Film Year Best Picture

Academy Award Winners Director

(* Did not also win Best Director) Title Screen and

Studio or

Production Company NOT Nominated for

Best Picture Should Have Won

(possibly?)

1963 Tom Jones Tony Richardson

United Artists Hud

The Birds

The Haunting The Birds

or

America America

1965 The Sound of Music Robert Wise

20th Century Fox Repulsion Darling

or

Repulsion

1970 Patton Franklin J. Schaffner

20th Century Fox The Ballad of Cable Hogue

Little Big Man

Diary of a Mad Housewife

Brewster McCloud

I Never Sang for My Father

The Landlord

Ryan's Daughter

Women in Love

Five Easy Pieces

or

M*A*S*H

1973 The Sting George Roy Hill

Universal The Last Detail

Last Tango in Paris

The Long Goodbye

Mean Streets

Paper Moon

Serpico

The Way We Were

O Lucky Man!

The Paper Chase

Save the Tiger American Graffiti

or

Cries and Whispers

or

The Exorcist

or

Paper Moon

1974 The Godfather Part II Francis Ford Coppola

Paramount Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

The Parallax View

Thieves Like Us

Day for Night Chinatown

1976 Rocky John G. Avildsen

United Artists The Front

Carrie

The Last Tycoon

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Robin and Marian Network

or

All The President's Men

or

Taxi Driver

1978 The Deer Hunter Michael Cimino

Universal Days of Heaven

Go Tell the Spartans

Interiors Coming Home

or

An Unmarried Woman

1979 Kramer vs. Kramer Robert Benton

Columbia Being There

Manhattan

...and Justice for All

The Black Stallion

The China Syndrome

The Electric Horseman

Escape from Alcatraz

Hair

10

Apocalypse Now

or

All That Jazz

or

Manhattan

1980 Ordinary People Robert Redford

Paramount The Empire Strikes Back

The Long Riders

Melvin and Howard

Urban Cowboy

Stardust Memories

Return of the Secaucus 7 Raging Bull

1981 Chariots of Fire Hugh Hudson*

The Ladd Co./Warner Bros. Absence of Malice

Blow Out

Body Heat

Cutter's Way

The French Lieutenant's Woman

Gallipoli

Mommie Dearest

Pennies From Heaven

Ragtime Reds

or

Raiders of the Lost Ark

or

On Golden Pond

or

Atlantic City

1983 Terms of Endearment James L. Brooks

Paramount Local Hero

A Christmas Story The Right Stuff

or

The Big Chill

or

Tender Mercies

or

Scarface

1984 Amadeus Milos Forman

Orion This is Spinal Tap

Blood Simple The Killing Fields

or

Once Upon a Time in America

1985 Out of Africa Sydney Pollack

Universal Brazil

Ran

Silverado Brazil

or

The Color Purple

1986 Platoon Oliver Stone

Orion 'Round Midnight

Salvador

Sid and Nancy Hannah and Her Sisters

1987 The Last Emperor Bernardo Bertolucci

Columbia Empire of the Sun

House of Games Empire of the Sun

or

Full Metal Jacket

or

Hope and Glory

1988 Rain Man Barry Levinson

United Artists A World Apart

Talk Radio

The Accused

Big

Bird

Bull Durham

A Cry in the Dark

Dominick and Eugene

Hairspray

The Last Temptation of Christ

Married to the Mob

Who Framed Roger Rabbit Dangerous Liaisons

1989 Driving Miss Daisy Bruce Beresford*

Warner Bros Do the Right Thing

Henry V

Glory Henry V

or

Born on the Fourth of July

or

My Left Foot

or

Do the Right Thing

or

Field of Dreams

1990 Dances with Wolves Kevin Costner

Orion Miller's Crossing GoodFellas

or

Miller's Crossing

1991 The Silence of the Lambs Jonathan Demme

Orion Thelma & Louise

An Angel At My Table

Barton Fink

Boys 'N the Hood

Fried Green Tomatoes

Grand Canyon

My Own Private Idaho JFK

or

Thelma & Louise

1992 Unforgiven Clint Eastwood

Warner Bros Hard-Boiled

Malcolm X

The Player

Zentropa (aka Europa) The Crying Game

1993 Schindler's List Steven Spielberg

Universal/Amblin Short Cuts The Piano

or

Groundhog Day

1994 Forrest Gump Robert Zemeckis

Paramount Bullets Over Broadway

Hoop Dreams Pulp Fiction

or

The Shawshank Redemption

1995 Braveheart Mel Gibson

Paramount Dead Man Walking

Leaving Las Vegas

Nixon

The Usual Suspects

Clockers

Sense & Sensibility

Se7en

Toy Story Apollo 13

or

Toy Story

or

Babe

or

Dead Man Walking

or

The Usual Suspects

1996 The English Patient Anthony Minghella

Miramax Sling Blade

Trainspotting

Big Night

The Crucible

Emma

Hamlet

Lone Star

The People vs. Larry Flynt Fargo

or

Trainspotting

1997 Titanic James Cameron

Paramount/20th Century Fox The Wings of the Dove

The Sweet Hereafter

Amistad

Boogie Nights

Grosse Pointe Blank

Jackie Brown

My Best Friend's Wedding

Wag the Dog

Waiting for Guffman

L.A. Confidential

1998 Shakespeare in Love John Madden*

Miramax The Truman Show

The Big Lebowski

Gods and Monsters

Pleasantville

Primary Colors

Rushmore The Thin Red Line

or

Saving Private Ryan

1999 American Beauty Sam Mendes

DreamWorks Being John Malkovich

The End of the Affair

Magnolia

The Matrix

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Topsy-Turvy The Matrix

or

The Insider

or

An Ideal Husband

2000 Gladiator Ridley Scott*

DreamWorks/Universal Almost Famous

Billy Elliot

Chicken Run

Pollock

Requiem for a Dream

You Can Count on Me

Cast Away

Wonder Boys

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Traffic

or

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

2002 Chicago Rob Marshall*

Miramax Adaptation

About Schmidt

Far From Heaven

The Pianist

2004 Million Dollar Baby Clint Eastwood

Warner Bros. The Passion of the Christ

Fahrenheit 9/11

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2005 Crash Paul Haggis*

Lions Gate Entertainment Memoirs of a Geisha

Walk the Line

Pride & Prejudice

King Kong

The Constant Gardener

Cinderella Man Brokeback Mountain

or

Good Night, and Good Luck

or

Munich



2006 The Departed Martin Scorsese

Warner Bros. Dreamgirls

Pan's Labyrinth

Little Children Pan's Labyrinth

or

The Queen

or

Letters From Iwo Jima

2007 No Country for Old Men Joel and Ethan Coen

Miramax/Paramount Vantage American Gangster

Charlie Wilson's War

Hairspray

Into the Wild

Sweeney Todd

Michael Clayton

2008 Slumdog Millionaire Danny Boyle

Fox Searchlight/Warner Bros. Changeling

The Dark Knight

Doubt

Revolutionary Road

Wall-E Frost/Nixon

or

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

or

Waltz with Bashir

2009 The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow

Summit Entertainment Star Trek

Invictus Avatar

2010 The King's Speech Tom Hooper

The Weinstein Company The Social Network

or

Inception

2011 The Artist Michel Hazanavicius

The Weinstein Company The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Bridesmaids

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2

Hugo

or

The Tree of Life

or

The Descendants

2012 Argo Ben Affleck*

Warner Bros. The Dark Knight Rises

The Hunger Games

The Master Lincoln

or

Zero Dark Thirty

or

Life of Pi

2013 12 Years a Slave Steve McQueen*

Fox Searchlight August: Osage County

Inside Llewyn Davis

Lee Daniels' The Butler

Saving Mr. Banks Gravity

or

American Hustle

or

Her

2014 Birdman Alejandro González Iñárritu

Fox Searchlight

Into the Woods

Foxcatcher

Unbroken

Gone Girl

Interstellar

The Grand Budapest Hotel

or

Boyhood

or

American Sniper

2015 Spotlight Tom McCarthy*

Open Road Films Carol

The Danish Girl

The Hateful Eight

Joy

Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

Straight Outta Compton

The Revenant

or

Mad Max: Fury Road

2016 Moonlight Barry Jenkins*

A24/Plan B Entertainment Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Jackie La La Land

or

Manchester By the Sea

2017 The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro

Fox Searchlight I, Tonya

Wonder Woman

Blade Runner 2049 Phantom Thread

2018 Green Book Peter Farrelly*

Universal Mary Poppins Returns Roma

or

Bohemian Rhapsody

or

Black Panther

or

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