London Critics' Circle Film Award / Best Picture

Since 1981 , the best film has been honored with the main prize at the London Critics' Circle Film Awards .

So far, only Woody Allen , Steven Spielberg , Alexander Payne and Ethan and Joel Coen have twice been successful with their films.

Excellent films

Note: The award ceremony always relates to films from the previous year, so the 2007 winners come from the 2006 film year.

Award	year	Award winners	German distribution title	Director
1.	1981	Apocalypse Now	Apocalypse Now	Francis Ford Coppola
2.	1982	Chariots of Fire	The hour of the victor	Hugh Hudson
3.	1983	Missing	Missing	Constantin Costa-Gavras
4th	1984	The King of Comedy	King of Comedy	Martin Scorsese
5.	1985	Paris, Texas	Paris, Texas	Wim Wenders
6th	1986	The Purple Rose of Cairo	The Purple Rose of Cairo	Woody Allen
7th	1987	A room with a view	room with view	James Ivory
8th.	1988	Hope and Glory	Hope and Glory	John Boorman
9.	1989	House of Games	House of Games	David Mamet
10.	1990	Distant Voices, Still Lives	Distant voices - still life	Terence Davies
11.	1991	Crimes and Misdemeanors	Crimes and other trifles	Woody Allen
12.	1992	Thelma & Louise	Thelma & Louise	Ridley Scott
13.	1993	Unforgiven	Merciless	Clint Eastwood
14th	1994	The piano	The piano	Jane Campion
15th	1995	Schindler's List	Schindlers List	Steven Spielberg
16.	1996	Babe	A pig named Babe	Chris Noonan
17th	1997	Fargo	Fargo	Ethan and Joel Coen
18th	1998	LA Confidential	LA Confidential	Curtis Hanson
19th	1999	Saving Private Ryan	The soldier James Ryan	Steven Spielberg
20th	2000	American Beauty	American Beauty	Sam Mendes
21st	2001	Being John Malkovich	Being John Malkovich	Spike Jonze
22nd	2002	Moulin Rouge!	Moulin Rouge!	Baz Luhrmann
23.	2003	About Schmidt	About Schmidt	Alexander Payne
24.	2004	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Master & Commander - To the end of the world	Peter Weir
25th	2005	Sideways	Sideways	Alexander Payne
26th	2006	Brokeback Mountain	Brokeback Mountain	Ang Lee
27.	2007	United 93	Flight 93	Paul Greengrass
28.	2008	No Country for Old Men	No Country for Old Men	Ethan and Joel Coen
29	2009	The wrestler	The wrestler	Darren Aronofsky
30th	2010	Un prophète	A prophet	Jacques Audiard
31.	2011	The social network	The social network	David Fincher
32.	2012	The Artist	The Artist	Michel Hazanavicius
33.	2013	Amour	love	Michael Haneke
34.	2014	12 years a slave	12 years a slave	Steve McQueen
35.	2015	Boyhood	Boyhood	Richard Linklater
36.	2016	Mad Max: Fury Road	Mad Max: Fury Road	George Miller
37.	2017	La La Land	La La Land	Damien Chazelle
38.	2018	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Martin McDonagh
39.	2019	Roma	Roma	Alfonso Cuarón
40.	2020	Parasite	Parasite	Bong Joon-ho