Year | Writer | Film | Original title |
1946 - 47 | No award this year |
1949 | Alfred L. Werker, Eugene Ling & Virginia Shaler (United States) | Lost Boundaries |
1951 | Terence Rattigan (United Kingdom) | The Browning Version |
1952 | Piero Tellini (Italy) | Cops and Robbers | Guardie e ladri |
1953 - 57 | No award this year |
19581 | Pier Paolo Pasolini, Massimo Franciosa & Pasquale Festa Campanile (Italy) | Young Husbands | Giovani mariti |
1959 - 62 | No award this year |
1963 | Dumitru Carabat (Romania), Henri Colpi & Yves Jamiaque (France) | Codine |
1964 | No award this year |
1965 | Pierre Schoendoerffer (France) | The 317th Platoon |
Ray Rigby (United Kingdom) | The Hill |
1966 | No award this year |
1967 | Elio Petri (Italy) | We Still Kill the Old Way | A ciascuno il suo |
Alain Jessua (France) | The Killing Game | Jeu de massacre |
1968 | Festival interrupted, no awards this year |
1969 - 73 | No award this year |
1974 | Steven Spielberg, Hal Barwood & Matthew Robbins (United States) | The Sugarland Express |
1975 - 79 | No award this year |
19802 | Furio Scarpelli, Agenore Incrocci & Ettore Scola (Italy) | La Terrazza |
1981 | István Szabó (Hungary) | Mephisto |
1982 | Jerzy Skolimowski (Poland) | Moonlighting |
1983 | No award this year |
19843 | Thanassis Valtinos & Theodoros Angelopoulos (Greece), Tonino Guerra (Italy) | Voyage to Cythera | Taxidi sta Kythira |
1985 - 93 | No award this year |
1994 | Michel Blanc (France) | Grosse fatigue |
1995 | No award this year |
1996 | Jacques Audiard & Alain Le Henry (France) | A Self Made Hero | Un héros très discret |
1997 | James Schamus (United States) | The Ice Storm |
1998 | Hal Hartley (United States) | Henry Fool |
1999 | Yuri Arabov (Russia) | Moloch |
2000 | James Flamberg & John C. Richards (United States) | Nurse Betty |
2001 | Danis Tanović (Bosnia-Herzegovina) | No Man's Land |
2002 | Paul Laverty (United Kingdom) | Sweet Sixteen |
2003 | Denys Arcand (Canada / France) | The Barbarian Invasions | Les invasions barbares |
2004 | Agnès Jaoui & Jean-Pierre Bacri (France) | Look at Me | Comme une image |
2005 | Guillermo Arriaga (Mexico) | The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada |
2006 | Pedro Almodóvar (Spain) | To Return | Volver |
2007 | Fatih Akin (Germany / Turkey) | The Edge of Heaven | Auf der anderen Seite |
2008 | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Belgium) | Lorna's Silence | Le silence de Lorna |
2009 | Mei Feng (China) | Spring Fever | 春风沉醉的晚上 (Chun feng chen zui de ye wan) |
2010 | Lee Chang-dong (South Korea) | Poetry | 시 (Si) |
2011 | Joseph Cedar (Israel) | Footnote | Hearat Shulayim |
2012 | Cristian Mungiu & Tatiana Niculescu Bran (Romania) | Beyond the Hills | După dealuri |
2013 | Jia Zhangke (China) | A Touch of Sin | 天注定 (Tiān zhùdìng) |
2014 | Andrey Zvyagintsev & Oleg Negin (Russia) | Leviathan | Левиафан |
2015 | Michel Franco (Mexico) | Chronic |
2016 | Asghar Farhadi (Iran) | The Salesman | فروشنده (Forušande) |
2017 | Yorgos Lanthimos & Efthymis Filippou (Greece) | The Killing of a Sacred Deer |
Lynne Ramsay (United Kingdom) | You Were Never Really Here |
2018 | Jafar Panahi & Nader Saeivar (Iran) | 3 Faces |
Alice Rohrwacher (Italy) | Happy as Lazzaro |