This page lists the BAFTA award winners for each year. The award is split in two: Best Film from any source, and Best British Film. The film title highlighted in bold is the winner of it's respective year, those not in bold are the nominees.
Until 1960, and then sporadically later on, the awards for Best Film were not handed out to any one person.
1940s
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editBest Film from any Source
Best British Film
1949
editBest Film from any Source
- Hamlet
- Crossfire - USA
- The Fallen Idol
- Monsieur Vincent - France
- The Naked City - USA
- Paisan - Italy
- Four Steps in the Clouds - Italy
Best British Film
1950s
edit1950
editBest Film from any source
- The Bicycle Thief - Italy
- The Ballad of Berlin - Germany
- The Last Stage - Poland
- The Set-Up - USA
- The Third Man
- The Treausre of the Sierra Madre - USA
- The Window - USA
Best British Film
1951
editBest Film from any source
- All About Eve - USA
- The Asphalt Jungle - USA
- Beauty and the Beast - France
- Intruder in the Dust - USA
- The Men - USA
- On The Town - USA
- Orpheus - France
Best British Film
1952
editBest Film from any source
- Roundabout - France
- An American in Paris - USA
- The Browning Version
- Detective Story - USA
- Sunday in August - Italy
- Fourteen Hours - USA
- Miss Julie - Sweeden
- The Lavender Hill Mob
- The Magic Box
- The Magic Garden
- The Man in the White Suit
- No Resting Place
- The Red Badge of Courage - USA
- The Small Miracle
- The Sound of Fury - USA
- A Walk in the Sun - USA
- White Corridors
- Edward and Caroline - France
Best British Film
1953
editBest Film from any source
- The Sound Barrier
- The African Queen - USA
- Angels One Five
- The Boy Kumasenu - Gold Coast
- Carrie - USA
- Golden Helmet - France
- Cry, the Beloved Country
- Death of a Salesman - USA
- Limelight - USA
- Mandy
- Miracle in Milan - Italy
- The Young and the Damned - Mexico
- Outcast of the Islands
- Rashomon - Japan
- The River
- Singin' in the Rain - USA
- A Streetcar Named Desire - USA
- Viva Zapata! - USA
Best British Film
1954
editBest Film from any source
- The Secret Game - France
- The Bad and the Beautiful - USA
- Come Back, Little Sheba - USA
- The Cruel Sea
- Two Cents Worth of Hope - Italy
- From Here To Eternity - USA
- Genevieve
- The Heart of the Matter
- Julius Caesar - USA
- The Kidnappers
- Lili - USA
- The Medium - Italy
- Mogambo - USA
- Moulin Rouge
- We Are All Murderers - France
- Don Camillo - France/Italy
- Roman Holiday - USA
- Shane - USA
- The Sun Shines Bright - USA
Best British Film
1955
editBest Film from any source
- The Wages of Fear - France
- The Caine Mutiny - USA
- Carrington V.C.
- The Divided Heart
- Doctor in the House
- Executive Suite - USA
- For Better, for Worse
- Hobson's Choice
- How to Marry a Millionaire - USA
- Gate of Hell - Japan
- The Maggie
- The Moon is Blue - USA
- On the Waterfront - USA
- Bread, Love and Dreams - Italy
- The Purple Plain
- Rear Window - USA
- Riot in Cell Block 11 - USA
- Robinson Crusoe - Mexico
- Romeo and Juliet
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - USA
Best British Film
1956
editBest Film from any Source
- Richard III
- Bad Day at Black Rock - USA
- Carmen Jones - USA
- The Colditz Story
- The Dam Busters
- East of Eden - USA
- The Ladykillers
- Marty - USA
- The Night My Number Came Up
- The Prisoner
- The Seven Samurai - Japan
- Simba
- The Road - Italy
- Summertime - Italy/USA
Best British Film
1957
editBest Film from any source
- Gervaise - France
- Friends for Life - Italy
- Baby Doll - USA
- The Battle of the River Plate
- The Unfrocked One - France
- Guys and Dolls - USA
- The Killing - USA
- The Man Who Never Was
- The Man With the Golden Arm
- Picnic - USA
- The Cricket - Soviet Union
- Reach for the Sky
- Rebel Without A Cause - USA
- The Shadow - Poland
- Smiles of a Summer Night - Sweeden
- A Town Like Alice
- The Trouble With Harry - USA
- War and Peace - Italy/USA
- Yield to the Night
Best British Film
1958
editBest Film from any source
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- 12 Angry Men - USA
- 3:10 to Yuma - USA
- The Bachelor Party - USA
- He Who Must Die - Italy/France
- Edge of the City - USA
- Heaven Knows, Mr. Alison - USA
- Song of the Road - India
- Paths of Glory - USA
- Gate of Lilacs - France/Italy
- The Prince and the Showgirl
- The Shiralee
- That Night! - USA
- The Tin Star - USA
- A Man Escaped - France
- Windom's Way
Best British Film
1959
editBest Film from any source
- Room at the Top
- The Unvanquished - India
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - USA
- The Defiant Ones - USA
- Ice-Cold in Alex
- Indiscreet
- The Cranes Are Flying - Soviet Union
- No Down Payment - USA
- Nights of Cabiria - Italy
- Orders to Kill
- Sea of Sand
- The Sheepman - USA
- Wild Strawberries - Sweeden
- The Young Lions - USA
Best British Film
1960s
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- Ben-Hur - William Wyler - USA
- Anatomy of a Murder - Otto Preminger - USA
- The Magician - Ingmar Bergman - Sweeden
- The Big Country - William Wyler - USA
- Compulsion - Richard Fleischer - USA
- Gigi - Vincente Minnelli - USA
- Look Back in Anger - Tony Richardson
- Maigret Lays a Trap - Jean Delannoy - France
- North West Frontier - J. Lee Thompson
- The Nun's Story - Fred Zinnemann - USA
- Ashes and Diamonds - Andrzej Wajda - Poland
- Sapphire - Basil Dearden
- Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder - USA
- Tiger Bay - J. Lee Thompson
- Yesterday's Enemy - Val Guest
Best British Film
1961
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- The Apartment - Billy Wilder - USA
- The Angry Silence - Guy Green
- The Adventure - Michelangelo Antonioni - Italy/France
- The Sweet Life - Federico Fellini - Italy/France
- Elmer Gantry - Richard Brooks - USA
- Hiroshima, My Love - Alain Resnais - France/Japan
- Inherit the Wind - Stanley Kramer - USA
- Let's Make Love - George Cukor - USA
- Black Orpheus - Marcel Camus - France/Italy/Brazil
- Never on Sunday - Jules Dassin - Greece
- The Four Hundred Blows - François Truffaut - France
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Karel Reisz
- Shadows - John Cassavetes - USA
- Spartacus - Stanley Kubrick
- The Testament of Orpheus - Jean Cocteau - France
- The Trials of Oscar Wilde - Ken Hughes
- Tunes of Glory - Ronald Neame
Best British Film
1962
editBest Film from any source (tie)
- Ballad of a Soldier - Soviet Union
- The Hustler - USA
Best British Film
1963
editBest Film from any source
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Last Year at Marienbad - France/Italy
- Billy Budd
- The Elusive Corporal - France
- The Lady with the Dog - Soviet Union
- Naked Island - Japan
- Jules and Jim - France
- A Kind of Loving
- The L-Shaped Room
- Lola - France/Italy
- The Manchurian Candidate - USA
- The Miracle Worker - USA
- Only Two Can Play
- Faidra - Greece
- Through a Glass Darkly - Sweeden
- Thou Shalt Not Kill - Italy/Yugoslavia/Lichtenstein
- The Long Absence - France/Italy
- West Side Story - Italy
Best British Film
1964
edit- Tom Jones
- 81/2 - Italy
- Billy Liar
- David and Lisa - USA
- Days of Wine and Roses - USA
- Divorce - Italian Style - Italy
- Hud - USA
- Knife in the Water - Poland
- The Four Days of Naples - Italy
- The Servant
- This Sporting Life
- To Kill a Mockingbird - USA
Best British Film
1965
editBest Film from any source
Best British Film
1966
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- My Fair Lady - George Cukor - USA
- Zorba the Greek - Michael Cacoyannis - Greece/USA
- Hamlet - Grigori Kozintsev - Soviet Union
- The Hill - Sidney Lumet
- The Knack...and How to Get It - Richard Lester
Best British Film
1967
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Best British Film
1968
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Best British Film
1969
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- Sense and Sensibility - Lindsay Doran, Ang Lee
- The Usual Suspects - Bryan Singer, Michael McDonnell - USA