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 film industry by the Critics Choice Association at the annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards.^[1]

Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Picture
Awarded for	Best Motion Picture
Location	Los Angeles, California
Presented by	Critics Choice Association
First awarded	Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Currently held by	Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Website	www.criticschoice.com

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Film	Director(s)
1995	Sense and Sensibility	Ang Lee
1996	Fargo	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
	Big Night	Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci
	The Crucible	Nicholas Hytner
	The English Patient	Anthony Minghella
	Evita	Alan Parker
	Hamlet	Kenneth Branagh
	Jerry Maguire	Cameron Crowe
	Lone Star	John Sayles
	The People vs. Larry Flynt	Miloš Forman
	Shine	Scott Hicks
1997	L.A. Confidential	Curtis Hanson
	Amistad	Steven Spielberg
	As Good as It Gets	James L. Brooks
	Boogie Nights	Paul Thomas Anderson
	Donnie Brasco	Mike Newell
	Good Will Hunting	Gus Van Sant
	The Full Monty	Peter Cattaneo
	Titanic	James Cameron
	Wag the Dog	Barry Levinson
	The Wings of the Dove	Iain Softley
1998	Saving Private Ryan	Steven Spielberg
	Elizabeth	Shekhar Kapur
	Gods and Monsters	Bill Condon
	Life Is Beautiful	Roberto Benigni
	Out of Sight	Steven Soderbergh
	Pleasantville	Gary Ross
	Shakespeare in Love	John Madden
	A Simple Plan	Sam Raimi
	The Thin Red Line	Terrence Malick
	The Truman Show	Peter Weir
1999	American Beauty	Sam Mendes
	Being John Malkovich	Spike Jonze
	The Cider House Rules	Lasse Hallström
	The Green Mile	Frank Darabont
	The Insider	Michael Mann
	Magnolia	Paul Thomas Anderson
	Man on the Moon	Miloš Forman
	The Sixth Sense	M. Night Shyamalan
	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Anthony Minghella
	Three Kings	David O. Russell

2000s

Year	Film	Director(s)
2000	Gladiator	Ridley Scott
	Almost Famous	Cameron Crowe
	Billy Elliot	Stephen Daldry
	Cast Away	Robert Zemeckis
	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Ang Lee
	Erin Brockovich	Steven Soderbergh
	Quills	Philip Kaufman
	Thirteen Days	Roger Donaldson
	Traffic	Steven Soderbergh
	Wonder Boys	Curtis Hanson
	You Can Count on Me	Kenneth Lonergan
2001	A Beautiful Mind	Ron Howard
	Ali	Michael Mann
	In the Bedroom	Todd Field
	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Peter Jackson
	The Man Who Wasn't There	Joel Coen
	Memento	Christopher Nolan
	Moulin Rouge!	Baz Luhrmann
	Mulholland Drive	David Lynch
	The Shipping News	Lasse Hallström
	Shrek	Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson
2002	Chicago	Rob Marshall
	About Schmidt	Alexander Payne
	Adaptation.	Spike Jonze
	Catch Me If You Can	Steven Spielberg
	Far from Heaven	Todd Haynes
	Gangs of New York	Martin Scorsese
	The Hours	Stephen Daldry
	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Peter Jackson
	The Pianist	Roman Polanski
	Road to Perdition	Sam Mendes
2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Peter Jackson
	Big Fish	Tim Burton
	Cold Mountain	Anthony Minghella
	Finding Nemo	Andrew Stanton
	In America	Jim Sheridan
	The Last Samurai	Edward Zwick
	Lost in Translation	Sofia Coppola
	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Peter Weir
	Mystic River	Clint Eastwood
	Seabiscuit	Gary Ross
2004	Sideways	Alexander Payne
	The Aviator	Martin Scorsese
	Collateral	Michael Mann
	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Michel Gondry
	Finding Neverland	Marc Forster
	Hotel Rwanda	Terry George
	Kinsey	Bill Condon
	Million Dollar Baby	Clint Eastwood
	The Phantom of the Opera	Joel Schumacher
	Ray	Taylor Hackford
2005	Brokeback Mountain	Ang Lee
	Capote	Bennett Miller
	Cinderella Man	Ron Howard
	The Constant Gardener	Fernando Meirelles
	Crash	Paul Haggis
	Good Night, and Good Luck.	George Clooney
	King Kong	Peter Jackson
	Memoirs of a Geisha	Rob Marshall
	Munich	Steven Spielberg
	Walk the Line	James Mangold
2006	The Departed	Martin Scorsese
	Babel	Alejandro González Iñárritu
	Blood Diamond	Edward Zwick
	Dreamgirls	Bill Condon
	Letters from Iwo Jima	Clint Eastwood
	Little Children	Todd Field
	Little Miss Sunshine	Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
	Notes on a Scandal	Richard Eyre
	The Queen	Stephen Frears
	United 93	Paul Greengrass
2007	No Country for Old Men	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
	American Gangster	Ridley Scott
	Atonement	Joe Wright
	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	Julian Schnabel
	Into the Wild	Sean Penn
	Juno	Jason Reitman
	The Kite Runner	Marc Forster
	Michael Clayton	Tony Gilroy
	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	Tim Burton
	There Will Be Blood	Paul Thomas Anderson
2008	Slumdog Millionaire	Danny Boyle
	Changeling	Clint Eastwood
	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	David Fincher
	The Dark Knight	Christopher Nolan
	Doubt	John Patrick Shanley
	Frost/Nixon	Ron Howard
	Milk	Gus Van Sant
	The Reader	Stephen Daldry
	WALL-E	Andrew Stanton
	The Wrestler	Darren Aronofsky
2009	The Hurt Locker	Kathryn Bigelow
	Avatar	James Cameron
	An Education	Lone Scherfig
	Inglourious Basterds	Quentin Tarantino
	Invictus	Clint Eastwood
	Nine	Rob Marshall
	Precious	Lee Daniels
	A Serious Man	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
	Up	Pete Docter
	Up in the Air	Jason Reitman

2010s

Year	Film	Director(s)
2010 ^[2]	The Social Network	David Fincher
	127 Hours	Danny Boyle
	Black Swan	Darren Aronofsky
	The Fighter	David O. Russell
	Inception	Christopher Nolan
	The King's Speech	Tom Hooper
	The Town	Ben Affleck
	Toy Story 3	Lee Unkrich
	True Grit	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
	Winter's Bone	Debra Granik
2011 ^[3]	The Artist	Michel Hazanavicius
	The Descendants	Alexander Payne
	Drive	Nicolas Winding Refn
	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close	Stephen Daldry
	The Help	Tate Taylor
	Hugo	Martin Scorsese
	Midnight in Paris	Woody Allen
	Moneyball	Bennett Miller
	The Tree of Life	Terrence Malick
	War Horse	Steven Spielberg
2012 ^[4]	Argo	Ben Affleck
	Beasts of the Southern Wild	Benh Zeitlin
	Django Unchained	Quentin Tarantino
	Les Misérables	Tom Hooper
	Life of Pi	Ang Lee
	Lincoln	Steven Spielberg
	The Master	Paul Thomas Anderson
	Moonrise Kingdom	Wes Anderson
	Silver Linings Playbook	David O. Russell
	Zero Dark Thirty	Kathryn Bigelow
2013 ^[5]	12 Years a Slave	Steve McQueen
	American Hustle	David O. Russell
	Captain Phillips	Paul Greengrass
	Dallas Buyers Club	Jean-Marc Vallée
	Gravity	Alfonso Cuarón
	Her	Spike Jonze
	Inside Llewyn Davis	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
	Nebraska	Alexander Payne
	Saving Mr. Banks	John Lee Hancock
	The Wolf of Wall Street	Martin Scorsese
2014 ^[6]	Boyhood	Richard Linklater
	Birdman	Alejandro G. Iñárritu
	Gone Girl	David Fincher
	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Wes Anderson
	The Imitation Game	Morten Tyldum
	Nightcrawler	Dan Gilroy
	Selma	Ava DuVernay
	The Theory of Everything	James Marsh
	Unbroken	Angelina Jolie
	Whiplash	Damien Chazelle
2015 ^[7]	Spotlight	Tom McCarthy
	The Big Short	Adam McKay
	Bridge of Spies	Steve Spielberg
	Brooklyn	John Crowley
	Carol	Todd Haynes
	Mad Max: Fury Road	George Miller
	The Martian	Ridley Scott
	The Revenant	Alejandro G. Iñárritu
	Room	Lenny Abrahamson
	Sicario	Denis Villeneuve
	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	J. J. Abrams
2016 ^[8]	La La Land	Damien Chazelle
	Arrival	Denis Villeneuve
	Fences	Denzel Washington
	Hacksaw Ridge	Mel Gibson
	Hell or High Water	David Mackenzie
	Lion	Garth Davis
	Loving	Jeff Nichols
	Manchester by the Sea	Kenneth Lonergan
	Moonlight	Barry Jenkins
	Sully	Clint Eastwood
2017 ^[9]	The Shape of Water	Guillermo del Toro
	The Big Sick	Michael Showalter
	Call Me by Your Name	Luca Guadagnino
	Darkest Hour	Joe Wright
	Dunkirk	Christopher Nolan
	The Florida Project	Sean Baker
	Get Out	Jordan Peele
	Lady Bird	Greta Gerwig
	The Post	Steven Spielberg
	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Martin McDonagh
2018 ^[10]	Roma	Alfonso Cuarón
	BlacKkKlansman	Spike Lee
	Black Panther	Ryan Coogler
	The Favourite	Yorgos Lanthimos
	First Man	Damien Chazelle
	Green Book	Peter Farrelly
	If Beale Street Could Talk	Barry Jenkins
	Mary Poppins Returns	Rob Marshall
	A Star Is Born	Bradley Cooper
	Vice	Adam McKay
2019 ^[11]	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Quentin Tarantino
	1917	Sam Mendes
	Ford v Ferrari	James Mangold
	The Irishman	Martin Scorsese
	Jojo Rabbit	Taika Waititi
	Joker	Todd Phillips
	Little Women	Greta Gerwig
	Marriage Story	Noah Baumbach
	Parasite	Bong Joon-ho
	Uncut Gems	Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie

2020s

Year	Film	Director
2020 ^[12]	Nomadland	Chloé Zhao
	Da 5 Bloods	Spike Lee
	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	George C. Wolfe
	Mank	David Fincher
	Minari	Lee Isaac Chung
	News of the World	Paul Greengrass
	One Night in Miami...	Regina King
	Promising Young Woman	Emerald Fennell
	Sound of Metal	Darius Marder
	The Trial of the Chicago 7	Aaron Sorkin
2021 ^[13]	The Power of the Dog	Jane Campion
	Belfast	Kenneth Branagh
	CODA	Sian Heder
	Don't Look Up	Adam McKay
	Dune	Denis Villeneuve
	King Richard	Reinaldo Marcus Green
	Licorice Pizza	Paul Thomas Anderson
	Nightmare Alley	Guillermo del Toro
	tick, tick... BOOM!	Lin-Manuel Miranda
	West Side Story	Steven Spielberg
2022 ^[14]	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
	Avatar: The Way of Water	James Cameron
	Babylon	Damien Chazelle
	The Banshees of Inisherin	Martin McDonagh
	Elvis	Baz Luhrmann
	The Fabelmans	Steven Spielberg
	Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery	Rian Johnson
	RRR	S. S. Rajamouli
	Tár	Todd Field
	Top Gun: Maverick	Joseph Kosinski
	Women Talking	Sarah Polley

References

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10. de Moraes, Lisa; Blyth, Antonia; Hipes, Patrick (January 13, 2019). "Critics' Choice Awards: 'Roma' Wins Best Picture To Lead Night; 'The Americans' & 'Mrs. Maisel' Top TV – The Complete Winners List". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved January 13, 2019.
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12. Ramos, Dino-Ray (March 7, 2021). "Critics Choice Awards: 'Nomadland', 'The Crown' Among Top Honorees – Complete Winners List". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
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External links

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