* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Best Motion Picture | In Bruges | Martin McDonagh | Focus Features | |
| 2009 | Best Motion Picture | Burn After Reading | Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Focus Features | |
| 2009 | Best Motion Picture | Tell No One | Guillaume Canet, Phillipe Lefevbre | Music Box Films | Comment: Based on the novel by Harlan Coben |
| 2009 | Best Motion Picture | The Bank Job | Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais | Lions Gate Films | |
| 2009 | Best Motion Picture | Transsiberian | Brad Anderson | First Look International | |
| 2008 | Best Motion Picture | Michael Clayton | Tony Gilroy | Warner Bros. | |
| 2008 | Best Motion Picture | Eastern Promises | Steve Knight | Focus Features | |
| 2008 | Best Motion Picture | No Country for Old Men | Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Miramax | Comment: Based on the book by Cormac McCarthy |
| 2008 | Best Motion Picture | The Lookout | Scott Frank | Miramax | |
| 2008 | Best Motion Picture | Zodiac | James Vanderbilt | Warner Bros. | Comment: Based on the book by Robert Graysmith |
| 2007 | Best Motion Picture | The Departed | William Monahan | Warner Bros. | |
| 2007 | Best Motion Picture | Casino Royale | Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade | MGM | Comment: based on novel by Ian Fleming |
| 2007 | Best Motion Picture | Children of Men | David Arata, Alfonso Cuaron, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Timothy J. Sexton | Universal, Universal, Universal, Universal, MGM | Comment: based on a novel by P.D. James |
| 2007 | Best Motion Picture | Notes on a Scandal | Patrick Marber | Scott Rudin Productions | |
| 2007 | Best Motion Picture | The Good Shepherd | Eric Roth | Universal | |
| 2006 | Best Motion Picture | Syriana | Stephen Gaghan | Warner Bros. | Comment: based on the book by Robert Baer |
| 2006 | Best Motion Picture | A History of Violence | Josh Olson | Comment: based on the Graphic Novel by John Wagner & Vince Locke; New Line Productions | |
| 2006 | Best Motion Picture | Crash | Paul Haggis, Bobby Moresco | Comment: Lions Gate Films, Lions Gate Films | |
| 2006 | Best Motion Picture | Match Point | Woody Allen | Comment: BBC | |
| 2006 | Best Motion Picture | The Ice Harvest | Robert Benton, Richard Russo | Comment: based on the Novel by Scott Phillips (Focus Features), based on the Novel by Scott Phillips (Focus Features) | |
| 2005 | Best Motion Picture | A Very Long Engagement | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 2003 Productions | Comment: based on the Novel by Sebastien Japrisot; 2003 Productions |
| 2005 | Best Motion Picture | Collateral | Stuart Beattie | DreamWorks SKG | |
| 2005 | Best Motion Picture | I'm Not Scared | Francesca Marciano | Miramax | Comment: based on the Novel by Niccola Ammaniti |
| 2005 | Best Motion Picture | Maria Full of Grace | Joshua Marston | HBO | |
| 2005 | Best Motion Picture | The Bourne Supremacy | Tony Gilroy | Kennedy/Marshall Co., Universal Pictures, Hypnotic | Comment: based on the Novel by Robert Ludlam |
| 2004 | Best Motion Picture | Dirty Pretty Things | Steve Knight | BBC, Celador Productions, Jones Company | |
| 2004 | Best Motion Picture | Monster | Patty Jenkins | MDP Worldwide | |
| 2004 | Best Motion Picture | Mystic River | Brian Helgeland | Malpaso Productions | |
| 2004 | Best Motion Picture | Runaway Jury | Matthew Chapman, Rick Cleveland, Brian Koppelman, David Levien | Twentieth Century Fox | |
| 2004 | Best Motion Picture | The Cooler | Frank Hannah, Wayne Kramer | Lions Gate Films | |
| 2003 | Best Motion Picture | Chicago | Bill Condon | Miramax | |
| 2003 | Best Motion Picture | Catch Me If You Can | Jeff Nathanson | Dreamworks Pictures | |
| 2003 | Best Motion Picture | Gangs of New York | Jay Cocks, Kenneth Lonergan, Steve Zaillian | Miramax | Comment: Story by Jay Cocks |
| 2003 | Best Motion Picture | Insomnia | Hilary Seitz | Warner Bros. | |
| 2003 | Best Motion Picture | Road to Perdition | David Self | Dreamworks Pictures | Comment: based on the graphic novel by Max Allan Collins and illustrated by Richard Piers Rayner |
| 2002 | Best Motion Picture | Memento | Christopher Nolan | Newmarket Films | |
| 2002 | Best Motion Picture | Gosford Park | Julian Fellowes | USA Films | |
| 2002 | Best Motion Picture | Mulholland Drive | David Lynch | Universal Focus | |
| 2002 | Best Motion Picture | Series 7: The Contenders | Daniel Minahan | USA Films | |
| 2002 | Best Motion Picture | The Man Who Wasn't There | Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | USA Films | |
| 2001 | Best Motion Picture | Traffic | Stephen Gaghan | Comment: based on the mini-series Traffik by Simon Moore | |
| 2001 | Best Motion Picture | Croupier | Paul Mayersberg | ||
| 2001 | Best Motion Picture | Erin Brockovich | Susannah Grant | ||
| 2001 | Best Motion Picture | Nurse Betty | James Flamberg, John C. Richards | Comment: story by Richards, screenplay by Richards and Flamberg | |
| 2001 | Best Motion Picture | Under Suspicion | W. Peter Ilif, Tom Provost | Comment: based on the novel Brainwash by John Wainwright & screenplay, Garde a Vue, By Claude Miller & Jean Herman | |
| 2000 | Best Motion Picture | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | Guy Ritchie | Polygram | |
| 2000 | Best Motion Picture | Cookie's Fortune | Anne Rapp | ORT | |
| 2000 | Best Motion Picture | Run, Lola, Run | Tom Tykwer | Sony Pictures Classics | |
| 2000 | Best Motion Picture | The Talented Mr. Ripley | Anthony Minghella | Miramax | |
| 2000 | Best Motion Picture | Titus | William Shakespeare, Julie Taymor | Fox | Comment: screenplay by both |
| 1999 | Best Motion Picture | Out of Sight | Scott Frank | Universal | |
| 1999 | Best Motion Picture | A Simple Plan | Scott B. Smith | Paramount | |
| 1999 | Best Motion Picture | The Spanish Prisoner | David Mamet | Sony Pictures Classics | |
| 1998 | Best Motion Picture | L.A. Confidential | Curtis Hanson, Brian Helgeland | Warner Bros. | |
| 1998 | Best Motion Picture | Conspiracy Theory | Brian Helgeland | Warner Bros. | |
| 1998 | Best Motion Picture | Donnie Brasco | Paul Attanasio | Columbia Pictures | |
| 1997 | Best Motion Picture | Sling Blade | Billy Bob Thorton | Miramax | |
| 1997 | Best Motion Picture | Fargo | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Gramercy | |
| 1997 | Best Motion Picture | Le Ceremonie | Claude Chabrol | ACO Production with MK2 Productions | |
| 1997 | Best Motion Picture | Lone Star | John Sayles | Castle Rock/Columbia | |
| 1997 | Best Motion Picture | Trainspotting | John Hodge | Miramax | |
| 1996 | Best Motion Picture | The Usual Suspects | Christopher McQuarrie | Gramercy Pictures, PolyGRam Bad Hat Harry, Blue Parrot | |
| 1996 | Best Motion Picture | Devil in a Blue Dress | Carl Franklin | Clinica Esterico, Muddy Lane Entertainment/Tristar | |
| 1996 | Best Motion Picture | Dolores Claiborne | Tony Gilroy | Columbia/Castle Rock | |
| 1996 | Best Motion Picture | Get Shorty | Scott Frank | Jersey Films/MGM | |
| 1996 | Best Motion Picture | To Die For | Buck Henry | Columbia | |
| 1995 | Best Motion Picture | Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino | Miramax | |
| 1995 | Best Motion Picture | Blink | Dana Stevens | New Line Cinema | |
| 1995 | Best Motion Picture | Speed | Graham Yost | Twentieth Century Fox | |
| 1995 | Best Motion Picture | The Last Seduction | Steve Barancik | ITC Entertainment | |
| 1994 | Best Motion Picture | Falling Down | Ebbe Roe Smith | Warner Bros. | |
| 1994 | Best Motion Picture | In The Line of Fire | Jeff Maguire | Castle Rock | |
| 1994 | Best Motion Picture | The Fugitive | Jeb Stuart, David Twohy | Warner Bros. | |
| 1993 | Best Motion Picture | The Player | Michael Tolkin | Fineline Features | |
| 1993 | Best Motion Picture | A Few Good Men | Aaron Sorkin | Columbia | |
| 1993 | Best Motion Picture | Sneakers | Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes, Phil Alden Robinson | Universal | |
| 1993 | Best Motion Picture | The Crying Game | Neil Jordan | Miramax | |
| 1993 | Best Motion Picture | Unforgiven | David Webb Peoples | Warner Bros. | |
| 1992 | Best Motion Picture | The Silence of the Lambs | Ted Tally | Orion | |
| 1992 | Best Motion Picture | Dead Again | Scott Frank | Paramount | |
| 1992 | Best Motion Picture | J.F.K. | Zachary Sklar, Oliver Stone | Warner Bros. | |
| 1991 | Best Motion Picture | The Grifters | Donald E. Westlake | Miramax | |
| 1991 | Best Motion Picture | Goodfellas | Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese | Warner Bros. | |
| 1991 | Best Motion Picture | Presumed Innocent | Alan J. Pakula, Frank Pierson | Warner/Mirage | |
| 1990 | Best Motion Picture | Heathers | Daniel Waters | New World | |
| 1990 | Best Motion Picture | Crimes and Misdemeanors | Woody Allen | Orion | |
| 1990 | Best Motion Picture | Licence to Kill | Richard Maibaum, Michael G. Wilson | United Artists | |
| 1990 | Best Motion Picture | Sea of Love | Richard Price | Universal | |
| 1990 | Best Motion Picture | True Believer | Wesley Strick | Columbia | |
| 1989 | Best Motion Picture | The Thin Blue Line | Errol Morris | Miramax | |
| 1989 | Best Motion Picture | A Fish Called Wanda | John Cleese | MGM | |
| 1989 | Best Motion Picture | Die Hard | Steven E. de Souza, Jeb Stuart | Twentieth Century Fox | |
| 1989 | Best Motion Picture | Masquerade | Dick Wolf | MGM | |
| 1989 | Best Motion Picture | Things Change | David Mamet, Shel Silverstein | Columbia | |
| 1988 | Best Motion Picture | Stakeout | Jim Kouf | Buena Vista Pictures | |
| 1988 | Best Motion Picture | Best Seller | Larry Cohen | Orion | |
| 1988 | Best Motion Picture | Robocop | Michael Miner, Edward Neumeir | John Davison Productions | |
| 1988 | Best Motion Picture | The Big Easy | Daniel Petrie Jr. | Columbia | |
| 1988 | Best Motion Picture | The Stepfather | Donald E. Westlake | ITC Productions | |
| 1987 | Best Motion Picture | Something Wild | E. Max Frye | Orion |