1951 DIE VIER IM JEEP Leopold Lindtberg ALE
1952 HON DANSADE EN SOMMAR Arne Mattsson SUE
1953 LE SALAIRE DE LA PEUR Henri Georges Cluzot FRA
1954 HOBSON'S CHOICE David Lean ING
1955 DIE RATTEN Robert Siodmak ALE
1956 INVITATION TO THE DANCE Gene Kelly USA
1957 12 ANGRY MEN Sidney Lumet USA
1958 SMULTRONSTALLET Ingmar Bergman SUE
1959 LES COUSINS Claude Chabrol FRA
1960 EL LAZARILLO DE TORMES César Ardavín ESP
1961 LA NOTTE Michelangelo Antonioni ITA
1962 A KIND OF LOVING John Schlesinger ING
1963 IL DIAVOLO Gian Luigi Polidoro ITA
1964 SUSUZ YAZ Ismaeil Metin TUR
1965 ALPHAVILLE Jean Luc Godard FRA
1966 CUL DE SAC Roman Polanski ING
1967 LE DEPART Jerzy Skolimowski BEL
1968 OLE DOLE DOFF Jan Troell SUE
1969 RANI RADOVI Zelimir Zilnik YUG
1970 Desierto
1971 IL GIARDINO DEI FINZI CONTINI Vittorio de Sica ITA
1972 I RACCONTI DE CANTERBURY Pier Paolo Pasolini ITA
1973 ASHANI SANKET Satyajit Ray IND
1974 THE APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY KRAVITZ Ted Kotcheff CAN
1975 OROKBEFOGADAS Marta Meszaros HUN
1976 BUFALO BILL AND THE INDIANS Robert Altman USA
1977 WOSCHOZDENIE Larissa Schepitko RUS
1978 LAS TRUCHAS Jose Luis García Sánchez ESP
1978 LAS PALABRAS DE MAX Emilio Martínez Lázaro ESP
1978 ASCENSOR Tomás Muñoz ESP
1979 DAVID Peter Lilienthal ALE
1980 HEARTLAND Richard Pearce USA
1980 PALERMO ODER WOLFSBURG Werner Schroeter ALE
1981 DEPRISA, DEPRISA Carlos Saura ESP
1982 VERONIKA VOSS Rainer Werner Fasbinder ALE
1983 ASCENDANCY Edward Bennett ING
1983 LA COLMENA Mario Camus ESP
1984 LOVE STREAMS John Cassavetes USA
1985 DIE FRAU UND DER FREMDE Rainer Simon ALE
1985 WETHERBY David Hare ING
1986 STAMMHEIM Reinhard Hauff ALE
1987 TEMA Gleb Panfilov RUS
1988 HONG GAO LIANG Zhang Yimou CHI
1989 RAIN MAN Barry Levinson USA
1990 MUSIC BOX Constantin Costa Gavras USA
1990 SKRIVANCI NA NITI Jiri Menzel CHE
1991 LA CASA DEL SORRISO Marco Ferreri ITA
1992 GRAND CANYON Lawrence Kasdan USA
1993 XIANG HU UN Xie Fei CHI
1993 HSI YEN Ang Lee CHI
1994 IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER Jim Sheridan IRL
1995 L'APPAT Bertrand Tavernier FRA
1996 SENSE AND SENSIBILITY Ang Lee USA
1997 THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT Milos Forman USA
1998 CENTRAL DO BRASIL Walter Salles BRA
1999 THE THIN RED LINE Terrence Malick USA
1999 THE TIC CODE Gary Winick USA
2000 MAGNOLIA Paul Thomas Anderson USA
2001 INTIMACY Patrice Chereau ING
2002 SEN TO CHIHIRO NO KAMIKAKUSHI Hayao Miyazaki JAP
2002 BLOODY SUNDAY Paul Greengrass ING
2003 IN THIS WORLD Michael Winterbottom ING
2004 GEGEN DIE WAND Fatih Akin ALE
2005 U-CARMEN E-KHAYELITSHA Mark Dornford May SUD
2006 GRBAVICA Jasmila Abania BOS
2007 TU YA DA HUN SHI Wang Quanan CHI
2008 TROPA DE ELITE José Padilha BRA
2009 LA TETA ASUSTADA Claudia Llosa PER
2010 BAL Semih Kaplanoğlu TUR
2011 JODAIE NADER AZ SIMIN Asghar Farhadi IRA
2012 CESARE DEVE MORIRE Paolo y Vittorio Taviani ITA
2013 POZITIA
COPILULUI Călin Peter Netzer RUM
2014 BAI RI YAN HUO Yi'nan Diao CHI
2015 TAXI Jafar Panahi IRA
2016 FUOCOAMMARE
Gianfranco Rosi ITA
2017 TESTRÖL ÉS
LÉLEKRÖL Ildikó Enyedi HUN
2018 NU MA
ATINGE-MA Adina Pintilie RUM