The Astra Film Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama and the Astra Award for Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical are two of the annual awards given out by the Hollywood Creative Alliance. Prior to 2025, the category was combined as a single Astra Film Award for Best Picture.
Winners † = Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture ‡ = Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture
2010s YearFilmDirector 2017 The Shape of Water † Guillermo del Toro The Big Sick Michael Showalter Call Me by Your Name ‡ Luca Guadagnino Colossal Nacho Vigalondo Get Out ‡ Jordan Peele I, Tonya Craig Gillespie Lady Bird ‡ Greta Gerwig Molly's Game Aaron Sorkin The Post ‡ Steven Spielberg Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri ‡ Martin McDonagh 2018 The Hate U Give George Tillman Jr. A Quiet Place John Krasinski A Star Is Born ‡ Bradley Cooper BlacKkKlansman ‡ Spike Lee Black Panther ‡ Ryan Coogler Eighth Grade Bo Burnham The Favourite ‡ Yorgos Lanthimos Green Book † Peter Farrelly Roma ‡ Alfonso Cuarón Searching Aneesh Chaganty 2019 1917 ‡ Sam Mendes Booksmart Olivia Wilde The Farewell Lulu Wang The Irishman ‡ Martin Scorsese Jojo Rabbit ‡ Taika Waititi Joker ‡ Todd Phillips Marriage Story ‡ Noah Baumbach Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood ‡ Quentin Tarantino Parasite † Bong Joon-ho Waves Trey Edward Shults
2020s YearCategoryFilmDirector 2020 Promising Young Woman ‡ Emerald Fennell Da 5 Bloods Spike Lee The Father ‡ Florian Zeller Judas and the Black Messiah ‡ Shaka King Minari ‡ Lee Isaac Chung Nomadland † Chloé Zhao One Night in Miami... Regina King Soul Pete Docter & Kemp Powers Sound of Metal ‡ Darius Marder The Trial of the Chicago 7 ‡ Aaron Sorkin 2021 CODA † Siân Heder Being the Ricardos Aaron Sorkin Belfast ‡ Kenneth Branagh Dune ‡ Denis Villeneuve King Richard ‡ Reinaldo Marcus Green Last Night in Soho Edgar Wright Licorice Pizza ‡ Paul Thomas Anderson The Power of the Dog ‡ Jane Campion Spencer Pablo Larraín tick, tick... BOOM! Lin Manuel Miranda 2022 Everything Everywhere All at Once † Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert Avatar: The Way of Water ‡ James Cameron The Banshees of Inisherin ‡ Martin McDonagh Elvis ‡ Baz Luhrmann The Fabelmans ‡ Steven Spielberg RRR S. S. Rajamouli Tár ‡ Todd Field Top Gun: Maverick ‡ Joseph Kosinski The Woman King Gina Prince-Bythewood Women Talking ‡ Sarah Polley 2023 Barbie ‡ Greta Gerwig Air Ben Affleck American Fiction ‡ Cord Jefferson The Color Purple Blitz Bazawule The Holdovers ‡ Alexander Payne Killers of the Flower Moon ‡ Martin Scorsese Maestro ‡ Bradley Cooper Oppenheimer † Christopher Nolan Past Lives ‡ Celine Song Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, & Justin K. Thompson 2024 Wicked ‡ Jon M. Chu Anora † Sean Baker A Real Pain Jesse Eisenberg Challengers Luca Guadagnino Conclave ‡ Edward Berger Dune: Part Two ‡ Denis Villeneuve Emilia Pérez ‡ Jacques Audiard Sing Sing Greg Kwedar The Brutalist ‡ Brady Corbet The Substance ‡ Coralie Fargeat2025Drama Sinners ‡ Ryan Coogler Frankenstein ‡ Guillermo del Toro Hamnet ‡ Chloé Zhao It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi Sentimental Value ‡ Joachim Trier Train Dreams ‡ Clint BentlyComedy or Musical One Battle After Another † Paul Thomas Anderson Bugonia ‡ Yorgos Lanthimos Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach Marty Supreme ‡ Josh Safdie No Other Choice Park Chan-wook Wicked: For Good Jon M. Chu
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