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This is a '''list of biographical films''':

==Before 1950==
{| class="wikitable" width=100%
!width=++33%|Film
!width=30%|Subject(s)
!width=30%|Lead Actor or Actress
!width=7%|Year
|-
||''Cyrano de Bergerac''
||Cyrano de Bergerac
||Benoît-Constant Coquelin
||1900

|-
||''Cleopatra''
||Cleopatra VII
||Theda Bara
||1917

|-
||''The Ten Commandments''
||Moses
||Theodore Roberts
||1923

|-
||''The King of Kings
||Jesus
||H. B. Warner
||1927

|-
||''Napoléon''
||Napoleon Bonaparte
||Albert Dieudonné
||1927

|-
||''The Patriot''
||Tsar Paul I of Russia
||Emil Jannings
||1928

|-
||''The Passion of Joan of Arc
||Joan of Arc
||Renée Jeanne Falconetti
||1928

|-
||''Disraeli
||Benjamin Disraeli
||George Arliss
||1929

|-
||''Abraham Lincoln''
||Abraham Lincoln
||Walter Huston
||1930

|-
||''The Private Life of Henry VIII''
||Henry VIII
||Charles Laughton
||1933

|-
||''Queen Christina''
||Queen Christina of Sweden
||Greta Garbo
||1933

|-
||''The Barretts of Wimpole Street''
||Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
||Norma Shearer and Fredric March
||1934

|-
||''Cleopatra''
||Cleopatra VII
||Claudette Colbert
||1934

|-
||''The Scarlet Empress''
||Catherine the Great
||Marlene Dietrich
||1934

|-
||''The Story of Louis Pasteur''
||Louis Pasteur
||Paul Muni
||1935

|-
||''The Great Ziegfeld''
||Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
||William Powell
||1936

|-
||''Rembrandt''
||Rembrandt
||Charles Laughton
||1936

|-
||''The Plainsman''
||Wild Bill Hickok
||Gary Cooper
||1936

|-
||''The Life of Emile Zola''
||Émile Zola
||Paul Muni
||1937

|-
||''Fire Over England''
||Elizabeth I of England
||Flora Robson
||1937

|-
||''Marie Antoinette''
||Marie Antoinette
||Norma Shearer
||1938

|-
||''The Adventures of Marco Polo''
||Marco Polo
||Gary Cooper
||1938

|-
||''Alexander Nevsky
||Alexander Nevsky
||Nikolai Cherkasov
||1938

|-
||''Frontier Marshal''
||Wyatt Earp
||Randolph Scott
||1939

|-
||''The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
||Elizabeth I of England
||Bette Davis
||1939

|-
||''The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle''
||Vernon and Irene Castle
||Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
||1939

|-
||''Young Mr. Lincoln
||Abraham Lincoln
||Henry Fonda
||1939

|-
||''Abe Lincoln in Illinois''
||Abraham Lincoln
||Raymond Massey
||1940

|-
||''Knute Rockne, All American''
||Knute Rockne
||Pat O'Brien
||1940

|-
||''The Return of Frank James
||Frank James
||Henry Fonda
||1940

|-
||''Sergeant York''
||Alvin York
||Gary Cooper
||1941

|-
||''Yankee Doodle Dandy''
||George M. Cohan
||James Cagney
||1942

|-
||''Gentleman Jim''
||James J. Corbett
||Errol Flynn
||1943

|-
||''The Adventures of Mark Twain''
||Mark Twain
||Fredric March
||1944

|-
||''Henry V''
||Henry V of England
||Laurence Olivier
||1944

|-
||''The Fighting Sullivans''
||Sullivan brothers
||
||1944

|-
||''Ivan the Terrible''
||Ivan IV of Russia
||Nikolai Cherkasov
||1944

|-
||''Caesar and Cleopatra''
||Julius Caesar and Cleopatra VII
||Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh
||1945

|-
||''Dillinger
||John Dillinger
||Lawrence Tierney
||1945

|-
||''The Jolson Story''
||Al Jolson
||Larry Parks
||1946

|-
||''Night and Day''
||Cole Porter
||Cary Grant
||1946

|-
||''Anna and the King of Siam''
||Anna Leonowens
||Irene Dunne
||1946

|-
||''Till the Clouds Roll By''
||Jerome Kern
||Robert Walker
||1946

|-
||''The Fabulous Dorseys''
||Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey
||Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey
||1947

|-
||''Joan of Arc''
||Joan of Arc
||Ingrid Bergman
||1948

|-
||''Macbeth''
||Macbeth I of Scotland
||Orson Welles
||1948

|-
||''Jolson Sings Again''
||Al Jolson
||Larry Parks
||1949

|-
||''Samson and Delilah''
||Samson and Delilah
||Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr
||1949
|}

==1950s==
{| class="wikitable" width=100%
!width=33%|Film
!width=30%|Subject(s)
!width=30%|Lead Actor or Actress
!width=7%|Year

|-
||''Julius Caesar''
||Julius Caesar
||Harold Tasker
||1950

|-
||''Cyrano de Bergerac''
||Cyrano de Bergerac
||José Ferrer
||1950

|-
||''The Jackie Robinson Story''
||Jackie Robinson
||Jackie Robinson
||1950

|-
||''The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel''
||Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
||James Mason
||1951 

|-
||''Blackbeard the Pirate''
||Blackbeard
||Robert Newton
||1952

|-
||''Hans Christian Andersen''
||Hans Christian Andersen
||Danny Kaye
||1952

|-
||''Julius Caesar''
||Julius Caesar
||Marlon Brando
||1953

|-
||''The Glenn Miller Story''
||Glenn Miller
||James Stewart
||1953

|-
||''Viva Zapata!''
||Emiliano Zapata
||Marlon Brando
||1954

|-
||''Interrupted Melody''
||Marjorie Lawrence
||Eleanor Parker
||1955

|-
||''The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing''
||Evelyn Nesbit
||Joan Collins
||1955

|-
||''The Virgin Queen
||Elizabeth I of England
||Bette Davis
||1955

|-
||''Richard III''
||Richard III of England
||Laurence Olivier
||1955

|-
||''Alexander the Great (film)''
||Alexander the Great
||Richard Burton
||1956

|-
||''The Eddy Duchin Story''
||Eddy Duchin
||Tyrone Power
||1956

|-
||''Lust for Life''
||Vincent van Gogh
||Kirk Douglas
||1956

|-
||''Somebody Up There Likes Me''
||Rocky Graziano
||Paul Newman
||1956

|-
||''The King and I''
||Anna Leonowens
||Deborah Kerr
||1956

|-
||''The Ten Commandments
||Moses and Ramesses II
||Charlton Heston and Yul Bryner
||1956

|-
||''Fear Strikes Out''
||Jimmy Piersall
||Anthony Perkins
||1957

|-
||''Man of a Thousand Faces''
||Lon Chaney, Sr.
||James Cagney
||1957

|-
||''Saint Joan''
||Joan of Arc
||Jean Seberg
||1957

|-
||''The Spirit of St. Louis
||Charles Lindbergh
||James Stewart
||1957

|-
||''The Three Faces of Eve''
||Chris Costner-Sizemore
||Joanne Woodward
||1957

|-
||''Carve Her Name with Pride''
||Violette Szabo
||Virginia McKenna
||1958

|-
||''The Inn of the Sixth Happiness''
||Gladys Aylward
||Ingrid Bergman
||1958

|-
||''Al Capone''
||Al Capone
||Rod Steiger
||1959

|-
||''The Diary of Anne Frank''
||Anne Frank
||Millie Perkins
||1959

|-
||''The Gene Krupa Story''
||Gene Krupa
||Sal Mineo
||1959

|-
||''The Great Impostor''
||Ferdinand Waldo Demara
||Tony Curtis
||1959
|}

==1960s==
{| class="wikitable" width=100%
!width=33%|Film
!width=30%|Subject(s)
!width=30%|Lead Actor or Actress
!width=7%|Year

|-
||''Song Without End''
||Franz Liszt
||Dirk Bogarde
||1960

|-
||''Spartacus''
||Spartacus
||Kirk Douglas
||1960

|-
||''Sunrise at Campobello''
||Franklin D. Roosevelt
||Ralph Bellamy
||1960

|-
||''El Cid''
||El Cid
||Charlton Heston
||1961

|-
||''King of Kings''
||Jesus
||Jeffrey Hunter
||1961

|-
||''Lawrence of Arabia''
||T. E. Lawrence
||Peter O'Toole
||1962

|-
||''The Miracle Worker''
||Hellen Keller
||Patty Duke
||1962

|-
||''Elgar'' 
||Edward Elgar
||Peter Brett
||1962 

|-
||''The Trial of Joan of Arc''
||Joan of Arc
||Florence Delay
||1962

|-
||''Salvatore Giuliano''
||Salvatore Giuliano
||
||1962

|-
||''PT 109''
||John F. Kennedy
||Cliff Robertson
||1963

|-
||''Cleopatra''
||Cleopatra VII
||Elizabeth Taylor
||1963

|-
||''Becket''
||Thomas Becket
||Richard Burton
||1964

|-
||''[[The Agony and the Ecstasy (film)|The Agony 

and the Ecstasy]]''
||Michelangelo
||Charlton Heston
||1965

|-
||''The Debussy Film''
||Claude Debussy
||Oliver Reed
||1965

|-
||''Genghis Khan''
||Genghis Khan
||Omar Sharif
||1965

|-
||''The Greatest Story Ever Told''
||Jesus
||Max von Sydow
||1965

|-
||''Andrei Rublev'' 
||Andrei Rublev 
||Anatoli Solonitsyn
||1966

|-
||''Born Free''
||Joy Adamson
||Virginia McKenna
||1966

|-
||''Isadora Duncan - The Biggest Dancer in the World'' 
||Isadora Duncan 
||Vivian Pickles
||1966

|-
||''A Man for All Seasons''
||Thomas More
||Paul Scofield
||1966

|-
||''Bonnie and Clyde''
||Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker
||Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway
||1967

|-
||''The Color of Pomegranates''
||Sayat Nova
||Sofiko Chiaureli, others
||1968

|-
||''Funny Girl''
||Fanny Brice
||Barbra Streisand
||1968

|-
||''Isadora'' 
||Isadora Duncan
||Vanessa Redgrave
||1968

|-
||''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid''
||Butch Cassidy and Harry Longabaugh
||Paul Newman and Robert Redford
||1969

|-
||''Anne of the Thousand Days''
||Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
||Richard Burton and Geneviève Bujold
||1969
|}

==1970s==
{| class="wikitable" width=100%
!width=33%|Film
!width=30%|Subject(s)
!width=30%|Lead Actor or Actress
!width=7%|Year
|-
||''Cromwell''
||Oliver Cromwell
||Richard Harris
||1970

|-
||''Patton''
||George S. Patton
||George C. Scott
||1970

|-
||''Song of Norway''
||Edvard Grieg and Rikard Nordraak
||Toralv Maurstad and Frank Poretta
||1970

|-
||''The Wild Child''
||Victor of Aveyron
||Jean-Pierre Cargol
||1970

|-
||''Julius Caesar''
||Julius Caesar
||Charlton Heston
||1970

|-
||''Macbeth
||Macbeth of Scotland
||Jon Finch
||1971

|-
||''Mary, Queen of Scots''
||Queen Mary I of Scotland and Elizabeth I of England
||Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson
||1971

|-
||''The Music Lovers''
||Pyotr Tchaikovsky
||Richard Chamberlain
||1971

|-
||''Nicholas and Alexandra''
||Tsaritsa Alexandra of Russia
||Michael Jayston and Janet Suzman
||1971

|-
||''Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall''
||Spike Milligan
||Jim Dale
||1972

|-
||''Aguirre, the Wrath of God''
||Lope de Aguirre
||Klaus Kinski
||1972

|-
||''Antony and Cleopatra
||Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII
||Charlton Heston and Hildegarde Neil
||1972

|-
||''Brother Sun, Sister Moon''
||St. Francis of Assisi and St. Clare of Assisi
||Graham Faulkner and Judi Bowker
||1972

|-
||''Henry VIII and His Six Wives''
||Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
||Keith Michell and Charlotte Rampling
||1972

|-
||''Lady Sings the Blues''
||Billie Holliday
||Diana Ross
||1972

|-
||''Young Winston''
||Winston Churchill
||Simon Ward
||1972

|-
||''Dillinger
||John Dillinger
||Warren Oates
||1973

|-
||''Edvard Munch''
||Edvard Munch
||Geir Westby
||1973

|-
||''Jesus Christ Superstar''
||Jesus
||Ted Neeley
||1973

|-
||''Papillon''
||Henri Charrière and Louis Dega
||Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman
||1973

|-
||''The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser''
||Kaspar Hauser
||Bruno S.
||1974

|-
||''Lenny''
||Lenny Bruce
||Dustin Hoffman
||1974

|-
||''Mahler''
||Gustav Mahler and Alma Mahler
||Robert Powell and Georgina Hale
||1974

|-
||''The Story of Adele H.''
||Adèle Hugo
||Isabelle Adjani
||1975

|-
||''Lisztomania''
||Franz Liszt
||Roger Daltrey
||1975

|-
||''The Man Who Would Be King''
||Rudyard Kipling
||Christopher Plummer
||1975

|-
||''All the President's Men''
||Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein 
||Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman
||1976

|-
||''Bound for Glory''
||Woody Guthrie
||David Carradine
||1976

|-
||''Bruce Lee: The Man, the Myth''
||Bruce Lee
||Bruce Li
||1976

|-
||''Gable and Lombard''
||Clark Gable and Carole Lombard
||James Brolin and Jill Clayburgh
||1976

|-
||''James Dean''
||James Dean
||Stephen McHattie
||1976

|-
||''Mohammad, Messenger of God''
||Muhammad
||Anthony Quinn
||1976

|-
||''Sybil''
||Shirley Ardell Mason
||Sally Field
||1976

|-
||''W.C. Fields and Me''
||W.C. Fields
||Rod Steiger
||1976

|-
||''MacArthur''
||Douglas MacArthur
||Gregory Peck
||1977

|-
||''Midnight Express
||Billy Hayes
||Brad Davis
||1977

|-
||''The Buddy Holly Story''
||Buddy Holly
||Gary Busey
||1978

|-
||''La Vida y Poesia de Julia de Burgos''
||Julia de Burgos
||Ana Li Diaz
||1978

|-
||''...And Justice for All''
||Arthur Kirkland and Judge Henry T. Fleming
||Al Pacino and John Forsythe
||1979

|-
||''Escape from Alcatraz''
||Frank Morris
||Clint Eastwood
||1979

|-
||''Jesus''
||Jesus
||Brian Deacon
||1979

|}

==1980s==
{| class="wikitable" width=100%
!width=33%|Film
!width=30%|Subject(s)
!width=30%|Lead Actor or Actress
!width=7%|Year

|-
||''Coal Miner's Daughter''
||Loretta Lynn
||Sissy Spacek
||1980

|-
||''Raging Bull''
||Jake La Motta
||Robert De Niro
||1980

|-
||''The Elephant Man''
||Joseph Merrick
||John Hurt
||1980

|-
||''The Bunker
||Adolf Hitler
||Anthony Hopkins
||1981

|-
||''Chariots of Fire''
||Harold Abrahams
||Ben Cross
||1981

|-
||''Lion of the Desert''
||Omar Mukhtar
||Anthony Quinn
||1981

|-
||''Mommie Dearest''
||Joan Crawford
||Faye Dunaway
||1981

|-
||''Reds''
||John Reed
||Warren Beatty
||1981

|-
||''Frances''
||Frances Farmer
||Jessica Lange
||1982

|-
||''Gandhi''
||Mahatma Gandhi
||Ben Kingsley
||1982

|-
||''Missing''
||Charles Horman
||John Shea
||1982

|-
||''Danton''
||Georges Danton
||Gérard Depardieu
||1983

|-
||''Heart Like a Wheel''
||Shirley Muldowney
||Bonnie Bedelia
||1983

|-
||''Silkwood''
||Karen Silkwood
||Meryl Streep
||1983

|-
||''Amadeus''
||Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri
||Tom Hulce and F. Murray Abraham
||1984

|-
||''The Bounty''
||Captain William Bligh
||Anthony Hopkins
||1984

|-
||''The Killing Fields''
||Dith Pran, Sydney Schanberg and Jon Swain
||Haing S. Ngor, Sam Waterston and Julian Sands
||1984

|-
||''Samson and Delilah''
||Samson and Delilah
||Max von Sydow and Belinda Bauer
||1984

|-
||''Out of Africa''
||Karen Blixen
||Meryl Streep
||1985

|-
||''Marie''
||Marie Ragghianti
||Sissy Spacek
||1985

|-
||''Mask''
||Roy L. Dennis and Florence Dennis
||Eric Stoltz and Cher
||1985

|-
||''Sweet Dreams''
||Patsy Cline
||Jessica Lange
||1985

|-
||''Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters''
||Yukio Mishima
||Ken Ogata
||1985

|-
||''Sid & Nancy''
||Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen
||Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb
||1986

|-
||''The Boy in Blue''
||Ned Hanlan
||Nicolas Cage 
||1986

|-
||''Castaway''
||Gerald Kingsland and Lucy Irvine
||Oliver Reed and Amanda Donohoe
||1986

|-
||''Heartburn''
||Nora Ephron and Carl Bernstein
||Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson
||1986

|-
||''Lady Jane''
||Lady Jane Grey
||Helena Bonham Carter
||1986

|-
||''Cry Freedom''
||Steve Biko
||Denzel Washington
||1987

|-
||''La Bamba''
||Ritchie Valens
||Lou Diamond Phillips
||1987

|-
||''The Last Emperor''
||Pu-Yi
||John Lone
||1987

|-
||''The Untouchables''
||Eliot Ness and Al Capone
||Kevin Costner and Robert De Niro
||1987

|-
||''Gorillas in the Mist''
||Dian Fossey
||Sigourney Weaver
||1988

|-
||''A Cry in the Dark''
||Lindy Chamberlain
||Meryl Streep
||1988

|-
||''Patty Hearst''
||Patty Hearst
||Natasha Richardson
||1988

|-
||''Tucker: The Man and His Dream''
||Preston Tucker
||Jeff Bridges
||1988

|-
||''The Last Temptation of Christ''
||Jesus Christ
||Willem Dafoe
||1988

|-
||''Blaze''
||Earl Long
||Paul Newman
||1989

|-
||''Camille Claudel''
||Camille Claudel
||Isabelle Adjani
||1989

|-
||''Great Balls of Fire!''
||Jerry Lee Lewis
||Dennis Quaid
||1989

|-
||''Lean on Me''
||Joe Louis Clark
||Morgan Freeman
||1989

|-
||''My Left Foot''
||Christy Brown
||Daniel Day-Lewis
||1989

|-
||''Henry V
||Henry V of England
||Kenneth Branagh
||1989

|-
||''Born on the Fourth of July''
||Ron Kovic
||Tom Cruise
||1989
|}

==1990s==
{| class="wikitable" width=100%
!width=33%|Film
!width=30%|Subject(s)
!width=30%|Lead Actor or Actress
!width=7%|Year
|-
||''An Angel at My Table''
||Janet Frame
||Karen Fergusson (child), Alexia Keogh (adolescent) and Kerry Fox (adult)
||1990

|-
||''Awakenings''
||Oliver Sacks
||Robin Williams
||1990

|-
||''Cyrano de Bergerac''
||Cyrano de Bergerac
||Gérard Depardieu
||1990

|-
||''A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia''
||T.E. Lawrence
||Ralph Fiennes
||1990

|-
||''Dillinger
||John Dillinger
||Mark Harmon
||1991

|-
||''Europa Europa''
||Solomon Perel
||Marco Hofschneider
||1990

|-
||''Goodfellas''
||Henry Hill
||Ray Liotta
||1990

|-
||''Henry & June''
||Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin
||Fred Ward and Uma Thurman
||1990

|-
||''Iron & Silk''
||Mark Salzman
||Mark Salzman
||1990

|-
||''The Nasty Girl''
||Anna Rosmus
||Lena Stolze
||1990

|-
||''The Krays''
||the Kray twins
||Martin Kemp and Gary Kemp
||1990

|-
||''Vincent & Theo''
||Vincent van Gogh and Theo
||Tim Roth and Paul Rhys
||1990

|-
||''Reversal of Fortune''
||Claus von Bulow and Sunny von Bulow
||Jeremy Irons and Glenn Close
||1990

|-
||''Bugsy''
||Bugsy Siegel
||Warren Beatty
||1991

|-
||''Cabeza de Vaca''
||Cabeza de Vaca
||Juan Diego
||1991

|-
||''The Doors''
||Jim Morrison
||Val Kilmer
||1991

|-
||''Impromptu''
||Frédéric Chopin and George Sand
||Hugh Grant and Judy Davis
||1991

|-
||''JFK''
||Jim Garrison
||Kevin Costner
||1991

|-
||''Not Without My Daughter''
||Betty Mahmoody
||Sally Field
||1991

|-
||''Young Catherine''
||Catherine II of Russia
||Julia Ormond
||1991

|-
||''The Babe''
||Babe Ruth
||John Goodman
||1992

|-
||''Chaplin''
||Charlie Chaplin
||Robert Downey Jr.
||1992

|-
||''Daens''
||Adolf Daens
||Jan Decleir
||1992

|-
||''Malcolm X''
||Malcolm X
||Denzel Washington
||1992

|-
||''Amy Fisher: My Story''
||Amy Fisher
||Noelle Parker
||1992

|-
||''Lorenzo's Oil''
||Augusto and Michaela Odone
||Nick Nolte & Susan Sarandon
||1992

|-
||''Zohar''
||Zohar Argov
||Shaul Mizrachi
||1993

|-
||''The Amy Fisher Story''
|rowspan="2"|Amy Fisher
||Drew Barrymore
||1993

|-
||''Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story''
||Alyssa Milano
||1993

|-
||''Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story''
||Bruce Lee
||Jason Scott Lee
||1993

|-
||''Fong Sai Yuk''
||Fong Sai Yuk
||Jet Li
||1993

|-
||''In The Name Of The Father''
||Guildford Four
||Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite
||1993

|-
||''M. Butterfly''
||René Gallimard
||Jeremy Irons
||1993

|-
||''Rudy''
||Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger
||Sean Astin
||1993

|-
||''Schindler's List'' 
||Oskar Schindler
||Liam Neeson
||1993 

|-
||''Searching for Bobby Fischer''
||Joshua Waitzkin
||Max Pomeranc
||1993

|-
||''Shadowlands''
||C. S. Lewis and Joy Gresham
||Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger
||1993

|-
||''Shrinatha Kavi Sarvabhowma'' 
||Srinatha
||Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao
||1993 

|-
||''What's Love Got to Do with It?''
||Ike and Tina Turner
||Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett
||1993

|-
||''Backbeat''
||Stuart Sutcliffe and John Lennon
||Stephen Dorff and Ian Hart
||1994

|-
||''Bandit Queen''
||Phoolan Devi
||Seema Biswas
||1994

|-
||''Ed Wood''
||Edward D. Wood, Jr.
||Johnny Depp
||1994

|-
||''The Madness of King George''
||George III of the United Kingdom
||Nigel Hawthorne
||1994

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==Voor 1970==
{|  width=100%
!width=33%|Film
!width=30%|Onderwerp(en)
!width=30%|Hoofdacteur of -actrice
!width=7%|Jaar

|-
||''The Story of Louis Pasteur''
||Louis Pasteur
||Paul Muni
||1935

|-
||''The Life of Emile Zola''
||Émile Zola
||Paul Muni
||1937

|-
||''Marie Antoinette''
||Marie Antoinette
||Norma Shearer
||1938

|-
||''The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle''
||Vernon en Irene Castle
||Fred Astaire en Ginger Rogers
||1939

|-
||''Juárez''
||Benito Juárez
||Paul Muni
||1939

|-
||''Abe Lincoln in Illinois''
||Abraham Lincoln
||Raymond Massey
||1940

|-
||''Knute Rockne, All American''
||Knute Rockne
||Pat O'Brien
||1940

|-
||''Sergeant York''
||Alvin York
||Gary Cooper
||1941

|-
||''Yankee Doodle Dandy''
||George M. Cohan
||James Cagney
||1942

|-
||''The Glenn Miller Story''
||Glenn Miller
||James Stewart
||1953

|-
||''Viva Zapata!''
||Emiliano Zapata
||Marlon Brando
||1954

|-
||''The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing''
||Evelyn Nesbit
||Joan Collins
||1955

|-
||''Sunrise at Campobello''
||Franklin D. Roosevelt
||Ralph Bellamy
||1960

|-
||''Lawrence of Arabia''
||T.E. Lawrence
||Peter O'Toole
||1962

|-
||''Elgar'' 
||Edward Elgar
||
||1962 

|-
||''The Debussy Film''
||Claude Debussy
||
||1965

|-
||''Isadora Duncan - The Biggest Dancer in the World'' 
||Isadora Duncan 
||
||1966

|-
||''Bonnie and Clyde''
||Clyde Barrow en Bonnie Parker
||Warren Beatty en Faye Dunaway
||1967

|-
||''Funny Girl''
||Fanny Brice
||Barbra Streisand
||1968

|-
||''Isadora'' 
||Isadora Duncan
||
||1968
|}

==1970-1989==
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||''Patton''
||George Patton
||George C. Scott
||1970

|-
||''Evel Knievel''
||Evel Knievel
||George Hamilton
||1971

|-
||''Lenny''
||Lenny Bruce
||Dustin Hoffman
||1974

|-
||''W.C. Fields and Me''
||W.C. Fields
||Rod Steiger
||1976

|-
||''The Buddy Holly Story''
||Buddy Holly
||Gary Busey
||1978

|-
||''Coal Miner's Daughter''
||Loretta Lynn
||Sissy Spacek
||1980

|-
||''Raging Bull''
||Jake La Motta
||Robert De Niro
||1980

|-
||''The Elephant Man''
||Joseph Merrick
||John Hurt
||1980

|-
||''Lion of the Desert''
||Omar Mukhtar
||Anthony Quinn
||1981

|-
||''Mommie Dearest''
||Joan Crawford
||Faye Dunaway
||1981

|-
||''Reds''
||John Reed
||Warren Beatty
||1981

|-
||''Gandhi''
||Mahatma Gandhi
||Ben Kingsley
||1982

|-
||''Frances''
||Frances Farmer
||Jessica Lange
||1982

|-
||''Amadeus''
||Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart en Antonio Salieri
||Tom Hulce en F. Murray Abraham
||1984

|-
||''Sid & Nancy''
||Sid Vicious en Nancy Spungen
||Gary Oldman en Chloe Webb
||1985

|-
||''La Bamba''
||Ritchie Valens
||Lou Diamond Phillips
||1987

|-
||''The Last Emperor''
||Pu-Yi
||John Lone
||1987

|-
||''Gorillas in the Mist''
||Dian Fossey
||Sigourney Weaver
||1988

|-
||''My Left Foot''
||Christy Brown
||Daniel Day-Lewis
||1989
|}

==1990-1999==
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||''Goodfellas''
||Henry Hill
||Ray Liotta
||1990

|-
||''The Doors''
||Jim Morrison
||Val Kilmer
||1991

|-
||''Chaplin''
||Charlie Chaplin
||Robert Downey Jr.
||1992

|-
||''Malcolm X''
||Malcolm X
||Denzel Washington
||1992

|-
||''Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story''
||Bruce Lee
||Jason Scott Lee
||1993