Lapointe, Denis Villeneuve
	Nickel Boys	RaMell Ross	Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, David Levine, Joslyn Barnes
	September 5	Tim Fehlbaum	Philipp Trauer, Thomas Wöbke, Tim Fehlbaum, Sean Penn, John Ira Palmer, John Wildermuth

Notes

• Following the controversy over the motion picture category omission towards non-English language films, The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom) is the first wholly non-English language film to be nominated both Foreign Language and in this category, although Anatomy of a Fall (France) is part of non-English language film due to occasional use of English language.

See also

• BAFTA Award for Best Film
• Academy Award for Best Picture
• Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Picture
• Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
• Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture
• Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture