The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Picture is an award given by the New York Film Critics Circle, honoring the finest achievements in filmmaking.
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1935 | The Informer | John Ford |
| 1936 | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Frank Capra |
| 1937 | The Life of Emile Zola | William Dieterle |
| 1938 | The Citadel | King Vidor |
| 1939 | Wuthering Heights | William Wyler |
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1940 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Ford |
| 1941 | Citizen Kane | Orson Welles |
| 1942 | In Which We Serve | Noël Coward and David Lean |
| 1943 | Watch on the Rhine | Herman Shumlin |
| 1944 | Going My Way | Leo McCarey |
| 1945 | The Lost Weekend | Billy Wilder |
| 1946 | The Best Years of Our Lives | William Wyler |
| 1947 | Gentleman's Agreement | Elia Kazan |
| 1948 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | John Huston |
| 1949 | All the King's Men | Robert Rossen |
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1950 | All About Eve | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 1951 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Elia Kazan |
| 1952 | High Noon | Fred Zinnemann |
| 1953 | From Here to Eternity | Fred Zinnemann |
| 1954 | On the Waterfront | Elia Kazan |
| 1955 | Marty | Delbert Mann |
| 1956 | Around the World in 80 Days | Michael Anderson |
| 1957 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | David Lean |
| 1958 | The Defiant Ones | Stanley Kramer |
| 1959 | Ben-Hur | William Wyler |
| Year | Winner | Director(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | The Apartment | Billy Wilder | |
| Sons and Lovers | Jack Cardiff | ||
| 1961 | West Side Story | Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise | |
| 1962 | No award given (newspaper strike) | ||
| 1963 | Tom Jones | Tony Richardson | |
| 1964 | My Fair Lady | George Cukor | |
| 1965 | Darling | John Schlesinger | |
| 1966 | A Man for All Seasons | Fred Zinnemann | |
| 1967 | In the Heat of the Night | Norman Jewison | |
| 1968 | The Lion in Winter | Anthony Harvey | |
| 1969 | Z | Costa-Gavras | |
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Five Easy Pieces | Bob Rafelson |
| 1971 | A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick |
| 1972 | Cries and Whispers | Ingmar Bergman |
| 1973 | Day for Night | François Truffaut |
| 1974 | Amarcord | Federico Fellini |
| 1975 | Nashville | Robert Altman |
| 1976 | All the President's Men | Alan J. Pakula |
| 1977 | Annie Hall | Woody Allen |
| 1978 | The Deer Hunter | Michael Cimino |
| 1979 | Kramer vs. Kramer | Robert Benton |
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Ordinary People | Robert Redford |
| 1981 | Reds | Warren Beatty |
| 1982 | Gandhi | Richard Attenborough |
| 1983 | Terms of Endearment | James L. Brooks |
| 1984 | A Passage to India | David Lean |
| 1985 | Prizzi's Honor | John Huston |
| 1986 | Hannah and Her Sisters | Woody Allen |
| 1987 | Broadcast News | James L. Brooks |
| 1988 | The Accidental Tourist | Lawrence Kasdan |
| 1989 | My Left Foot | Jim Sheridan |
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Goodfellas | Martin Scorsese |
| 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | Jonathan Demme |
| 1992 | The Player | Robert Altman |
| 1993 | Schindler's List | Steven Spielberg |
| 1994 | Quiz Show | Robert Redford |
| 1995 | Leaving Las Vegas | Mike Figgis |
| 1996 | Fargo | Joel Coen |
| 1997 | L.A. Confidential | Curtis Hanson |
| 1998 | Saving Private Ryan | Steven Spielberg |
| 1999 | Topsy-Turvy | Mike Leigh |
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Traffic | Steven Soderbergh |
| 2001 | Mulholland Drive | David Lynch |
| 2002 | Far from Heaven | Todd Haynes |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Peter Jackson |
| 2004 | Sideways | Alexander Payne |
| 2005 | Brokeback Mountain | Ang Lee |
| 2006 | United 93 | Paul Greengrass |
| 2007 | No Country for Old Men | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen |
| 2008 | Milk | Gus Van Sant |
| 2009 | The Hurt Locker | Kathryn Bigelow |
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | The Social Network | David Fincher |
| 2011 | The Artist | Michel Hazanavicius |
| 2012 | Zero Dark Thirty | Kathryn Bigelow |
| 2013 | American Hustle | David O. Russell |
| 2014 | Boyhood | Richard Linklater |
| 2015 | Carol | Todd Haynes |
| 2016 | La La Land | Damien Chazelle |
| 2017 | Lady Bird [1] | Greta Gerwig |
| 2018 | Roma [2] | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 2019 | The Irishman [3] | Martin Scorsese |
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | First Cow [4] | Kelly Reichardt |
| 2021 | Drive My Car [5] | Ryusuke Hamaguchi |
| 2022 | Tár [6] | Todd Field |
| 2023 | Killers of the Flower Moon [7] | Martin Scorsese |
| 2024 | The Brutalist [8] | Brady Corbet |