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Encyclopedia > BAFTA Award for Best Picture

British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award for Best Picture winners: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ...

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/UK) 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) 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 (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

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BAFTA's main office is on Piccadilly in London, but it also has branches in Northern England, Scotland, Wales, New York City and Los Angeles.
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