National Board of Review: Top Ten Films

The following is a list of the Top 10 Films chosen annually by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, beginning in 1929. From 1968 till 2005, 29 times the NBR chose the film that would go on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture as Best Film. Twelve of these times, the film selected was number one on the NBR's list for that year.

Lists

• † = Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture
• ‡ = Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture

1920s

• 1929:
  • Applause
  • Broadway
  • Bulldog Drummond
  • The Case of Lena Smith
  • Disraeli ‡
  • Hallelujah
  • The Letter
  • The Love Parade ‡
  • Paris Bound
  • The Valiant

1930s

• 1930:
  • All Quiet on the Western Front †
  • Holiday
  • Laughter
  • The Man from Blankley's
  • Men Without Women
  • Morocco
  • Outward Bound
  • Romance
  • Street of Chance
  • Tol'able David

• 1931:
  • Cimarron †
  • City Lights
  • City Streets
  • Dishonored
  • The Front Page ‡
  • The Guardsman
  • Quick Millions
  • Rango
  • Surrender
  • Tabu

• 1932:
  • I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang ‡
  • As You Desire Me
  • A Bill of Divorcement
  • A Farewell to Arms ‡
  • Madame Racketeer
  • Payment Deferred
  • Scarface
  • Tarzan the Ape Man
  • Trouble in Paradise
  • Two Seconds

• 1933:
  • Topaze
  • Berkeley Square
  • Cavalcade †
  • Little Women ‡
  • Mama Loves Papa
  • The Pied Piper
  • She Done Him Wrong ‡
  • State Fair ‡
  • Three-Cornered Moon
  • Zoo in Budapest

• 1934:
  • It Happened One Night †
  • The Count of Monte Cristo
  • Crime Without Passion
  • Eskimo
  • The First World War
  • The Lost Patrol
  • Lot in Sodom
  • No Greater Glory
  • The Thin Man ‡
  • Viva Villa! ‡

• 1935:
  • The Informer ‡
  • Alice Adams ‡
  • Anna Karenina
  • David Copperfield ‡
  • The Gilded Lily
  • Les Misérables ‡
  • The Lives of a Bengal Lancer ‡
  • Mutiny on the Bounty †
  • Ruggles of Red Gap ‡
  • Who Killed Cock Robin?

• 1936:
  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ‡
  • The Story of Louis Pasteur ‡
  • Modern Times
  • Fury
  • Winterset
  • The Devil Is a Sissy
  • Ceiling Zero
  • Romeo and Juliet ‡
  • The Prisoner of Shark Island
  • Green Pastures

• 1937:
  • Night Must Fall
  • The Life of Emile Zola †
  • Black Legion
  • Camille
  • Make Way for Tomorrow
  • The Good Earth ‡
  • They Won't Forget
  • Captains Courageous ‡
  • A Star Is Born ‡
  • Stage Door ‡

• 1938:
  • The Citadel ‡
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  • The Beachcomber
  • To the Victor
  • Sing You Sinners
  • The Edge of the World
  • Of Human Hearts
  • Jezebel ‡
  • South Riding
  • Three Comrades

• 1939:
  • Confessions of a Nazi Spy
  • Wuthering Heights ‡
  • Stagecoach ‡
  • Ninotchka ‡
  • Young Mr. Lincoln
  • Crisis
  • Goodbye, Mr. Chips ‡
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ‡
  • The Roaring Twenties
  • U-Boat 29

1940s

• 1940:
  • The Grapes of Wrath ‡
  • The Great Dictator ‡
  • Of Mice and Men ‡
  • Our Town ‡
  • Fantasia
  • The Long Voyage Home ‡
  • Foreign Correspondent ‡
  • The Biscuit Eater
  • Gone with the Wind †
  • Rebecca †

• 1941:
  • Citizen Kane ‡
  • How Green Was My Valley †
  • The Little Foxes ‡
  • The Stars Look Down
  • Dumbo
  • High Sierra
  • Here Comes Mr. Jordan ‡
  • Tom, Dick and Harry
  • Road to Zanzibar
  • The Lady Eve

• 1942:
  • In Which We Serve ‡
  • One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
  • Mrs. Miniver †
  • Journey for Margaret
  • Wake Island ‡
  • The Male Animal
  • The Major and the Minor
  • Sullivan's Travels
  • The Moon and Sixpence
  • The Pied Piper ‡

• 1943:
  • The Ox-Bow Incident ‡
  • Watch on the Rhine ‡
  • Air Force
  • Holy Matrimony
  • The Hard Way
  • Casablanca †
  • Lassie Come Home
  • Bataan
  • The Moon Is Down
  • The Next of Kin

• 1944:
  • None But the Lonely Heart ‡
  • Going My Way †
  • The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
  • Hail the Conquering Hero
  • The Song of Bernadette ‡
  • Wilson ‡
  • Meet Me in St. Louis
  • Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
  • Thunder Rock
  • Lifeboat

• 1945:
  • The True Glory
  • The Lost Weekend †
  • The Southerner
  • The Story of G.I. Joe
  • The Last Chance
  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
  • A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
  • The Fighting Lady
  • The Way Ahead
  • The Clock

• 1946:
  • Henry V ‡
  • Rome, Open City
  • The Best Years of Our Lives †
  • Brief Encounter
  • A Walk in the Sun
  • It Happened at the Inn
  • My Darling Clementine
  • The Diary of a Chambermaid
  • The Killers
  • Anna and the King of Siam

• 1947:
  • Monsieur Verdoux
  • Great Expectations ‡
  • Shoeshine
  • Crossfire ‡
  • Boomerang!
  • Odd Man Out
  • Gentleman's Agreement †
  • To Live in Peace
  • It's a Wonderful Life ‡
  • The Overlanders

• 1948:
  • Paisan
  • Day of Wrath
  • The Search
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ‡
  • Louisiana Story
  • Hamlet †
  • The Snake Pit ‡
  • Johnny Belinda ‡
  • Joan of Arc
  • The Red Shoes ‡

• 1949:
  • The Bicycle Thief
  • The Quiet One
  • Intruder in the Dust
  • The Heiress ‡
  • Devil in the Flesh
  • Quartet
  • Germany, Year Zero
  • Home of the Brave
  • A Letter to Three Wives ‡
  • The Fallen Idol

1950s

• 1950:
  • Sunset Boulevard ‡
  • All About Eve †
  • The Asphalt Jungle
  • The Men
  • Edge of Doom
  • Twelve O'Clock High ‡
  • Panic in the Streets
  • Cyrano de Bergerac
  • No Way Out
  • Stage Fright

• 1951:
  • A Place in the Sun ‡
  • The Red Badge of Courage
  • An American in Paris †
  • Death of a Salesman
  • Detective Story
  • A Streetcar Named Desire ‡
  • Decision Before Dawn ‡
  • Strangers on a Train
  • Quo Vadis ‡
  • Fourteen Hours

• 1952:
  • The Quiet Man ‡
  • High Noon ‡
  • Limelight
  • 5 Fingers
  • The Snows of Kilimanjaro
  • The Thief
  • The Bad and the Beautiful
  • Singin' in the Rain
  • Above and Beyond
  • My Son John

• 1953:
  • Julius Caesar ‡
  • Shane ‡
  • From Here to Eternity †
  • Martin Luther
  • Lili
  • Roman Holiday ‡
  • Stalag 17
  • Little Fugitive
  • Mogambo
  • The Robe ‡

• 1954:
  • On the Waterfront †
  • Seven Brides for Seven Brothers ‡
  • The Country Girl ‡
  • A Star Is Born
  • Executive Suite
  • The Vanishing Prairie
  • Sabrina
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  • The Unconquered
  • Beat the Devil

• 1955:
  • Marty †
  • East of Eden
  • Mister Roberts ‡
  • Bad Day at Black Rock
  • Summertime
  • The Rose Tattoo ‡
  • A Man Called Peter
  • Not as a Stranger
  • Picnic ‡
  • The African Lion

• 1956:
  • Around the World in 80 Days †
  • Moby Dick
  • The King and I ‡
  • Lust for Life
  • Friendly Persuasion ‡
  • Somebody Up There Likes Me
  • The Catered Affair
  • Anastasia
  • The Man Who Never Was
  • Bus Stop

• 1957:
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai †
  • 12 Angry Men ‡
  • The Spirit of St. Louis
  • The Rising of the Moon
  • Albert Schweitzer
  • Funny Face
  • The Bachelor Party
  • The Enemy Below
  • A Hatful of Rain
  • A Farewell to Arms

• 1958:
  • The Old Man and the Sea
  • Separate Tables ‡
  • The Last Hurrah
  • The Long, Hot Summer
  • Windjammer
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ‡
  • The Goddess
  • The Brothers Karamazov
  • Me and the Colonel
  • Gigi †

• 1959:
  • The Nun's Story ‡
  • Ben-Hur †
  • Anatomy of a Murder ‡
  • The Diary of Anne Frank ‡
  • Middle of the Night
  • The Man Who Understood Women
  • Some Like It Hot
  • Suddenly, Last Summer
  • On the Beach
  • North by Northwest

1960s

• 1960:
  • Sons and Lovers ‡
  • The Alamo ‡
  • The Sundowners ‡
  • Inherit the Wind
  • Sunrise at Campobello
  • Elmer Gantry ‡
  • Home from the Hill
  • The Apartment †
  • Wild River
  • The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

• 1961:
  • Question 7
  • The Hustler ‡
  • West Side Story †
  • The Innocents
  • The Hoodlum Priest
  • Summer and Smoke
  • The Young Doctors
  • Judgment at Nuremberg ‡
  • One, Two, Three
  • Fanny ‡

• 1962:
  • The Longest Day ‡
  • Billy Budd
  • The Miracle Worker
  • Lawrence of Arabia †
  • Long Day's Journey into Night
  • Whistle Down the Wind
  • Requiem for a Heavyweight
  • A Taste of Honey
  • Birdman of Alcatraz
  • War Hunt

• 1963:
  • Tom Jones †
  • Lilies of the Field ‡
  • All the Way Home
  • Hud
  • This Sporting Life
  • Lord of the Flies
  • The L-Shaped Room
  • The Great Escape
  • How the West Was Won ‡
  • The Cardinal

• 1964:
  • Becket ‡
  • My Fair Lady †
  • Girl with Green Eyes
  • The World of Henry Orient
  • Zorba the Greek ‡
  • Topkapi
  • The Chalk Garden
  • The Finest Hours
  • Four Days in November
  • Séance on a Wet Afternoon

• 1965:
  • The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
  • The Agony and the Ecstasy
  • Doctor Zhivago ‡
  • Ship of Fools ‡
  • The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
  • Darling ‡
  • The Greatest Story Ever Told
  • A Thousand Clowns ‡
  • The Train
  • The Sound of Music †

• 1966:
  • A Man for All Seasons †
  • Born Free
  • Alfie ‡
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ‡
  • The Bible: In the Beginning...
  • Georgy Girl
  • John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums
  • It Happened Here
  • The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming ‡
  • Shakespeare Wallah

• 1967:
  • Far from the Madding Crowd
  • The Whisperers
  • Ulysses
  • In Cold Blood
  • The Family Way
  • The Taming of the Shrew
  • Doctor Dolittle ‡
  • The Graduate ‡
  • The Comedians
  • Accident

• 1968:
  • The Shoes of the Fisherman
  • Romeo and Juliet ‡
  • Yellow Submarine
  • Charly
  • Rachel, Rachel ‡
  • The Subject Was Roses
  • The Lion in Winter ‡
  • Planet of the Apes
  • Oliver! †
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

• 1969:
  • They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
  • Ring of Bright Water
  • Topaz
  • Goodbye, Mr. Chips
  • Battle of Britain
  • Isadora
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  • Support Your Local Sheriff!
  • True Grit
  • Midnight Cowboy †

1970s

• 1970:
  • Patton †
  • Kes
  • Women in Love
  • Five Easy Pieces ‡
  • Ryan's Daughter
  • I Never Sang for My Father
  • Diary of a Mad Housewife
  • Love Story ‡
  • The Virgin and the Gypsy
  • Tora! Tora! Tora!

• 1971:
  • Macbeth
  • The Boy Friend
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  • The French Connection †
  • The Last Picture Show ‡
  • Nicholas and Alexandra ‡
  • The Go-Between
  • King Lear
  • The Tales of Beatrix Potter
  • Death in Venice

• 1972:
  • Cabaret ‡
  • Man of La Mancha
  • The Godfather †
  • Sounder ‡
  • 1776
  • The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
  • Deliverance ‡
  • The Ruling Class
  • The Candidate
  • Frenzy

• 1973:
  • The Sting †
  • Paper Moon
  • Bang the Drum Slowly
  • Serpico
  • O Lucky Man!
  • The Last American Hero
  • The Hireling
  • The Day of the Dolphin
  • The Way We Were

• 1974:
  • The Conversation ‡
  • Murder on the Orient Express
  • Chinatown ‡
  • The Last Detail
  • Harry and Tonto
  • A Woman Under the Influence
  • Thieves Like Us
  • Lenny ‡
  • Daisy Miller
  • The Three Musketeers

• 1975:
  • Nashville ‡ / Barry Lyndon ‡
  • Conduct Unbecoming
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest †
  • Lies My Father Told Me
  • Dog Day Afternoon ‡
  • The Day of the Locust
  • The Passenger
  • Hearts of the West
  • Farewell, My Lovely
  • Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

• 1976:
  • All the President's Men ‡
  • Network ‡
  • Rocky †
  • The Last Tycoon
  • The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
  • The Front
  • The Shootist
  • Family Plot
  • Silent Movie
  • Obsession

• 1977:
  • The Turning Point ‡
  • Annie Hall †
  • Julia ‡
  • Star Wars ‡
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • The Late Show
  • Saturday Night Fever
  • Equus
  • The Picture Show Man
  • Harlan County, USA

• 1978:
  • Days of Heaven
  • Coming Home ‡
  • Interiors
  • Superman
  • Movie Movie
  • Midnight Express ‡
  • An Unmarried Woman ‡
  • Pretty Baby
  • Girlfriends
  • Comes a Horseman

• 1979:
  • Manhattan
  • Yanks
  • The Europeans
  • The China Syndrome
  • Breaking Away ‡
  • Apocalypse Now ‡
  • Being There
  • Time After Time
  • North Dallas Forty
  • Kramer vs. Kramer †

1980s

• 1980:
  • Ordinary People †
  • Raging Bull ‡
  • Coal Miner's Daughter ‡
  • Tess ‡
  • Melvin and Howard
  • The Great Santini
  • The Elephant Man ‡
  • The Stunt Man
  • My Bodyguard
  • Resurrection

• 1981:
  • Chariots of Fire † / Reds ‡
  • Atlantic City ‡
  • Stevie
  • Gallipoli
  • On Golden Pond ‡
  • Prince of the City
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark ‡
  • Heartland
  • Ticket to Heaven
  • Breaker Morant

• 1982:
  • Gandhi †
  • The Verdict ‡
  • Sophie's Choice
  • An Officer and a Gentleman
  • Missing ‡
  • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ‡
  • The World According to Garp
  • Tootsie ‡
  • Moonlighting
  • The Chosen

• 1983:
  • Betrayal / Terms of Endearment †
  • Educating Rita
  • Tender Mercies ‡
  • The Dresser ‡
  • The Right Stuff ‡
  • Testament
  • Local Hero
  • The Big Chill ‡
  • Cross Creek
  • Yentl

• 1984:
  • A Passage to India ‡
  • Paris, Texas
  • The Killing Fields ‡
  • Places in the Heart ‡
  • Mass Appeal
  • Country
  • A Soldier's Story ‡
  • Birdy
  • Careful, He Might Hear You
  • Under the Volcano

• 1985:
  • The Color Purple ‡
  • Out of Africa †
  • The Trip to Bountiful
  • Witness ‡
  • Kiss of the Spider Woman ‡
  • Prizzi's Honor ‡
  • Back to the Future
  • The Shooting Party
  • Blood Simple
  • Dreamchild

• 1986:
  • A Room with a View ‡
  • Hannah and Her Sisters ‡
  • My Beautiful Laundrette
  • The Fly
  • Stand By Me
  • The Color of Money
  • Children of a Lesser God ‡
  • Round Midnight
  • Peggy Sue Got Married
  • The Mission ‡

• 1987:
  • Empire of the Sun
  • The Last Emperor †
  • Broadcast News ‡
  • The Untouchables
  • Gaby: A True Story
  • Cry Freedom
  • Fatal Attraction ‡
  • Hope and Glory ‡
  • Wall Street
  • Full Metal Jacket

• 1988:
  • Mississippi Burning ‡
  • Dangerous Liaisons ‡
  • The Accused
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being
  • The Last Temptation of Christ
  • Tucker: The Man and His Dream
  • Big
  • Running on Empty
  • Gorillas in the Mist
  • Midnight Run

• 1989:
  • Driving Miss Daisy †
  • Henry V
  • Sex, Lies, and Videotape
  • The Fabulous Baker Boys
  • My Left Foot ‡
  • Dead Poets Society ‡
  • Crimes and Misdemeanors
  • Born on the Fourth of July ‡
  • Glory
  • Field of Dreams ‡

1990s

• 1990:
  • Dances with Wolves †
  • Hamlet
  • Goodfellas ‡
  • Awakenings ‡
  • Reversal of Fortune
  • Miller's Crossing
  • Metropolitan
  • Mr. and Mrs. Bridge
  • Avalon
  • The Grifters

• 1991:
  • The Silence of the Lambs †
  • Bugsy ‡
  • Grand Canyon
  • Thelma & Louise
  • Homicide
  • Dead Again
  • Boyz n the Hood
  • Rambling Rose
  • Frankie and Johnny
  • Jungle Fever

• 1992:
  • Howards End ‡
  • The Crying Game ‡
  • Glengarry Glen Ross
  • A Few Good Men ‡
  • The Player
  • Unforgiven †
  • One False Move
  • Peter's Friends
  • Bob Roberts
  • Malcolm X

• 1993:
  • Schindler's List †
  • The Age of Innocence
  • The Remains of the Day ‡
  • The Piano ‡
  • Shadowlands
  • In the Name of the Father ‡
  • Philadelphia
  • Much Ado About Nothing
  • Short Cuts
  • The Joy Luck Club

• 1994:
  • Forrest Gump † / Pulp Fiction ‡
  • Quiz Show ‡
  • Four Weddings and a Funeral ‡
  • Bullets over Broadway
  • Ed Wood
  • The Shawshank Redemption ‡
  • Nobody's Fool
  • The Madness of King George
  • Tom & Viv
  • Heavenly Creatures

• 1995:
  • Sense and Sensibility ‡
  • Apollo 13 ‡
  • Carrington
  • Leaving Las Vegas
  • The American President
  • Mighty Aphrodite
  • Smoke
  • Persuasion
  • Braveheart †
  • The Usual Suspects

• 1996:
  • Shine ‡
  • The English Patient †
  • Fargo ‡
  • Secrets & Lies ‡
  • Everyone Says I Love You
  • Evita
  • Sling Blade
  • Trainspotting
  • Breaking the Waves
  • Jerry Maguire ‡

• 1997:
  • L.A. Confidential ‡
  • As Good as It Gets ‡
  • The Wings of the Dove
  • Good Will Hunting ‡
  • Titanic †
  • The Sweet Hereafter
  • Boogie Nights
  • The Full Monty ‡
  • The Rainmaker
  • Jackie Brown

• 1998:
  • Gods and Monsters
  • Saving Private Ryan ‡
  • Elizabeth ‡
  • Happiness
  • Shakespeare in Love †
  • The Butcher Boy
  • Lolita
  • The Thin Red Line ‡
  • A Simple Plan
  • Dancing at Lughnasa

• 1999:
  • American Beauty †
  • The Talented Mr. Ripley
  • Magnolia
  • The Insider ‡
  • The Straight Story
  • Cradle Will Rock
  • Boys Don't Cry
  • Being John Malkovich
  • Tumbleweeds
  • Three Kings

2000s

• 2000:
  • Quills
  • Traffic ‡
  • Croupier
  • You Can Count On Me
  • Billy Elliot
  • Before Night Falls
  • Gladiator †
  • Wonder Boys
  • Sunshine
  • Dancer in the Dark

• 2001:
  • Moulin Rouge! ‡
  • In the Bedroom ‡
  • Ocean's Eleven
  • Memento
  • Monster's Ball
  • Black Hawk Down
  • The Man Who Wasn't There
  • A.I. Artificial Intelligence
  • The Pledge
  • Mulholland Drive

• 2002:
  • The Hours ‡
  • Chicago †
  • Gangs of New York ‡
  • The Quiet American
  • Adaptation.
  • Rabbit-Proof Fence
  • The Pianist ‡
  • Far from Heaven
  • Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
  • Frida

• 2003:
  • Mystic River ‡
  • The Last Samurai
  • The Station Agent
  • 21 Grams
  • House of Sand and Fog
  • Lost in Translation ‡
  • Cold Mountain
  • In America
  • Seabiscuit ‡
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ‡

• 2004:
  • Finding Neverland ‡
  • The Aviator ‡
  • Closer
  • Million Dollar Baby †
  • Sideways ‡
  • Kinsey
  • Vera Drake
  • Ray ‡
  • Collateral
  • Hotel Rwanda

• 2005: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
  • Good Night, and Good Luck. ‡
  • Brokeback Mountain ‡
  • Capote ‡
  • Crash †
  • A History of Violence
  • Match Point
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
  • Munich ‡
  • Syriana
  • Walk the Line

• 2006: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
  • Letters from Iwo Jima ‡
  • Babel ‡
  • Blood Diamond
  • The Departed †
  • The Devil Wears Prada
  • Flags of Our Fathers
  • The History Boys
  • Little Miss Sunshine ‡
  • Notes on a Scandal
  • The Painted Veil

• 2007: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
  • No Country for Old Men †
  • The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  • The Bourne Ultimatum
  • The Bucket List
  • Into the Wild
  • Juno ‡
  • The Kite Runner
  • Lars and the Real Girl
  • Michael Clayton ‡
  • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

• 2008: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
  • Slumdog Millionaire †
  • Burn After Reading
  • Changeling
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ‡
  • The Dark Knight
  • Defiance
  • Frost/Nixon ‡
  • Gran Torino
  • Milk ‡
  • WALL-E
  • The Wrestler

• 2009: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
  • Up in the Air ‡
  • (500) Days of Summer
  • An Education ‡
  • The Hurt Locker †
  • Inglourious Basterds ‡
  • Invictus
  • The Messenger
  • A Serious Man ‡
  • Star Trek
  • Up ‡
  • Where the Wild Things Are

2010s

• 2010: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
  • The Social Network ‡
  • Another Year
  • The Fighter ‡
  • Hereafter
  • Inception ‡
  • The King's Speech †
  • Shutter Island
  • The Town
  • Toy Story 3 ‡
  • True Grit ‡
  • Winter's Bone ‡

• 2011: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
  • Hugo ‡
  • The Artist †
  • The Descendants ‡
  • Drive
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
  • The Ides of March
  • J. Edgar
  • The Tree of Life ‡
  • War Horse ‡

• 2012: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
  • Zero Dark Thirty ‡
  • Argo †
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild ‡
  • Django Unchained ‡
  • Les Misérables ‡
  • Lincoln ‡
  • Looper
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  • Promised Land
  • Silver Linings Playbook ‡

• 2013: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
  • Her ‡
  • 12 Years a Slave †
  • Fruitvale Station
  • Gravity ‡
  • Inside Llewyn Davis
  • Lone Survivor
  • Nebraska ‡
  • Prisoners
  • Saving Mr. Banks
  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
  • The Wolf of Wall Street ‡

• 2014: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
  • A Most Violent Year
  • American Sniper ‡
  • Birdman †
  • Boyhood ‡
  • Fury
  • Gone Girl
  • The Imitation Game ‡
  • Inherent Vice
  • The LEGO Movie
  • Nightcrawler
  • Unbroken

• 2015: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
  • Mad Max: Fury Road ‡
  • Bridge of Spies ‡
  • Creed
  • The Hateful Eight
  • Inside Out
  • The Martian ‡
  • Room ‡
  • Sicario
  • Spotlight †
  • Straight Outta Compton

• 2016: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
  • Manchester by the Sea ‡
  • Arrival ‡
  • Hacksaw Ridge ‡
  • Hail, Caesar!
  • Hell or High Water ‡
  • Hidden Figures ‡
  • La La Land ‡
  • Moonlight †
  • Patriots Day
  • Silence
  • Sully

• 2017: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
  • The Post ‡
  • Baby Driver
  • Call Me by Your Name ‡
  • The Disaster Artist
  • Downsizing
  • Dunkirk ‡
  • The Florida Project
  • Get Out ‡
  • Lady Bird ‡
  • Logan
  • Phantom Thread ‡

• 2018: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
  • Green Book †
  • The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
  • Black Panther ‡
  • Can You Ever Forgive Me?
  • Eighth Grade
  • First Reformed
  • If Beale Street Could Talk
  • Mary Poppins Returns
  • A Quiet Place
  • Roma ‡
  • A Star Is Born ‡

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