We run down all the winners of Great Britain’s top prize for filmmaking.
Often, the winners have coincided with the Best Picture honorees at the Oscars.

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Harold Russell and Dana Andrews in ‘The Best Years of Our Lives’.Everett Collection

Anne Baxter and Bette Davis in ‘All About Eve’.Everett Collection

Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine in ‘The Apartment’.Everett Collection

Peter Sellers in ‘Dr. Strangelove’.Everett

Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft in ‘The Graduate’.Courtesy Everett Collection

Robert Redford and Paul Newman in ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’.20th Century Fox Film Corp/ Courtesy Everett

Liza Minnelli in ‘Cabaret’.Everett

Ben Cross and Ian Charleson in ‘Chariots of Fire’.20th Century Fox/Everett Collection

Julian Sands and Helena Bonham Carter in ‘A Room With a View’.Merchant Ivory/Goldcrest/Kobal/Shutterstock

Ray Liotta, Robert de Niro, Paul Sorvino and Joe Pesci in ‘Goodfellas’.Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty

Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell in ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’.Gramercy Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection

Gwyneth Paltrow in ‘Shakespeare in Love’.Everett Collection

Russell Crowe in ‘Gladiator’.Universal/Getty

Helen Mirren in ‘The Queen’.Laurie Sparham/Miramaz

Chiwetel Ejiofor in ‘12 Years a Slave’./courtesy Everett Collection

‘Roma’.Carlos Somonte/Netflix

Kodi Smit-McPhee and Benedict Cumberbatch in ‘The Power of the Dog’.Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection