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    • Best Film or Mini-Series Made for Cable TV
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    • Billy Wilder Award for Excellence in Directing
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    • Top Foreign Films
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    • NBR Icon Award
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    • Top 5 International Films
    • Outstanding Achievement in Stunt Artistry
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2024 Best Film

Wicked 

2023 Best Film

Killers of the Flower Moon 

2022 Best Film

Top Gun: Maverick 

2021 Best Film

Licorice Pizza 

2020 Best Film

Da 5 Bloods 

2019 Best Film

The Irishman 

2018 Best Film

Green Book 

2017 Best Film

The Post 

2016 Best Film

Manchester by the Sea 

2015 Best Film

Mad Max: Fury Road 

2014 Best Film

A Most Violent Year 

2013 Best Film

Her 

2012 Best Film

Zero Dark Thirty 

2011 Best Film

Hugo 

2010 Best Film

The Social Network 

2009 Best Film

Up in the Air  

2008 Best Film

Slumdog Millionare 

2007 Best Film

No Country For Old Men 

2006 Best Film

Letters from Iwo Jima 

2005 Best Film

Good Night, and Good Luck  

2004 Best Film

Finding Neverland 

2003 Best Film

Mystic River  

2002 Best Film

The Hours 

2001 Best Film

Moulin Rouge 

2000 Best Film

Quills 

1999 Best Film

American Beauty 

1998 Best Film

Gods and Monsters 

1997 Best Film

L.A. Confidential  

1996 Best Film

Shine 

1995 Best Film

Sense & Sensibility 

1994 Best Film

Forrest Gump  Pulp Fiction 

1993 Best Film

Schindler's List 

1992 Best Film

Howards End 

1991 Best Film

The Silence of the Lambs 

1990 Best Film

Dances With Wolves 

1989 Best Film

Driving Miss Daisy 

1988 Best Film

Mississippi Burning 

1987 Best Film

Empire of the Sun 

1986 Best Film

A Room with a View 

1985 Best Film

The Color Purple 

1984 Best Film

A Passage to India 

1983 Best Film

Betrayal 

1982 Best Film

Gandhi 

1981 Best Film

Chariots of Fire 

1980 Best Film

Ordinary People 

1979 Best Film

Manhattan 

1978 Best Film

Days of Heaven 

1977 Best Film

The Turning Point  

1976 Best Film

All the President´s Men 

1975 Best Film

Nashville 

1974 Best Film

The Conversation 

1973 Best Film

The Sting 

1972 Best Film

Cabaret 

1971 Best Film

Macbeth 

1970 Best Film

Patton 

1969 Best Film

They Shoot Horses, Don´t They? 

1968 Best Film

The Shoes of the Fisherman 

1967 Best Film

Far From the Madding Crowd 

1966 Best Film

A Man for All Seasons 

1965 Best Film

The Eleanor Roosevelt Story 

1964 Best Film

Becket 

1963 Best Film

Tom Jones 

1962 Best Film

The Longest Day 

1961 Best Film

Question 7 

1960 Best Film

Sons and Lovers 

1959 Best Film

The Nun´s Story 

1958 Best Film

The Old Man and the Sea 

1957 Best Film

The Bridge on the River Kwai 

1956 Best Film

Around the World in 80 Days 

1955 Best Film

Marty 

1954 Best Film

On the Waterfront 

1953 Best Film

Julius Caesar 

1952 Best Film

The Quiet Man 

1951 Best Film

A Place in the Sun 

1950 Best Film

Sunset Boulevard 

1949 Best Film

The Bicycle Thief 

1948 Best Film

Paisan 

1947 Best Film

Monsieur Verdoux 

1946 Best Film

Henry V 

1945 Best Film

The True Glory 

1944 Best Film

None But the Lonely Heart 

1943 Best Film

The Ox-Bow Incident 

1942 Best Film

In Which We Serve 

1941 Best Film

Citizen Kane 

1940 Best Film

The Grapes of Wrath 

1939 Best Film

Confessions of a Nazi Spy 

1938 Best Film

The Citadel 

1937 Best Film

Night Must Fall 

1936 Best Film

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 

1935 Best Film

The Informer 

1934 Best Film

It Happened One Night 

1933 Best Film

Topaze 

1932 Best Film

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 

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