1927-1928 (Best Production) Wings - Paramount Famous Players-Lasky - Lucien Hubbard

1928-1929 The Broadway Melody - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Harry Rapf

1929-1930 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film) - Universal - Carl Laemmle Jr.
1930-1931 Cimarron - RKO Radio - William LeBaron
1931-1932 Grand Hotel - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg
1932-1933 Cavalcade - Fox - Winfield Sheehan studio head
1934 It Happened One Night - Columbia - Harry Cohn
1935 Mutiny on the Bounty - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg with Albert Lewin
1936 The Great Ziegfeld - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Hunt Stromberg
1937 The Life of Emile Zola - Warner Bros. - Henry Blanke
1938 You Can't Take It with You - Columbia - Frank Capra
1939 Gone with the Wind - Selznick, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - David O. Selznick
1940 Rebecca - Selznick, United Artists - David O. Selznick
1941 How Green Was My Valley - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck
1942 Mrs. Miniver - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sidney Franklin
1943 Casablanca - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis
1944 Going My Way - Paramount - Leo McCarey
1945 The Lost Weekend - Paramount - Charles Brackett
1946 The Best Years of Our Lives - RKO Radio - Samuel Goldwyn
1947 Gentleman's Agreement - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck
1948 Hamlet - J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films, U-I - Laurence Olivier
1949 All the King's Men - Rossen, Columbia - Robert Rossen
1950 All About Eve - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck
1951 An American in Paris - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Arthur Freed
1952 The Greatest Show on Earth - Paramount - Cecil B. DeMille
1953 From Here to Eternity - Columbia - Buddy Adler
1954 On the Waterfront - Columbia - Sam Spiegel
1955 Marty - United Artists - Harold Hecht
1956 Around the World in 80 Days - United Artists - Michael Todd
1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai - Columbia - Sam Spiegel
1958 Gigi - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Arthur Freed
1959 Ben-Hur - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sam Zimbalist (posthumous award)
1960 The Apartment - United Artists - Billy Wilder
1961 West Side Story - United Artists - Robert Wise
1962 Lawrence of Arabia - Columbia - Sam Spiegel
1963 Tom Jones - United Artists - Tony Richardson
1964 My Fair Lady - Warner Bros. - Jack L. Warner
1965 The Sound of Music - 20th Century-Fox - Robert Wise
1966 A Man for All Seasons - Columbia - Fred Zinnemann
1967 In the Heat of the Night - United Artists - Walter Mirisch
1968 Oliver! - Columbia - John Woolf
1969 Midnight Cowboy - United Artists - Jerome Hellman
1970 Patton - 20th Century-Fox - Frank McCarthy
1971 The French Connection - 20th Century-Fox - Philip D'Antoni
1972 The Godfather - Paramount - Albert S. Ruddy
1973 The Sting - Universal - Tony Bill, Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips
1974 The Godfather Part II - Paramount - Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson, Fred Roos
1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - United Artists - Saul Zaentz, Michael Douglas
1976 Rocky - United Artists - Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff
1977 Annie Hall - United Artists - Charles H. Joffe
1978 The Deer Hunter - Universal - Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, John Peverall
1979 Kramer vs. Kramer - Columbia - Stanley R. Jaffe
1980 Ordinary People - Paramount - Ronald L. Schwary
1981 Chariots of Fire - The Ladd Company/Warner Bros. - David Puttnam
1982 Gandhi - Columbia - Richard Attenborough
1983 Terms of Endearment - Paramount - James L. Brooks
1984 Amadeus - Orion - Saul Zaentz
1985 Out of Africa - Universal - Sydney Pollack
1986 Platoon - Orion - Arnold Kopelson
1987 The Last Emperor (末代皇帝) - Columbia - Jeremy Thomas
1988 Rain Man - United Artists - Mark Johnson
1989 Driving Miss Daisy - Warner Bros. - Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck
1990 Dances with Wolves - Orion - Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner
1991 The Silence of the Lambs - Orion - Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman
1992 Unforgiven - Warner Bros. - Clint Eastwood
1993 Schindler's List - Universal - Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, Branko Lustig
1994 Forrest Gump - Paramount - Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch, Steve Starkey
1995 Braveheart - Paramount - Mel Gibson, Alan Ladd, Jr., Bruce Davey
1996 The English Patient - Miramax - Saul Zaentz
1997 Titanic - Paramount, 20th Century Fox - James Cameron, Jon Landau
1998 Shakespeare in Love - Miramax, Universal - David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick, Ma
1999 American Beauty - DreamWorks SKG - Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks
2000 Gladiator - DreamWorks & Universal - Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, Branko Lustig
2001 A Beautiful Mind - Universal & DreamWorks - Brian Grazer, Ron Howard
2002 Chicago - Miramax - Martin Richards
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - New Line Cinema - Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, Fran Wa
2004 Million Dollar Baby - Warner Bros. - Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, Tom Rosenburg
2005 Crash - Lions Gate - Paul Haggis, Cathy Schulman
2006 The Departed - Warner Bros. - Graham King
2007 No Country for Old Men - Miramax & Paramount Vantage - Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
2008 Slumdog Millionaire - Fox Searchlight - Christian Colson
2009 The Hurt Locker - Summit Entertainment