BAFTA Award for Best Film
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This page lists the BAFTA award winners for each year. The award is split in two: Best Film from any source, and Best British Film. The film title highlighted in bold is the winner of its respective year, those not in bold are the nominees.
Until 1960, and then sporadically later on, the awards for Best Film were not handed out to any one person, rather, the film, as a whole, received the award.This information is listed as such due to the fact that [IMDb] do not list anyone having received the award prior to 1960, and then throughout the 70's. In 1968, the two awards were joined into a singular "Best Film" award.
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1940s
| Category | Film | Country | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | |||||
| Best Film from any Source | The Best Years of Our Lives | USA | |||
| Best British Film | Odd Man Out | ||||
| 1949 | |||||
| Best Film from any Source | Hamlet | Britain | |||
| Crossfire | USA | ||||
| The Fallen Idol | Britain | ||||
| Monsieur Vincent | France | ||||
| The Naked City | USA | ||||
| Paisan | Italy | ||||
| ''Four Steps in the Clouds | Italy | ||||
| Best British Film | The Fallen Idol | ||||
| Hamlet | |||||
| Oliver Twist | |||||
| Once a Jolly Swagman | |||||
| The Red Shoes | |||||
| Scott of the Antarctic | |||||
| The Small Voice | |||||
1950s
1950Best Film from any source
- The Bicycle Thief - Italy
- *The Ballad of Berlin - Germany
- *The Last Stage - Poland
- *The Set-Up - USA
- *The Third Man - Britain
- *The Treausre of the Sierra Madre - USA
- *The Window - USA
- The Third Man - Britain
- *Kind Hearts and Coronets - Britain
- *Passport to Pimlico - Britain
- *The Queen of Spades - Britain
- *A Run for Your Money - Britain
- *The Small Back Room - Britain
- *Whiskey Galore! - Britain
Best Film from any source
- All About Eve - USA
- *The Asphalt Jungle - USA
- *Beauty and the Beast - France
- *Intruder in the Dust - USA
- *The Men - USA
- *On The Town - USA
- *Orpheus - France
- The Blue Lamp - Britain
- *Chance of a Lifetime - Britain
- *Morning Departure - Britain
- *Seven Days to Noon - Britain
- *State Secret - Britain
- *The Wooden Horse - Britain
Best Film from any source
- Roundabout - France
- *An American in Paris - USA
- *The Browning Version - Britain
- *Detective Story - USA
- *Sunday in August - Italy
- *Fourteen Hours - USA
- *Miss Julie - Sweden
- *The Lavender Hill Mob - Britain
- *The Magic Box - Britain
- *The Magic Garden - Britain
- *The Man in the White Suit - Britain
- *No Resting Place - Britain
- *The Red Badge of Courage - USA
- *The Small Miracle - Britain
- *The Sound of Fury - USA
- *A Walk in the Sun - USA
- *White Corridors - Britain
- *Edward and Caroline - France
- The Lavender Hill Mob - Britain
- *The Browning Version - Britain
- *The Magic Box - Britain
- *The Magic Garden - Britain
- *The Man in the White Suit - Britain
- *No Resting Place - Britain
- *The Small Miracle - Britain
- *White Corridors - Britain
Best Film from any source
- The Sound Barrier - Britain
- *The African Queen - USA
- *Angels One Five - Britain
- *The Boy Kumasenu - Gold Coast
- *Carrie - USA
- *Golden Helmet - France
- *Cry, the Beloved Country - Britain
- *Death of a Salesman - USA
- *Limelight - USA
- *Mandy - Britain
- *Miracle in Milan - Italy
- *The Young and the Damned - Mexico
- *Outcast of the Islands - Britain
- *Rashomon - Japan
- *The River - Britain
- *Singin' in the Rain - USA
- *A Streetcar Named Desire - USA
- *Viva Zapata! - USA
- The Sound Barrier - Britain
- *Angels One Five - Britain
- *Cry, the Beloved Country - Britain
- *Mandy - Britain
- *Outcast of the Islands - Britain
- *The River - Britain
Best Film from any source
- The Secret Game - France
- *The Bad and the Beautiful - USA
- *Come Back, Little Sheba - USA
- *The Cruel Sea - Britain
- *Two Cents Worth of Hope - Italy
- *From Here To Eternity - USA
- *Genevieve - Britain
- *The Heart of the Matter - Britain
- *Julius Caesar - USA
- *The Kidnappers - Britain
- *Lili - USA
- *The Medium - Italy
- *Mogambo - USA
- *Moulin Rouge - Britain
- *We Are All Murderers - France
- *Don Camillo - France/Italy
- *Roman Holiday - USA
- *Shane - USA
- *The Sun Shines Bright - USA
- Genevieve - Britain
- *The Cruel Sea - Britain
- *The Heart of the Matter - Britain
- *The Kidnappers - Britain
- *Moulin Rouge - Britain
Best Film from any source
- The Wages of Fear - France
- *The Caine Mutiny - USA
- *Carrington V.C. - Britain
- *The Divided Heart - Britain
- *Doctor in the House - Britain
- *Executive Suite - USA
- *For Better, for Worse - Britain
- *Hobson's Choice - Britain
- *How to Marry a Millionaire - USA
- *Gate of Hell - Japan
- *The Maggie - Britain
- *The Moon is Blue - USA
- *On the Waterfront - USA
- *Bread, Love and Dreams - Italy
- *The Purple Plain - Britain
- *Rear Window - USA
- *Riot in Cell Block 11 - USA
- *Robinson Crusoe - Mexico
- *Romeo and Juliet - Britain
- *Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - USA
- Hobson's Choice - Britain
- *Carrington V.C. - Britain
- *The Divided Heart - Britain
- *Doctor in the House - Britain
- *For Better, for Worse - Britain
- *The Maggie - Britain
- *The Purple Plain - Britain
- *Romeo and Juliet - Britain
Best Film from any Source
- Richard III - Britain
- *Bad Day at Black Rock - USA
- *Carmen Jones - USA
- *The Colditz Story - Britain
- *The Dam Busters - Britain
- *East of Eden - USA
- *The Ladykillers - Britain
- *Marty - USA
- *The Night My Number Came Up - Britain
- *The Prisoner - Britain
- *The Seven Samurai - Japan
- *Simba - Britain
- *The Road - Italy
- *Summertime - Italy/USA
- Richard III - Britain
- *The Colditz Story - Britain
- *The Dam Busters - Britain
- *The Ladykillers - Britain
- *The Night My Number Came Up - Britain
- *The Prisoner - Britain
- *Simba - Britain
Best Film from any source
- Gervaise - France
- *Friends for Life - Italy
- *''Baby Doll - USA
- *The Battle of the River Plate - Britain
- *The Unfrocked One - France
- *''Guys and Dolls - USA
- *The Killing - USA
- *The Man Who Never Was - Britain
- *The Man With the Golden Arm - USA
- *Picnic - USA
- *The Cricket - Soviet Union
- *Reach for the Sky - Britain
- *Rebel Without A Cause - USA
- *The Shadow - Poland
- *Smiles of a Summer Night - Sweden
- *A Town Like Alice - Britain
- *The Trouble With Harry - USA
- *War and Peace - Italy/USA
- *Yield to the Night - Britain
- Reach for the Sky - Britain
- *The Battle of the River Plate
- *The Man Who Never Was - Britain
- *A Town Like Alice - Britain
- *Yield To The Night - Britain
Best Film from any source
- The Bridge on the River Kwai - Britain
- *12 Angry Men - USA
- * - USA
- *The Bachelor Party - USA
- *He Who Must Die - Italy/France
- *Edge of the City - USA
- *Heaven Knows, Mr. Alison - USA
- *Song of the Road - India
- *Paths of Glory - USA
- *Gate of Lilacs - France/Italy
- *The Prince and the Showgirl - Britain
- *The Shiralee - Britain
- *That Night! - USA
- *The Tin Star - USA
- *A Man Escaped - France
- *Windom's Way - Britain
- The Bridge on the River Kwai - Britain
- *The Prince and the Showgirl - Britain
- *The Shiralee - Britain
- *Windom's Way - Britain
Best Film from any source
- Room at the Top - Britain
- *The Unvanquished - India
- *Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - USA
- *The Defiant Ones - USA
- *Ice-Cold in Alex - Britain
- *Indiscreet - Britain
- *The Cranes Are Flying - Soviet Union
- *No Down Payment - USA
- *Nights of Cabiria - Italy
- *Orders to Kill - Britain
- *Sea of Sand - Britain
- *The Sheepman - USA
- *Wild Strawberries - Sweden
- *The Young Lions - USA
- Room at the Top - Britain
- *Ice-Cold in Alex - Britain
- *Indiscreet - Britain
- *Orders to Kill - Britain
- *Sea of Sand - Britain
1960s
1960Best Film from any source
- Ben-Hur - William Wyler - USA
- *Anatomy of a Murder - Otto Preminger - USA
- *The Magician - Ingmar Bergman - Sweden
- *The Big Country - William Wyler - USA
- *Compulsion - Richard Fleischer - USA
- *Gigi - Vincente Minnelli - USA
- *Look Back in Anger - Tony Richardson - Britain
- *Maigret Lays a Trap - Jean Delannoy - France
- *North West Frontier - J. Lee Thompson - Britain
- *The Nun's Story - Fred Zinnemann - USA
- *Ashes and Diamonds - Andrzej Wajda - Poland
- *Sapphire - Basil Dearden - Britain
- *Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder - USA
- *Tiger Bay - J. Lee Thompson - Britain
- *Yesterday's Enemy - Val Guest - Britain
- Sapphire - Basil Dearden - Britain
- *Look Back in Anger - Tony Richardson - Britain
- *''North West Frontier - J. Lee Thompson - Britain
- *Tiger Bay - J. Lee Thompson - Britain
- *Yesterday's Enemy - Val Guest - Britain
Best Film from any source
- The Apartment - Billy Wilder - USA
- *The Angry Silence - Guy Green - Britain
- *The Adventure - Michelangelo Antonioni - Italy/France
- *The Sweet Life - Federico Fellini - Italy/France
- *Elmer Gantry - Richard Brooks - USA
- *Hiroshima, My Love - Alain Resnais - France/Japan
- *Inherit the Wind - Stanley Kramer - USA
- *Let's Make Love - George Cukor - USA
- *Black Orpheus - Marcel Camus - France/Italy/Brazil
- *Never on Sunday - Jules Dassin - Greece
- *The Four Hundred Blows - François Truffaut - France
- *Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Karel Reisz - Britain
- *Shadows - John Cassavetes - USA
- *Spartacus - Stanley Kubrick - USA
- *The Testament of Orpheus - Jean Cocteau - France
- *The Trials of Oscar Wilde - Ken Hughes - Britain
- *Tunes of Glory - Ronald Neame - Britain
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Karel Reisz - Britain
- *The Angry Silence - Guy Green - Britain
- *The Trials of Oscar Wilde - Ken Hughes - Britain
- *Tunes of Glory - Ronald Neame - Britain
Best Film from any source (tie)
- Ballad of a Soldier - Soviet Union
- The Hustler - USA
- *The World of Apu - India
- *The Innocents - Britain
- *Judgement at Nuremberg - USA
- *The Long and the Short and the Tall - Britain
- *Rocco and His Brothers - Italy
- *The Sundowners - Britain
- *A Taste of Honey - Tony Richardson - Britain
- *The Night Watch - France
- *''Whistle Down The Wind - Bryan Forbes - Britain
- A Taste of Honey - Tony Richardson - Britain
- *The Innocents - Britain
- *The Long and the Short and the Tall - Britain
- *The Sundowners - Britain
- *Whistle Down The Wind - Bryan Forbes - Britain
Best Film from any source
- Lawrence of Arabia - Britain
- *Last Year at Marienbad - France/Italy
- *''Billy Budd - Britain
- *The Elusive Corporal - France
- *The Lady with the Dog - Soviet Union
- *Naked Island - Japan
- *Jules and Jim - France
- *A Kind of Loving - Britain
- *The L-Shaped Room - Britain
- *Lola - France/Italy
- *The Manchurian Candidate - USA
- *The Miracle Worker - USA
- *Only Two Can Play - Britain
- *Faidra - Greece
- *Through a Glass Darkly - Sweden
- *Thou Shalt Not Kill - Italy/Yugoslavia/Lichtenstein
- *The Long Absence - France/Italy
- *West Side Story - Italy
- Lawrence of Arabia - Britain
- *Billy Budd - Britain
- *A Kind of Loving - Britain
- *The L-Shaped Room - Britain
- *Only Two Can Play - Britain
- Tom Jones - Britain
- *81/2 - Italy
- *Billy Liar - Britain
- *David and Lisa - USA
- *Days of Wine and Roses - USA
- *Divorce - Italian Style - Italy
- *Hud - USA
- *Knife in the Water - Poland
- *The Four Days of Naples - Italy
- *The Servant - Britain
- *This Sporting Life - Britain
- *To Kill a Mockingbird - USA
- Tom Jones - Britain
- *Billy Liar - Britain
- *The Servant - Britain
- *This Sporting Life - Britain
Best Film from any source
- Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb - Britain
- *Becket - Britain
- *The Pumpkin Eater - Britain
- *The Train - Britain
- Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb - Britain
- *Becket - Britain
- *King & Country - Britain
- *The Pumpkin Eater - Britain
Best Film from any source
- My Fair Lady - George Cukor - USA
- *Zorba the Greek - Michael Cacoyannis - Greece/USA
- *Hamlet - Grigori Kozintsev - Soviet Union
- *The Hill - Sidney Lumet - Britain
- *''The Knack...and How to Get It - Richard Lester - Britain
- The Ipcress File - Sidney J. Furie - Britain
- *Darling - John Schlesinger - Britain
- *The Hill - Sidney Lumet - Britain
- *''The Knack...and How to Get It - Richard Lester - Britain
Best Film from any source
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Mike Nichols
- *Doctor Zhivago - David Lean
- * - Karel Reisz
- *The Spy Who Came In From The Cold - Martin Ritt
- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold - Martin Ritt
- *Alfie - Lewis Gilbert
- *Georgy Girl - Silvio Narizzano
- * - Karel Reisz
Best Film from any source
- A Man For All Seasons - Fred Zinnemann
- *Bonnie and Clyde - Arthur Penn
- *In the Heat of the Night - Norman Jewison
- *A Man and a Woman - Claude Lelouch
- A Man For All Seasons - Fred Zinnemann
- *Accident - Joseph Losey
- *Blowup - Michelangelo Antonioni
- *The Deadly Affair - Sidney Lumet
Best Film
- The Graduate - Mike Nichols
- * - Stanley Kubrick
- *Oliver! - Sir Carol Reed
- *Closely Watched Trains - Jirí Menzel
1970s
19701971
1972
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- *The Go-Between
- *Death in Venice
- *Taking Off
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980s
19801981
- The Elephant Man - Jonathan Sanger
- *Being There - Andrew Braunsberg
- *Kagemusha - Akira Kurosawa, Tomoyuki Tanaka
- *Kramer vs. Kramer - Stanley R. Jaffe
- 'Chariots of Fire'' - David Puttnam
- *Atlantic City
- *The French Lieutenant's Woman
- *''Gregory's Girl
- *Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Gandhi - Richard Attenborough
- *E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy
- *Missing - Edward Lewis, Mildred Lewis
- *On Golden Pond - Bruce Gilbert
- Educating Rita - Lewis Gilbert
- *Heat and Dust - Ismail Merchant
- *Local Hero - David Puttnam
- *Tootsie - Sydney Pollack, Dick Richards
- The Killing Fields - David Puttnam
- *The Dresser - Peter Yates
- *Paris, Texas - Chris Sievernich, Anatole Dauman
- *A Private Function - Mark Shivas
- 'The Purple Rose of Cairo'' - Robert Greenhut, Woody Allen
- *''Amadeus - Saul Zaentz, Milos Forman
- *Back to the Future - Bob Gale, Neil Canton, Robert Zemeckis
- *A Passage To India - John Brabourne, Richard N. Goodwin, David Lean
- *Witness - Edward S. Feldman, Peter Weir
- 'A Room With A View'' - Ismail Merchant, James Ivory
- *Hannah and Her Sisters - Robert Greenhut, Woody Allen
- *The Mission - Fernando Ghia, David Puttnam, Roland Joffé
- *Mona Lisa - Stephen Woolley, Patrick Cassavetti, Neil Jordan
- 'Jean de Florette'' - Claude Berri
- *Cry Freedom - Richard Attenborough
- *Hope and Glory - John Boorman
- *Radio Days - Robert Greenhut, Woody Allen
- 'The Last Emperor'' - Jeremy Thomas, Bernardo Bertolucci
- *Goodbye, Children - Louis Malle
- *Babette's Feast - Just Betzer, Bo Christensen
- *A Fish Called Wanda - Michael Shamberg, Charles Crichton
1990s
1990- 'Dead Poets Society'' - Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas, Peter Weir
- *My Left Foot - Noel Pearson, Jim Sheridan
- *Shirley Valentine - Lewis Gilbert
- *When Harry Met Sally... - Rob Reiner
- 'GoodFellas'' - Irwin Winkler, Martin Scorsese
- *Crimes and Misdemeanors - Robert Greenhut, Woody Allen
- *Driving Miss Daisy - Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck, Bruce Beresford
- *Pretty Woman - Arnon Milchan, Steven Reuther, Garry Marshall
- 'The Commitments'' - Roger Randall-Cutler, Lynda Myles, Alan Parker
- *Dances With Wolves - Kevin Costner, Jim Wilson
- *The Silence of the Lambs - Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ronald M. Bozman, Jonathan Demme
- *Thelma & Louise - Mimi Polk Gitlin, Ridley Scott
- 'Howards End'' - Ismail Merchant, James Ivory
- *The Crying Game - Stephen Woolley, Neil Jordan
- *The Player - David Brown, Michael Tolkin, Nick Wechsler, Robert Altman
- *Strictly Ballroom - Tristram Miall, Baz Luhrmann
- *Unforgiven - Clint Eastwood
- 'Schindler's List'' - Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen Branko Lustig
- *The Piano - Jan Chapman, Jane Campion
- *The Remains of the Day - Ismail Merchant, Mike Nichols John Calley, James Ivory
- *Shadowlands - Richard Attenborough, Brian Eastman
- 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'' - Duncan Kenworthy, Mike Newell
- *Forrest Gump - Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch, Steve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis
- *Pulp Fiction - Lawrence Bender, Quentin Tarantino
- *Quiz Show - Michael Jacobs, Julian Krainin, Michael Nozik, Robert Redford
- 'Sense and Sensibility'' - Lindsay Doran, Ang Lee
- The Usual Suspects - Bryan Singer, Michael McDonnell - USA
- *Babe - George Miller, Doug Mitchell, Bill Miller, Chris Noonan - Australia
- *The Madness of King George - Stephen Evans, David Parfitt, Nicholas Hytner
- 'The English Patient'' - Saul Zaentz, Anthony Minghella
- *Fargo - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
- *Secrets & Lies - Simon Channing-Williams, Mike Leigh
- *Shine - Jane Scott, Scott Hicks
- The Full Monty - Uberto Pasolini
- *L.A. Confidential - Arnon Milchan, Curtis Hanson, Michael G. Nathanson
- *Mrs. Brown - Sarah Curtis
- *Titanic - James Cameron, Jon Landau,
- 'Shakespeare in Love'' - David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick, Marc Norman
- *Elizabeth - Alison Owen, Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan
- *Saving Private Ryan - Steven Spielberg, Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon, Gary Levinsohn
- *The Truman Show - Scott Rudin, Andrew Niccol, Edward S. Feldman, Adam Schroeder
2000s
2000
- American Beauty - Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks
- *East is East - Leslee Udwin
- *The End of the Affair - Stephen Woolley, Neil Jordan
- *The Sixth Sense - Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel
- *The Talented Mr. Ripley - William Horberg, Tom Sternberg
- 'Gladiator'' - Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, Branko Lustig
- *Almost Famous - Cameron Crowe, Ian Bryce
- *Billy Elliot - Greg Brenman, Jonathan Finn
- *Erin Brockovich - Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher
- *Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - William Kong, Li-Kong Hsu, Ang Lee
- ' - Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, Tim Sanders
- *A Beautiful Mind - Brian Grazer, Ron Howard
- *Amelie - Claudie Ossard, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- *Moulin Rouge! - Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann, Fred Baron
- *Shrek - Aron Warner, John H. Williams, Jeffrey Katzenberg
- 'The Pianist'' - Roman Polanski, Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde
- *Chicago - Marty Richards
- *Gangs of New York - Alberto Grimaldi, Harvey Weinstein
- *The Hours - Scott Rudin, Robert Fox
- * - Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson
- ' - Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson
- *Big Fish - Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks, Richard D. Zanuck
- *Cold Mountain - Sydney Pollack, William Horberg, Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa
- *Lost in Translation - Sofia Coppola, Ross Katz
- * - Samuel Goldwyn Jr., Peter Weir, Duncan Henderson
- 'The Aviator'' - Michael Mann, Sandy Climan, Graham King, Charles Evans Jr.
- *The Motorcycle Diaries - Michael Nozik, Edgard Tenenbaum, Karen Tenkhoff
- *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Steve Golin, Anthony Bregman
- *Finding Neverland - Richard N. Gladstein, Nellie Bellflower
- *Vera Drake - Simon Channing-Williams, Alain Sarde
- 'Brokeback Mountain'' - Diana Ossana, James Schamus
- *Capote - Caroline Baron, William Vince, Michael Ohoven
- *The Constant Gardener - Simon Channing-Williams
- *Crash - Cathy Schulman, Don Cheadle, Bob Yari
- *Good Night, and Good Luck - Grant Heslov
Notes
References
- [Epinions.com] List of Winners
- [IMDB list of Winners]
See also
- British Academy of Film and Television Arts
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
External links
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