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name: "BAFTA Best Film winners"
kind: "award"
canonical: "https://film.one/collections/bafta-best-film"
films: 70
series: 0
years: "1946–2025"
average_fi1m_score: 83
updated: "2026-09-20T09:11:25.931936+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# BAFTA Best Film winners

*Award winners.*

The British Academy's Best Film, from The Best Years of Our Lives in 1947 to now, with the shortlist each year and what we made of them.

**Order.** By year of the films, newest first.

Best on Fi1m: [*GoodFellas*](https://film.one/film/goodfellas.md) (93).

## Every year, newest first

Winners in bold; a title without a link is one we have not reviewed yet.

- **2025** — **[*One Battle After Another*](https://film.one/film/one-battle-after-another.md) (Fi1m 87)**. Nominees: [*Hamnet*](https://film.one/film/hamnet.md) (Fi1m 76), [*Marty Supreme*](https://film.one/film/marty-supreme.md) (Fi1m 82), [*Sentimental Value*](https://film.one/film/sentimental-value.md) (Fi1m 79), [*Sinners*](https://film.one/film/sinners.md) (Fi1m 79)
- **2024** — **[*Conclave*](https://film.one/film/conclave.md) (Fi1m 76)**. Nominees: [*Anora*](https://film.one/film/anora.md) (Fi1m 84), [*The Brutalist*](https://film.one/film/the-brutalist.md) (Fi1m 76), [*A Complete Unknown*](https://film.one/film/a-complete-unknown.md) (Fi1m 68), [*Emilia Pérez*](https://film.one/film/emilia-perez.md) (Fi1m 58)
- **2023** — **[*Oppenheimer*](https://film.one/film/oppenheimer.md) (Fi1m 84)**; **[*All Quiet on the Western Front*](https://film.one/film/all-quiet-on-the-western-front.md) (Fi1m 71)**. Nominees: [*Anatomy of a Fall*](https://film.one/film/anatomy-of-a-fall.md) (Fi1m 86), [*The Holdovers*](https://film.one/film/the-holdovers.md) (Fi1m 81), [*Killers of the Flower Moon*](https://film.one/film/killers-of-the-flower-moon.md) (Fi1m 86), [*Poor Things*](https://film.one/film/poor-things.md) (Fi1m 76)
- **2022** — ***All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues)***. Nominees: [*The Banshees of Inisherin*](https://film.one/film/the-banshees-of-inisherin.md) (Fi1m 84), [*Elvis*](https://film.one/film/elvis.md) (Fi1m 66), [*Everything Everywhere All at Once*](https://film.one/film/everything-everywhere-all-at-once.md) (Fi1m 77), [*Tár*](https://film.one/film/tar.md) (Fi1m 84)
- **2021** — **[*The Power of the Dog*](https://film.one/film/the-power-of-the-dog.md) (Fi1m 84)**. Nominees: [*Belfast*](https://film.one/film/belfast.md) (Fi1m 66), [*Don't Look Up*](https://film.one/film/dont-look-up.md) (Fi1m 52), [*Dune*](https://film.one/film/dune.md) (Fi1m 76), [*Licorice Pizza*](https://film.one/film/licorice-pizza.md) (Fi1m 80)
- **2020** — **[*Nomadland*](https://film.one/film/nomadland.md) (Fi1m 83)**. Nominees: [*The Father*](https://film.one/film/the-father.md) (Fi1m 89), *The Mauritanian*, [*Promising Young Woman*](https://film.one/film/promising-young-woman.md) (Fi1m 72), *The Trial of the Chicago 7*
- **2019** — **[*1917*](https://film.one/film/1917.md) (Fi1m 78)**. Nominees: [*The Irishman*](https://film.one/film/the-irishman.md) (Fi1m 86), [*Joker*](https://film.one/film/joker.md) (Fi1m 63), *Once Upon a Time in Hollywood*, [*Parasite*](https://film.one/film/parasite.md) (Fi1m 91)
- **2018** — **[*Roma*](https://film.one/film/roma.md) (Fi1m 86)**. Nominees: [*BlacKkKlansman*](https://film.one/film/blackkklansman.md) (Fi1m 78), [*The Favourite*](https://film.one/film/the-favourite.md) (Fi1m 87), [*Green Book*](https://film.one/film/green-book.md) (Fi1m 64), [*A Star is Born*](https://film.one/film/a-star-is-born.md) (Fi1m 82)
- **2017** — **[*Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri*](https://film.one/film/three-billboards-outside-ebbing-missouri.md) (Fi1m 74)**. Nominees: [*Call Me by Your Name*](https://film.one/film/call-me-by-your-name.md) (Fi1m 86), [*Darkest Hour*](https://film.one/film/darkest-hour.md) (Fi1m 66), [*Dunkirk*](https://film.one/film/dunkirk.md) (Fi1m 86), [*The Shape of Water*](https://film.one/film/the-shape-of-water.md) (Fi1m 83)
- **2016** — **[*La La Land*](https://film.one/film/la-la-land.md) (Fi1m 81)**. Nominees: [*Arrival*](https://film.one/film/arrival.md) (Fi1m 86), [*I, Daniel Blake*](https://film.one/film/i-daniel-blake.md) (Fi1m 82), [*Manchester by the Sea*](https://film.one/film/manchester-by-the-sea.md) (Fi1m 89), [*Moonlight*](https://film.one/film/moonlight.md) (Fi1m 89)
- **2015** — **[*The Revenant*](https://film.one/film/the-revenant.md) (Fi1m 74)**. Nominees: [*The Big Short*](https://film.one/film/the-big-short.md) (Fi1m 80), [*Bridge of Spies*](https://film.one/film/bridge-of-spies.md) (Fi1m 75), [*Carol*](https://film.one/film/carol.md) (Fi1m 88), [*Spotlight*](https://film.one/film/spotlight.md) (Fi1m 85)
- **2014** — **[*Boyhood*](https://film.one/film/boyhood.md) (Fi1m 88)**. Nominees: [*Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)*](https://film.one/film/birdman-or-the-unexpected-virtue-of-ignorance.md) (Fi1m 82), [*The Grand Budapest Hotel*](https://film.one/film/the-grand-budapest-hotel.md) (Fi1m 86), [*The Imitation Game*](https://film.one/film/the-imitation-game.md) (Fi1m 73), [*The Theory of Everything*](https://film.one/film/the-theory-of-everything.md) (Fi1m 72)
- **2013** — **[*12 Years a Slave*](https://film.one/film/12-years-a-slave.md) (Fi1m 91)**. Nominees: [*American Hustle*](https://film.one/film/american-hustle.md) (Fi1m 72), [*Captain Phillips*](https://film.one/film/captain-phillips.md) (Fi1m 83), [*Gravity*](https://film.one/film/gravity.md) (Fi1m 85), [*Philomena*](https://film.one/film/philomena.md) (Fi1m 82)
- **2012** — **[*Argo*](https://film.one/film/argo.md) (Fi1m 79)**. Nominees: [*Les Misérables*](https://film.one/film/les-miserables-2012.md) (Fi1m 62), [*Life of Pi*](https://film.one/film/life-of-pi.md) (Fi1m 78), [*Lincoln*](https://film.one/film/lincoln.md) (Fi1m 82), [*Zero Dark Thirty*](https://film.one/film/zero-dark-thirty.md) (Fi1m 80)
- **2011** — **[*The Artist*](https://film.one/film/the-artist.md) (Fi1m 82)**. Nominees: [*The Descendants*](https://film.one/film/the-descendants.md) (Fi1m 80), [*Drive*](https://film.one/film/drive.md) (Fi1m 83), [*The Help*](https://film.one/film/the-help.md) (Fi1m 66), [*Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy*](https://film.one/film/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy.md) (Fi1m 84)
- **2010** — **[*The King's Speech*](https://film.one/film/the-kings-speech.md) (Fi1m 82)**. Nominees: [*Black Swan*](https://film.one/film/black-swan.md) (Fi1m 82), [*Inception*](https://film.one/film/inception.md) (Fi1m 80), [*The Social Network*](https://film.one/film/the-social-network.md) (Fi1m 91), [*True Grit*](https://film.one/film/true-grit.md) (Fi1m 84)
- **2009** — **[*The Hurt Locker*](https://film.one/film/the-hurt-locker.md) (Fi1m 86)**. Nominees: [*Avatar*](https://film.one/film/avatar.md) (Fi1m 70), [*An Education*](https://film.one/film/an-education.md) (Fi1m 82), *Precious*, [*Up in the Air*](https://film.one/film/up-in-the-air.md) (Fi1m 74)
- **2008** — **[*Slumdog Millionaire*](https://film.one/film/slumdog-millionaire.md) (Fi1m 78)**. Nominees: [*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button*](https://film.one/film/the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button.md) (Fi1m 64), [*Frost/Nixon*](https://film.one/film/frost-nixon.md) (Fi1m 81), [*Milk*](https://film.one/film/milk.md) (Fi1m 83), [*The Reader*](https://film.one/film/the-reader.md) (Fi1m 56)
- **2007** — **[*Atonement*](https://film.one/film/atonement.md) (Fi1m 83)**. Nominees: *American Gangster*, *The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)*, [*No Country for Old Men*](https://film.one/film/no-country-for-old-men.md) (Fi1m 91), [*There Will Be Blood*](https://film.one/film/there-will-be-blood.md) (Fi1m 88)
- **2006** — **[*The Queen*](https://film.one/film/the-queen.md) (Fi1m 84)**. Nominees: [*Babel*](https://film.one/film/babel.md) (Fi1m 64), [*The Departed*](https://film.one/film/the-departed.md) (Fi1m 84), *The Last King of Scotland*, [*Little Miss Sunshine*](https://film.one/film/little-miss-sunshine.md) (Fi1m 78)
- **2005** — **[*Brokeback Mountain*](https://film.one/film/brokeback-mountain.md) (Fi1m 92)**. Nominees: [*Capote*](https://film.one/film/capote.md) (Fi1m 84), [*The Constant Gardener*](https://film.one/film/the-constant-gardener.md) (Fi1m 82), [*Crash*](https://film.one/film/crash-2005.md) (Fi1m 54), *Good Night, and Good Luck*
- **2004** — **[*The Aviator*](https://film.one/film/the-aviator.md) (Fi1m 74)**. Nominees: [*Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*](https://film.one/film/eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-mind.md) (Fi1m 88), [*Finding Neverland*](https://film.one/film/finding-neverland.md) (Fi1m 64), [*The Motorcycle Diaries*](https://film.one/film/the-motorcycle-diaries.md) (Fi1m 77), [*Vera Drake*](https://film.one/film/vera-drake.md) (Fi1m 84)
- **2003** — **[*The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King*](https://film.one/film/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-return-of-the-king.md) (Fi1m 88)**. Nominees: [*Big Fish*](https://film.one/film/big-fish.md) (Fi1m 78), *Cold Mountain*, [*Lost in Translation*](https://film.one/film/lost-in-translation.md) (Fi1m 86), [*Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World*](https://film.one/film/master-and-commander-the-far-side-of-the-world.md) (Fi1m 86)
- **2002** — **[*The Pianist*](https://film.one/film/the-pianist.md) (Fi1m 87)**. Nominees: [*Chicago*](https://film.one/film/chicago.md) (Fi1m 73), [*Gangs of New York*](https://film.one/film/gangs-of-new-york.md) (Fi1m 74), [*The Hours*](https://film.one/film/the-hours.md) (Fi1m 72), [*The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers*](https://film.one/film/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-two-towers.md) (Fi1m 85)
- **2001** — **[*The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring*](https://film.one/film/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-fellowship-of-the-ring.md) (Fi1m 90)**. Nominees: *Stanley Kubrick*, *Oliver!*, *Closely Observed Trains*, [*Amélie*](https://film.one/film/amelie.md) (Fi1m 82), [*A Beautiful Mind*](https://film.one/film/a-beautiful-mind.md) (Fi1m 62), [*Moulin Rouge!*](https://film.one/film/moulin-rouge.md) (Fi1m 75), [*Shrek*](https://film.one/film/shrek.md) (Fi1m 80)
- **2000** — **[*Gladiator*](https://film.one/film/gladiator.md) (Fi1m 84)**. Nominees: [*Almost Famous*](https://film.one/film/almost-famous.md) (Fi1m 82), [*Billy Elliot*](https://film.one/film/billy-elliot.md) (Fi1m 81), [*Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon*](https://film.one/film/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon.md) (Fi1m 90), [*Erin Brockovich*](https://film.one/film/erin-brockovich.md) (Fi1m 78)
- **1999** — **[*American Beauty*](https://film.one/film/american-beauty.md) (Fi1m 76)**. Nominees: [*East is East*](https://film.one/film/east-is-east.md) (Fi1m 74), *The End of the Affair*, [*The Sixth Sense*](https://film.one/film/the-sixth-sense.md) (Fi1m 84), [*The Talented Mr. Ripley*](https://film.one/film/the-talented-mr-ripley.md) (Fi1m 80)
- **1998** — **[*Shakespeare in Love*](https://film.one/film/shakespeare-in-love.md) (Fi1m 79)**. Nominees: [*Elizabeth*](https://film.one/film/elizabeth.md) (Fi1m 82), [*Saving Private Ryan*](https://film.one/film/saving-private-ryan.md) (Fi1m 84), [*The Truman Show*](https://film.one/film/the-truman-show.md) (Fi1m 88)
- **1997** — **[*The Full Monty*](https://film.one/film/the-full-monty.md) (Fi1m 81)**. Nominees: [*L.A. Confidential*](https://film.one/film/l-a-confidential.md) (Fi1m 88), *Mrs Brown*, [*Titanic*](https://film.one/film/titanic.md) (Fi1m 84)
- **1996** — **[*The English Patient*](https://film.one/film/the-english-patient.md) (Fi1m 78)**. Nominees: [*Fargo*](https://film.one/film/fargo.md) (Fi1m 91), [*Secrets & Lies*](https://film.one/film/secrets-and-lies.md) (Fi1m 88), [*Shine*](https://film.one/film/shine.md) (Fi1m 82)
- **1995** — **[*Sense and Sensibility*](https://film.one/film/sense-and-sensibility.md) (Fi1m 85)**. Nominees: [*Babe*](https://film.one/film/babe.md) (Fi1m 88), [*The Madness of King George*](https://film.one/film/the-madness-of-king-george.md) (Fi1m 83), [*The Usual Suspects*](https://film.one/film/the-usual-suspects.md) (Fi1m 82)
- **1994** — **[*Four Weddings and a Funeral*](https://film.one/film/four-weddings-and-a-funeral.md) (Fi1m 80)**. Nominees: [*Forrest Gump*](https://film.one/film/forrest-gump.md) (Fi1m 66), [*Pulp Fiction*](https://film.one/film/pulp-fiction.md) (Fi1m 82), [*Quiz Show*](https://film.one/film/quiz-show.md) (Fi1m 84)
- **1993** — **[*Schindler's List*](https://film.one/film/schindlers-list.md) (Fi1m 91)**. Nominees: [*The Piano*](https://film.one/film/the-piano.md) (Fi1m 88), [*The Remains of the Day*](https://film.one/film/the-remains-of-the-day.md) (Fi1m 88), [*Shadowlands*](https://film.one/film/shadowlands.md) (Fi1m 79)
- **1992** — **[*Howards End*](https://film.one/film/howards-end.md) (Fi1m 84)**. Nominees: [*The Crying Game*](https://film.one/film/the-crying-game.md) (Fi1m 82), [*The Player*](https://film.one/film/the-player.md) (Fi1m 85), [*Strictly Ballroom*](https://film.one/film/strictly-ballroom.md) (Fi1m 83), [*Unforgiven*](https://film.one/film/unforgiven.md) (Fi1m 92)
- **1991** — **[*The Commitments*](https://film.one/film/the-commitments.md) (Fi1m 82)**. Nominees: [*Dances with Wolves*](https://film.one/film/dances-with-wolves.md) (Fi1m 80), [*The Silence of the Lambs*](https://film.one/film/the-silence-of-the-lambs.md) (Fi1m 91), [*Thelma & Louise*](https://film.one/film/thelma-and-louise.md) (Fi1m 85)
- **1990** — **[*Goodfellas*](https://film.one/film/goodfellas.md) (Fi1m 93)**. Nominees: *Crimes and Misdemeanors*, *Driving Miss Daisy*, [*Pretty Woman*](https://film.one/film/pretty-woman.md) (Fi1m 77)
- **1989** — **[*Dead Poets Society*](https://film.one/film/dead-poets-society.md) (Fi1m 80)**. Nominees: *My Left Foot*, *Shirley Valentine*, [*When Harry Met Sally...*](https://film.one/film/when-harry-met-sally.md) (Fi1m 84)
- **1988** — **[*The Last Emperor*](https://film.one/film/the-last-emperor.md) (Fi1m 80)**. Nominees: [*Au revoir les enfants*](https://film.one/film/au-revoir-les-enfants.md) (Fi1m 90), *Babette's Feast*, [*A Fish Called Wanda*](https://film.one/film/a-fish-called-wanda.md) (Fi1m 83)
- **1987** — ***Jean de Florette***. Nominees: *Cry Freedom*, [*Hope and Glory*](https://film.one/film/hope-and-glory.md) (Fi1m 82), *Radio Days*
- **1986** — **[*A Room with a View*](https://film.one/film/a-room-with-a-view.md) (Fi1m 84)**. Nominees: [*Hannah and Her Sisters*](https://film.one/film/hannah-and-her-sisters.md) (Fi1m 88), [*The Mission*](https://film.one/film/the-mission-1986.md) (Fi1m 64), [*Mona Lisa*](https://film.one/film/mona-lisa.md) (Fi1m 83)
- **1985** — **[*The Purple Rose of Cairo*](https://film.one/film/the-purple-rose-of-cairo.md) (Fi1m 84)**. Nominees: [*Amadeus*](https://film.one/film/amadeus.md) (Fi1m 91), [*Back to the Future*](https://film.one/film/back-to-the-future.md) (Fi1m 92), [*A Passage to India*](https://film.one/film/a-passage-to-india.md) (Fi1m 71), [*Witness*](https://film.one/film/witness.md) (Fi1m 84)
- **1984** — **[*The Killing Fields*](https://film.one/film/the-killing-fields.md) (Fi1m 82)**. Nominees: [*The Dresser*](https://film.one/film/the-dresser.md) (Fi1m 80), [*Paris, Texas*](https://film.one/film/paris-texas.md) (Fi1m 88), *A Private Function*
- **1983** — **[*Educating Rita*](https://film.one/film/educating-rita.md) (Fi1m 71)**. Nominees: *Heat and Dust*, [*Local Hero*](https://film.one/film/local-hero.md) (Fi1m 86), [*Tootsie*](https://film.one/film/tootsie.md) (Fi1m 85)
- **1982** — **[*Gandhi*](https://film.one/film/gandhi.md) (Fi1m 73)**. Nominees: [*E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial*](https://film.one/film/e-t-the-extra-terrestrial.md) (Fi1m 91), [*Missing*](https://film.one/film/missing-1982.md) (Fi1m 80), [*On Golden Pond*](https://film.one/film/on-golden-pond.md) (Fi1m 72)
- **1981** — **[*Chariots of Fire*](https://film.one/film/chariots-of-fire.md) (Fi1m 78)**. Nominees: [*Atlantic City*](https://film.one/film/atlantic-city.md) (Fi1m 86), *The French Lieutenant's Woman*, *Gregory's Girl*, [*Raiders of the Lost Ark*](https://film.one/film/raiders-of-the-lost-ark.md) (Fi1m 93)
- **1980** — **[*The Elephant Man*](https://film.one/film/the-elephant-man.md) (Fi1m 84)**. Nominees: [*Being There*](https://film.one/film/being-there.md) (Fi1m 84), *Kagemusha*, [*Kramer vs. Kramer*](https://film.one/film/kramer-vs-kramer.md) (Fi1m 82)
- **1979** — **[*Manhattan*](https://film.one/film/manhattan.md) (Fi1m 78)**. Nominees: [*Apocalypse Now*](https://film.one/film/apocalypse-now.md) (Fi1m 92), *The China Syndrome*, [*The Deer Hunter*](https://film.one/film/the-deer-hunter.md) (Fi1m 84)
- **1978** — **[*Julia*](https://film.one/film/julia.md) (Fi1m 60)**. Nominees: [*Close Encounters of the Third Kind*](https://film.one/film/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind.md) (Fi1m 85), [*Midnight Express*](https://film.one/film/midnight-express.md) (Fi1m 61), [*Star Wars*](https://film.one/film/star-wars.md) (Fi1m 88)
- **1977** — **[*Annie Hall*](https://film.one/film/annie-hall.md) (Fi1m 86)**. Nominees: *A Bridge Too Far*, [*Network*](https://film.one/film/network.md) (Fi1m 86), [*Rocky*](https://film.one/film/rocky.md) (Fi1m 85)
- **1976** — **[*One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest*](https://film.one/film/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest.md) (Fi1m 86)**. Nominees: [*All the President's Men*](https://film.one/film/all-the-presidents-men.md) (Fi1m 90), *Bugsy Malone*, [*Taxi Driver*](https://film.one/film/taxi-driver.md) (Fi1m 92)
- **1975** — ***Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore***. Nominees: [*Barry Lyndon*](https://film.one/film/barry-lyndon.md) (Fi1m 85), [*Dog Day Afternoon*](https://film.one/film/dog-day-afternoon.md) (Fi1m 90), [*Jaws*](https://film.one/film/jaws.md) (Fi1m 93)
- **1974** — ***Lacombe, Lucien***. Nominees: [*Chinatown*](https://film.one/film/chinatown.md) (Fi1m 93), *The Last Detail*, *Murder on the Orient Express*
- **1973** — ***Day for Night***. Nominees: [*The Day of the Jackal*](https://film.one/film/the-day-of-the-jackal.md) (Fi1m 84), *The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie)*, [*Don't Look Now*](https://film.one/film/dont-look-now.md) (Fi1m 90)
- **1972** — **[*Cabaret*](https://film.one/film/cabaret.md) (Fi1m 88)**. Nominees: [*A Clockwork Orange*](https://film.one/film/a-clockwork-orange.md) (Fi1m 78), [*The French Connection*](https://film.one/film/the-french-connection.md) (Fi1m 85), [*The Last Picture Show*](https://film.one/film/the-last-picture-show.md) (Fi1m 89)
- **1971** — ***Sunday Bloody Sunday***. Nominees: *The Go-Between*, *Death in Venice*, *Taking Off*
- **1970** — **[*Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid*](https://film.one/film/butch-cassidy-and-the-sundance-kid.md) (Fi1m 84)**. Nominees: [*Kes*](https://film.one/film/kes.md) (Fi1m 88), [*M*A*S*H*](https://film.one/film/m-a-s-h.md) (Fi1m 72), *Ryan's Daughter*
- **1969** — **[*Midnight Cowboy*](https://film.one/film/midnight-cowboy.md) (Fi1m 85)**. Nominees: *Oh! What a Lovely War*, *Women in Love*, [*Z*](https://film.one/film/z.md) (Fi1m 84), [*2001: A Space Odyssey*](https://film.one/film/2001-a-space-odyssey.md) (Fi1m 92)
- **1968** — **[*The Graduate*](https://film.one/film/the-graduate.md) (Fi1m 86)**
- **1967** — **[*A Man For All Seasons*](https://film.one/film/a-man-for-all-seasons.md) (Fi1m 81)**. Nominees: [*Bonnie and Clyde*](https://film.one/film/bonnie-and-clyde.md) (Fi1m 88), [*In the Heat of the Night*](https://film.one/film/in-the-heat-of-the-night.md) (Fi1m 85), *A Man and a Woman*, *Best Film*
- **1966** — **[*Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?*](https://film.one/film/whos-afraid-of-virginia-woolf.md) (Fi1m 86)**. Nominees: [*Doctor Zhivago*](https://film.one/film/doctor-zhivago.md) (Fi1m 70), *Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment*, *The Spy Who Came in From The Cold*
- **1965** — **[*My Fair Lady*](https://film.one/film/my-fair-lady.md) (Fi1m 76)**. Nominees: *Hamlet*, *The Hill*, *The Knack ...and How to Get It*, [*Zorba the Greek*](https://film.one/film/zorba-the-greek.md) (Fi1m 67)
- **1964** — **[*Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb*](https://film.one/film/dr-strangelove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb.md) (Fi1m 93)**. Nominees: [*Becket*](https://film.one/film/becket.md) (Fi1m 79), *The Pumpkin Eater*, *The Train*
- **1963** — **[*Tom Jones*](https://film.one/film/tom-jones.md) (Fi1m 74)**. Nominees: [*8½*](https://film.one/film/812.md) (Fi1m 86), *Billy Liar*, *David and Lisa*, *Days of Wine and Roses*, *Divorce Italian Style*, *Hud*, *Knife in the Water*, *The Four Days of Naples*, *The Servant*, *This Sporting Life*, [*To Kill a Mockingbird*](https://film.one/film/to-kill-a-mockingbird.md) (Fi1m 84)
- **1962** — **[*Lawrence of Arabia*](https://film.one/film/lawrence-of-arabia.md) (Fi1m 90)**; **[*The Hustler*](https://film.one/film/the-hustler.md) (Fi1m 88)**. Nominees: *Last Year at Marienbad*, *Billy Budd*, *The Elusive Corporal*, *The Lady with the Dog*, *The Naked Island*, *Jules and Jim*, *A Kind of Loving*, *The L-Shaped Room*, *Lola*, *The Manchurian Candidate*, *The Miracle Worker*, *Only Two Can Play*, *Phaedra*, *Through a Glass Darkly*, *Thou Shalt Not Kill*, *The Long Absence*, [*West Side Story*](https://film.one/film/west-side-story.md) (Fi1m 80)
- **1961** — ***Ballad of a Soldier (Баллада о солдате, Ballada o soldate)***. Nominees: [*The Hustler*](https://film.one/film/the-hustler.md) (Fi1m 88), *The World of Apu*, *The Innocents*, [*Judgment at Nuremberg*](https://film.one/film/judgment-at-nuremberg.md) (Fi1m 82), *The Long and the Short and the Tall*, *Rocco and His Brothers*, [*The Sundowners*](https://film.one/film/the-sundowners.md) (Fi1m 74), *A Taste of Honey*, *The Hole (Le Trou; US: The Night Watch)*, *Whistle Down the Wind*
- **1960** — **[*The Apartment*](https://film.one/film/the-apartment.md) (Fi1m 91)**. Nominees: [*The 400 Blows*](https://film.one/film/the-400-blows.md) (Fi1m 91), *The Angry Silence*, *The Adventure (L'avventura)*, *La Dolce Vita*, [*Elmer Gantry*](https://film.one/film/elmer-gantry.md) (Fi1m 78), *Hiroshima mon amour*, *Inherit the Wind*, *Let's Make Love*, *Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro)*, *Never on Sunday*, *Saturday Night and Sunday Morning*, *Shadows*, *Spartacus*, *The Testament of Orpheus*, *The Trials of Oscar Wilde*, *Tunes of Glory*
- **1959** — **[*Ben-Hur*](https://film.one/film/ben-hur.md) (Fi1m 76)**. Nominees: [*Anatomy of a Murder*](https://film.one/film/anatomy-of-a-murder.md) (Fi1m 87), *The Magician (Ansiktet)*, *The Big Country*, *Compulsion*, *Gigi*, *Look Back in Anger*, *Maigret Sets a Trap*, *North West Frontier*, [*The Nun's Story*](https://film.one/film/the-nuns-story.md) (Fi1m 84), *Ashes and Diamonds*, *Sapphire*, [*Some Like It Hot*](https://film.one/film/some-like-it-hot.md) (Fi1m 92), *Tiger Bay*, *Yesterday's Enemy*
- **1958** — **[*Room at the Top*](https://film.one/film/room-at-the-top.md) (Fi1m 82)**; **[*Pather Panchali*](https://film.one/film/pather-panchali.md) (Fi1m 93)**. Nominees: *Aparajito*, *Cat on a Hot Tin Roof*, [*The Defiant Ones*](https://film.one/film/the-defiant-ones.md) (Fi1m 74), *Ice Cold in Alex*, *Indiscreet*, *The Cranes Are Flying*, *No Down Payment*, *Nights of Cabiria*, *Orders to Kill*, *Sea of Sand*, *The Sheepman*, *Wild Strawberries*, *The Young Lions*
- **1957** — **[*The Bridge on the River Kwai*](https://film.one/film/the-bridge-on-the-river-kwai.md) (Fi1m 88)**. Nominees: [*12 Angry Men*](https://film.one/film/12-angry-men.md) (Fi1m 91), *3:10 to Yuma*, *The Bachelor Party*, *He Who Must Die*, *Edge of the City*, *Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison*, *Pather Panchali*, [*Paths of Glory*](https://film.one/film/paths-of-glory.md) (Fi1m 93), *Gates of Paris*, *The Prince and the Showgirl*, *The Shiralee*, *That Night!*, *The Tin Star*, *A Man Escaped*, *Windom's Way*
- **1956** — ***Gervaise***. Nominees: *Friends for Life*, *Baby Doll*, *The Battle of the River Plate*, *The Unfrocked One*, *Guys and Dolls*, *The Killing*, *The Man Who Never Was*, *The Man with the Golden Arm*, [*Picnic*](https://film.one/film/picnic.md) (Fi1m 63), *The Grasshopper*, *Reach for the Sky*, [*Rebel Without a Cause*](https://film.one/film/rebel-without-a-cause.md) (Fi1m 84), *Shadow*, *Smiles of a Summer Night*, *A Town Like Alice*, *The Trouble with Harry*, *War and Peace*, *Yield to the Night*
- **1955** — ***Richard III***. Nominees: *Bad Day at Black Rock*, *Carmen Jones*, *The Colditz Story*, *The Dam Busters*, *East of Eden*, *The Ladykillers*, *Marty*, *The Night My Number Came Up*, *The Prisoner*, [*Seven Samurai*](https://film.one/film/seven-samurai.md) (Fi1m 95), *Simba*, *La Strada*, *Summertime*
- **1954** — **[*The Wages of Fear*](https://film.one/film/the-wages-of-fear.md) (Fi1m 90)**. Nominees: [*The Caine Mutiny*](https://film.one/film/the-caine-mutiny.md) (Fi1m 76), *Carrington V.C.*, *The Divided Heart*, *Doctor in the House*, *Executive Suite*, *For Better, for Worse*, *Hobson's Choice*, *How to Marry a Millionaire*, *Gate of Hell*, *The Maggie*, *The Moon Is Blue*, [*On the Waterfront*](https://film.one/film/on-the-waterfront.md) (Fi1m 89), *Bread, Love and Dreams (Pane, amore e fantasia)*, *The Purple Plain*, [*Rear Window*](https://film.one/film/rear-window.md) (Fi1m 94), *Riot in Cell Block 11*, *Robinson Crusoe*, *Romeo and Juliet*, [*Seven Brides for Seven Brothers*](https://film.one/film/seven-brides-for-seven-brothers.md) (Fi1m 76)
- **1953** — ***Forbidden Games***. Nominees: *The Bad and the Beautiful*, *Come Back, Little Sheba*, *The Cruel Sea*, *Two Cents Worth of Hope*, [*From Here to Eternity*](https://film.one/film/from-here-to-eternity.md) (Fi1m 83), *Genevieve*, *The Heart of the Matter*, [*Julius Caesar*](https://film.one/film/julius-caesar.md) (Fi1m 76), *The Kidnappers (US: The Little Kidnappers)*, *Lili*, *The Medium*, *Mogambo*, [*Moulin Rouge*](https://film.one/film/moulin-rouge-1952.md) (Fi1m 64), *Are We All Murderers?*, *Little World of Don Camillo (Don Camillo)*, [*Roman Holiday*](https://film.one/film/roman-holiday.md) (Fi1m 88), [*Shane*](https://film.one/film/shane.md) (Fi1m 83), *The Sun Shines Bright*
- **1952** — ***The Sound Barrier***. Nominees: [*The African Queen*](https://film.one/film/the-african-queen.md) (Fi1m 84), *Angels One Five*, *The Boy Kumasenu*, *Carrie*, *Casque d'Or*, *Cry, the Beloved Country*, *Death of a Salesman*, *Limelight*, *Mandy*, *Miracle in Milan*, *The Young and the Damned*, *Outcast of the Islands*, *Rashomon*, *The River*, [*Singin' in the Rain*](https://film.one/film/singin-in-the-rain.md) (Fi1m 93), [*A Streetcar Named Desire*](https://film.one/film/a-streetcar-named-desire.md) (Fi1m 88), *Viva Zapata!*
- **1951** — ***La Ronde***. Nominees: [*An American in Paris*](https://film.one/film/an-american-in-paris.md) (Fi1m 76), *The Browning Version*, *Detective Story*, *Sunday in August*, *Fourteen Hours*, *Miss Julie*, *The Lavender Hill Mob*, *The Magic Box (1951)*, *The Magic Garden*, *The Man in the White Suit*, *No Resting Place*, *The Red Badge of Courage*, *The Small Miracle*, *The Sound of Fury*, *A Walk in the Sun*, *White Corridors*, *Edward and Caroline*
- **1950** — **[*All About Eve*](https://film.one/film/all-about-eve.md) (Fi1m 90)**. Nominees: *The Asphalt Jungle*, *Beauty and the Devil*, *Intruder in the Dust*, *The Men*, *On the Town*, *Orphée (US: Orpheus)*, [*Bicycle Thieves*](https://film.one/film/bicycle-thieves.md) (Fi1m 92)
- **1949** — **[*Bicycle Thieves*](https://film.one/film/bicycle-thieves.md) (Fi1m 92)**; **[*The Best Years of Our Lives*](https://film.one/film/the-best-years-of-our-lives.md) (Fi1m 90)**. Nominees: *The Berliner (Berliner Ballade)*, *The Last Stage*, *The Set-Up*, [*The Third Man*](https://film.one/film/the-third-man.md) (Fi1m 92), [*The Treasure of the Sierra Madre*](https://film.one/film/the-treasure-of-the-sierra-madre.md) (Fi1m 88), *The Window*
- **1948** — **[*Hamlet*](https://film.one/film/hamlet-1948.md) (Fi1m 84)**. Nominees: [*Crossfire*](https://film.one/film/crossfire.md) (Fi1m 77), *The Fallen Idol*, *Monsieur Vincent*, *The Naked City*, *Paisan*, *Four Steps in the Clouds*
- **1947** — **[*The Best Years of Our Lives*](https://film.one/film/the-best-years-of-our-lives.md) (Fi1m 90)**

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