| Les Ailes | 1929 | William A. Wellman & Harry d'Abbadie | Drame/Romance | 2 |
| The Broadway Melody | 1930 | Harry Beaumont | Musical/Drame | 1 |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | 1931 | Lewis Milestone | Guerre/Drame | 4 |
| Cimarron | 1932 | Wesley Ruggles | Western/Drame | 3 |
| Grand Hotel | 1933 | Edmund Goulding | Drame/Romance | 1 |
| Cavalcade | 1934 | Frank Lloyd | Drame/Romance | 3 |
| It Happened One Night | 1935 | Frank Capra | Comédie/Romance | 5 |
| Mutiny on the Bounty | 1936 | Frank Lloyd | Aventure/Drame | 1 |
| The Great Ziegfeld | 1937 | Robert Z. Leonard | Biographie/Drame/Musical | 3 |
| The Life of Emile Zola | 1938 | William Dieterle | Biographie/Drame | 3 |
| You Can't Take It with You | 1939 | Frank Capra | Comédie/Drame/Romance | 2 |
| Gone with the Wind | 1940 | Victor Fleming, George Cukor & Sam Wood | Drame/Romance | 8 |
| Rebecca | 1941 | Alfred Hitchcock | Mystère/Romance/Thriller | 2 |
| How Green Was My Vallee | 1942 | John Ford | Drame | 5 |
| Mrs. Miniver | 1943 | Willian Wyler | Drame/Guerre | 6 |
| Casablanca | 1944 | Michael Curtiz | Drame/Guerre/Romance | 3 |
| Going My Way | 1945 | Leo McCarey | Comédie/Drame/Musical | 7 |
| The Lost Weekend | 1946 | Billy Wilder | Drame/Film noir | 4 |
| The Best Years of Our Lives | 1947 | William Wyler | Drame/Romance/Guerre | 7 |
| Gentleman's Agreement | 1948 | Elia Kazan | Drame | 3 |
| Hamlet | 1949 | Laurence Olivier | Drame | 5 |
| All the King's Men | 1950 | Robert Rossen | Drame/Thriller | 3 |
| All About Eve | 1951 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Drame | 6 |
| An American in Paris | 1952 | Vincente Minnelli | Musical/Romance | 7 |
| The Greatest Show on Earth | 1953 | Cecil B. DeMille | Drame | 2 |
| From Here to Eternity | 1954 | Fred Zinnemann | Drame/Guerre/Romance | 8 |
| On the Waterfront | 1955 | Elia Kazan | Crime/Drame/Thriller | 8 |
| Marty | 1946 | Delbert Mann | Drame/Romance | 4 |
| Around the World in 80 Days | 1957 | Michael Anderson & John Farrow | Aventure/Comédie/Drame | 5 |
| Le Pont de la rivière Kwaï | 1958 | David Lean | Aventure/Drame/Guerre | 7 |
| Gigi | 1959 | Vincente Minnelli & Charles Walters | Comédie/Musical/Romance | 9 |
| Ben-Hur | 1960 | William Wyler | Aventure/Drame | 11 |
| The Apartment | 1961 | Billy Wilder | Comédie/Drame/Romance | 5 |
| West Side Story | 1962 | Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise | Crime/Drame/Musical | 10 |
| Lawrence of Arabia | 1963 | David Lean | Aventure/Drame | 7 |
| Tom Jones | 1964 | Tony Richardson | Aventure/Comédie | 4 |
| My Fair Lady | 1965 | George Cukor | Drame/Familial/Musical | 8 |
| The Sound of Music | 1966 | Robert Wise | Biographie/Drame/Familial | 5 |
| A Man of All Seasons | 1967 | Fred Zinnemann | Biographie/Drame/Histoire | 6 |
| In the Heat of the Night | 1968 | Norman Jewison | Crime/Drame/Mystère | 5 |
| Oliver! | 1969 | John Woolf | Drame/Familial/Musical | 6 |
| Midnight Cowboy | 1970 | John Schlesinger | Drame | 3 |
| Patton | 1971 | Franklin J. Schaffner | Biographie/Drame/Guerre | 7 |
| The French Connection | 1972 | William Friedkin | Action/Crime/Drame | 5 |
| Le parrain | 1973 | Francis Ford Coppola | Crime/Drame | 3 |
| The Sting | 1974 | George Roy Hill | Comédie/Crime/Drame | 7 |
| Le parrain, 2e partie | 1975 | Francis Ford Coppola | Crime/Drame | 6 |
| Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou | 1976 | Milos Forman | Drame | 5 |
| Rocky | 1977 | John G. Avildsen | Drame/Sport | 3 |
| Annie Hall | 1978 | Woody Allen | Comédie/Drame/Romance | 4 |
| Voyage au bout de l'enfer | 1979 | Michael Cimino | Aventure/Drame | 5 |
| Kramer contre Kramer | 1980 | Robert Benton | Drame | 5 |
| Ordinary People | 1981 | Robert Redford | Drame | 6 |
| Chariots of Fire | 1982 | Hugh Hudson | Biographie/Drame/Sport | 4 |
| Gandhi | 1983 | Richard Attenborough | Biographie/Drame/Histoire | 8 |
| Tendres Passion | 1984 | James L. Brooks | Drame/Romance | 5 |
| Amadeus | 1985 | Milos Forman | Biographie/Drame/Musique | 8 |
| Out of Africa | 1986 | Sydney Pollack | Biographie/Drame/Romance | 7 |
| Platoon | 1987 | Oliver Stone | Drame/Guerre | 4 |
| Le Dernier empereur | 1988 | Bernardo Bertolucci | Biographie/Drame/Histoire | 9 |
| Rain Man | 1989 | Barry Levinson | Drame | 4 |
| Driving Miss Daisy | 1990 | Bruce Beresford | Comédie/Drame | 4 |
| Danse avec les loups | 1991 | Kevin Costner | Aventure/Drame/Fantaisie | 7 |
| Le Silence des agneaux | 1992 | Jonathan Demme | Crime/Drame/Thriller | 5 |
| Unforgiven | 1993 | Clint Eastwood | Western/Drame | 4 |
| La liste de Schindler | 1994 | Steven Spielberg | Biographie/Drame/Histoire | 7 |
| Forrest Gump | 1995 | Robert Zemeckis | Drame/Romance | 6 |
| Braveheart | 1996 | Mel Gibson | Biographie/Drame/Guerre | 5 |
| Le patient anglais | 1997 | Anthony Minghella | Drame/Guerre/Romance | 9 |
| Titanic | 1998 | James Cameron | Drame/Romance | 11 |
| Shakespeare in Love | 1999 | John Madden | Comédie/Drame/Romance | 7 |
| American Beauty | 2000 | Sam Mendes | Drame/Romance | 5 |
| Gladiator | 2001 | Ridley Scott | Action/Aventure/Drame | 5 |
| A Beautiful Mind | 2002 | Ron Howard | Biographie/Drame | 4 |
| Chicago | 2003 | Rob Marshall | Comédie/Crime/Musical | 6 |
| Le Seigneur des anneaux: Le retour du roi | 2004 | Peter Jackson | Aventure/Drame/Fantaisie | 11 |
| Million Dollar Baby | 2005 | Clint Eastwood | Drame/Sport | 4 |
| Crash | 2006 | Paul Haggis | Drame/Thriller | 6 |
| Les infiltrés | 2007 | Martin Scorsese | Crime/Drame/Thriller | 3 |
| No Country for Old Men | 2008 | Ethan Coen & Joel Coen | Crime/Drame/Thriller | 4 |
| Slumdog Millionaire | 2009 | Danny Boyle & Loveleen Tandan | Drame/Romance | 8 |
| Démineurs | 2010 | Kathryn Bigelow | Drame/Guerre/Thriller | 6 |
| Le discours d'un roi | 2011 | Tom Hopper | Biographie/Drame/Histoire | 4 |
| The Artist | 2012 | Michael Hazanavicius | Comédie/Drame/Romance | 5 |
| Argo | 2013 | Ben Affleck | Biographie/Drame/Thriller | 3 |
| 12 Years a Slave | 2014 | Steve McQueen | Biographie/Drame/Histoire | 3 |
| Birdman | 2015 | Alejandro G. Iñàrritu | Comédie/Drame/Romance | 4 |
| Spotlight | 2016 | Tom McCarthy | Biographie/Crime/Drame | 2 |
| Moonlight | 2017 | Barry Jenkins | Drame/Romance | 3 |
| The Shape of Water | 2018 | Guillermo del Torro | Aventure/Drame/Fantaisie | 4 |
| Green Book | 2019 | Peter Farrelly | Biographie/Comédie/Drame | 5 |
| Parasite | 2020 | Bong Joon-ho | Comédie/Crime/Drame | 4 |
| Nomadland | 2021 | Chloé Zhao | Drame | 3 |
| Coda | 2022 | Siân Heder | Drame/Musique | 3 |
| Everything Everywhere All at Once | 2023 | Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert | Comédie/Drame/Sci-Fi | 7 |