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| 2008 | No Country for Old Men |
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| 2003 | Chicago |
| 2002 | A Beautiful Mind |
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| 1994 | Schindler's List |
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| 1991 | |
| 1990 | Driving Miss Daisy |
| 1989 | Rain Man |
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| 1988 | The Last Emperor |
| 1987 | |
| 1986 | Out of Africa |
| 1985 | |
| 1984 | Terms of Endearment |
| 1983 | |
| 1982 | Chariots of Fire |
| 1981 | Ordinary People |
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| 1973 | The Sting |
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| 1971 | |
| 1970 | Patton |
| 1969 | |
| 1968 | Oliver |
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| 1966 | A Man for All Seasons |
| 1965 | The Sound of Music |
| 1964 | My Fair Lady |
| 1963 | Tom Jones |
| 1962 | Lawrence of Arabia |
| 1961 | West Side Story |
| 1960 | |
| 1959 | Ben-Hur |
| 1958 | Gigi |
| 1957 | The Bridge on the River Kwai |
| 1956 | Around the World in Eighty Days |
| 1955 | Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing |
| 1954 | |
| 1953 | |
| 1952 | The Greatest Show on Earth |
| 1951 | An American in Paris |
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| 1949 | |
| 1948 | Hamlet |
| 1947 | Gentleman's Agreement |
| 1946 | The Best Years of Our Lives |
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| 1945 | |
| 1944 | Going My Way |
| 1943 | |
| 1942 | Mrs. Miniver |
| 1941 | How Green Was My Valley |
| 1940 | Rebecca |
| 1939 | Gone with the Wind |
| 1938 | You Can't Take It With You |
| 1937 | The Life of Emile Zola |
| 1936 | The Great Ziegfeld |
| 1935 | Mutiny on the Bounty |
| 1934 | |
| 1933 | Cavalcade |
| 1932 | |
| 1931 | Cimarron |
| 1930 | All Quiet on the Western Front |
| 1929 | The Broadway Melody |
| 1928 | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans |
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