British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award for Best Picture winners:

Year	Film	Director
2004	The Aviator (USA)	Martin Scorcese
2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (New Zealand/USA)	Peter Jackson
2002	The Pianist (UK/France/Germany/Netherlands/Poland)	Roman Polanski
2001	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (New Zealand/USA)	Peter Jackson
2000	Gladiator (USA/ UK)	Ridley Scott
1999	American Beauty (USA)	Sam Mendes
1998	Shakespeare In Love (USA/UK)	John Madden
1997	The Full Monty (UK)	Peter Cattaneo
1996	The English Patient (USA)	Anthony Minghella
1995	Sense and Sensibility (UK)	Ang Lee
1995	The Usual Suspects (UK/USA/Germany)	Bryan Singer
1994	Four Weddings and a Funeral (UK)	Mike Newell
1993	Schindler's List (USA)	Steven Spielberg
1992	Howard's End (UK/Japan)	James Ivory
1991	The Commitments (Ireland/UK/USA)	Alan Parker
1990	Goodfellas (USA)	Martin Scorsese
1989	Dead Poets Society (USA)	Peter Weir
1988	The Last Emperor (France/Hong Kong/Italy/UK)	Bernardo Bertolucci
1987	Jean de Florette (France/Switzerland/Italy)	Claude Berri
1986	A Room With a View (UK)	James Ivory
1985	The Purple Rose of Cairo (USA)	Woody Allen
1984	The Killing Fields (UK)	Roland Joffe
1983	Educating Rita (UK)	Lewis Gilbert
1982	Gandhi (UK/USA/India)	Richard Attenborough
1981	Chariots of Fire (UK)	Hugh Hudson
1980	The Elephant Man (UK)	David Lynch
1979	Manhattan (USA)	Woody Allen
1978	Julia (USA)	Fred Zinnemann
1977	Annie Hall (USA)	Woody Allen
1976	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (USA)	Milos Forman
1975	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (USA)	Martin Scorsese
1974	Lacombe, Lucien (France/Italy/West Germany)	Louis Malle
1973	La Nuit américaine (Day For Night) (France/Italy)	Francois Truffaut
1972	Cabaret (USA)	Bob Fosse
1971	Sunday, Bloody Sunday (UK)	John Schlesinger
1970	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (USA)	George Roy Hill
1969	Midnight Cowboy (USA)	John Schlesinger
1968	The Graduate (USA)	Mike Nichols
1967	A Man For All Seasons (UK)	Fred Zinnemann
1966	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (USA)	Mike Nichols
1965	My Fair Lady (USA)	George Cukor
1964	Dr. Strangelove (UK)	Stanley Kubrick
1963	Tom Jones (UK)	Tony Richardson
1962	Lawrence of Arabia (UK)	David Lean
1961	Ballada o soldate (Ballad of a Soldier) {USSR)	Grigori Chukhrai
1961	The Hustler (USA)	Robert Rossen
1960	The Apartment (USA)	Billy Wilder
1959	Ben-Hur (USA)	William Wyler
1958	Room at the Top (UK)	Jack Clayton
1957	The Bridge on the River Kwai (UK)	David Lean
1956	Gervaise (France/Italy)	René Clément
1955	Richard III (UK)	Laurence Olivier
1954	Le Salaire de la peur (The Wages Of Fear) (France/Italy)	Henri-Georges Clouzot
1953	Jeux interdits (Forbidden Games) (France)	René Clément
1952	The Sound Barrier (UK)	David Lean
1951	La ronde (Roundabout) (France)	Max Ophuls
1950	All About Eve (USA)	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1949	Ladri di biciclette (The Bicycle Thief) (Italy)	Vittorio De Sica
1948	Hamlet (UK)	Laurence Olivier
1947	The Best Years of Our Lives (USA)	William Wyler