This page should also list nominees for each year, instead of just listing the winners...
Credited for each film are its producers, prior to 1950 the production company. The films are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 went to the best film produced in 1999.
- also nominated: [Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon]?, ...
- 1999 [American Beauty]? - Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks
- also nominated: [The Insider]?, ...
- 1998 [Shakespeare in Love]? - David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick, Marc Norman
- 1997 Titanic - James Cameron, Jon Landau
- 1996 [The English Patient]? - Saul Zaentz
- 1995 Braveheart - Mel Gibson, Alan Ladd, Jr., Bruce Davey
- 1994 [Forrest Gump]? - Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch, Steve Starkey
- 1993 [Schindler's List]? - Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, Branko Lustig
- 1992 Unforgiven? - Clint Eastwood
- 1991 The Silence of the Lambs - Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman
- 1990 [Dances With Wolves]? - Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner
- 1989 [Driving Miss Daisy]? - Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck
- 1988 [Rain Man]? - Mark Johnson
- 1987 [The Last Emperor]? - Jeremy Thomas
- 1986 Platoon? - Arnold Kopelson
- 1985 [Out of Africa]? - Sydney Pollack
- 1984 Amadeus? - Saul Zaentz
- 1983 [Terms of Endearment]? - James L. Brooks
- 1982 Gandhi - Richard Attenborough
- 1981 Chariots of Fire - David Puttnam
- 1980 [Ordinary People]? - Ronald L. Schwary
- 1979 [Kramer Vs. Kramer]? - Stanley R. Jaffe
- 1978 [The Deer Hunter]? - Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, John Peverall
- also nominated: [Coming Home]?, ...
- 1977 [Annie Hall]? - Charles H. Joffe
- also nominated: Star Wars, Julia?, ...
- 1976 Rocky? - Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff
- 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Saul Zaentz, Michael Douglas
- 1974 [The Godfather Part II]? - Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson, Fred Roos
- 1973 [The Sting]? - Tony Bill, Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips
- 1972 [The Godfather]? - Albert S. Ruddy
- 1971 [The French Connection]? - Philip D'Antoni
- 1970 Patton? - Frank McCarthy?
- 1969 [Midnight Cowboy]? - Jerome Hellman
- 1968 Oliver!? - John Woolf
- 1967 [In the Heat of the Night]? - Walter Mirisch
- 1966 A Man for All Seasons - Fred Zinnemann
- 1965 The Sound of Music - Robert Wise
- 1964 My Fair Lady - Jack L. Warner
- 1963 [Tom Jones]? - Tony Richardson
- 1962 [Lawrence of Arabia]? - Sam Spiegel
- 1961 West Side Story - Robert Wise
- 1960 [The Apartment]? - Billy Wilder
- 1959 Ben-Hur? - Sam Zimbalist
- 1958 Gigi? - Arthur Freed
- 1957 [The Bridge on the River Kwai]? - Sam Spiegel
- 1956 [Around the World in 80 Days]? - Michael Todd
- 1955 Marty? - Harold Hecht
- 1954 [On the Waterfront]? - Sam Spiegel
- 1953 [From Here to Eternity]? - Buddy Adler
- 1952 [The Greatest Show on Earth]? - Cecil B. DeMille
- 1951 An American in Paris - Arthur Freed
- 1950 [All About Eve]? - 20th Century-Fox
- 1949 [All the King's Men]? - Robert Rossen Productions
- 1948 Hamlet - J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films
- 1947 [Gentleman's Agreement]? - 20th Century-Fox
- 1946 [Best Years of Our Lives]? - 20th Century-Fox
- 1945 [The Lost Weekend]? - Paramount
- 1944 [Going My Way]? - Paramount
- 1943 Casablanca - Warner Bros.
- 1942 [Mrs. Miniver]? - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- 1941 [How Green Was My Valley]? - 20th Century-Fox
- 1940 Rebecca? - Selznick International Pictures
- 1939 Gone With the Wind - Selznick International Pictures
- 1938 [You Can't Take it With You]? - Columbia
- 1937 [The Life of Emile Zola]? - Warner Bros.
- 1936 [The Great Ziegfeld]? - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- 1935 [Mutiny on the Bounty]? - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- 1934 [It Happened one Night]? - Columbia
- 1933 Cavalcade? - Fox
- 1932 [Grand Hotel]? - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- 1931 Cimarron? - RKO Radio
- 1930 All Quiet on the Western Front - Universal
- 1929 [The Broadway Melody]? - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- 1928 Wings? - Paramount Famous Lasky (Best Picture, Production)
- 1928 Sunrise? - Twentieth Century Fox (Best Picture, Unique and Artistic Production)