1997 — Titanic + 1998 — Saving Private Ryan * 1999 — American Beauty + 2000 — Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon * 2001 — Fellowship of the Ring * 2002 — Road to Perdition (posthumous to Conrad L. Hall) 2003 — Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World * 2004 — The Aviator * 2005 — Memoirs of a Geisha 2006 — Pan's Labyrinth (no Best
Picture contenders were nominated) 2007 — There Will be Blood * 2008 — Slumdog Millionaire + 2009 — Avatar * 2010 — Inception * 2011 — Hugo * 2012 — Life of Pi * 2013 — Gravity * 2014 — Birdman + 2015 — The Revenant * 2016 — La La Land *