"The BAFTA Award for Best Film is given annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and presented at the British Academy Film Awards. It has been given since the 1st BAFTA Awards, representing the best films of 1947, but until 1969 it was called the BAFTA Award for Best Film From Any Source."
All winners from 1947 through 2021.
Last updated: May 3rd, 2022
Charismatic rancher Phil Burbank inspires fear and awe in those around him. When his brother brings home a new wife and her son, Phil torments them until he finds himself exposed to the possibility of love.
After losing everything in the Great Recession, a woman embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
April 6th, 1917. As a regiment assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.
A year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit.
A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles.
A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.
The life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at college.
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1980.
A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions.
The story of King George VI of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.
A Mumbai teen reflects on his upbringing in the slums when he is accused of cheating on the Indian Version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"
During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a thirteen-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted.
The story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys, and their lives over the years.
A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s.
Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.
A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.
A meek Hobbit and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the One Ring and the Dark Lord Sauron.
When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.
A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
A young Shakespeare, out of ideas and short of cash, meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.
Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.
At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.
Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the titular opposites.
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazi Germans.
A businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman.
When Jimmy Rabbitte wants to start a band, he has open auditions at his house.
Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.
English teacher John Keating inspires his students to look at poetry with a different perspective of authentic knowledge and feelings.
The story of the final Emperor of China.
A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.
In New Jersey in 1935, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting...
A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody "Year Zero" cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million "undesirable" civilians.
A young wife decides to complete her education and take her exams. She meets a professor who teaches her to value her own insights while still being able to beat the exams. The change in ...
Gandhi's character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he is able to drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed.
Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics.
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.
The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditzy Annie Hall.
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.
A small town in the south-west of France, summer of 1944. Having failed to join the resistance, the 18 year old Lucien Lacombe, whose father is a prisoner in Germany and whose mother dates ...
A recently widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Divorced working woman Alex and well-to-do Jewish family doctor Daniel Hirsh share not only the same answering service but also the favours of young Bob Elkin who bed-hops between them as ...
A naive hustler goes to New York to seek personal fortune but in the process finds himself a new friend.
Two Western bank/train robbers flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close.
A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.
The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage.
An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.
A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
In eighteenth century England, "first cousins" Tom Jones and Master Blifil grew up together in privilege in the western countryside, but could not be more different in nature. Tom, the ...
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.
A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
Young Russian soldier Alyosha earns a medal, but asks to visit his mother instead. His journey recounts various kinds of love during wartime.
After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.
Gervaise Macquart, a young lame laundress, is left by her lover Auguste Lantier with two boys... She manages to make it, and a few years later she marries Coupeau, a roofer. After working ...
Shakespeare's powerful tale of the wicked deformed king and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.
In a decrepit South American village, men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.
Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.
A young French girl orphaned in a Nazi air attack is befriended by the son of a poor farmer, and together they try to come to terms with the realities of death.
An ingenue insinuates herself into the company of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends.
An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes ...
Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.
Set in Post-WWII Italy, a working class man's bicycle is stolen. He and his son set out to find it.
Three World War II veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.