2010: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2009: The White Ribbon, by Michael Haneke
2008: The Class, by Laurent Cantet
2007: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, by Cristian Mungiu
2006: The Wind That Shakes The Barley, by Ken Loach
2005: L'Enfant, by Jean-Pierre Dardenne
2004: Fahrenheit 9/11, by Michael Moore
2003: Elephant, by Gus Van Sant
2002: The Pianist, by Roman Polanski
2001: La Stanza del Figlio, by Nanni Moretti
2000: Dancer in the Dark, by Lars Von Trier
1999: Rosetta, by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
1998: Eternity and a Day, by Theo Angelopoulos
1997: The Eel, by Shohei Imamura, Taste of Cherry, by Abbas Kiarostami
1996: Secrets & Lies, by Mike Leigh
1995: Underground, by Emir Kusturica
1994: Pulp Fiction, by Quentin Tarantino
1993: Farewell My Concubine, by Kaige Chen, The Piano, by Jane Campion
1992: The Best Intentions, by Bille August
1991: Barton Fink, by Joel and Ethan Coen
1990: Wild At Heart, by David Lynch
1989: Sex, Lies and Videotape, by Steven Soderbergh
1988: Pelle the Conqueror, by Bille August
1987: Under the Sun of Satan, by Maurice Pialat
1986: The Mission, by Roland Joffe
1985: When Father Was Away on Business, by Emir Kusturica
1984: Paris,Texas, by Wim Wenders
1983: The Ballad of Narayama, by Shohei Imamura
1982: Missing, by Costa-Gavras, Yol, by Yilmaz Guney
1981: Man of Iron, by Andrzej Wajda
1980: Kagemusha, by Akira Kurosawa, All That Jazz, by Bob Fosse
1979: Apocalypse Now, by Francis Ford Coppola, The Tin Drum, by Volker Schlondorff
1978: The Tree of Wooden Clogs, by Ermanno Olmi
1977: Padre Padrone, by Paolo Taviani
1976: Taxi Driver, by Martin Scorsese
1975: Chronique des Annees de Braise, by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
1974: The Conversation, by Francis Ford Coppola, The Hireling, by Alan Bridges
1973: Scarecrow, by Jerry Schatzberg, The Mattei Affair, by Francesco Rosi
1972: The Working Class Goes to Heaven, by Elio Petri
1971: The Go-Between, by Joseph Losey
1970: M*A*S*H, by Robert Altman
1969: If, by Lindsay Anderson
1967: Blow-Up, by Michelangelo Antonioni
1966: Un Homme et Une Femme, by Claude Lelouch, Ces Messieurs Dames (Signore e signori), by Pietro Germi
1965: The Knack (...and How to Get It), by Richard Lester
1964: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, by Jacques Demy
1963: The Leopard, by Luchino Visconti
1962: La Parole Donnee, by Anselmo Duarte
1961: Viridiana, by Luis Bunuel, Une Aussi Longue Absence, by Henri Colpi
1960: La Dolce Vita, by Federico Fellini
1959: Black Orpheus - Orfeu Negro - Criterion Collection DVD, by Marcel Camus
1958: The Cranes are Flying, by Mikhail Kalatoz
1957: Friendly Persuasion, by William Wyler
1956: Le Monde du Silence, by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle
1955: Marty, by Delbert Mann
1954: The Gate of Hell (Jigokumon), by Teinosuke Kinugasa
1953: The Wages of Fear, by Henri-Georges Clouzot
1952: Othello, by Orson Welles, Deux Sous d'Espoir, by Renato Castellani
1951: Miracle In Milan, by Vittorio de Sica, Mademoiselle Julie, by Alf Sjoberg
1949: The Third Man, by Carol Reed
1947: Six prizes including: Les Maudits, by Rene Clement, Ziegfeld Follies, by Vincente Minnelli, Dumbo, by Walt Disney
1946: 11 films shared the top prize, including: Open City, by Roberto Rossellini, Maria Candelaria, by Emilio Fernandez, Brief Encounter, by David Lean, The Lost Weekend, by Billy Wilder
