Best Picture by Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association
All winners of the 'Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Film' from 1993 through 2021.
Last updated: May 3rd, 2022
Weight: 25
Detractions
- Limited to ~50 years or less (-50)
- Yearly award (-25)
Films (27)
1. The Power of the Dog
Directed by Jane Campion | Rated R | 126 min | 2021
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.
2. Nomadland
Directed by Chloé Zhao | Rated R | 107 min | 2020
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.
3. 1917
Directed by Sam Mendes | Rated R | 119 min | 2019
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.
4. A Star Is Born
Directed by Bradley Cooper | Rated R | 136 min | 2018
A musician helps a young singer find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
5. The Shape of Water
Directed by Guillermo del Toro | Rated R | 123 min | 2017
At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.
6. Moonlight
Directed by Barry Jenkins | Rated R | 111 min | 2016
A timeless story of human self-discovery and connection, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
7. Spotlight
Directed by Tom McCarthy | Rated R | 128 min | 2015
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
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8. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Rated R | 119 min | 2014
Illustrated upon the progress of his latest Broadway play, a former popular actor's struggle to cope with his current life as a wasted actor is shown.
9. 12 Years a Slave
Directed by Steve McQueen | Rated R | 134 min | 2013
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
10. Lincoln
Directed by Steven Spielberg | Rated PG-13 | 150 min | 2012
As the Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves.
11. The Descendants
Directed by Alexander Payne | Rated R | 115 min | 2011
A land baron tries to reconnect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident.
12. The Social Network
Directed by David Fincher | Rated PG-13 | 120 min | 2010
Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, but is later sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, and the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.
13. Up in the Air
Directed by Jason Reitman | Rated R | 109 min | 2009
With a job traveling around the country firing people, Ryan Bingham enjoys his life living out of a suitcase, but finds that lifestyle threatened by the presence of a new hire and a potential love interest.
14. Slumdog Millionaire
Directed by Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan | Rated R | 120 min | 2008
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?"
15. No Country for Old Men
Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Rated R | 122 min | 2007
Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.
16. United 93
Directed by Paul Greengrass | Rated R | 111 min | 2006
A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on September 11th, 2001 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
17. Brokeback Mountain
Directed by Ang Lee | Rated R | 134 min | 2005
The story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys, and their lives over the years.
18. Million Dollar Baby
Directed by Clint Eastwood | Rated PG-13 | 132 min | 2004
A determined woman works with a hardened boxing trainer to become a professional.
19. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Directed by Peter Jackson | Rated PG-13 | 201 min | 2003
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.
20. Chicago
Directed by Rob Marshall | Rated PG-13 | 113 min | 2002
Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
21. A Beautiful Mind
Directed by Ron Howard | Rated PG-13 | 135 min | 2001
After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
22. Traffic
Directed by Steven Soderbergh | Rated R | 147 min | 2000
A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business.
23. American Beauty
Directed by Sam Mendes | Rated R | 122 min | 1999
A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
24. Saving Private Ryan
Directed by Steven Spielberg | Rated R | 169 min | 1998
Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.
25. L.A. Confidential
Directed by Curtis Hanson | Rated R | 138 min | 1997
As corruption grows in 1950s LA, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.
26. Leaving Las Vegas
Directed by Mike Figgis | Rated R | 111 min | 1995
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
27. Schindler's List
Directed by Steven Spielberg | Rated R | 195 min | 1993
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.