Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Picture

The Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Picture is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Broadcast Film Critics Association.

List of winners and nominees

1990s

Notes

"†" indicates an Academy Award-winning picture
"‡" indicates an Academy Award nominated picture

• 1995: Sense and Sensibility ‡

• 1996: Fargo ‡
  • Big Night
  • The Crucible
  • The English Patient †
  • Evita
  • Hamlet
  • Jerry Maguire ‡
  • Lone Star
  • The People vs. Larry Flynt
  • Shine ‡

• 1997: L.A. Confidential ‡
  • Amistad
  • As Good as It Gets ‡
  • Boogie Nights
  • Donnie Brasco
  • Good Will Hunting ‡
  • The Full Monty ‡
  • Titanic †
  • Wag the Dog
  • The Wings of the Dove

• 1998: Saving Private Ryan ‡
  • Elizabeth ‡
  • Gods and Monsters
  • Life Is Beautiful ‡
  • Out of Sight
  • Pleasantville
  • Shakespeare in Love †
  • A Simple Plan
  • The Thin Red Line ‡
  • The Truman Show

• 1999: American Beauty †
  • Being John Malkovich
  • The Cider House Rules ‡
  • The Green Mile ‡
  • The Insider ‡
  • Magnolia
  • Man on the Moon
  • The Sixth Sense ‡
  • The Talented Mr. Ripley
  • Three Kings

2000s

• 2000: Gladiator †
  • Almost Famous
  • Billy Elliot
  • Cast Away
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ‡
  • Erin Brockovich ‡
  • Quills
  • Thirteen Days
  • Traffic ‡
  • Wonder Boys
  • You Can Count On Me

• 2001: A Beautiful Mind †
  • Ali
  • In the Bedroom ‡
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ‡
  • The Man Who Wasn't There
  • Memento
  • Moulin Rouge! ‡
  • Mulholland Drive
  • The Shipping News
  • Shrek

• 2002: Chicago †
  • About Schmidt
  • Adaptation.
  • Catch Me If You Can
  • Far from Heaven
  • Gangs of New York ‡
  • The Hours ‡
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ‡
  • The Pianist ‡
  • Road to Perdition

• 2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King †
  • Big Fish
  • Cold Mountain
  • Finding Nemo
  • In America
  • The Last Samurai
  • Lost in Translation ‡
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ‡
  • Mystic River ‡
  • Seabiscuit ‡

• 2004: Sideways ‡
  • The Aviator ‡
  • Collateral
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Finding Neverland ‡
  • Hotel Rwanda
  • Kinsey
  • Million Dollar Baby †
  • The Phantom of the Opera
  • Ray ‡

• 2005: Brokeback Mountain ‡
  • Capote ‡
  • Cinderella Man
  • The Constant Gardener
  • Crash †
  • Good Night, and Good Luck ‡
  • King Kong
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
  • Munich ‡
  • Walk the Line

• 2006: The Departed †
  • Babel ‡
  • Blood Diamond
  • Dreamgirls
  • Letters from Iwo Jima ‡
  • Little Children
  • Little Miss Sunshine ‡
  • Notes on a Scandal
  • The Queen ‡
  • United 93

• 2007: No Country for Old Men †
  • American Gangster
  • Atonement ‡
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  • Into the Wild
  • Juno ‡
  • The Kite Runner
  • Michael Clayton ‡
  • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  • There Will Be Blood ‡

• 2008: Slumdog Millionaire †
  • Changeling
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ‡
  • The Dark Knight
  • Doubt
  • Frost/Nixon ‡
  • Milk ‡
  • The Reader ‡
  • WALL-E
  • The Wrestler

• 2009: The Hurt Locker †
  • Avatar ‡
  • An Education ‡
  • Inglourious Basterds ‡
  • Invictus
  • Nine
  • Precious ‡
  • A Serious Man ‡
  • Up ‡
  • Up in the Air ‡

2010s

• 2010: The Social Network ‡
  • 127 Hours ‡
  • Black Swan ‡
  • The Fighter ‡
  • Inception ‡
  • The King's Speech †
  • The Town
  • Toy Story 3 ‡
  • True Grit ‡
  • Winter's Bone ‡

• 2011: The Artist †
  • The Descendants ‡
  • Drive
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close ‡
  • The Help ‡
  • Hugo ‡
  • Midnight in Paris ‡
  • Moneyball ‡
  • The Tree of Life ‡
  • War Horse ‡

• 2012: Argo †
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild ‡
  • Django Unchained ‡
  • Les Misérables ‡
  • Life of Pi ‡
  • Lincoln ‡
  • The Master
  • Moonrise Kingdom
  • Silver Linings Playbook ‡
  • Zero Dark Thirty ‡

• 2013: 12 Years a Slave †
  • American Hustle ‡
  • Captain Phillips ‡
  • Dallas Buyers Club ‡
  • Gravity ‡
  • Her ‡
  • Inside Llewyn Davis
  • Nebraska ‡
  • Saving Mr. Banks
  • The Wolf of Wall Street ‡

• 2014: Boyhood ‡
  • Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) †
  • Gone Girl
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel ‡
  • The Imitation Game ‡
  • Nightcrawler
  • Selma ‡
  • The Theory of Everything ‡
  • Unbroken
  • Whiplash ‡

• 2015: Spotlight †
  • The Big Short ‡
  • Bridge of Spies ‡
  • Brooklyn ‡
  • Carol
  • Mad Max: Fury Road ‡
  • The Martian ‡
  • The Revenant ‡
  • Room ‡
  • Sicario
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens