| 2020 | Parasite | 4 |
| 2019 | Green Book | 4 |
| 2018 | The Shape of Water | 5 |
| 2017 | Moonlight | 3 |
| 2016 | Spotlight | 3 |
| 2015 | Birdman | 2 |
| 2014 | 12 Years a Slave | 3 |
| 2013 | Argo | 3 |
| 2012 | The Artist | 3 |
| 2011 | The King's Speech | 4 |
| 2010 | The Hurt Locker | 3 |
| 2009 | Slumdog Millionaire | 3 |
| 2008 | No Country for Old Men | 3 |
| 2007 | The Departed | 3 |
| 2006 | Crash | 4 |
| 2005 | Million Dollar Baby | 4 |
| 2004 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2 |
| 2003 | Chicago | 3 |
| 2002 | A Beautiful Mind | 3 |
| 2001 | Gladiator | 4 |
| 2000 | American Beauty | 5 |
| 1999 | Shakespeare in Love | 3 |
| 1998 | Titanic | 4 |
| 1997 | The English Patient | 3 |
| 1996 | Braveheart | 3 |
| 1995 | Forrest Gump | 3 |
| 1994 | Schindler's List | 4 |
| 1993 | Unforgiven | 5 |
| 1992 | The Silence of the Lambs | 5 |
| 1991 | Dances with Wolves | 4 |
| 1990 | Driving Miss Daisy | 3 |
| 1989 | Rain Man | 3 |
| 1988 | The Last Emperor | 3 |
| 1987 | Platoon | 3 |
| 1986 | Out of Africa | 4 |
| 1985 | Amadeus | 3 |
| 1984 | Terms of Endearment | 3 |
| 1983 | Gandhi | 4 |
| 1982 | Chariots of Fire | 4 |
| 1981 | Ordinary People | |
| 1980 | Kramer vs. Kramer | 3 |
| 1979 | The Deer Hunter | 3 |
| 1978 | Annie Hall | 3 |
| 1977 | Rocky | 3 |
| 1976 | One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest | 3 |
| 1975 | The Godfather Part II | 4 |
| 1974 | The Sting | 4 |
| 1973 | The Godfather | 5 |
| 1972 | The French Connection | 3 |
| 1971 | Patton | 3 |
| 1970 | Midnight Cowboy | 4 |
| 1969 | Oliver! | 3 |
| 1968 | In the Heat of the Night | 5 |
| 1967 | A Man for All Seasons | 3 |
| 1966 | The Sound of Music | 4 |
| 1965 | My Fair Lady | 5 |
| 1964 | Tom Jones | |
| 1963 | Lawrence of Arabia | 4 |
| 1962 | West Side Story | 3 |
| 1961 | The Apartment | 5 |
| 1960 | Ben-Hur | 4 |
| 1959 | Gigi | 4 |
| 1958 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 4 |
| 1957 | Around the World in Eighty Days | 2 |
| 1956 | Marty | |
| 1955 | On the Waterfront | 3 |
| 1954 | From Here to Eternity | 2 |
| 1953 | The Greatest Show on Earth | |
| 1952 | An American in Paris | 4 |
| 1951 | All About Eve | 4 |
| 1950 | All the King's Men | |
| 1949 | Hamlet | |
| 1948 | Gentleman's Agreement | 4 |
| 1947 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 5 |
| 1946 | The Lost Weekend | |
| 1945 | Going My Way | 4 |
| 1944 | Casablanca | 5 |
| 1943 | Mrs. Miniver | 3 |
| 1942 | How Green Was My Valley | 4 |
| 1941 | Rebecca | 3 |
| 1940 | Gone with the Wind | 3 |
| 1939 | You Can't Take It with You | |
| 1938 | The Life of Emile Zola | |
| 1937 | The Great Ziegfeld | |
| 1936 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 3 |
| 1935 | It Happened One Night | 4 |
| 1934 | Cavalcade | |
| 1933 | Grand Hotel | |
| 1932 | Cimarron | |
| 1931 | All Quiet on the Western Front | 3 |
| 1930 | The Broadway Melody | |
| 1929 | Wings | 2 |