2017: Get Out (Jordan Peele) [so far]
2016: Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)
2015: The Revenant (Alejandro G. Inarritu)
2014: Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)
2013: Rush (Ron Howard) really under-appreciated in my opinion
2012: The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan)
2011: The Intouchables (Eric Toledano & Olivier Nakache)
2010: Inception (Christopher Nolan)
2009: District 9 (Neill Blomkamp)
2008: The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan) my all time favourite
2007: The Mist (Frank Darabont)
2006: The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
2005: Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan)
2004: Brothers (Susanne Bier)
2003: Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
2002: Insomnia (Christopher Nolan)
2001: A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard)
2000: Memento (Christopher Nolan)
1999: American Beauty (Sam Mendes)
1998: Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg)
1997: Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant)
1996: Ransom (Ron Howard)
1995: Se7en (David Fincher)
1994: The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
1993: Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
1992: Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
1991: The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
1990: Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
1989: Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir)
1988: Rain Man (Barry Levinson)
1987: Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
1986: The Untouchables (Brian De Palma)
1985: Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
1984: Amadeus (Milos Forman)
1983: Scarface (Brian De Palma)
1982: Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
1980: The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
1979: Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
1978: Halloween (John Carpenter)
1977: Star Wars (George Lucas)
1976: Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman)
1974: The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
1973: The Three Muskeeters (Richard Lester)
1972: The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
1971: -
1970: Kelly's Heroes (Brian G. Hutton)
1969: The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
1968: Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
1967: -
1966: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
1965: -
1964: Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
1963: The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
1962: Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
1961: West Side Story (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins)
1960: The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges)
1959: -
1958: -
1957: Twelve Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
1956: The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
1955: Killer's Kiss (Stanley Kubrick)
1954: Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
1953: -
1952: -
1951: -
1950: -
1949: The Third Man (Carol Reed)
1948: -
1947: -
1946: -
1945: -
1944: -
1943: -
1942: Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
1941: Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
2016: Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)
2015: The Revenant (Alejandro G. Inarritu)
2014: Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)
2013: Rush (Ron Howard) really under-appreciated in my opinion
2012: The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan)
2011: The Intouchables (Eric Toledano & Olivier Nakache)
2010: Inception (Christopher Nolan)
2009: District 9 (Neill Blomkamp)
2008: The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan) my all time favourite
2007: The Mist (Frank Darabont)
2006: The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
2005: Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan)
2004: Brothers (Susanne Bier)
2003: Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
2002: Insomnia (Christopher Nolan)
2001: A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard)
2000: Memento (Christopher Nolan)
1999: American Beauty (Sam Mendes)
1998: Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg)
1997: Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant)
1996: Ransom (Ron Howard)
1995: Se7en (David Fincher)
1994: The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
1993: Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
1992: Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
1991: The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
1990: Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
1989: Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir)
1988: Rain Man (Barry Levinson)
1987: Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
1986: The Untouchables (Brian De Palma)
1985: Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
1984: Amadeus (Milos Forman)
1983: Scarface (Brian De Palma)
1982: Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
1980: The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
1979: Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
1978: Halloween (John Carpenter)
1977: Star Wars (George Lucas)
1976: Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman)
1974: The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
1973: The Three Muskeeters (Richard Lester)
1972: The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
1971: -
1970: Kelly's Heroes (Brian G. Hutton)
1969: The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
1968: Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
1967: -
1966: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
1965: -
1964: Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
1963: The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
1962: Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
1961: West Side Story (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins)
1960: The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges)
1959: -
1958: -
1957: Twelve Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
1956: The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
1955: Killer's Kiss (Stanley Kubrick)
1954: Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
1953: -
1952: -
1951: -
1950: -
1949: The Third Man (Carol Reed)
1948: -
1947: -
1946: -
1945: -
1944: -
1943: -
1942: Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
1941: Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)