A Century of Film: The Nighthawk Awards

wizard This is a comprehensive list of the Nighthawk Awards, my own version of the Oscars.

Films either appear in the year in which they were Oscar eligible (even if they weren’t actually eligible), or, if no confirmed U.S. release date, in the year they were originally released.

For Picture awards (Picture / Foreign Film / Animated Film) a 2nd Place Award is listed if the second place finisher had the same score on my 100 point scale. For all other awards, a 2nd Place Award means they had the same score of the 9 point scale I use for awards categories.

Best Picture

note: The number in parenthesis after each film is the rank in the Top 1000 (through 2020 except for the 2021 films which are through 2021) and will be the same for Animated and Foreign. That gives an idea of how great that film is, how tough the year is, and for ones with a 2nd Place Award, just how close it came to winning.

1926: Greed (#110)
- 2nd Place Award: The Battleship Potemkin (#146)
1928: Sunrise (#27)
- 2nd Place Award: Metropolis (#30)
1929: Nosferatu (#194)
1930: All Quiet on the Western Front (#52)
1931: City Lights (#57)
1932: Scarface (#241)
1933: M (#28)
1934: The Thin Man (#338)
1935: The Informer (#301)
- 2nd Place Award: Mutiny on the Bounty (#311)
1936: Modern Times (#25)
1937: A Star is Born (#217)
1938: The Grand Illusion (#5)
1939: The Wizard of Oz (#1)
1940: The Grapes of Wrath (#47)
1941: Citizen Kane (#10)
1942: Sullivan’s Travels (#107)
1943: Casablanca (#20)
1944: Double Indemnity (#87)
1945: The Lost Weekend (#226)
1946: Children of Paradise (#2)
1947: Great Expectations (#129)
1948: La belle et la bete (#36)
- 2nd Place Award: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (#45)
1949: Bicycle Thieves (#111)
1950: Sunset Blvd. (#3)
1951: A Streetcar Named Desire (#23)
1952: Rashomon (#4)
1953: From Here to Eternity (#78)
1954: On the Waterfront (#40)
1955: Rebel Without a Cause (#208)
1956: Seven Samurai (#29)
1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai (#22)
1958: Touch of Evil (#9)
1959: The Seventh Seal (#6)
1960: Ikiru (#68)
- 2nd Place Award: The Apartment (#90)
1961: West Side Story (#11)
1962: Lawrence of Arabia (#12)
1963: Winter Light (#216)
- 2nd Place Award: The Great Escape (#218)
1964: Dr. Strangelove (#19)
1965: Doctor Zhivago (#119)
1966: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (#73)
1967: Bonnie and Clyde (#14)
1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey (#56)
1969: The Wild Bunch (#54)
1970: M*A*S*H (#79)
1971: A Clockwork Orange (#41)
1972: The Godfather (#7)
1973: Cries and Whispers (#13)
1974: Chinatown (#8)
1975: Jaws (#138)
- 2nd Place Award: Dog Day Afternoon (#184)
1976: All the President’s Men (#89)
1977: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (#26)
- 2nd Place Award: Annie Hall (#51)
1978: The Deer Hunter (#357)
- 2nd Place Award: Midnight Express (#362)
1979: Alien (#80)
1980: Raging Bull (#53)
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark (#15)
1982: Sophie’s Choice (#250)
1983: Fanny and Alexander (#77)
1984: Amadeus (#58)
- 2nd Place Award: A Passage to India (#59)
1985: Ran (#39)
1986: Hannah and Her Sisters (#48)
1987: The Princess Bride (#24)
1988: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (#135)
1989: Glory (#46)
1990: GoodFellas (#18)
1991: The Silence of the Lambs (#38)
1992: Unforgiven (#95)
- 2nd Place Award: The Crying Game (#96)
1993: Schindler’s List (#34)
- 2nd Place Award: The Age of Innocence (#55)
1994: Ed Wood (#43)
- 2nd Place Award: Pulp Fiction (#44)
1995: Sense and Sensibility (#103)
1996: Lone Star (#49)
- 2nd Place Award: Trainspotting (#50)
1997: L.A. Confidential (#35)
1998: Out of Sight (#144)
1999: American Beauty (#75)
- 2nd Place Award: Magnolia (#83)
2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (#16)
2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (#21)
2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (#92)
- 2nd Place Award: Gangs of New York (#98)
2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (#17)
2004: The Aviator (#82)
2005: Good Night and Good Luck (#64)
- 2nd Place Award: Brokeback Mountain (#65)
2006: The Departed (#121)
- 2nd Place Award: Pan’s Labyrinth (#128)
2007: No Country for Old Men (#86)
- 2nd Place Award: Atonement (#99)
2008: Slumdog Millionaire (#113)
- 2nd Place Award: Wall-E (#117)
2009: Inglourious Basterds (#191)
- 2nd Place Award: The Hurt Locker (#258)
2010: Inception (#125)
- 2nd Place Award: The Social Network (#177)
2011: Hugo (#234)
- 2nd Place Award: The Artist (#235)
2012: Lincoln (#61)
2013: Gravity (#97)
2014: Birdman (#63)
2015: Carol (#164)
2016: La La Land (#60)
2017: Lady Bird (#93)
- 2nd Place Award: Dunkirk (#94)
2018: The Favourite (#140)
- 2nd Place Award: First Man (#149)
2019: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (#112)
- 2nd Place Award: Little Women (#165)
2020: The Personal History of David Copperfield (#288)
2021: West Side Story (#54)

Best Director:

1926: Erich von Stroheim (Greed)
- 2nd Place Award: Sergei Eisenstein (The Battleship Potemkin)
1928: F.W. Murnau (Sunrise)
- 2nd Place Award: Fritz Lang (Metropolis)
1929: F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu)
1930: Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front)
1931: Charlie Chaplin (City Lights)
1932: Howard Hawks (Scarface)
1933: Fritz Lang (M)
1934: W.S. Van Dyke (The Thin Man)
- 2nd Place Award: Carl Theodor Dreyer (Vampyr)
1935: John Ford (The Informer)
- 2nd Place Award: Alfred Hitchcock (The 39 Steps)
1936: Charlie Chaplin (Modern Times)
1937: Fritz Lang (You Only Live Once)
1938: Jean Renoir (The Grand Illusion)
1939: Victor Fleming (The Wizard of Oz)
1940: John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath)
1941: Orson Wells (Citizen Kane)
- 2nd Place Award: John Huston (The Maltese Falcon)
1942: Orson Welles (The Magnificent Ambersons)
1943: Michael Curtiz (Casablanca)
1944: Billy Wilder (Double Indemnity)
1945: Billy Wilder (The Lost Weekend)
1946: Marcel Carne (Children of Paradise)
1947: David Lean (Great Expectations)
1948: Jean Cocteau (La Belle et la Bête)
1949: Vittorio de Sica (Bicycle Thieves)
1950: Billy Wilder (Sunset Blvd.)
- 2nd Place Award: Carol Reed (The Third Man)
1951: Elia Kazan (A Streetcar Named Desire)
1952: Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon)
1953: Fred Zinnemann (From Here to Eternity)
1954: Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront)
1955: Alfred Hitchcock (To Catch a Thief)
1956: Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai)
1957: David Lean (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
- 2nd Place Award: Stanley Kubrick (Paths of Glory)
1958: Orson Welles (Touch of Evil)
1959: Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal)
1960: Akira Kurosawa (Ikiru)
- 2nd Place Award: Billy Wilder (The Apartment)
1961: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins (West Side Story)
1962: David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia)
1963: Akira Kurosawa (Stray Dog)
- 2nd Place: John Sturges (The Great Escape)
1964: Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove)
1965: David Lean (Doctor Zhivago)
1966: Mike Nichols (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf)
1967: Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde)
1968: Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey)
1969: Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch)
1970: Robert Altman (M*A*S*H)
1971: Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange)
1972: Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather)
1973: Ingmar Bergman (Cries and Whispers)
- 2nd Place Award: Martin Scorsese (Mean Streets)
1974: Roman Polanski (Chinatown)
- 2nd Place Award: Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather Part II)
1975: Steven Spielberg (Jaws)
1976: Alan J. Pakula (All the President’s Men)
- 2nd Place Award: Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver)
1977: George Lucas (Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope)
1978: Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter)
1979: Ridley Scott (Alien)
- 2nd Place Award: Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now)
1980: Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull)
1981: Steven Spielberg (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
1982: Wolfganger Petersen (Das Boot)
1983: Ingmar Bergman (Fanny and Alexander)
1984: Milos Forman (Amadeus)
- 2nd Place Award: David Lean (A Passage to India)
1985: Akira Kurosawa (Ran)
1986: Woody Allen (Hannah and Her Sisters)
- 2nd Place Award: Oliver Stone (Platoon)
1987: Steven Spielberg (Empire of the Sun)
1988: Robert Zemeckis (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
1989: Ed Zwick (Glory)
- 2nd Place Award: Oliver Stone (Born on the Fourth of July)
1990: Martin Scorsese (GoodFellas)
1991: Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs)
- 2nd Place Award: Oliver Stone (JFK)
1992: Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven)
1993: Steven Spielberg (Schindler’s List)
- 2nd Place Award: Martin Scorsese (The Age of Innocence)
1994: Tim Burton (Ed Wood)
- 2nd Place Award: Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)
1995: Ang Lee (Sense and Sensibility)
- 2nd Place Award: Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects)
1996: Anthony Minghella (The English Patient)
- 2nd Place Award: Danny Boyle (Trainspotting)
1997: Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential)
1998: Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan)
1999: Sam Mendes (American Beauty)
- 2nd Place Award: Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia)
2000: Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
2001: Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
2002: Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)
- 2nd Place Award: Martin Scorsese (Gangs of New York)
2003: Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
- 2nd Place Award: Clint Eastwood (Mystic River)
2004: Martin Scorsese (The Aviator)
2005: Steven Spielberg (Munich)
- 2nd Place Award: Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)
2006: Martin Scorsese (The Departed)
- 2nd Place Award: Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth)
2007: Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men)
- 2nd Place Award: Joe Wright (Atonement)
2008: Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
- 2nd Place Award: Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight)
2009: Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
- 2nd Place Award: Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
2010: Christopher Nolan (Inception)
- 2nd Place Award: David Fincher (The Social Network)
2011: Martin Scorsese (Hugo)
2012: Steven Spielberg (Lincoln)
- 2nd Place Award: Ben Affleck (Argo)
2013: Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity)
2014: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Birdman)
- 2nd Place Award: Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
2015: Todd Haynes (Carol)
- 2nd Place Award: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (The Revenant)
2016: Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
2017: Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk)
2018: Damien Chazelle (First Man)
- 2nd Place Award: Alfonso Cuaron (Roma)
2019: Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood)
- 2nd Place Award: Sam Mends (1917)
2020: Armando Iannucci (The Personal History of David Copperfield)
- 2nd Place Award: Aaron Sorkin (The Trial of the Chicago 7)
2021: Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)
- 2nd Place Award: Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)

Best Adapted Screenplay:

1926: Greed
1928: Sunrise
1929: Nosferatu
1930: All Quiet on the Western Front
1931: Dracula
1932: Scarface
1933: I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
1934: The Thin Man
1935: The Informer
1936: The Petrified Forest
1937: The Awful Truth
1938: Bringing Up Baby
1939: The Wizard of Oz
1940: The Grapes of Wrath
- 2nd Place Award: The Philadelphia Story
1941: The Maltese Falcon
1942: The Magnificent Ambersons
1943: Casablanca
1944: Double Indemnity
1945: The Lost Weekend
- 2nd Place Award: To Have and Have Not
1946: The Best Years of Our Lives
- 2nd Place Award: Brief Encounter
1947: Great Expectations
1948: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949: Bicycle Thieves
1950: All About Eve
1951: A Streetcar Named Desire
1952: Rashomon
1953: From Here to Eternity
- 2nd Place Award: Stalag 17
1954: Sabrina
1955: Mister Roberts
1956: The Killing
1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai
- 2nd Place Award: Paths of Glory
1958: Touch of Evil
1959: The Seventh Seal
- 2nd Place Award: Some Like It Hot
1960: The Virgin Spring
- 2nd Place Award: The Cranes are Flying
1961: West Side Story
1962: Lawrence of Arabia
- 2nd Place Award: To Kill a Mockingbird
1963: Tom Jones
1964: Dr. Strangelove
1965: Doctor Zhivago
1966: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
1967: The Graduate
- 2nd Place Award: In the Heat of the Night
1968: The Lion in Winter
1969: Chimes at Midnight
1970: M*A*S*H
1971: A Clockwork Orange
1972: The Godfather
1973: The Exorcist
1974: The Godfather Part II
- 2nd Place Award: Young Frankenstein
1975: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1976: All the President’s Men
1977: That Obscure Object of Desire
1978: Midnight Express
1979: Being There
1980: Breaker Morant
1981: The French Lieutenant’s Woman
1982: Sophie’s Choice
1983: Terms of Endearment
1984: Amadeus
- 2nd Place Award: A Passage to India
1985: Ran
- 2nd Place Award: Kiss of the Spider Woman
1986: A Room with a View
1987: The Princess Bride
1988: Dangerous Liasions
- 2nd Place Award: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989: Glory
- 2nd Place Award: Field of Dreams
1990: GoodFellas
1991: The Silence of the Lambs
1992: Howards End
- 2nd Place Award: The Player
1993: Schindler’s List
- 2nd Place Award: The Age of Innocence
1994: Ed Wood
- 2nd Place Award: The Shawshank Redemption
1995: Sense and Sensibility
1996: Trainspotting
- 2nd Place Award: The English Patient
1997: L.A. Confidential
1998: Out of Sight
1999: The End of the Affair
2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002: The Hours
- 2nd Place Award: Adaptation
2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004: Sideways
2005: Brokeback Mountain
2006: The Departed
- 2nd Place Award: Children of Men
2007: No Country for Old Men
- 2nd Place Award: Atonement
2008: Slumdog Millionaire
2009: An Education
2010: The Social Network
2011: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2012: Lincoln
2013: Wolf of Wall Street
2014: The Imitation Game
2015: Carol
2016: Arrival
- 2nd Place Award: Moonlight
2017: Call Me By Your Name
2018: If Beale Street Could Talk
2019: Little Women
2020: The Personal History of David Copperfield
2021: West Side Story

Best Original Screenplay:

1926: The Gold Rush
1928: Metropolis
1929: Steamboat Bill Jr.
1930: The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna
1931: City Lights
1932: À nous la liberté
1933: M
- 2nd Place Award: Duck Soup
1934: Mauvaise Graine
1935: The Man Who Knew Too Much
1936: Modern Times
1937: A Star is Born
1938: The Grand Illusion
1939: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1940: The Great Dictator
1941: Citizen Kane
1942: Sullivan’s Travels
1943: Shadow of a Doubt
1944: The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
- 2nd Place Award: Hail the Conquering Hero
1945: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1946: Children of Paradise
1947: A Matter of Life and Death
1948: Red River
1949: A Canterbury Tale
1950: Sunset Blvd.
- 2nd Place Award: The Third Man
1951: Ace in the Hole
1952: The Lavender Hill Mob
1953: Roman Holiday
1954: On the Waterfront
1955: Rebel Without a Cause
1956: Seven Samurai
1957: I Vitelloni
1958: Smiles of a Summer Night
1959: Wild Strawberries
1960: Ikiru
- 2nd Place Award: The Apartment
1961: Yojimbo
1962: Through a Glass Darkly
1963: Winter Light
1964: A Hard Day’s Night
1965: Drunken Angel
1966: The Fortune Cookie
1967: Bonnie and Clyde
1968: The Producers
1969: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- 2nd Place Award: The Wild Bunch
1970: Five Easy Pieces
1971: Sunday Bloody Sunday
1972: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1973: Cries and Whispers
1974: Chinatown
- 2nd Place Award: Scenes from a Marriage
1975: Dog Day Afternoon
1976: Network
1977: Annie Hall
1978: Interiors
- 2nd Place Award: Autumn Sonata
1979: Manhattan
1980: Stardust Memories
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982: Tootsie
1983: Fanny and Alexander
- 2nd Place Award: The Big Chill
1984: This is Spinal Tap
1985: The Purple Rose of Cairo
1986: Hannah and Her Sisters
1987: Broadcast News
- 2nd Place Award: Au Revoir, Les Enfants
1988: A Fish Called Wanda
- 2nd Place Award: Running on Empty
1989: When Harry Met Sally
1990: Miller’s Crossing
1991: The Fisher King
- 2nd Place Award: Boyz N the Hood
1992: The Crying Game
1993: A Perfect World
- 2nd Place Award: My Neighbor Totoro
1994: Pulp Fiction
- 2nd Place Award: Four Weddings and a Funeral
1995: The Usual Suspects
1996: Lone Star
- 2nd Place Award: Fargo
1997: Boogie Nights
1998: Shakespeare in Love
1999: American Beauty
- 2nd Place Award: Magnolia
2000: Almost Famous
2001: The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie Poulain
- 2nd Place Award; Memento
2002: Talk to Her
- 2nd Place Award: Y tu mama tambien
2003: Lost in Translation
- 2nd Place Award: In America
2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2005: Good Night and Good Luck
2006: Pan’s Labyrinth
- 2nd Place Award: The Queen
2007: Ratatouille
- 2nd Place Award: Juno
2008: Wall-E
- 2nd Place Award: Milk
2009: Inglourious Basterds
- 2nd Place Award: A Serious Man
2010: Inception
2011: Midnight in Paris
- 2nd Place Award: A Separation
2012: Django Unchained
- 2nd Place Award: Moonrise Kingdom
2013: Inside Llewyn Davis
- 2nd Place Award: American Hustle
2014: The Grand Budapest Hotel
2015: Inside Out
- 2nd Place Award: Spotlight
2016: Manchester by the Sea
2017: Lady Bird
2018: The Favourite
- 2nd Place Award: Roma
2019: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
2020: The Trial of the Chicago 7
2021: Belfast
- 2nd Place Award: Licorice Pizza

Best Actor:

1926: Lon Chaney (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
1928: Emil Jannings (The Last Command)
1929: Albert Dieudonne (Napoleon)
1930: Lew Ayres (All Quiet on the Western Front)
1931: Charlie Chaplin (City Lights)
1932: Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
1933: Peter Lorre (M)
- 2nd Place Award: Paul Muni (I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang)
1934: William Powell (The Thin Man)
1935: Charles Laughton (Mutiny on the Bounty)
1936: Charlie Chaplin (Modern Times)
1937: Fredric March (A Star is Born)
1938: Leslie Howard (Pygmalion)
1939: James Stewart (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)
1940: Henry Fonda (The Grapes of Wrath)
1941: Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)
- 2nd Place Award: Humphrey Bogart (The Maltese Falcon)
1942: James Cagney (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
1943: Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca)
1944: Charles Boyer (Gaslight)
1945: Ray Milland (The Lost Weekend)
1946: James Stewart (It’s a Wonderful Life)
1947: Nicholai Cherkasov (Ivan the Terrible Part I)
1948: Humphrey Bogart (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
1949: Kirk Douglas (Champion)
1950: William Holden (Sunset Blvd.)
1951: Marlon Brando (A Streetcar Named Desire)
1952: Gary Cooper (High Noon)
1953: William Holden (Stalag 17)
1954: Marlon Brando (On the Waterfront)
1955: James Dean (Rebel Without a Cause)
- 2nd Place Award: Henry Fonda (Mister Roberts)
1956: Laurence Olivier (Richard III)
- 2nd Place Award: Kirk Douglas (Lust for Life)
1957: Alec Guinness (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
1958: Orson Welles (Touch of Evil)
1959: Victor Sjostrom (Wild Strawberries)
- 2nd Place Award: Jack Lemmon (Some Like It Hot)
1960: Takashi Shimura (Ikiru)
- 2nd Place Award: Jack Lemmon (The Apartment)
1961: Paul Newman (The Hustler)
1962: Peter O’Toole (Lawrence of Arabia)
1963: Gunnar Bjornstrand (Winter Light)
1964: Peter Sellers (Dr. Strangelove)
- 2nd Place: George C. Scott (Dr. Strangelove)
1965: Rod Steiger (The Pawnbroker)
1966: Richard Burton (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf)
1967: Warren Beatty (Bonnie and Clyde)
1968: Peter O’Toole (The Lion in Winter)
1969: Orson Welles (Chimes at Midnight)
- 2nd Place Award: William Holden (The Wild Bunch)
1970: Jack Nicholson (Five Easy Pieces)
- 2nd Place Award: George C. Scott (Patton)
1971: Gene Hackman (The French Connection)
1972: Michael Caine (Sleuth)
- 2nd Place Award: Laurence Olivier (Sleuth)
1973: Marlon Brando (Last Tango in Paris)
- 2nd Place Award: Al Pacino (Serpico)
1974: Jack Nicholson (Chinatown)
1975: Jack Nicholson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)
- 2nd Place Award: Al Pacino (Dog Day Afternoon)
1976: Robert De Niro (Taxi Driver)
1977: Klaus Kinski (Aguirre, the Wrath of God)
- 2nd Place Award: Richard Burton (Equus)
1978: Robert De Niro (The Deer Hunter)
1979: Peter Sellers (Being There)
- 2nd Place Award: Roy Scheider (All That Jazz)
1980: Robert De Niro (Raging Bull)
1981: Warren Beatty (Reds)
1982: Paul Newman (The Verdict)
- 2nd Place Award: Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie)
1983: Michael Caine (Educating Rita)
1984: Tom Hulce (Amadeus)
1985: William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman)
1986: Bob Hoskins (Mona Lisa)
1987: William Hurt (Broadcast News)
1988: Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man)
1989: Daniel Day-Lewis (My Left Foot)
1990: Ray Liotta (GoodFellas)
- 2nd Place Award: Robert De Niro (GoodFellas)
1991: Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs)
1992: Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven)
1993: Daniel Day-Lewis (In the Name of the Father)
- 2nd Place Award: Anthony Hopkins (The Remains of the Day)
1994: Johnny Depp (Ed Wood)
- 2nd Place Award: Ralph Fiennes (Quiz Show)
1995: Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas)
1996: Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient)
1997: Ian Holm (The Sweet Hereafter)
1998: Ian McKellen (Gods and Monsters)
1999: Kevin Spacey (American Beauty)
2000: Michael Douglas (Wonder Boys)
- 2nd Place Award: John Cusack (High Fidelity)
2001: Tom Wilkinson (In the Bedroom)
2002: Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York)
2003: Bill Murray (Lost in Translation)
- 2nd Place Award: Sean Penn (Mystic River)
2004: Leonardo DiCaprio (The Aviator)
- 2nd Place Award: Jim Carrey (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
2005: Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain)
- 2nd Place Award: Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote)
2006: Forrest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)
2007: Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
2008: Sean Penn (Milk)
2009: Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)
- 2nd Place Award: Colin Firth (A Single Man)
2010: Colin Firth (The King’s Speech)
2011: George Clooney (The Descendants)
- 2nd Place Award: Gary Oldman (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)
2012: Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
2013: Leonardo DiCaprio (Wolf of Wall Street)
- 2nd Place Award: Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis)
2014: Michael Keaton (Birdman)
- 2nd Place Award: Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game)
2015: Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant)
2016: Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)
- 2nd Place Award: Denzel Washington (Fences)
2017: Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour)
2018: Bradley Cooper (A Star is Born)
- 2nd Place Award: Christian Bale (Vice)
2019: Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory)
- 2nd Place Award: Joaquin Phoenix (Joker)
2020: Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
2021: Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog)
- 2nd Place Award: Peter Dinklage (Cyrano)

Best Actress:

1926: Lilian Gish (Broken Blossoms)
1928: Janet Gaynor (Sunrise)
1929: Lilian Gish (The Wind)
1930: Janet Gaynor (Lucky Star)
1931: Norma Shearer (A Free Soul)
1932: Constance Bennett (What Price Hollywood)
1933: Katharine Hepburn (Morning Glory)
1934: Bette Davis (Of Human Bondage)
- 2nd Place Award: Myrna Loy (The Thin Man)
1935: Katharine Hepburn (Alice Adams)
1936: Bette Davis (The Petrified Forest)
1937: Janet Gaynor (A Star is Born)
1938: Wendy Hiller (Pygmalion)
1939: Vivian Leigh (Gone with the Wind)
1940: Katharine Hepburn (The Philadelphia Story)
- 2nd Place Award: Joan Fontaine (Rebecca)
1941: Barbara Stanwyck (The Lady Eve)
1942: Greer Garson (Mrs. Miniver)
1943: Ingrid Bergman (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
- 2nd Place Award: Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca)
1944: Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight)
1945: Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce)
1946: Celia Johnson (Brief Encounter)
1947: Deborah Kerr (I See a Dark Stranger)
1948: Olivia de Havilland (The Snake Pit)
1949: Olivia de Havilland (The Heiress)
1950: Gloria Swanson (Sunset Blvd.)
- 2nd Place Award: Bette Davis (All About Eve)
1951: Vivian Leigh (A Streetcar Named Desire)
1952: Anita Bjork (Miss Julie)
1953: Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday)
1954: Grace Kelly (The Country Girl)
- 2nd Place Award: Judy Garland (A Star is Born)
1955: Anna Magnani (The Rose Tattoo)
1956: Ingrid Bergman (Anastasia)
1957: Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve)
1958: Elizabeth Taylor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
- 2nd Place Award: Eva Dahlbeck (Smiles of a Summer Night)
1959: Simone Signoret (Room at the Top)
1960: Shirley MacLaine (The Apartment)
1961: Audrey Hepburn (Breakfast at Tiffany’s)
1962: Harriet Andersson (Through a Glass Darkly)
1963: Patricia Neal (Hud)
1964: Anne Bancroft (The Pumpkin Eater)
1965: Julie Christie (Darling)
1966: Elizabeth Taylor (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf)
1967: Faye Dunaway (Bonnie and Clyde)
1968: Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter)
1969: Jane Fonda (They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?)
1970: Glenda Jackson (Women in Love)
1971: Jane Fonda (Klute)
- 2nd Place Award: Glenda Jackson (Sunday Bloody Sunday)
1972: Liza Minnelli (Cabaret)
1973: Liv Ullman (Cries and Whispers)
- 2nd Place Award: Ingrid Thulin (Cries and Whispers)
1974: Faye Dunaway (Chinatown)
1975: Isabelle Adjani (The Story of Adele H)
- 2nd Place Award: Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)
1976: Faye Dunaway (Network)
1977: Diane Keaton (Annie Hall)
1978: Ingrid Bergman (Autumn Sonata)
1979: Bette Midler (The Rose)
- 2nd Place Award: Jane Fonda (The China Syndrome)
1980: Mary Tyler Moore (Ordinary People)
1981: Diane Keaton (Reds)
1982: Meryl Streep (Sophie’s Choice)
1983: Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment)
1984: Judy Davis (A Passage to India)
1985: Frances McDormand (Blood Simple)
- 2nd Place Award: Meryl Streep (Plenty)
1986: Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God)
1987: Holly Hunter (Broadcast News)
1988: Christine Lahti (Running on Empty)
1989: Michelle Pfeiffer (The Fabulous Baker Boys)
1990: Anjelica Huston (The Grifters)
1991: Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs)
1992: Emma Thompson (Howards End)
1993: Emma Thompson (The Remains of the Day)
- 2nd Place Award: Holly Hunter (The Piano)
1994: Sigourney Weaver (Death and the Maiden)
1995: Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility)
1996: Frances McDormand (Fargo)
1997: Cate Blanchett (Oscar and Lucinda)
- 2nd Place Award: Helena Bonham Carter (The Wings of the Dove)
1998: Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth)
1999: Annette Bening (American Beauty)
- 2nd Place Award: Julianne Moore (The End of the Affair)
2000: Laura Linney (You Can Count on Me)
2001: Sissy Spacek (In the Bedroom)
2002: Nicole Kidman (The Hours)
- 2nd Place Award: Meryl Streep (The Hours)
2003: Naomi Watts (21 Grams)
- 2nd Place Award: Charlize Theron (Monster)
2004: Audrey Tautou (A Very Long Engagement)
- 2nd Place Award: Kate Winslet (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
2005: Gwyneth Paltrow (Proof)
2006: Helen Mirren (The Queen)
2007: Marianne Cotillard (La vie en rose)
- 2nd Place Award: Julie Christie (Away From Her)
2008: Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road)
- 2nd Place Award: Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married)
2009: Carey Mulligan (An Education)
2010: Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
- 2nd Place Award: Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone)
2011: Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn)
2012: Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)
- 2nd Place Award: Emmanuelle Riva (Amour)
2013: Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
2014: Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)
2015: Cate Blanchett (Carol)
2016: Emma Stone (La La Land)
- 2nd Place Award: Amy Adams (Arrival)
2017: Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird)
2018: Lady Gaga (A Star is Born)
- 2nd Place Award: Olivia Colman (The Favourite)
2019: Saoirse Ronan (Little Women)
- 2nd Place Award: Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story)
2020: Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman)
- 2nd Place Award: Viola Davis (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
2021: Penelope Cruz (Parallel Mothers)
- 2nd Place Award: Kristen Stewert (Spencer)

Best Supporting Actor:

1926: Donald Crisp (Broken Blossoms)
1928: William Powell (The Last Command)
1929: Max Schreck (Nosferatu)
1930: Albert Steinruck (Asphalt)
1931: Harry Myers (City Lights)
1932: Boris Karloff (Frankenstein)
1933: John Barrymore (Dinner at Eight)
1934: Charles Laughton (The Barretts of Wimpole Street)
1935: Charles Laughton (Les Miserables)
1936: Humphrey Bogart (The Petrified Forest)
1937: Eric Blore (It’s Love I’m After)
1938: Erich von Stroheim (The Grand Illusion)
1939: Claude Rains (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)
1940: Cary Grant (The Philadelphia Story)
1941: Sydney Greenstreet (The Maltese Falcon)
1942: Walter Huston (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
1943: Claude Rains (Casablanca)
1944: Clifton Webb (Laura)
1945: Robert Mitchum (The Story of G.I. Joe)
1946: Claude Rains (Notorious)
- 2nd Place Award: Harold Russell (The Best Years of Our Lives)
1947: Robert Ryan (Crossfire)
1948: Walter Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
1949: Kirk Douglas (A Letter to Three Wives)
1950: Erich von Stroheim (Sunset Blvd.)
- 2nd Place Award: Orson Welles (The Third Man)
1951: Karl Malden (A Streetcar Named Desire)
1952: Toshiro Mifune (Rashomon)
1953: Frank Sinatra (From Here to Eternity)
1954: Karl Malden (On the Waterfront)
1955: Jack Lemmon (Mister Roberts)
1956: Toshiro Mifune (Seven Samurai)
1957: Sessue Hayakawa (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
1958: Burl Ives (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
1959: George C. Scott (Anatomy of a Murder)
1960: Laurence Olivier (Spartacus)
1961: George C. Scott (The Hustler)
1962: Omar Sharif (Lawrence of Arabia)
1963: Hugh Griffith (Tom Jones)
1964: Sterling Hayden (Dr. Strangelove)
1965: Tom Courteney (Doctor Zhivago)
1966: George Segal (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf)
1967: Gene Hackman (Bonnie and Clyde)
1968: Anthony Hopkins (The Lion in Winter)
- 2nd Place Award: Gene Wilder (The Producers)
1969: Henry Fonda (Once Upon a Time in the West)
1970: Gene Hackman (I Never Sang for My Father)
1971: Ben Johnson (The Last Picture Show)
1972: Al Pacino (The Godfather)
1973: Robert De Niro (Mean Streets)
1974: Robert De Niro (The Godfather Part II)
1975: Jack Warden (Shampoo)
1976: Jason Robards (All the President’s Men)
- 2nd Place Award: Laurence Olivier (Marathon Man)
1977: Alec Guinness (Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope)
1978: Christopher Walken (The Deer Hunter)
- 2nd Place Award: Michael Caine (California Suite)
1979: Robert Duvall (Apocalypse Now)
1980: Joe Pesci (Raging Bull)
1981: Howard Rollins, Jr. (Ragtime)
1982: Kevin Kline (Sophie’s Choice)
1983: Jack Nicholson (Terms of Endearment)
1984: Haing S. Ngor (The Killing Fields)
1985: Klaus Marie Brandeur (Out of Africa)
1986: Michael Caine (Hannah and Her Sisters)
- 2nd Place Award: Dennis Hopper (Blue Velvet)
1987: Mandy Patinkin (The Princess Bride)
1988: Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda)
1989: Denzel Washington (Glory)
1990: Joe Pesci (GoodFellas)
1991: Alan Rickman (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves)
1992: Gene Hackman (Unforgiven)
1993: Ralph Fiennes (Schindler’s List)
1994: Martin Landau (Ed Wood)
1995: Kevin Spacey (The Usual Suspects)
1996: William H. Macy (Fargo)
1997: Kevin Spacey (L.A. Confidential)
- 2nd Place Award: Burt Reynolds (Boogie Nights)
1998: Bill Murray (Rushmore)
- 2nd Place Award: Donald Sutherland (Without Limits)
1999: Tom Cruise (Magnolia)
2000: Bruce Greenwood (Thirteen Days)
- 2nd Place Award: Philip Seymour Hoffman (Almost Famous)
2001: Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
- 2nd Place Award: Ben Kingsley (Sexy Beast)
2002: Chris Cooper (Adaptation)
2003: Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
2004: Clive Owen (Closer)
- 2nd Place Award: Thomas Haden Church (Sideways)
2005: Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain)
- 2nd Place Award: George Clooney (Syriana)
2006: Michael Sheen (The Queen)
2007: Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton)
- 2nd Place Award: Tommy Lee Jones (No Country for Old Men)
2008: Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
2009: Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
2010: Christian Bale (The Fighter)
2011: Christopher Plummer (Beginners)
- 2nd Place Award: Corey Stoll (Midnight in Paris)
2012: Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)
- 2nd Place Award: Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)
2013: Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)
- 2nd Place Award: Will Forte (Nebraska)
2014: Edward Norton (Birdman)
2015: Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies)
2016: Dev Patel (Lion)
- 2nd Place Award: Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)
2017: Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project)
- 2nd Place Award: Richard Jenkins (The Shape of Water)
2018: Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
2019: Brad Pitt (Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood)
2020: Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah)
2021: Mike Faist (West Side Story)
- 2nd Place Award: Jamie Dornan (Belfast)

Best Supporting Actress:

1926: Zasu Pitts (Greed)
1928: Brigitte Helm (Metropolis)
1929: Brigitte Helm (L’Argent)
1930: Marie Dressler (Anna Christie)
1931: Virginia Cherill (City Lights)
1932: Miriam Hopkins (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
- 2nd Place Award: Aline MacMahon (Five Star Final)
1933: Elsa Lanchester (The Private Life of Henry VIII)
1934: Alice Brady (The Gay Divorcee)
1935: Una O’Connor (The Informer)
1936: Gale Sondergaard (Anthony Adverse)
1937: Andrea Leeds (Stage Door)
1938: Billie Burke (Merrily We Live)
1939: Margaret Hamilton (The Wizard of Oz)
1940: Judith Anderson (Rebecca)
1941: Teresa Wright (The Little Foxes)
1942: Agnes Moorhead (The Magnificent Ambersons)
- 2nd Place Award: Teresa Wright (Mrs. Miniver)
1943: Katina Paxinou (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
1944: Angela Lansbury (Gaslight)
1945: Deborah Kerr (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
1946: Maria Casares (Children of Paradise)
1947: Gloria Grahame (Crossfire)
- 2nd Place Award: Celeste Holm (Gentleman’s Agreement)
1948: Agnes Moorhead (Johnny Belinda)
1949: Mercedes McCambridge (All the King’s Men)
1950: Nancy Olson (Sunset Blvd.)
1951: Kim Hunter (A Streetcar Named Desire)
1952: Gloria Grahame (The Bad and the Beautiful)
1953: Donna Reed (From Here to Eternity)
1954: Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront)
1955: Natalie Wood (Rebel Without a Cause)
1956: Dorothy Malone (Written on the Wind)
1957: Elsa Lanchester (Witness for the Prosecution)
1958: Harriet Andersson (Smiles of a Summer Night)
1959: Bibi Andersson (Wild Strawberries)
- 2nd Place Award: Bibi Andersson (The Seventh Seal)
1960: Shirley Jones (Elmer Gantry)
1961: Rita Moreno (West Side Story)
1962: Angela Lansbury (The Manchurian Candidate)
1963: Edith Evans (Tom Jones)
1964: Grayson Hall (The Night of the Iguana)
1965: Maggie Smith (Othello)
1966: Sandy Dennis (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf)
1967: Bibi Andersson (Bonnie and Clyde)
1968: Ruth Gordon (Rosemary’s Baby)
1969: Susannah York (They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?)
1970: Sally Kellerman (M*A*S*H)
1971: Ellen Burstyn (The Last Picture Show)
1972: Jeannie Berlin (The Heartbreak Kid)
1973: Harriet Andersson (Cries and Whispers)
- 2nd Place Award: Kari Sylwan (Cries and Whispers)
1974: Valentina Cortese (Day for Night)
1975: Lee Grant (Shampoo)
1976: Jodie Foster (Taxi Driver)
1977: Vanessa Redgrave (Julia)
1978: Maggie Smith (California Suite)
- 2nd Place Award: Meryl Streep (The Deer Hunter)
1979: Meryl Streep (Kramer vs. Kramer)
1980: Cathy Moriarty (Raging Bull)
- 2nd Place Award: Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard)
1981: Elizabeth McGovern (Ragtime)
- 2nd Place Award: Maureen Stapleton (Reds)
1982: Jessica Lange (Tootsie)
1983: Linda Hunt (The Year of Living Dangerously)
1984: Peggy Ashcroft (A Passage to India)
1985: Meiko Harada (Ran)
1986: Maggie Smith (A Room with a View)
- 2nd Place Award: Dianne Wiest (Hannah and Her Sisters)
1987: Anjelica Huston (The Dead)
- 2nd Place Award: Kathy Baker (Street Smart)
1988: Michelle Pfeiffer (Dangerous Liaisons)
1989: Brenda Fricker (My Left Foot)
1990: Lorraine Bracco (GoodFellas)
1991: Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King)
1992: Miranda Richardson (The Crying Game)
1993: Winona Ryder (The Age of Innocence)
- 2nd Place Award: Emma Thompson (In the Name of the Father)
1994: Dianne Wiest (Bullets over Broadway)
1995: Kate Winslet (Sense and Sensibility)
1996: Kate Winslet (Hamlet)
- 2nd Place Award: Juliette Binoche (The English Patient)
1997: Julianne Moore (Boogie Nights)
1998: Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love)
1999: Samantha Morton (Sweet and Lowdown)
2000: Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
- 2nd Place Award: Frances McDormand (Almost Famous)
2001: Helen Mirren (Gosford Park)
2002: Meryl Streep (Adaptation)
2003: Sarah Bolger (In America)
2004: Cate Blanchett (The Aviator)
2005: Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain)
2006: Rinko Kikuchi (Babel)
- 2nd Place Award: Cate Blanchett (Notes on a Scandal)
2007: Saorise Ronan (Atonement)
- 2nd Place Award: Cate Blanchett (I’m Not There)
2008: Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
2009: Mo’nique (Precious)
2010: Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)
2011: Octavia Spencer (The Help)
- 2nd Place Award: Berenice Bejo (The Artist)
2012: Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables)
2013: Julia Roberts (August: Osage County)
2014: Emma Stone (Birdman)
2015: Rooney Mara (Carol)
2016: Viola Davis (Fences)
2017: Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird)
2018: Emma Stone (The Favourite)
- 2nd Place Award: Rachel Weisz (The Favourite)
2019: Laura Dern (Marriage Story)
2020: Olivia Colman (The Father)
2021: Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)

Best Editing:

1926: The Battleship Potemkin
1928: Sunrise
1929: Nosferatu
1930: All Quiet on the Western Front
1931: City Lights
1932: Scarface
1933: M
1934: The Thin Man
1935: The 39 Steps
- 2nd Place Award: The Bride of Frankenstein
1936: Modern Times
1937: A Star is Born
1938: The Grand Illusion
1939: The Wizard of Oz
1940: The Grapes of Wrath
1941: Citizen Kane
- 2nd Place Award: The Maltese Falcon
1942: Sullivan’s Travels
1943: Casablanca
1944: Double Indemnity
1945: The Lost Weekend
1946: Children of Paradise
1947: Great Expectations
1948: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949: Bicycle Thieves
1950: Sunset Blvd.
- 2nd Place Award: The Third Man
1951: A Streetcar Named Desire
1952: Rashomon
1953: From Here to Eternity
1954: On the Waterfront
1955: Mister Roberts
1956: Seven Samurai
1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958: Touch of Evil
1959: Wild Strawberries
1960: Ikiru
1961: West Side Story
1962: Lawrence of Arabia
1963: The Great Escape
1964: Mary Poppins
- 2nd Place Award: A Hard Day’s Night
1965: Repulsion
- 2nd Place Award: The Pawnbroker
1966: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
1967: Bonnie and Clyde
- 2nd Place Award: Point Blank
1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey
1969: The Wild Bunch
1970: M*A*S*H
1971: A Clockwork Orange
- 2nd Place Award: The French Connection
1972: The Godfather
1973: Cries and Whispers
- 2nd Place Award: Don’t Look Now
1974: Chinatown
- 2nd Place Award: The Godfather Part II
1975: Jaws
1976: All the President’s Men
1977: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
1978: Interiors
1979: Alien
1980: Raging Bull
- 2nd Place Award: Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
1983: Terms of Endearment
- 2nd Place Award: The Big Chill
1984: Amadeus
- 2nd Place Award: A Passage to India
1985: Blood Simple
1986: Hannah and Her Sisters
- 2nd Place Award: Platoon
1987: The Princess Bride
1988: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989: Glory
1990: GoodFellas
1991: The Silence of the Lambs
- 2nd Place Award: JFK
1992: Unforgiven
- 2nd Place Award: The Crying Game
1993: Schindler’s List
1994: Pulp Fiction
1995: The Usual Suspects
1996: Lone Star
- 2nd Place Award: Trainspotting
1997: L.A. Confidential
- 2nd Place Award: Boogie Nights
1998: Out of Sight
- 2nd Place Award: Saving Private Ryan
1999: American Beauty
2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2001: Memento
- 2nd Place Award: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002: The Hours
2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- 2nd Place Award: City of God
2004: The Aviator
- 2nd Place Award: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2005: Good Night and Good Luck
- 2nd Place Award: Munich
2006: The Departed
- 2nd Place Award: United 93
2007: No Country for Old Men
- 2nd Place Award: Atonement
2008: Slumdog Millionaire
2009: Inglourious Basterds
- 2nd Place Award: The Hurt Locker
2010: Inception
- 2nd Place Award: The Social Network
2011: Hugo
- 2nd Place Award: The Artist
2012: Lincoln
- 2nd Place Award: Argo
2013: Gravity
- 2nd Place Award: Inside Llewyn Davis
2014: Birdman
2015: Carol
- 2nd Place Award: The Revenant
2016: La La Land
- 2nd Place Award: Arrival
2017: Dunkirk
2018: First Man
- 2nd Place Award: Roma
2019: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
- 2nd Place Award: Little Women
2020: The Personal History of David Copperfield
- 2nd Place Award: The Trial of the Chicago 7
2021: West Side Story

Best Cinematography:

1926: Greed
1928: Sunrise
1929: Nosferatu
1930: All Quiet on the Western Front
1931: City Lights
1932: Frankenstein
1933: M
1934: Vampyr
1935: The Informer
- 2nd Place Award: The 39 Steps
1936: Modern Times
1937: You Only Live Once
1938: The Grand Illusion
1939: The Wizard of Oz
1940: The Grapes of Wrath
1941: Citizen Kane
- 2nd Place Award: The Maltese Falcon
1942: The Magnificent Ambersons
1943: Casablanca
1944: Double Indemnity
- 2nd Place Award: Gaslight
1945: The Lost Weekend
1946: Children of Paradise
1947: Great Expectations
1948: La Belle et la Bête
- 2nd Place Award: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949: The Heiress
1950: The Third Man
- 2nd Place Award: Sunset Blvd.
1951: A Streetcar Named Desire
1952: Rashomon
1953: From Here to Eternity
1954: On the Waterfront
- 2nd Place Award: Rear Window
1955: To Catch a Thief
1956: Seven Samurai
1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958: Touch of Evil
1959: North by Northwest
1960: The Virgin Spring
- 2nd Place Award: Psycho
1961: West Side Story
1962: Lawrence of Arabia
1963: Winter Light
1964: Harakiri
1965: Doctor Zhivago
1966: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
1967: Bonnie and Clyde
1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey
1969: The Wild Bunch
1970: Ryan’s Daughter
1971: The French Connection
1972: The Godfather
1973: Cries and Whispers
- 2nd Place Award: The Exorcist
1974: Chinatown
- 2nd Place Award: The Godfather Part II
1975: Barry Lyndon
- 2nd Place Award: Jaws
1976: All the President’s Men
- 2nd Place Award: Taxi Driver
1977: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
1978: The Deer Hunter
- 2nd Place Award: Days of Heaven
1979: Apocalypse Now
- 2nd Place Award: Alien
1980: Raging Bull
- 2nd Place Award: Kagemusha
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark
- 2nd Place Award: Excalibur
1982: E.T.
- 2nd Place Award: Das Boot
1983: Fanny and Alexander
1984: A Passage to India
1985: Ran
- 2nd Place Award: Blood Simple
1986: Platoon
1987: Empire of the Sun
- 2nd Place Award: The Last Emperor
1988: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- 2nd Place Award: Die Hard
1989: Glory
- 2nd Place Award: Born on the Fourth of July
1990: GoodFellas
1991: The Silence of the Lambs
- 2nd Place Award: JFK
1992: The Last of the Mohicans
- 2nd Place Award: Unforgiven
1993: Schindler’s List
- 2nd Place Award: The Age of Innocence
1994: Ed Wood
1995: Sense and Sensibility
- 2nd Place Award: The Usual Suspects
1996: The English Patient
1997: L.A. Confidential
- 2nd Place Award: Boogie Nights
1998: Saving Private Ryan
1999: American Beauty
- 2nd Place Award: The End of the Affair
2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- 2nd Place Award: Gangs of New York
2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004: The Aviator
- 2nd Place Award: House of Flying Daggers
2005: Brokeback Mountain
- 2nd Place Award: Munich
2006: Pan’s Labyrinth
2007: Atonement
- 2nd Place Award: There Will Be Blood
2008: The Dark Knight
2009: The Hurt Locker
- 2nd Place Award: Inglourious Basterds
2010: Inception
2011: Hugo
- 2nd Place Award: The Tree of Life
2012: Lincoln
- 2nd Place Award: Zero Dark Thirty
2013: Gravity
2014: Birdman
2015: The Revenant
2016: La La Land
2017: Dunkirk
2018: First Man
- 2nd Place Award: Roma
2019: 1917
2020: Judas and the Black Messiah
- 2nd Place Award: Tenet
2021: Nightmare Alley

Best Original Score:

1926: Charlie Chaplin (The Gold Rush)
1928: Charlie Chaplin (The Circus)
1930: Josiah Zoro (The Trespasser)
1931: Charlie Chaplin (City Lights)
1932: Georges Auric (À nous la liberté)
1933: Max Steiner (King Kong)
1934: Heinz Eric Roemheld (The Black Cat)
1935: Max Steiner (The Informer)
- 2nd Place Award: Erich Wolfgang Korngold (Captain Blood)
1936: Charlie Chaplin (Modern Times)
1937: Paul J. Smith / Leigh Harline (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
1938: Erich Wolfgang Korngold (The Adventures of Robin Hood)
1939: Herbert Stothart (The Wizard of Oz)
- 2nd Place Award: Max Steiner (Gone with the Wind)
1940: Charlie Chaplin / Meredith Willson (The Great Dictator)
1941: Bernard Herrmann (Citizen Kane)
1942: Bernard Herrmann (The Magnificent Ambersons)
1943: Max Steiner (Casablanca)
1944: David Raksin (Laura)
1945: Miklós Rózsa (Spellbound)
1946: Maurice Thiriet (Children of Paradise)
1947: Walter Goeher (Great Expectations)
1948: Max Steiner (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
1949: Alessandro Cicognini (Bicycle Thieves)
1950: Franz Waxman (Sunset Blvd.)
- 2nd Place Award: Anton Karas (The Third Man)
1951: Alex North (A Streetcar Named Desire)
1952: Fumio Hayasaka (Rashomon)
1953: George Duning (From Here to Eternity)
1954: Leonard Bernstein (On the Waterfront)
- 2nd Place Award: Yasushi Akutagawa (Gate of Hell)
1955: Ikuma Dan (Samurai I: Miyamoto Musashi)
1956: Fumio Hayasaka (Seven Samurai)
- 2nd Place Award: Akira Ifukube (Gojira)
1957: Malcolm Arnold (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
1958: Bernard Herrmann (Vertigo)
- 2nd Place Awad: Ravi Shankar (Parash Pathar)
1959: Bernard Herrman (North by Northwest)
1960: Ernest Gold (Exodus)
1961: Henry Mancini (Breakfast at Tiffany’s)
1962: Maurice Jarre (Lawrence of Arabia)
1963: Elmer Bernstein (The Great Escape)
1964: Henry Mancini (The Pink Panther)
1965: Maurice Jarre (Doctor Zhivago)
1966: Maurice Jarre (The Professionals)
1967: Ennio Morricone (A Fistful of Dollars)
1968: Ennio Morricone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)
1969: Ennio Morricone (Once Upon a Time in the West)
1970: Maurice Jarre (Ryan’s Daughter)
1971: Wendy Carlos (A Clockwork Orange)
1972: Nino Rota (The Godfather)
1973: Toshiki Tsushima (Battles Without Honour or Humanity)
1974: Jerry Goldsmith (Chinatown)
1975: John Williams (Jaws)
1976: Bernard Herrmann (Taxi Driver)
1977: John Williams (Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope)
1978: John Williams (Superman)
1979: Jerry Goldsmith (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)
- 2nd Place Award: John Williams (1941)
1980: John Williams (Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back)
1981: John Williams (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
- 2nd Place Award: Vangelis (Chariots of Fire)
1982: James Horner (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
1983: Michael Gore (Terms of Endearment)
- 2nd Place Award: Bill Conti (The Right Stuff)
1984: Randy Newman (The Natural)
1985: Alan Silvestri (Back to the Future)
1986: Maurice Jarre (The Mission)
1987: Mark Knopfler (The Princess Bride)
- 2nd Place Award: Ennio Morricone (The Untouchables)
1988: Peter Gabriel (The Last Temptation of Christ)
1989: James Horner (Glory)
- 2nd Place Award: John Williams (Born on the Fourth of July)
1990: James Horner (Dances with Wolves)
- 2nd Place Award: John Williams (Presumed Innocent)
1991: John Williams (JFK)
- 2nd Place Award: Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast)
1992: Trevor Jones / Randy Edelman (The Last of the Mohicans)
- 2nd Place Award: Hans Zimmer (The Power of One)
1993: John Williams (Schindler’s List)
- 2nd Place Award: Patrick Doyle (Much Ado About Nothing)
1994: Hans Zimmer (The Lion King)
1995: Patrick Doyle (Sense and Sensibility)
1996: Carter Burwell (Fargo)
- 2nd Place Award: Gabriel Yared (The English Patient)
1997: John Williams (Amistad)
1998: Stephen Warbeck (Shakespeare in Love)
1999: John Williams (Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace)
- 2nd Place Award: Thomas Newman (American Beauty)
2000: Tan Dun (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
- 2nd Place Award: Clint Mansell (Requiem for a Dream)
2001: Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
- 2nd Place Award: John Williams (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone)
2002: Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)
- 2nd Place Award: John Williams (Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones)
2003: Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
2004: Shigeru Umebayashi (House of Flying Daggers)
- 2nd Place Award: John Williams (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
2005: Gustavo Santaolalla (Brokeback Mountain)
- 2nd Place Award: John Williams (Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith)
2006: Hans Zimmer (The Da Vinci Code)
2007: Dario Marianelli (Atonement)
- 2nd Place Award: Nicholas Hooper (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)
2008: A.R. Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire)
2009: Michael Giacchino (Up)
- 2nd Place Award: Michael Giacchino (Star Trek)
2010: Trent Reznor / Atticus Ross (The Social Network)
- 2nd Place Award: Hans Zimmer (Inception)
2011: John Williams (The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn)
2012: Howard Shore (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)
2013: Steven Price (Gravity)
2014: Antonio Sanchez (Birdman)
- 2nd Place Award: Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
2015: John Williams (Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens)
- 2nd Place Award: Ennio Morricone (The Hateful Eight)
2016: Justin Hurwitz (La La Land)
- 2nd Place Award: Michael Giaccino (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story)
2017: Alexandre Desplat (The Shape of Water)
- 2nd Place Award: John Williams (Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi)
2018: Justin Hurwitz (First Man)
2019: Thomas Newman (1917)
- 2nd Place Award: Alexandre Desplat (Little Women)
2020: Trent Reznor / Atticus Ross / Jean Baptiste (Soul)
- 2nd Place Award: Ludwig Göransson (Tenet)
2021: Harry-Gregson Williams (The Last Duel)
- 2nd Place Award: Hans Zimmer (Dune: Part One)

Best Sound:

1926: The Gold Rush
1928: The Jazz Singer
1929: L’Argent
1930: All Quiet on the Western Front
1931: The Public Enemy
1932: Scarface
1933: King Kong
1934: The Lost Patrol
1935: Captain Blood
1936: Modern Times
1937: You Only Live Once
1938: The Adventures of Robin Hood
1939: The Wizard of Oz
1940: The Great Dictator
1941: Citizen Kane
1942: Yankee Doodle Dandy
1943: For Whom the Bell Tolls
1944: Lifeboat
1945: They Were Expendable
1946: Children of Paradise
1947: Brighton Rock
1948: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949: Champion
1950: The Third Man
1951: Detective Story
1952: The Sound Barrier
1953: From Here to Eternity
1954: On the Waterfront
- 2nd Place Award: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1955: Mister Roberts
1956: Seven Samurai
1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958: Touch of Evil
1959: Ben Hur
1960: Spartacus
1961: West Side Story
1962: Lawrence of Arabia
1963: The Great Escape
1964: A Hard Day’s Night
1965: Doctor Zhivago
1966: Grand Prix
1967: Bonnie and Clyde
1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey
1969: The Wild Bunch
- 2nd Place Award: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1970: Patton
1971: The French Connection
1972: The Godfather
1973: The Exorcist
1974: The Conversation
1975: Jaws
1976: All the President’s Men
1977: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
1978: The Deer Hunter
- 2nd Place Award: Superman
1979: Alien
- 2nd Place Award: Apocalypse Now
1980: Raging Bull
- 2nd Place Award: Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982: Das Boot
1983: The Right Stuff
- 2nd Place Award: Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
1984: Amadeus
1985: Ran
1986: Platoon
- 2nd Place Award: Aliens
1987: Full Metal Jacket
1988: Die Hard
1989: Glory
1990: The Hunt for Red October
1991: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1992: The Last of the Mohicans
- 2nd Place Award: Unforgiven
1993: Jurassic Park
- 2nd Place Award: Schindler’s List
1994: The Crow
1995: Heat
- 2nd Place Award: Apollo 13
1996: The English Patient
- 2nd Place Award: Evita
1997: Titanic
1998: Saving Private Ryan
1999: Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
- 2nd Place Award: Fight Club
2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- 2nd Place Award: Moulin Rouge
2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- 2nd Place Award: Minority Report
2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- 2nd Place Award: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2004: The Aviator
2005: King Kong
- 2nd Place Award: Batman Begins
2006: Casino Royale
2007: The Bourne Ultimatum
2008: The Dark Knight
- 2nd Place Award: Wall-E
2009: The Hurt Locker
2010: Inception
2011: Hugo
2012: Les Miserables
- 2nd Place Award: Skyfall
2013: Gravity
- 2nd Place Award: Inside Llewyn Davis
2014: Whiplash
- 2nd Place Award: Interstellar
2015: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
2016: La La Land
- 2nd Place Award: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
2017: Dunkirk
- 2nd Place Award: Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi
2018: First Man
- 2nd Place Award: A Star is Born
2019: 1917
- 2nd Place Award: Rocketman
2020: Sound of Metal
- 2nd Place Award: Tenet
2021: Dune: Part One
- 2nd Place Award: No Time to Die

Best Art Direction:

1926: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1928: Metropolis
1929: Nosferatu
1930: Under the Roofs of Paris
1931: Dracula
1932: Frankenstein
1933: M
1934: The Scarlet Empress
1935: The Bride of Frankenstein
1936: Modern Times
1937: Dead End
1938: The Adventures of Robin Hood
1939: The Wizard of Oz
- 2nd Place Award: Gone with the Wind
1940: Rebecca
1941: Citizen Kane
1942: The Magnificent Ambersons
1943: Casablanca
1944: Gaslight
1945: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1946: Children of Paradise
1947: Great Expectations
1948: La Belle et la Bête
1949: The Heiress
1950: Sunset Blvd.
1951: A Streetcar Named Desire
1952: Rashomon
- 2nd Place Award: Singin’ in the Rain
1953: The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T
1954: On the Waterfront
- 2nd Place Award: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1955: East of Eden
1956: Seven Samurai
- 2nd Place Award: Lust for Life
1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958: Smiles of a Summer Night
1959: Ben Hur
1960: Spartacus
1961: West Side Story
1962: Lawrence of Arabia
1963: Tom Jones
1964: Mary Poppins
1965: Doctor Zhivago
1966: A Man for All Seasons
1967: Bonnie and Clyde
1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey
1969: Oh! What a Lovely War
1970: Women in Love
1971: A Clockwork Orange
1972: The Godfather
- 2nd Place Award: Cabaret
1973: Cries and Whispers
1974: Chinatown
- 2nd Place Award: The Godfather Part II
1975: Barry Lyndon
1976: All the President’s Men
1977: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
1978: Pretty Baby
1979: Alien
1980: Kagemusha
- 2nd Place Award: The Elephant Man
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark
- 2nd Place Award: Ragtime
1982: Blade Runner
1983: Fanny and Alexander
1984: Amadeus
1985: Ran
- 2nd Place Award: Brazil
1986: A Room with a View
1987: The Last Emperor
- 2nd Place Award: The Princess Bride
1988: Dangerous Liaisons
1989: Glory
- 2nd Place Award: Batman
1990: Dick Tracy
1991: The Fisher King
- 2nd Place Award: Bugsy
1992: Bram Stoker’s Dracula
1993: The Age of Innocence
- 2nd Place Award: Schindler’s List
1994: Interview with the Vampire
1995: Sense and Sensibility
1996: Hamlet
- 2nd Place Award: The English Patient
1997: L.A. Confidential
- 2nd Place Award: Boogie Nights
1998: Shakespeare in Love
- 2nd Place Award: Elizabeth
1999: Topsy-Turvy
2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- 2nd Place Award: Moulin Rouge
2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- 2nd Place Award: Gangs of New York
2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004: The Aviator
- 2nd Place Award: House of Flying Daggers
2005: Memoirs of a Geisha
2006: The Prestige
- 2nd Place Award: Pan’s Labyrinth
2007: Atonement
2008: Revolutionary Road
2009: The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
- 2nd Place Award: A Single Man
2010: Inception
- 2nd Place Award: Alice in Wonderland
2011: Hugo
2012: Lincoln
- 2nd Place Award: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2013: The Great Gatsby
- 2nd Place Award: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2014: The Grand Budapest Hotel
- 2nd Place Award: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2015: Carol
- 2nd Place Award: Crimson Peak
2016: La La Land
2017: The Shape of Water
- 2nd Place Award: The Greatest Showman
2018: Black Panther
- 2nd Place Award: The Favourite
2019: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
- 2nd Place Award: Little Women
2020: Emma.
2021: Nightmare Alley
- 2nd Place Award: Dune: Part One

Best Costume Design:

1926: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1928: The Man Who Laughs
1929: Napoleon
1930: The Vagabond King
1931: Dracula
1932: Frankenstein
1933: The Private Life of Henry VIII
1934: The Scarlet Empress
1935: Captain Blood
1936: A Tale of Two Cities
1937: La Marseillaise
1938: The Adventures of Robin Hood
1939: The Wizard of Oz
- 2nd Place Award: Gone with the Wind
1940: The Thief of Bagdad
1941: Citizen Kane
1942: Yankee Doodle Dandy
- 2nd Place Award: The Magnificent Ambersons
1943: The Phantom of the Opera
1944: Gaslight
1945: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1946: Children of Paradise
1947: Great Expectations
1948: La Belle et la Bête
1949: The Heiress
1950: Sunset Blvd.
1951: Oliver Twist
1952: Moulin Rouge
1953: Casque d’Or
1954: Gate of Hell
1955: Samurai I: Miyamoto Musashi
1956: Seven Samurai
1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958: Smiles of a Summer Night
1959: Ben Hur
1960: Spartacus
1961: Yojimbo
1962: Lawrence of Arabia
1963: Tom Jones
1964: Mary Poppins
1965: Doctor Zhivago
1966: A Man for All Seasons
1967: Bonnie and Clyde
1968: The Lion in Winter
1969: Oh! What a Lovely War
1970: Women in Love
1971: McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1972: The Godfather
1973: Cries and Whispers
1974: Chinatown
1975: Barry Lyndon
1976: The Last Tycoon
1977: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
1978: The Chess Players
1979: Picnic at Hanging Rock
1980: Kagemusha
1981: Ragtime
1982: Gandhi
- 2nd Place Award: Sophie’s Choice
1983: Fanny and Alexander
1984: Amadeus
1985: Ran
1986: A Room with a View
1987: The Last Emperor
- 2nd Place Award: The Princess Bride
1988: Dangerous Liaisons
1989: Henry V
- 2nd Place Award: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1990: Dick Tracy
1991: Bugsy
1992: Bram Stoker’s Dracula
1993: The Age of Innocence
1994: Interview with the Vampire
1995: Sense and Sensibility
1996: Hamlet
1997: Titanic
1998: Elizabeth
- 2nd Place Award: Shakespeare in Love
1999: Topsy-Turvy
2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- 2nd Place Award: Moulin Rouge
2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- 2nd Place Award: Gangs of New York
2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004: The Aviator
- 2nd Place Award: House of Flying Daggers
2005: Memoirs of a Geisha
- 2nd Place Award: Kingdom of Heaven
2006: Marie Antoinette
- 2nd Place Award: Perfume – The Story of a Murderer
2007: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- 2nd Place Award: Atonement
2008: The Duchess
2009: The Young Victoria
2010: Alice in Wonderland
2011: The Artist
- 2nd Place Award: Midnight in Paris
2012: Anna Karenina
- 2nd Place Award: Lincoln
2013: The Great Gatsby
2014: The Grand Budapest Hotel
- 2nd Place Award: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2015: Crimson Peak
2016: Fantastic Beasts and How to Find Them
- 2nd Place Award: The Handmaiden
2017: Phantom Thread
- 2nd Place Award: The Greatest Showman
2018: The Favourite
- 2nd Place Award: Mary Poppins Returns
2019: Little Women
- 2nd Place Award: Rocketman
2020: Emma.
2021: Cyrano

Best Visual Effects:

1926: The Thief of Bagdad
1928: Metropolis
1929: Steamboat Bill Jr.
1930: Hell’s Angels
1931: Woman in the Moon
1932: Frankenstein
1933: King Kong
1935: The Bride of Frankenstein
1936: San Francisco
1937: In Old Chicago
1939: The Wizard of Oz
1940: The Thief of Bagdad
1941: Citizen Kane
1942: Reap the Wild Wind
1943: In Which We Serve
1944: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
1945: Spellbound
1946: Henry V
1948: La Belle et la Bête
1949: Mighty Joe Young
1950: Destination Moon
1951: The Day the Earth Stood Still
1952: Bwana Devil
1953: War of the Worlds
1954: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1955: The Dam Busters
1956: Forbidden Planet
1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958: The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
1959: Ben Hur
1960: The Time Machine
1961: Mysterious Island
1962: Jack the Giant Killer
1963: Jason and the Argonauts
1964: Mary Poppins
1965: Thunderball
1966: Fantastic Voyage
1967: Bonnie and Clyde
1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey
1969: Marooned
1970: Patton
1971: Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1972: The Poseidon Adventure
1973: The Exorcist
1974: The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
1975: Jaws
1976: King Kong
1977: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
- 2nd Place Award: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1978: Superman
1979: Alien
1980: Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982: E.T.
1983: Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
1984: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1985 Back to the Future
1986: Aliens
1987: Innerspace
1988: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989: The Abyss
1990: Total Recall
1991: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1992: Bram Stoker’s Dracula
1993: Jurassic Park
1994: Heavenly Creatures
1995: Babe
- 2nd Place Award: Jumanji
1996: Independence Day
1997: The Fifth Element
- 2nd Place Award: Titanic
1998: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1999: Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- 2nd Place Award: Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2005: King Kong
- 2nd Place Award: Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
2006: The Fountain
- 2nd Place Award: Pan’s Labyrinth
2007: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- 2nd Place Award: The Golden Compass
2008: Iron Man
2009: District 9
- 2nd Place Award: Avatar
2010: Inception
2011: Hugo
- 2nd Place Award: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II
2012: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
- 2nd Place Award: Life of Pi
2013: Gravity
- 2nd Place Award: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2014: Interstellar
- 2nd Place Award: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2015: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
2016: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
2017: Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi
2018: First Man
- 2nd Place Award: Ready Player One
2019: Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker
- 2nd Place Award: Avengers: Endgame
2020: Tenet
2021: Dune: Part One

Best Sound Editing:

1930: All Quiet on the Western Front
1931: The Public Enemy
1932: Frankenstein
1933: King Kong
1935: Captain Blood
1936: San Francisco
1937: Sabotage
1938: The Adventures of Robin Hood
1939: The Wizard of Oz
1940: The Sea Hawk
1941: Fantasia
1942: Saboteur
1943: For Whom the Bell Tolls
1944: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
1945: They Were Expendable
1946: Henry V
1947: Brute Force
1949: Mighty Joe Young
1950: Night and the City
1951: The Thing from Another World
1952: The Sound Barrier
1953: From Here to Eternity
1954: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1955: The Dam Busters
1956: Seven Samurai
1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958: Torpedo Run
1959: Ben Hur
1960: Spartacus
1961: Yojimbo
1962: Lawrence of Arabia
1963: The Great Escape
1964: Goldfinger
1965: Thunderball
1966: Grand Prix
1967: Bonnie and Clyde
1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey
1969: The Wild Bunch
1970: Patton
1971: The French Connection
1972: The Godfather
1973: The Exorcist
1974: The Conversation
1975: Jaws
1976: The Outlaw Josey Wales
1977: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
- 2nd Place Award: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
1978: Superman
1979: Alien
1980: Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982: Das Boot
1983: The Right Stuff
- 2nd Place Award: Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
1984: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1985: Ran
1986: Aliens
1987: Full Metal Jacket
1988: Die Hard
1989: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1990: The Hunt for Red October
1991: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1992: Bram Stoker’s Dracula
1993: Jurassic Park
1994: The Crow
1995: Heat
1996: The Rock
1997: Titanic
1998: Saving Private Ryan
- 2nd Place Award: Ronin
1999: Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
- 2nd Place Award: Fight Club
2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- 2nd Place Award: Minority Report
2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004: The Aviator
2005: King Kong
- 2nd Place Award: Batman Begins
2006: Casino Royale
2007: The Bourne Ultimatum
2008: The Dark Knight
2009: The Hurt Locker
- 2nd Place Award: Avatar
2010: Inception
2011: Hugo
2012: Skyfall
- 2nd Place Award: The Dark Knight Rises
2013: Gravity
2014: Interstellar
- 2nd Place Award: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2015: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
2016: La La Land
- 2nd Place Award: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
2017: Dunkirk
2018: First Man
2019: 1917
- 2nd Place Award: Rocketman
2020: Sound of Metal
- 2nd Place Award: Tenet
2021: Dune: Part One
- 2nd Place Award: No Time to Die

Best Makeup:

1926: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- 2nd Place Award: The Phantom of the Opera
1928: London After Midnight
1929: Nosferatu
1931: Dracula
1932: Frankenstein
1933: The Island of Lost Souls
1935: The Bride of Frankenstein
1938: Marie Antoinette
1939: The Wizard of Oz
1940: The Thief of Bagdad
1941: Citizen Kane
1942: Yankee Doodle Dandy
1943: The Phantom of the Opera
1944: Kismet
1945: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1946: Children of Paradise
1947: Great Expectations
1948: La Belle et la Bête
1950: Sunset Blvd.
1951: Oliver Twist
1952: Bwana Devil
1953: House of Wax
1954: Gate of Hell
1956: Seven Samurai
1957: The Curse of Frankenstein
1958: The Horror of Dracula
1959: The Seventh Seal
1960: The Magician
1961: Yojimbo
1962: Lawrence of Arabia
1963: Tom Jones
1964: 7 Faces of Dr. Lao
1965: Othello
1966: Come Drink With Me
1967: Bonnie and Clyde
1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey
1969: The Wild Bunch
1970: Little Big Man
1971: MacBeth
1972: Cabaret
1973: The Exorcist
1974: Young Frankenstein
1975: Barry Lyndon
1976: Carrie
1977: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
1978: Eraserhead
1979: Alien
1980: The Elephant Man
- 2nd Place Award: Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982: Quest for Fire
1983: Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
1984: Amadeus
1985: Ran
1986: Aliens
1987: The Princess Bride
- 2nd Place Award: The Last Emperor
1988: Beetlejuice
1989: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1990: Dick Tracy
1991: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1992: Bram Stoker’s Dracula
1993: Farewell My Concubine
1994: Ed Wood
1995: An Awfully Big Adventure
1996: The English Patient
1997: The Fifth Element
1998: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1999: Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
2000: How the Grinch Stole Christmas
2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- 2nd Place Award: Moulin Rouge
2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- 2nd Place Award: Star Wars Episode II: Attack of Clones
2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- 2nd Place Award: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
2004: House of Flying Daggers
- 2nd Place Award: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2005: Memoirs of a Geisha
- 2nd Place Award: Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
2006: Pan’s Labyrinth
2007: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2008: The Dark Knight
2009: District 9
2010: Alice in Wonderland
2011: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II
2012: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
- 2nd Place Award: Lincoln
2013: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2014: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2015: The Revenant
2016: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
2017: Darkest Hour
2018: Black Panther
2019: Rocketman
2020: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
2021: The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Best Original Song:

1929: “Lon Chaney’s Gonna Get You” (The Hollywood Revue of 1929)
1930: “Waiting at the End of the Road” (Hallelujah)
1931: “Hello I Must Be Going” (Animal Crackers)
1932: “La liberte, c’est pour les heureux” (À nous la liberté)
1933: “Everyone Says I Love You” (Horse Feathers)
1934: “The Continental” (The Gay Divorcee)
1935: “Cheek to Cheek” (Top Hat)
1936: “Pennies From Heaven” (Pennies From Heaven)
1937: “Heigh Ho” (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
1938: “Jeepers Creepers” (Going Places)
1939: “Over the Rainbow” (The Wizard of Oz)
1940: “When You Wish Upon a Star” (Pinocchio)
1941: “Chattanooga Choo Choo” (Sun Valley Serenade)
1942: “How About You” (Babes on Broadway)
1943: “Saludos Amigos” (Saludos Amigos)
1944: “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” (Meet Me in St. Louis)
1945: “I Fall in Love Too Easily” (Anchors Aweigh)
1946: “On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe” (Harvey Girls)
1947: “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” (Song of the South)
1948: “A Couple of Swells” (Easter Parade)
1949: “Baby It’s Cold Outside” (Neptune’s Daughter)
1950: “Bibbidy-Bobbidi-Boo” (Cinderella)
1951: “The Unbirthday Song” (Alice in Wonderland)
1952: “Make ‘Em Laugh” (Singin’ in the Rain)
- 2nd Place Award: “Moses Supposes” (Singin’ in the Rain)
1953: “That’s Entertainment” (The Band Wagon)
1954: “A Whale of a Tale” (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
1955: “The Ballad of Davy Crockett” (Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier)
1956: “Love Me Tender” (Love Me Tender)
1957: “Jailhouse Rock” (Jailhouse Rock)
1958: “I Remember It Well” (Gigi)
1959: “Once Upon a Dream” (Sleeping Beauty)
1960: “Adieu Tristesse” (Black Orpheus)
1961: “Moon River” (Breakfast at Tiffany’s)
- 2nd Place Award: “Can’t Help Falling in Love” (Blue Hawaii)
1962: “Being in Love” (The Music Man)
1963: “The Ugly Bug Bull” (Summer Magic)
1964: “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” (Mary Poppins)
- 2nd Place Award: “A Hard Day’s Night (A Hard Day’s Night)
1965: “Help!” (Help!)
- 2nd Place Award: “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away” (Help!)
1966: “Georgy Girl” (Georgy Girl)
1967: “The Bare Necessities” (The Jungle Book)
1968: “Springtime for Hitler” (The Producers)
1969: “Raindrops Keep Falling on Your Head” (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
1970: “Suicide is Painless” (M*A*S*H)
1971: “Portabello Road” (Bedknobs and Broomsticks)
1972: “Mein Herr” (Cabaret)
1973: “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” (Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid)
1974: “Blazing Saddles” (Blazing Saddles)
1975: “I’m Easy” (Nashville)
1976: “The Madame’s Song” (The Seven-Per-Cent Solution)
1977: “New York, New York” (New York, New York)
1978: “Bright Eyes” (Watership Down)
1979: “The Rainbow Connection” (The Muppet Movie)
- 2nd Place Award: “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” (Monty Python’s Life of Brian)
1980: “Late in the Evening” (One Trick Pony)
1981: “Arthur’s Theme (Best That I Could Do)” (Arthur)
1982: “When the Tigers Broke Free” (Pink Floyd: The Wall)
- 2nd Place Award: “Somebody’s Baby” (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
1983: “Every Sperm is Sacred” (Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life)
- 2nd Place Award: “On the Dark Side” (Eddie and the Cruisers)
1984: “Against All Odds” (Against All Odds)
1985: “Don’t You Forget About Me” (The Breakfast Club)
- 2nd Place Award: “The Power of Love” (Back to the Future)
1986: “If You Leave” (Pretty in Pink)
- 2nd Place Award: “Wild Wild Life” (True Stories)
1987: “Storybook Love” (The Princess Bride)
1988: “Let the River Run” (Working Girl)
1989: “Part of Your World” (The Little Mermaid)
- 2nd Place Award: “Under the Sea” (The Little Mermaid)
1990: “Post-Mortem Bar” (Longtime Companion)
- 2nd Place Award: “Blaze of Glory” (Young Guns 2)
1991: “Something There” (Beauty and the Beast)
- 2nd Place Award: “Beauty and the Beast” (Beauty and the Beast)
1992: “Breath” (Singles)
1993: “(You Made Me) The Thief of Your Heart” (In the Name of the Father)
- 2nd Place Award: “Stay (Faraway, So Close)” (Faraway, So Close)
1994: “Circle of Life” (The Lion King)
- 2nd Place Award: “Can’t Even Tell” (Clerks)
1995: “Cancion del Mariachi” (Desperado)
- 2nd Place Award: “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” (Toy Story)
1996: “Walls” (She’s the One)
1997: “The Sweet Hereafter” (The Sweet Hereafter)
1998: “The Flame Still Burns” (Still Crazy)
- 2nd Place Award: “He Got Game” (He Got Game)
1999: “The Great Beyond” (Man on the Moon)
2000: “A Love Before Time” (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
- 2nd Place Award: “Things Have Changed” (Wonder Boys)
2001: “May It Be” (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
2002: “The Hands That Built America” (Gangs of New York)
2003: “A Mighty Wind” (A Mighty Wind)
- 2nd Place Award: “A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow” (A Mighty Wind)
2004: “Gabriella’s Song” (As It Is in Heaven)
2005: “The Remains of the Day” (Corpse Bride)
2006: “Upside Down” (Curious George)
2007: “Falling Slowly” (Once)
- 2nd Place Award: “Le Festin” (Ratatouille)
2008: “Jai Ho” (Slumdog Millionaire)
2009: “The Weary Kind” (Crazy Heart)
2010: “I See the Light” (Tangled)
2011: “Life’s a Happy Song” (The Muppets)
2012: “The Song of the Lonely Mountain” (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)
2013: “Let it Go” (Frozen)
2014: “Tell Me if You Wanna Go Home” (Begin Again)
- 2nd Place Award: “Glory” (Selma)
2015: “Pray 4 My City” (Chi-Raq)
2016: “Another Day of Sun” (La La Land)
2017: “From Now On” (The Greatest Showman)
- 2nd Place Award: “Remember Me” (Coco)
2018: “Shallow (A Star is Born)
2019: “Speechless” (Aladdin)
- 2nd Place Award: “Beautiful Ghosts” (Cats)
2020: “This Day” (Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey)
2021: “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” (Encanto)

Best Animated Film:

1937: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (#668)
1940: Pinocchio (#298)
1941: Fantasia (#109)
1942: Bambi (#124)
1943: Saludos Amigos (#2239)
1947: Crab with the Golden Claws (#2024)
1948: Melody Time (#2072)
1950: Cinderella (#980)
1951: Alice in Wonderland (#2049)
1953: Peter Pan (#2063)
1955: Lady and the Tramp (#680)
1959: Sleeping Beauty (#686)
1961: 101 Dalmations (#2069)
1963: The Sword in the Stone (#2066)
1967: The Jungle Book (#1765)
1970: The Aristocats (#2158)
1977: The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (#1334)
1978: Watership Down (#589)
1981: The Fox and the Hound (#2242)
1982: The Secret of NIMH (#2128)
1985: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (#1822)
1988: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (#135)
1989: The Little Mermaid (#365)
1991: Beauty and the Beast (#169)
1992: Aladdin (#622)
1993: My Neighbor Totoro (#406)
1994: Grave of the Fireflies (#498)
1995: Toy Story (#726)
1996: James and the Giant Peach (#1587)
1998: Kiki’s Delivery Service (#1808)
1999: Princess Mononoke (#489)
2000: Chicken Run (#844)
2001: Monsters Inc. (#875)
2002: Spirited Away (#114)
2003: Finding Nemo (#445)
2004: The Incredibles (#437)
2005: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (#567)
2006: Flushed Away (#1638)
2007: Ratatouille (#334)
2008: Wall-E (#117)
2009: Up (#386)
2010: Toy Story 3 (#603)
2011: The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (#684)
2012: Brave (#740)
2013: The Wind Rises (#461)
2014: Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (#811)
2015: Inside Out (#233)
2016: Moana (#483)
2017: Coco (#343)
2018: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (#634)
- 2nd Place Award: Incredibles 2 (#635)
2019: Toy Story 4 (#521)
2020: Soul (#642)
2021: Encanto (#855)

Best Foreign Film:

1926: Metropolis (Germany, Lang) (#30)
1928: The Love of Jeanne Ney (Germany, Pabst) (#973)
1929: L’Argent (France, L’Herbier) (#925)
1930: Au Bonheur des Dames (France, Duvivier) (#1572)
1931: M (Germany, Lang) (#28)
1932: Vampyr (Germany, Dreyer) (#403)
1933: Boudu Saved From Drowning (France, Renoir) (#1019)
1934: L’Atlante (France, Vigo) (#1050)
1936: The Crime of Monsieur Lange (France, Renoir) (#1191)
1937: The Grand Illusion (France, Renoir) (#5)
1938: La bete humaine (France, Renoir) (#781)
- 2nd Place Award: Port of Shadows (France, Carne) (#784)
1939: The Rules of the Game (France, Renoir) (#207)
1941: The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (Japan, Ozu) (#2174)
1942: The Devil’s Envoys (France, Carné) (#1826)
1943: Day of Wrath (Dreyer, Denmark) (#1069)
1944: Torment (Sweden, Sjöberg) (#1678)
1945: Children of Paradise (France, Carné) (#2)
1946: La belle et la bête (France, Cocteau) (#36)
1947: Shoeshine (Italy, de Sica) (#1679)
1948: Germany Year Zero (Italy, Rossellini) (#859)
1949: Bicycle Thieves (Italy, de Sica) (#111)
1950: La Ronde (France, Ophuls) (#797)
1951: Rashomon (Japan, Kurosawa) (#4)
1952: Ikiru (Japan, Kurosawa) (#68)
1953: Mr Hulot’s Holiday (France, Tati) (#708)
1954: Seven Samurai (Japan, Kurosawa) (#29)
1955: Smiles of a Summer Night (Sweden, Bergman) (#88)
1956: La Strada (Italy, Fellini) (#683)
1957: The Seventh Seal (Sweden, Bergman) (#6)
1958: The Hidden Fortress (Japan, Kurosawa) (#405)
1959: The 400 Blows (France, Truffaut) (#196)
1960: The Virgin Spring (Sweden, Bergman) (#127)
1961: Through a Glass Darkly (Sweden, Bergman) (#313)
1962: Jules and Jim (France, Truffaut) (#230)
1963: Winter Light (Sweden, Bergman) (#216)
1964: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (France, Demy) (#1342)
1965: Red Beard (Japan, Kurosawa) (#1118)
1966: Persona (Sweden, Bergman) (#375)
1967: Belle de Jour (France, Buñuel) (#304)
1968: Stolen Kisses (France, Truffaut) (#733)
1969: Z (Algeria, Costa-Gavras) (#134)
1970: Investigation of a Citizen Under Suspicion (Italy, Petri) (#823)
1971: King Lear (USSR, Kozintsev) (#439)
1972: Cries and Whispers (Sweden, Bergman) (#13)
1973: Day for Night (France, Truffaut) (#153)
- 2nd Place Award: Scenes from a Marriage (Bergman, Sweden) (#160)
1974: Amarcord (Italy, Fellini) (#596)
1975: The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser (West Germany, Herzog) (#995)
1976: Face to Face (Sweden, Bergman) (#790)
1977: That Obscure Object of Desire (France, Buñuel) (#579)
1978: Autumn Sonata (Sweden, Bergman) (#431)
1979: Love on the Run (France, Truffaut) (#815)
1980: Kagemusha (Japan, Kurosawa) (#432)
1981: Das Boot (West Germany, Petersen) (#422)
1982: Fitzcarraldo (West Germany, Herzog) (#976)
1983: Fanny and Alexander (Sweden, Bergman) (#77)
1984: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Japan, Miyazaki) (#1822)
1985: Ran (Japan, Kurosawa) (#39)
1986: Manon of the Spring (France, Berri) (#418)
1987: Au Revoir, Les Enfants (France, Malle) (#237)
1988: My Neighbor Totoro (Japan, Miyazaki) (#406)
1989: Cinema Paradiso (Italy, Tornatore) (#700)
1990: Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams (Japan, Kurosawa) (#845)
1991: Europa Europa (Germany, Holland) (#326)
1992: Like Water for Chocolate (Mexico, Arau) (#1048)
1993: Three Colors: Blue (France, Kieslowski) (#601)
1994: Three Colors: Red (Austria, Kieslowski) (#330)
1995: Les Miserables (France, Lelouch) (#544)
1996: Ridicule (France, LeConte) (#1254)
1997: Princess Mononoke (Japan, Miyazaki) (#489)
1998: Ringu (Japan, Nakata) (#533)
1999: All About My Mother (Spain, Almodovar) (#116)
2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Taiwan, Lee) (#16)
2001: The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie Poulain (France, Jeunet) (#72)
2002: Talk to Her (Spain, Almodovar) (#115)
- 2nd Place Award: City of God (Brazil, Meirelles) (#185)
2003: Saraband (Sweden, Bergman) (#563)
2004: A Very Long Engagement (France, Jeunet) (#162)
2005: Cache (Austria, Heneke) (#496)
2006: Pan’s Labyrinth (Mexico, del Toro) (#128)
2007: Four Months, Three Weeks and Two Days (Romania, Mungiu) (#685)
- 2nd Place Award: Lust, Caution (Taiwan, Lee) (#698)
2008: Let the Right One In (Sweden, Alfredson) (#785)
2009: Broken Embraces (Spain, Almodovar) (#407)
2010: Biutiful (Mexico, González Iñárritu) (#652)
2011: A Separation (Iran, Farhadi) (#520)
2012: Amour (Austria, Heneke) (#602)
2013: Blue is the Warmest Color (France, Kechiche) (#436)
- 2nd Place Award: The Wind Rises (Japan, Miyazaki) (#461)
2014: Living is Easy with Eyes Closed (Spain, Trueba) (#864)
2015: Son of Saul (Hungary, Nemes) (#591)
2016: The Handmaiden (South Korea, Park) (#251)
2017: The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales (France, Renner / Imbert) (#969)
2018: Roma (Mexico, Cuarón) (#157)
2019: Pain and Glory (Spain, Almodovar) (#305)
- 2nd Place Award: Parasite (South Korea, Bong) (#317)
2020: Quo Vadis, Aida? (Bosnia, Zbanic) (#697)
- 2nd Place Award: Minari (US, Chung) (#713)
2021: Parallel Mothers (Spain, Almodovar) (#372)

Best Ensemble

1926: Broken Blossoms
1928: The Love of Jeanne Ney
- 2nd Place Award: The Last Command
1929: The Wind
- 2nd Place Award: L’Argent
1930: Anna Christie
- 2nd Place Award: All Quiet on the Western Front
1931: A Free Soul
1932: Five Star Final
- 2nd Place Award: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1933: Dinner at Eight
1934: The Gay Divorcee
1935: Mutiny on the Bounty
1936: The Petrified Forest
- 2nd Place Award: My Man Godfrey
1937: The Awful Truth
- 2nd Place Award: A Star is Born
1938: Merrily We Live
1939: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1940: The Philadelphia Story
- 2nd Place Award: Rebecca
1941: The Little Foxes
- 2nd Place Award: The Maltese Falcon
1942: Mrs. Miniver
1943: For Whom the Bell Tolls
- 2nd Place Award: Casablanca
1944: Gaslight
1945: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
- 2nd Place Award: The Lost Weekend
1946: The Best Years of Our Lives
1947: Gentleman’s Agreement
1948: Johnny Belinda
- 2nd Place Award: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949: The Heiress
1950: All About Eve
- 2nd Place Award: Sunset Blvd.
1951: A Streetcar Named Desire
1952: The Bad and the Beautiful
1953: From Here to Eternity
1954: On the Waterfront
1955: Mr. Roberts
- 2nd Place Award: Rebel without a Cause
1956: Baby Doll
1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958: Smiles of a Summer Night
- 2nd Place Award: Separate Tables
1959: The Seventh Seal
- 2nd Place Award: Anatomy of a Murder
1960: The Apartment
1961: Judgment at Nuremberg
1962: Lawrence of Arabia
1963: Tom Jones
1964: Dr. Strangelove
1965: Doctor Zhivago
1966: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
1967: Bonnie and Clyde
1968: The Lion in Winter
1969: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
1970: M*A*S*H
- 2nd Place Award: Catch-22
1971: The Last Picture Show
1972: The Godfather
1973: Cries and Whispers
1974: The Godfather Part II
1975: Shampoo
- 2nd Place Award: One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
1976: Network
1977: Equus
1978: Interiors
- 2nd Place Award: Heaven Can Wait
1979: Kramer vs. Kramer
- 2nd Place Award: Being There
1980: Ordinary People
1981: Reds
- 2nd Place Award: Ragtime
1982: Tootsie
1983: Terms of Endearment
1984: A Passage to India
- 2nd Place Award: Amadeus
1985: Prizzi’s Honor
1986: A Room with a View
1987: The Princess Bride
1988: Running on Empty
- 2nd Place Award: A Fish Called Wanda
1989: Field of Dreams
- 2nd Place Award: My Left Foot
1990: GoodFellas
- 2nd Place Award: Presumed Innocent
1991: Barton Fink
1992: Unforgiven
1993: Schindler’s List
- 2nd Place Award: Much Ado About Nothing
1994: Bullets over Broadway
- 2nd Place Award: Quiz Show
1995: Sense and Sensibility
1996: The Crucible
1997: Boogie Nights
1998: Shakespeare in Love
1999: Magnolia
- 2nd Place Award: American Beauty
2000: Almost Famous
- 2nd Place Award: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002: The Hours
2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004: Closer
- 2nd Place Award: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2005: Brokeback Mountain
2006: The Departed
2007: Atonement
2008: The Dark Knight
- 2nd Place Award: Milk
2009: Inglourious Basterds
- 2nd Place Award: An Education
2010: The Fighter
2011: Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy
2012: Lincoln
2013: American Hustle
- 2nd Place Award: August: Osage County
2014: Birdman
- 2nd Place Award: The Grand Budapest Hotel
2015: Spotlight
2016: Manchester by the Sea
- 2nd Place Award: Moonlight
2017: Lady Bird
- 2nd Place Award: The Post
2018: The Favourite
2019: Little Women
2020: The Trial of the Chicago 7
2021: West Side Story
- 2nd Place Award: Belfast

Drama

note: With both the Drama and Comedy awards, a second place finish doesn’t get listed if it was listed above. It’s listed if it was a close 2nd place to a non-Nighthawk winner above or a very close 3rd place finisher when the 2nd place was in the opposite genre.