Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award / Best Picture
The Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Picture is an annual award from the Kansas City Film Critics Circle .
Prize winners
1960s
| year | winner | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Mike Nichols |
| 1967 | Bonnie and Clyde | Arthur Penn |
| 1968 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick |
| 1969 | Midnight cowboy | John Schlesinger |
1970s
| year | winner | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Five Easy Pieces - A man is looking for himself | Bob Rafelson |
| Patton - rebel in uniform | Franklin J. Schaffner | |
| 1971 | Brooklyn focal point | William Friedkin |
| 1972 | Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick |
| 1973 | American graffiti | George Lucas |
| 1974 | The dialogue | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 1975 | Nashville | Robert Altman |
| 1976 | Rocky | John G. Avildsen |
| 1977 | The city neurotic | Woody Allen |
| 1978 | Inner workings | Woody Allen |
| 1979 | Kramer versus Kramer | Robert Benton |
1980s
| year | winner | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | A perfectly normal family | Robert Redford |
| 1981 | Hunter of the lost treasure | Steven Spielberg |
| 1982 | ET - The Alien | Steven Spielberg |
| 1983 | Love comeback | Bruce Beresford |
| Time of tenderness | James L. Brooks | |
| 1984 | Trip to India | David Lean |
| 1985 | The only witness | Peter Weir |
| 1986 | mission | Roland Joffé |
| Salvador | Oliver Stone | |
| 1987 | Moonstruck | Norman Jewison |
| 1988 | Rain Man | Barry Levinson |
| 1989 | Glory | Edward Zwick |
1990s
| year | winner | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Goodfellas | Martin Scorsese |
| 1991 | The silence of the Lambs | Jonathan Demme |
| 1992 | The Player | Robert Altman |
| Merciless | Clint Eastwood | |
| 1993 | Schindlers List | Steven Spielberg |
| 1994 | pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino |
| 1995 | Apollo 13 | Ron Howard |
| 1996 | Larry Flynt | Miloš Forman |
| 1997 | Titanic | James Cameron |
| 1998 | The soldier James Ryan | Steven Spielberg |
| 1999 | American Beauty | Sam Mendes |
2000s
| year | winner | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Traffic - power of the cartel | Steven Soderbergh |
| 2001 | The Lord of the Rings: The Companions | Peter Jackson |
| 2002 | About Schmidt | Alexander Payne |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Peter Jackson |
| 2004 | Million dollar baby | Clint Eastwood |
| 2005 | Munich | Steven Spielberg |
| 2006 | United 93 | Paul Greengrass |
| 2007 | There Will Be Blood | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 2008 | Slumdog millionaire | Danny Boyle |
| 2009 | Up in the air | Jason Reitman |
2010s
| year | winner | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | The social network | David Fincher |
| 2011 | The Descendants | Alexander Payne |
| 2012 | The Master | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 2013 | 12 years a slave |
Brad Pitt , Dede Gardner , Jeremy Kleiner , Bill Pohlad , Steve McQueen , Arnon Milchan , Anthony Katagas |
| 2014 | Birdman |
Alejandro González Iñárritu , John Lesher , Arnon Milchan , James W. Skotchdopole |
| 2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road |
Doug Mitchell , George Miller, PJ Voeten |
Multiple award winners
| Number of titles | Director |
|---|---|
| 4th | Steven Spielberg |
| 2 | Woody Allen , Robert Altman , Paul Thomas Anderson , Peter Jackson and Stanley Kubrick |