New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Picture

Winners
Titles in bold indicate films that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Titles with an asterisk (*) indicate films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, but did not win.
 * 1935 - The Infomer*
 * 1936 - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town*
 * 1937 - The Life of Emile Zola
 * 1938 - The Citadel*
 * 1939 - Wuthering Heights*
 * 1940 - The Grapes of Wrath*
 * 1941 - Citizen Kane*
 * 1942 - In Which We Serve*
 * 1943 - Watch on the Rhine*
 * 1944 - Going My Way
 * 1945 - The Lost Weekend
 * 1946 - The Best Years of Our Lives
 * 1947 - Gentleman's Agreement
 * 1948 - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre*
 * 1949 - All the King's Men
 * 1950 - All About Eve
 * 1951 - A Streetcar Named Desire*
 * 1952 - High Noon*
 * 1953 - From Here to Eternity
 * 1954 - On the Waterfront
 * 1955 - Marty
 * 1956 - Around the World in 80 Days
 * 1957 - The Bridge on the River Kwai
 * 1958 - The Defiant Ones
 * 1959 - Ben-Hur
 * 1960 - The Apartment / Sons and Lovers
 * 1961 - West Side Story
 * 1962 - none
 * 1963 - Tom Jones
 * 1964 - My Fair Lady
 * 1965 - Darling*
 * 1966 - A Man for All Seasons
 * 1967 - In the Heat of the Night
 * 1968 - The Lion in Winter*
 * 1969 - Z*
 * 1970 - Five Easy Pieces*
 * 1971 - A Clockwork Orange*
 * 1972 - Cries and Whispers*
 * 1973 - Day for Night
 * 1974 - Amarcord
 * 1975 - Nashville*
 * 1976 - All the President's Men*
 * 1977 - Annie Hall
 * 1978 - The Deer Hunter
 * 1979 - Kramer vs. Kramer
 * 1980 - Ordinary People
 * 1981 - Reds*
 * 1982 - Gandhi
 * 1983 - Terms of Endearment
 * 1984 - A Passage to India*
 * 1985 - Prizzi's Honor*
 * 1986 - Hannah and Her Sisters*
 * 1987 - Broadcast News*
 * 1988 - The Accidental Tourist*
 * 1989 - My Left Foot*
 * 1990 - Goodfellas*
 * 1991 - The Silence of the Lambs
 * 1992 - The Player
 * 1993 - Schindler's List
 * 1994 - Quiz Show*
 * 1995 - Leaving Las Vegas
 * 1996 - Fargo*
 * 1997 - L.A. Confidential*
 * 1998 - Saving Private Ryan*
 * 1999 - Topsy-Turvy
 * 2000 - Traffic*
 * 2001 - Mulholland Drive 
 * 2002 - Far from Heaven
 * 2003 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
 * 2004 - Sideways*
 * 2005 - Brokeback Mountain*
 * 2006 - United 93
 * 2007 - No Country for Old Men
 * 2008 - Milk
 * 2009 - The Hurt Locker
 * 2010 - The Social Network*
 * 2011 - The Artist
 * 2012 - Zero Dark Thirty*
 * 2013 - American Hustle*
 * 2014 - Boyhood*
 * 2015 - Carol
 * 2016 - La La Land*
 * 2017 - Lady Bird*
 * 2018 - Roma*