Originally known as "Best Production"

1927-1928  Wings (Lucien Hubbard)
1928-1929  The Broadway Melody  (Harry Rapf)
1929-1930  All Quiet on the Western Front (Carl Laemmle Jr.)

The name of the award becomes "Best Picture"

1930-1931  Cimarron (William LeBaron)
1931-1932  Grand Hotel  (Irving Thalberg)
1932-1933  Cavalcade (Winfield Sheehan)

     The award became aligned with the calendar year

1934  It Happened One Night (Harry Cohn)
1935  Mutiny on the Bounty (Irving Thalberg with Albert Lewin)
1936 The Great Ziegfeld (Hunt Stromberg)
1937  The Life of Emile Zola (Henry Blanke)
1938--You Can't Take It With You (Frank Capra)
1939--Gone With The Wind (Victor Fleming)
1940--Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
1941--How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)
1942--Mrs. Miniver (William Wyler)
1943--Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
1944--Going My Way (Leo McCarey)
1945--The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder)
1946--The Best Years Of Our Lives (William Wyler)
1947--A Gentleman's Agreement (Elia Kazan)
1948--Hamlet (Laurence Olivier)
1949--All The King's Men (Robert Rossen)
1950--All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankewiecz)
1951--An American in Paris (Vincent Minnelli)
1952--The Greatest Show on Earth (Cecille B. DeMille)
1953--From Here to Eternity (Fred Zimmerman)
1954--On The Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
1955--Marty (Delbert Mann)
1956--The King and I (Walter Lang)
1957--Bridge On The River Kwai (David Lean)
1958--Gigi (Vincent Minelli)
1959--Ben Hur (William Wyler)
1960--The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
1961--West Side Story (Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise)
1962--Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
1963--Tom Jones (Tony Richardson)
1964--My Fair Lady (George Cukor)
1965--The Sound of Music (Robert Wise)
1966--A Man For All Season (Fred Zimmerman)
1967--In The Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison)
1968--Oliver (Sir Carol Reed)
1969--Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
1970--Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner)
1971--The French Connection (William Friedkin)
1972--The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
1973--The Sting (George Roy Hill)
1974--The Godfather Part 2 (Francis Ford Coppola)
1975--One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman)
1976--Rocky (John G. Avildsen)
1977--Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
1978--The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
1979--Kramer Vs. Kramer (Robert Benton)
1980--Ordinary People (Robert Redford)
1981--Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)
1982--Gandhi (Sir Richard Attenborough)
1983--Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks)
1984--Amadeus (Milos Forman)
1985--Out of Africa (Sydney Pollack)
1986--Platoon (Oliver Stone)
1987--The Last Emperor (Bernado Bertolucci)
1988--Rain Man (Barry Levinsen)
1989--Driving Miss Daisy (Bruce Beresford)
1990--Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner)
1991--Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
1992--Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
1993--Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
1994--Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
1995--Braveheart (Mel Gibson)
1996--The English Patient (Anthony Minghalla)
1997--Titanic (James Cameron)
1998--Shakespeare in Love (John Madden)
1999--American Beauty (Sam Mendes)
2000--Gladiator (Ridley Scott)
2001--A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard)
2002--Chicago (Rob Marshall)
2003--Lord of the Ring: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
2004--Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
2005--Crash (Paul Haggis)
2006--The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
2007--No Country for Old Men (Scott Rudin, Ethan & Joel Coen)
2008--Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
2009--The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
2010--The King's Speech (Tom Hooper)
2011--The Artist (Michael Hazanavicius)
2012--Argo (Ben Affleck)
2013--12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
2014--Birdman (Alejandro G.Iñárritu)
2015--Spotlight (Tom McCarthy)
2016--Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
2018--Green Book (Peter Farrelly)