When the awards were introduced, there was a single category for Best Picture. Starting with the 9th Golden Globe Awards, the Golden Globes split the Acting and Best Picture awards into Drama and Musical or Comedy categories.[2] Since 1951, the only time the awards were reunified was in 1953.[3]
The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year.
| Year | Film | Director | Producers |
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| 2000 | Gladiator | Ridley Scott | Douglas Wick |
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| Billy Elliot | | Charles Brand |
| Erin Brockovich | | Danny DeVito |
| Sunshine | | András Hámori |
| Traffic | Steven Soderbergh | Edward Zwick |
| Wonder Boys | Curtis Hanson |
| 2001 | A Beautiful Mind | Ron Howard | Brian Grazer |
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| In the Bedroom | | Todd Field |
| | | Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh |
| The Man Who Wasn't There | | Ethan Coen |
| Mulholland Drive | | Pierre Edelman |
| The Hours | Stephen Daldry | Robert Fox and Scott Rudin |
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| About Schmidt | | Michael Besman |
| Gangs of New York | | Alberto Grimaldi |
| | | Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh |
| The Pianist | |
| 2003 | | Peter Jackson | Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh |
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| Cold Mountain | | Albert Berger |
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| Mystic River | | Robert Lorenz |
| Seabiscuit | | Kathleen Kennedy |
| 2004 | The Aviator | Martin Scorsese | Michael Mann |
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| Closer | Mike Nichols | Patrick Marber |
| Finding Neverland | | Richard N. Gladstein |
| Hotel Rwanda | | Terry George |
| Kinsey | Bill Condon | Gail Mutrux |
| Million Dollar Baby | | Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, Tom Rosenberg |
| 2005 | Brokeback Mountain | Ang Lee | Diana Ossana |
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| The Constant Gardener | | Simon Channing-Williams |
| Good Night, and Good Luck | | Grant Heslov |
| A History of Violence | | Chris Bender |
| Match Point | Woody Allen | Letty Aronson |
| 2006 | Babel | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Steve Golin |
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| Bobby | | Anthony Hopkins |
| The Departed | | Brad Grey |
| Little Children | Todd Field | Albert Berger |
| The Queen | | François Ivernel |
| 2007 | Atonement | Joe Wright | Tim Bevan |
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| American Gangster | Ridley Scott | Brian Grazer |
| Eastern Promises | David Cronenberg | Paul Webster |
| The Great Debaters | | Oprah Winfrey |
| Michael Clayton | | Sydney Pollack |
| No Country for Old Men | | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Scott Rudin |
| There Will Be Blood | |
| 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | Danny Boyle | Christian Colson |
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| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | | Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Ray Stark |
| Frost/Nixon | Ron Howard | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard |
| The Reader | Stephen Daldry | Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Scott Rudin |
| Revolutionary Road | Sam Mendes | Bobby Cohen, Sam Mendes, Scott Rudin |
| 2009 | Avatar | James Cameron | James Cameron and Jon Landau |
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| The Hurt Locker | | Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Tony Mark, Donall McCusker, Greg Shapiro |
| Inglourious Basterds | | Lawrence Bender |
| Precious | | Lisa Cortes, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Valerie Hoffman, Asger Hussain, Gary Magness, Mark G. Mathis, Berrgen Swason, Simone Sheffield |
| Up in the Air | | Daniel Dubiecki, Jeffrey Clifford, Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman | |
| Year | Film | Director | Producers |
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| The Social Network | David Fincher | Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Ceán Chaffin |
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| Black Swan | | Mike Medavoy, Scott Franklin, Arnold Messer, Brian Oliver |
| The Fighter | | David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman, Ryan Kavanaugh, Mark Wahlberg, Dorothy Aufiero, Paul Tamasy |
| Inception | | Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas |
| The King's Speech | | Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin |
| The Descendants | Alexander Payne | Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor |
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| The Help | | Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan, Brunson Green |
| Hugo | | Johnny Depp, Timothy Headington, Graham King, Martin Scorsese |
| The Ides of March | | George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Brian Oliver |
| Moneyball | | Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz, Brad Pitt |
| War Horse | | Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy |
| 2012[10] | Argo | Ben Affleck | Ben Affleck, George Clooney, Grant Heslov |
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| Django Unchained | | Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin, Pilar Savone |
| Life of Pi | | Ang Lee, Gil Netter, David Womark |
| Lincoln | | Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy |
| Zero Dark Thirty | | Kathryn Bigelow, Colin Wilson, Greg Shapiro, Ted Schipper, Megan Ellison |
| 2013[11] | 12 Years a Slave | Steve McQueen | Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Bill Pohlad, Steve McQueen, Arnon Milchan, Anthony Katagas |
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| Captain Phillips | | Michael De Luca, Dana Brunetti, Scott Rudin |
| Gravity | | Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman |
| Philomena | | Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan, Tracey Seaward |
| Rush | | Andrew Eaton, Eric Fellner, Brian Oliver, Peter Morgan, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard |
| 2014[12] | Boyhood | Richard Linklater | Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland, Jonathan Sehring, John Sloss |
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| Foxcatcher | | Bennett Miller, Megan Ellison, Jon Kilik, Anthony Bregman |
| The Imitation Game | | Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, Teddy Schwarzman |
| Selma | | Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey |
| The Theory of Everything | | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten |
| 2015[13] | The Revenant | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Arnon Milchan, Mary Parent, Keith Redmon |
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| Carol | | Elizabeth Karlsen, Christine Vachon, Stephen Woolley |
| | | Doug Mitchell, George Miller, P. J. Voeten |
| Room | | Ed Guiney, David Gross |
| Spotlight | | Steve Golin, Blye Pagon Faust, Nicole Rocklin, Michael Sugar |
| Moonlight | Barry Jenkins | Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adele Romanski |
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| Hacksaw Ridge | Mel Gibson | Terry Benedict, Paul Currie, Bruce Davey, William D. Johnson, Bill Mechanic, Brian Oliver, David Permut |
| Hell or High Water | David Mackenzie | Peter Berg, Carla Hacken, Sidney Kimmel, Gigi Pritzker, Rachel Shane, Julie Yorn |
| Lion | Garth Davis | Iain Canning, Angie Fielder, Emile Sherman |
| Manchester by the Sea | Kenneth Lonergan | Lauren Beck, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Kimberly Steward, Kevin J. Walsh |
| Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Martin McDonagh | Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Martin McDonagh |
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| Call Me by Your Name | Luca Guadagnino | Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Rodrigo Teixeira, Marco Morabito, James Ivory, Howard Rosenman |
| Dunkirk | Christopher Nolan | Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas |
| The Post | Steven Spielberg | Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Amy Pascal |
| The Shape of Water | Guillermo del Toro | Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale |
| Bohemian Rhapsody | Bryan Singer | Graham King and Jim Beach |
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| Black Panther | Ryan Coogler | Kevin Feige |
| BlacKkKlansman | Spike Lee | Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Shaun Redick, Jordan Peele, Spike Lee |
| If Beale Street Could Talk | Barry Jenkins | Adele Romanski, Sara Murphy, Barry Jenkins, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner |
| A Star Is Born | Bradley Cooper | Bill Gerber, Bradley Cooper, Lynette Howell Taylor |
| 1917 | Sam Mendes | Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Jayne-Ann Tenggren, Callum McDougall, and Brian Oliver |
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| The Irishman | Martin Scorsese | Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Irwin Winkler, Gerald Chamales, Gastón Pavlovich, Randall Emmett, Gabriele Israilovici |
| Joker | Todd Phillips | Todd Phillips, Bradley Cooper, Emma Tillinger Koskoff |
| Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach | David Heyman, Noah Baumbach |
| The Two Popes | Fernando Meirelles | Dan Lin, Jonathan Eirich, Tracey Seaward | |
| Year | Film | Director | Producers |
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| 2020 | Nomadland | Chloé Zhao | Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Chloé Zhao |
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| The Father | Florian Zeller | David Parfitt, Jean-Louis Livi, Philippe Carcassonne |
| Mank | David Fincher | Ceán Chaffin, Eric Roth, Douglas Urbanski |
| Promising Young Woman | Emerald Fennell | Josey McNamara, Ben Browning, Ashley Fox, Emerald Fennell |
| The Trial of the Chicago 7 | Aaron Sorkin | Stuart M. Besser, Marc Platt |
| 2021 | The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion | Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Roger Frappier, Jane Campion, Tanya Seghatchian |
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| Belfast | Kenneth Branagh | Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik, Tamar Thomas |
| CODA | Sian Heder | Fabrice Gianfermi, Philippe Rousselet, Jerôme Seydoux, Patrick Wachsberger |
| Dune | Denis Villeneuve | Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve, Cale Boyter, Joe Caracciolo Jr. |
| King Richard | Reinaldo Marcus Green | Tim White, Trevor White, Will Smith |
| 2022 | The Fabelmans | Steven Spielberg | Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner |
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| James Cameron | James Cameron, Jon Landau |
| Elvis | Baz Luhrmann | Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick, Schuyler Weiss |
| Tár | Todd Field | Todd Field, Alexandra Milchan, Scott Lambert |
| Joseph Kosinski | Jerry Bruckheimer, Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison |
| 2023 | Oppenheimer | Christopher Nolan | Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, Christopher Nolan |
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| Anatomy of a Fall | Justine Triet | Marie-Ange Luciani, David Thion |
| Killers of the Flower Moon | Martin Scorsese | Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas, Martin Scorsese, Daniel Lupi |
| Maestro | Bradley Cooper | Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Bradley Cooper, Fred Berner, Amy Durning, Kristie Macosko Krieger |
| Past Lives | Celine Song | David Hinojosa, Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler |
| The Zone of Interest | Jonathan Glazer | James Wilson, Ewa Puszczyńska |
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