The cream of awards for British cinema is the BAFTA for Best Film. In latter years films made in Britain have their own award, but even so the voting does sometimes take on a patriotic flavour.
2009 - Slumdog Millionaire
2008 - Atonement
2007 - The Queen
2006 - Brokeback Mountain
2005 - The Aviator
2004 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003 - The Pianist
2002 - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001 - Gladiator
2000 - American Beauty
1999 - Shakespeare in Love
1998 - The Full Monty
1997 - The English Patient
1996 - Sense and Sensibility
1995 - Four Weddings and a Funeral
1994 - Schindler's List
1993 - Howards End
1992 - The Commitments
1991 - Goodfellas
1990 - Dead Poets Society
1989 - The Last Emperor
1988 - Jean de Florette
1987 - A Room with a View
1986 - The Purple Rose of Cairo
1985 - The Killing Fields
1984 - Educating Rita
1983 - Gandhi
1982 - Chariots of Fire
1981 - The Elephant Man
1980 - Manhattan
1979 - Julia
1978 - Annie Hall
1977 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1976 - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1975 - Lacombe Lucien
1974 - Day for Night
1973 - Cabaret
1972 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1970 - Midnight Cowboy
1969 - The Graduate
1968 - A Man For All Seasons
1967 - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966 - My Fair Lady
1965 - Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
1964 - Tom Jones
1963 - Lawrence of Arabia
1962 - Ballad of a Soldier
1961 - The Apartment
1960 - Ben Hur
1959 - Room at the Top
1958 - The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 - Gervaise
1956 - Richard III
1955 - The Wages of Fear
1954 - Forbidden Games
1953 - The Sound Barrier
1952 - La Ronde
1951 - All About Eve
1950 - Bicycle Thieves
1949 - Hamlet
1948 - The Best Years of Our Lives
- The Hustler
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