Awards·Top prize, by year
BAFTA Awards
BAFTA Awards · Best Film winners by year.
BAFTA Awards · Best Film
35 winners on record · 1991–2025
2025
Conclave
Edward Berger
2024
Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan
2023
All Quiet on the Western Front
Edward Berger
2022
The Power of the Dog
Jane Campion
2021
Nomadland
Chloé Zhao
2020
1917
Sam Mendes
2019
Roma
Alfonso Cuarón
2018
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Martin McDonagh
2017
La La Land
Damien Chazelle
2016
The Revenant
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
2015
Boyhood
Richard Linklater
2014
12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen
2013
Argo
Ben Affleck
2012
The Artist
Michel Hazanavicius
2011
The King's Speech
Tom Hooper
2010
The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow
2009
Slumdog Millionaire
Danny Boyle
2008
Atonement
Joe Wright
2007
The Queen
Stephen Frears
2006
Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee
2005
The Aviator
Martin Scorsese
2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Peter Jackson
2003
The Pianist
Roman Polanski
2002
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Peter Jackson
2001
Gladiator
Ridley Scott
2000
American Beauty
Sam Mendes
1999
Shakespeare in Love
John Madden
1998
The Full Monty
Peter Cattaneo
1997
The English Patient
Anthony Minghella
1996
Sense and Sensibility
Ang Lee
1995
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Mike Newell
1994
Schindler's List
Steven Spielberg
1993
Howards End
James Ivory
1992
The Commitments
Alan Parker
1991
Goodfellas
Martin Scorsese