| An | Film | Regizor | Naționalitatea regizorului |
| 1965 | Le Bonheur (Happiness) | Agnès Varda |  Franța |
| Repulsion | Roman Polanski |  Polonia |
| 1966 | Schonzeit Für Füchse (No Shooting Time for Foxes) | Peter Schamoni |  West Germany |
| 1967 | Alle Jahre Wieder | Ulrich Schamoni | West Germany |
| La Collectionneuse | Éric Rohmer | Franța |
| 1968 | Innocence Unprotected (Nevinost Bez Zastite) | Dušan Makavejev |  Iugoslavia |
| Signs of Life (Lebenszeichen) | Werner Herzog | West Germany |
| Come l'Amore (Something Like Love) | Enzo Muzii |  Italia |
| 1969-1970 | Nu s-a acordat |
| 1971 | Il Decameron (The Decameron) | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Italia |
| 1972 | The Hospital | Arthur Hiller |  Statele Unite ale Americii |
| 1973 | Nu iese fum fără foc (Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu) | André Cayatte | Franța |
| 1974 | The Clockmaker | Bertrand Tavernier | Franța |
| 1975 | Dupont Lajoie | Yves Boisset | Franța |
| Overlord | Stuart Cooper |  Regatul Unit |
| 1976 | Canoa | Felipe Cazals |  Mexic |
| 1977 | The Devil, Probably (Le Diable, Probablement) | Robert Bresson | Franța |
| 1978 | A Queda | Ruy Guerra
Nelson Xavier |  Brazil |
| 1979 | Iskanderija... Lih? (Alexandria... Why?) | Youssef Chahine |  Egypt |
| 1980 | Seeking Asylum (Chiedo Asilo) | Marco Ferreri | Italia |
| 1981 | Akaler Sandhane (In Search of Famine) | Mrinal Sen |  India |
| 1982 | Shivers (Dreszcze) | Wojciech Marczewski | Polonia |
| 1983 | A Season in Hakkari (Hakkâri'de Bir Mevsim) | Erden Kıral |  Turkey |
| 1984 | No Habrá más Penas ni Olvido (Funny Dirty Little War) | Héctor Olivera |  Argentina |
| 1985 | Flowers of Reverie (Szirmok, Virágok, Koszorúk) | László Lugossy |  Hungary |
| 1986 | The Mass is Ended (La Messa è Finita) | Nanni Moretti | Italia |
| 1987 | The Sea and Poison (Umi To Dokuyaku) | Kei Kumai |  Japan |
| 1988 | Commissar (Kommissar) | Alexander Askoldow |  Uniunea Sovietică |
| 1989 | Evening Bell | Wu Ziniu |  China |
| 1990 | The Asthenic Syndrome (Astenicheskiy sindrom) | Kira Muratova | Uniunea Sovietică |
| 1991 | The Conviction (La Condanna) | Marco Bellocchio | Italia |
| Satan | Viktor Aristow | Uniunea Sovietică |
| 1992 | Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe (Édes Emma, Drága Böbe - Vázlatok, Aktok) | István Szabó | Hungary |
| 1993 | Arizona Dream | Emir Kusturica | Iugoslavia |
| 1994 | Strawberry and Chocolate (Fresa y Chocolate) | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Juan Carlos Tabío |  Cuba |
| 1995 | Smoke | Wayne Wang | Statele Unite ale Americii |
| 1996 | Lust och Fägring Stor (All Things Fair) | Bo Widerberg |  Suedia |
| 1997 | The River | Tsai Ming-liang |  Taiwan |
| 1998 | Wag the Dog | Barry Levinson | Statele Unite ale Americii |
| 1999 | Mifune's Last Song (Mifune) | Søren Kragh-Jacobsen |  Denmark |
| 2000 | The Road Home | Zhang Yimou | China |
| 2001 | Beijing Bicycle | Wang Xiaoshuai | China |
| 2002 | Halbe Treppe (Grill Point) | Andreas Dresen | Germany |
| 2003 | Adaptation | Spike Jonze | Statele Unite ale Americii |
| 2004 | Lost Embrace (El Abrazo Partido) | Daniel Burman | Argentina |
| 2005 | Peacock | Gu Changwei | China |
| 2006 | Offside | Jafar Panahi |  Iran |
| En Soap (Soap) | Pernille Fischer Christensen | Denmark |
| 2007 | El Otro (The Other) | Ariel Rotter | Argentina |
| 2008 | Standard Operating Procedure | Errol Morris | Statele Unite ale Americii |
| 2009 | Alle Anderen (Everyone Else) | Maren Ade | Germany |
| Gigante | Adrián Biniez |  Uruguay |
| 2010 | Eu când vreau să fluier, fluier (If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle) | Florin Șerban |  Romania |
| 2011 | Calul din Torino (A torinói ló) | Béla Tarr | Hungary |
| 2012 | Just the Wind (Csak a szél) | Benedek Fliegauf | Hungary |
| 2013 | An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker | Danis Tanović |  Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 2014 | Hotel Grand Budapest | Wes Anderson | United States |
| 2015 | The Club | Pablo Larraín |  Chile |
| 2016 | Death in Sarajevo | Danis Tanović | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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