Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama is a Golden Globe Award that has been awarded annually from 1944 until 2023 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). Since its institution in 1943, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is an organization of journalists who cover the film industry in the United States, but are affiliated with publications outside North America. Since 2023, the award is now presented by Dick Clark Productions.

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. Since 1951, the only time the awards were reunified was in 1953.

This award goes to the producers of the film. In the following lists, the first titles listed are winners. These are also in bold and in blue background; those not in bold are nominees.

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.

Winners and Nominees

1940s

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! style="width:6%;" | Year

! style="width:38%;" | Film

! style="width:30%;" | Director

! style="width:30%;" | Producer/s

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! style="text-align:center;" | 1943

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Song of Bernadette || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Henry King || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | William Perlberg

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! style="text-align:center;" | 1944

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Going My Way || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Leo McCarey || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Leo McCarey

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! style="text-align:center;" | 1945

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Lost Weekend || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Billy Wilder || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Charles Brackett

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! style="text-align:center;" | 1946

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Best Years of Our Lives || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | William Wyler || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Samuel Goldwyn

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! style="text-align:center;" | 1947

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Gentleman's Agreement || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Elia Kazan || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Darryl F. Zanuck

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! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | 1948

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Johnny Belinda || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Jean Negulesco || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Jerry Wald

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| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | John Huston || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Henry Blanke

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! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | 1949

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | All the King's Men || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Robert Rossen || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Robert Rossen

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|Come to the Stable || Henry Koster || Samuel G. Engel

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1950s

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%; text-align:left"

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! style="width:6%;" | Year

! style="width:38%;" | Film

! style="width:30%;" | Director

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | On the Waterfront || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Elia Kazan || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Sam Spiegel

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! style="text-align:center;" | 1955

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | East of Eden || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Elia Kazan || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Elia Kazan

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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1956

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Around the World in 80 Days || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Michael Anderson || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Kevin McClory

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|Giant || George Stevens|| Henry Ginsberg

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|Lust for Life || Vincente Minnelli || John Houseman

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|The Rainmaker || Joseph Anthony || Hal B. Wallis

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|War and Peace || King Vidor || Dino De Laurentiis

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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1957

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Bridge on the River Kwai || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | David Lean || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Sam Spiegel

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|12 Angry Men || Sidney Lumet || Henry Fonda

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|Sayonara || Joshua Logan || William Goetz

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|Wild Is the Wind || George Cukor || Hal B. Wallis

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|Witness for the Prosecution || Billy Wilder || Arthur Hornblow Jr.

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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1958

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Defiant Ones || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Stanley Kramer || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Stanley Kramer

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|Cat on a Hot Tin Roof || Richard Brooks || Lawrence Weingarten

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|Home Before Dark || Mervyn LeRoy || Mervyn LeRoy

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|I Want to Live! || Robert Wise || Claude Miller

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|Separate Tables || Delbert Mann || Harold Hecht

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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1959

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Ben-Hur || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | William Wyler || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Sam Zimbalist

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|Anatomy of a Murder || Otto Preminger || Otto Preminger

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|The Diary of Anne Frank || colspan="2" | George Stevens

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|The Nun's Story || Fred Zinnemann || Henry Blanke

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|On the Beach || Stanley Kramer || Stanley Kramer

|}

1960s

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%; text-align:left"

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! style="width:6%;" | Year

! style="width:38%;" | Film

! style="width:30%;" | Director

| style="background:#b0c4de; text-align:left;" | Argo || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Ben Affleck || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Ben Affleck, George Clooney, Grant Heslov

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| style="text-align:left;" | Django Unchained || Quentin Tarantino || Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin, Pilar Savone

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| align="left" | Life of Pi || Ang Lee || Ang Lee, Gil Netter, David Womark

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| align="left" | Lincoln || Steven Spielberg || Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy

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| align="left" | Zero Dark Thirty || Kathryn Bigelow || Kathryn Bigelow, Colin Wilson, Greg Shapiro, Ted Schipper, Megan Ellison

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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2013

| style="background:#b0c4de; text-align:left;" | 12 Years a Slave || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Steve McQueen || style="background:#b0c4de; text-align:left;" | Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Bill Pohlad, Steve McQueen, Arnon Milchan, Anthony Katagas

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| align="left" | Captain Phillips || Paul Greengrass || Michael De Luca, Dana Brunetti, Scott Rudin

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| style="text-align:left;" | Gravity || Alfonso Cuarón || Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman

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| align="left" | Philomena || Stephen Frears || Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan, Tracey Seaward

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| align="left" | Rush || Ron Howard || Andrew Eaton, Eric Fellner, Brian Oliver, Peter Morgan, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard

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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2014

| style="background:#b0c4de; text-align:left;" | Boyhood || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Richard Linklater || style="background:#b0c4de; text-align:left;" | Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland, Jonathan Sehring, John Sloss

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| style="text-align:left;" | Foxcatcher || Bennett Miller || Bennett Miller, Megan Ellison, Jon Kilik, Anthony Bregman

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| style="text-align:left;" | The Imitation Game || Morten Tyldum || Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, Teddy Schwarzman

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| align="left" | Selma || Ava DuVernay || Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey

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| align="left" | The Theory of Everything || James Marsh || Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten

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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2015

| style="background:#b0c4de; text-align:left;" | The Revenant || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Alejandro G. Iñárritu || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Arnon Milchan, Mary Parent, Keith Redmon

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| style="text-align:left;" | Carol || Todd Haynes || Elizabeth Karlsen, Christine Vachon, Stephen Woolley

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| style="text-align:left;" | Mad Max: Fury Road || George Miller || Doug Mitchell, George Miller, P. J. Voeten

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| align="left" | Room || Lenny Abrahamson || Ed Guiney, David Gross

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| align="left" | Spotlight || Tom McCarthy || Steve Golin, Blye Pagon Faust, Nicole Rocklin, Michael Sugar

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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2016

| style="background:#b0c4de; text-align:left;" | Moonlight || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Barry Jenkins || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | 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

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|Hell or High Water

|David Mackenzie

|Peter Berg, Carla Hacken, Sidney Kimmel, Gigi Pritzker, Rachel Shane, Julie Yorn

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|Lion

|Garth Davis

|Iain Canning, Angie Fielder, Emile Sherman

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|Manchester by the Sea

|Kenneth Lonergan

|Lauren Beck, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Kimberly Steward, Kevin J. Walsh

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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2017

| style="background:#b0c4de; text-align:left;" |Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Martin McDonagh || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | 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

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|Dunkirk

|Christopher Nolan

| Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas

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|The Post

|Steven Spielberg

|Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Amy Pascal

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|The Shape of Water

|Guillermo del Toro

|Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale

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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2018

| style="background:#b0c4de; text-align:left;" |Bohemian Rhapsody || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Bryan Singer || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Graham King and Jim Beach

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| Black Panther

| Ryan Coogler

| Kevin Feige

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| BlacKkKlansman

| Spike Lee

| Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Shaun Redick, Jordan Peele, Spike Lee

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|If Beale Street Could Talk

|Barry Jenkins

|Adele Romanski, Sara Murphy, Barry Jenkins, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner

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|A Star Is Born

|Bradley Cooper

|Bill Gerber, Bradley Cooper, Lynette Howell Taylor

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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2019

| style="background:#b0c4de; text-align:left;" |1917 || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Sam Mendes || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | 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

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| Joker

| Todd Phillips

| Todd Phillips, Bradley Cooper, Emma Tillinger Koskoff

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|Marriage Story

|Noah Baumbach

|David Heyman, Noah Baumbach

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|The Two Popes

|Fernando Meirelles

|Dan Lin, Jonathan Eirich, Tracey Seaward

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2020s

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! style="width:6%;" | Year

! style="width:38%;" | Film

! style="width:30%;" | Director

! style="width:30%;" | Producers

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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2020

| style="background:#b0c4de;" | Nomadland

| style="background:#b0c4de;" | Chloé Zhao

| style="background:#b0c4de;" | 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

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|Mank

|David Fincher

|Ceán Chaffin, Eric Roth, Douglas Urbanski

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|Promising Young Woman

|Emerald Fennell

| Josey McNamara, Ben Browning, Ashley Fox, Emerald Fennell

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|The Trial of the Chicago 7

|Aaron Sorkin

|Stuart M. Besser, Marc Platt

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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2021

| style="background:#b0c4de;" | The Power of the Dog

| style="background:#b0c4de;" | Jane Campion

| style="background:#b0c4de;" | 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

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|CODA

|Sian Heder

|Fabrice Gianfermi, Philippe Rousselet, Jerôme Seydoux, Patrick Wachsberger

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|Dune

|Denis Villeneuve

|Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve, Cale Boyter, Joe Caracciolo Jr.

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|King Richard

|Reinaldo Marcus Green

|Tim White, Trevor White, Will Smith

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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2022

| style="background:#b0c4de;" | The Fabelmans

| style="background:#b0c4de;" | Steven Spielberg

| style="background:#b0c4de;" | Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner

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|Avatar: The Way of Water

|James Cameron

|James Cameron, Jon Landau

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|Elvis

|Baz Luhrmann

|Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick, Schuyler Weiss

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|Tár

|Todd Field

|Todd Field, Alexandra Milchan, Scott Lambert

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|Top Gun: Maverick

|Joseph Kosinski

|Jerry Bruckheimer, Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison

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! rowspan="6" |2023

| style="background:#b0c4de;" |Oppenheimer

| style="background:#b0c4de;" | Christopher Nolan

| style="background:#b0c4de;" | Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, Christopher Nolan

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|Anatomy of a Fall

|Justine Triet

|Marie-Ange Luciani, David Thion

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|Killers of the Flower Moon

|Martin Scorsese

|Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas, Martin Scorsese, Daniel Lupi

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|Maestro

|Bradley Cooper

|Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Bradley Cooper, Fred Berner, Amy Durning, Kristie Macosko Krieger

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|Past Lives

|Celine Song

|David Hinojosa, Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler

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|The Zone of Interest

|Jonathan Glazer

|James Wilson, Ewa Puszczyńska

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! rowspan="6" |2024

| style="background:#b0c4de;" |The Brutalist

| style="background:#b0c4de;" |Brady Corbet

| style="background:#b0c4de;" |Trevor Matthews, Nick Gordon, Brian Young, Andrew Morrison, Andrew Lauren, D.J. Gugenheim, Brady Corbet

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|A Complete Unknown

|James Mangold

|Fred Berger, James Mangold, Alex Heineman, Bob Bookman, Peter Jaysen, Alan Gasmer, Jeff Rosen, Timothée Chalamet

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|Conclave

|Edward Berger

|Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Michael Jackman, Alice Dawson, Robert Harris

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|Dune: Part Two

|Denis Villeneuve

|Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Patrick McCormick, Tanya Lapointe, Denis Villeneuve

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|Nickel Boys

|RaMell Ross

|Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, David Levine, Joslyn Barnes

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|September 5

|Tim Fehlbaum

|Philipp Trauer, Thomas Wöbke, Tim Fehlbaum, Sean Penn, John Ira Palmer, John Wildermuth

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! rowspan="6" |2025

| style="background:#b0c4de;" |Hamnet

| style="background:#b0c4de;" |Chloé Zhao

| style="background:#b0c4de;" |Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Steven Spielberg & Sam Mendes

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|Frankenstein

|Guillermo del Toro

|Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale & Scott Stuber

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|It Was Just an Accident

|Jafar Panahi

|Jafar Panahi & Philippe Martin

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|The Secret Agent

|Kleber Mendonça Filho

|Emilie Lesclaux & Kleber Mendonça Filho

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|Sentimental Value

|Joachim Trier

|Maria Ekerhovd & Andrea Berentsen Ottmar

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|Sinners

|Ryan Coogler

|Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian & Ryan Coogler

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Notes

• Following the controversy over the motion picture category omission towards non-English language films, The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom) is the first wholly non-English language film to be nominated both Foreign Language and in this category, although Anatomy of a Fall (France) is part of non-English language film due to occasional use of English language.

See also

• BAFTA Award for Best Film
• Academy Award for Best Picture
• Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Picture
• Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
• Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture
• Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

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