Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film
The Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film is one of the annual awards given by the Kansas City Film Critics Circle.
Winners
1960s
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Mike Nichols |
| 1967 | Bonnie and Clyde | Arthur Penn |
| 1968 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick |
| 1969 | Midnight Cowboy | John Schlesinger |
1970s
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Five Easy Pieces | Bob Rafelson |
| Patton | Franklin J. Schaffner | |
| 1971 | The French Connection | William Friedkin |
| 1972 | A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick |
| 1973 | American Graffiti | George Lucas |
| 1974 | The Conversation | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 1975 | Nashville | Robert Altman |
| 1976 | Rocky | John G. Avildsen |
| 1977 | Annie Hall | Woody Allen |
| 1978 | Interiors | Woody Allen |
| 1979 | Kramer vs. Kramer | Robert Benton |
1980s
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Ordinary People | Robert Redford |
| 1981 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Steven Spielberg |
| 1982 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg |
| 1983 | Tender Mercies | Bruce Beresford |
| Terms of Endearment | James L. Brooks | |
| 1984 | A Passage to India | David Lean |
| 1985 | Witness | Peter Weir |
| 1986 | The Mission | Roland Joffé |
| Salvador | Oliver Stone | |
| 1987 | Moonstruck | Norman Jewison |
| 1988 | Rain Man | Barry Levinson |
| 1989 | Glory | Edward Zwick |
1990s
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Goodfellas | Martin Scorsese |
| 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | Jonathan Demme |
| 1992 | The Player | Robert Altman |
| Unforgiven | Clint Eastwood | |
| 1993 | Schindler's List | Steven Spielberg |
| 1994 | Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino |
| 1995 | Apollo 13 | Ron Howard |
| 1996 | The People vs. Larry Flynt | Miloš Forman |
| 1997 | Titanic | James Cameron |
| 1998 | Saving Private Ryan | Steven Spielberg |
| 1999 | American Beauty | Sam Mendes |
2000s
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Traffic | Steven Soderbergh |
| 2001 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Peter Jackson |
| 2002 | About Schmidt | Alexander Payne |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Peter Jackson |
| 2004 | Million Dollar Baby | Clint Eastwood |
| 2005 | Munich | Steven Spielberg |
| 2006 | United 93 | Paul Greengrass |
| 2007 | There Will Be Blood | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | Danny Boyle |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Jason Reitman |
2010s
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | The Social Network | David Fincher |
| 2011 | The Descendants | Alexander Payne |
| 2012 | The Master | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 2013 | 12 Years a Slave | Steve McQueen |
| 2014 | Birdman | Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu |
References
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