| Nr. | Year | Best Director | Best Picture | Best International Picture | Best Actor | Best Actress | Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress | Best New Artist | Special Award |
| 1 | 1976 | - | The Inugami Family (Kon Ichikawa) | Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese) | Tatsuya Fuji (In the Realm of the Senses) | Kumiko Akiyoshi (Banka, Saraba natsuno hikariyo, Brother and Sister) | Hideji Ōtaki (Brother and Sister, Kimi yo funnu no kawa wo watare, Fumō Chitai) | Kiwako Taichi (Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajiro yuuyake koyake) | Mieko Harada (The Youth Killer, Lullaby of the Earth) | - |
| 2 | 1977 | - | The Yellow Handkerchief (Yoji Yamada) | Slap Shot (George Roy Hill) | Ken Takakura (Hakkodasan, The Yellow Handkerchief) | Shima Iwashita (Ballad of Orin) | Katō Takeshi (The Devil's Ballad, Hell's Gate Island) | Ayumi Ishida (The Gate of Youth Part 2) | Tetsuya Takeda (The Yellow Handkerchief) | Hiromi Gō (Totsuzen arashi no yōni) |
| 3 | 1978 | - | Third Base (Yōichi Higashi) | Star Wars (George Lucas) | Ken Ogata (The Demon) | Meiko Kaji (The Love Suicides at Sonezaki) | Tsunehiko Watase (The Incident, Kōtei no inai hachigatsu, The Fall of Ako Castle) | Shinobu Otake (The Incident, Seishoku no ishibumi) | Toshiyuki Nagashima (Third Base, Kaerazaru hibi, The Incident) | - |
| 4 | 1979 | - | The Man Who Stole the Sun (Kazuhiko Hasegawa) | The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino) | Kenji Sawada (The Man Who Stole the Sun) | Junko Miyashita (The Woman with Red Hair, Nureta Shumatsu) | Rentarō Mikuni (Vengeance Is Mine) | Mayumi Ogawa (Vengeance Is Mine, The Three Undelivered Letters) | Kaoru Kobayashi (Jyu-hassai, umi e) | Work of Art Keiko |
| 5 | 1980 | - | Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa) | Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton) | Masato Furuoya (Disciples of Hippocrates) | Chieko Baisho (A Distant Cry from Spring, Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Series) | Tsutomu Yamazaki (Kagemusha) | Yoko Aki (Shiki Natsuko) | Keigo Oginome (Kaichō-on), Tatsuo Yamada (Crazy Thunder Road, Tekkihei, tonda) | Work of Art Zigeunerweisen |
| 6 | 1981 | - | Enrai (Kichitaro Negishi) | The Tin Drum (Volker Schlöndorff) | Toshiyuki Nagashima (Enrai) | Keiko Matsuzaka (The Gate of Youth, Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Naniwa no koino torajiro) | Katsuo Nakamura (Kagero-za, Buriki no kunsho, 仕事人梅安) | Yūko Tanaka (Edo Porn) | Director Kōhei Oguri (Muddy River), Eri Ishida (Enrai) | - |
| 7 | 1982 | - | Fall Guy (Kinji Fukasaku) | ...All the Marbles (Robert Aldrich) | Mitsuru Hirata (Fall Guy) | Kaori Momoi (Giwaku) | Akira Emoto (Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajiro ajisai no koi, Dōtonborigawa) | Miyako Yamaguchi (Farewell to the Land) | Satomi Kobayashi (I Are You, You Am Me) | Cinema Square Tōkyū |
| 8 | 1983 | - | The Family Game (Yoshimitsu Morita) | Flashdance (Adrian Lyne) | Yūsaku Matsuda (The Family Game, Detective Story) | Masako Natsume (The Catch, Time and Tide) | Juzo Itami (The Family Game, The Makioka Sisters, Izakaya Chōji, Meiso chizu, Grass Labyrinth) | Mitsuko Baisho (The Geisha and others), Eiko Nagashima (Ryuji) | Tomoyo Harada (Toki o Kakeru Shōjo (1983 film)) | - |
| 9 | 1984 | - | The Funeral (Itami Juzo) | The Natural (Barry Levinson) | Saburō Tokitō (The Miracle of Joe Petrel) | Sayuri Yoshinaga (Ohan, Station to Heaven) | Kaku Takashina (Mahjong hōrōki) | Kin Sugai (The Funeral) | Director Makoto Wada (Mahjong hōrōki) | Nobuko Miyamoto (The Funeral) |
| 10 | 1985 | Yoshimitsu Morita (And Then) | And Then (Yoshimitsu Morita) | Witness (Peter Weir) | Kin'ya Kitaōji (Himatsuri, Haru no kane) | Mitsuko Baisho (Love Letter, Ikiteru uchiga hana nanoyo shin-dara sore madeyo to sengen) | Tomokazu Miura (Typhoon Club) | Yoshiko Mita (Haru no kane, W's Tragedy) | Yoshinori Monta (Itoshiki hibiyo) | Minoru Chiaki (Gray Sunset) |
| 11 | 1986 | Kichitaro Negishi (Whooh! Exploration Unit) | Comic Magazine (Yōjirō Takita) | The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen) | Yuya Uchida (Comic Magazine) | Ayumi Ishida (House on Fire, Tokei – Adieu l'hiver) | Kei Suma (Kinema no tenchi) | Mieko Harada (House on Fire) | Yuki Saito (Yuki no dansho - Jonetsu) | - |
| 12 | 1987 | Kazuo Hara (The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On) | A Taxing Woman (Juzo Itami) | Good Morning, Babylon (Paolo Taviani) | Takanori Jinnai (Chōchin) | Shinobu Otake (Eien no 1/2) | Masahiko Tsugawa (A Taxing Woman) | Junko Sakurada (Itazu - Kuma) | Masahiro Takashima (Totto Channel, Bu Su) | - |
| 13 | 1988 | Hayao Miyazaki (My Neighbor Totoro) | Tomorrow (Kazuo Kuroki) | The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci) | Hiroyuki Sanada (Kaitō Ruby) | Narumi Yasuda (Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad) | Tsurutarō Kataoka (The Discarnates) | Eri Ishida (A Chaos of Flowers, Hope and Pain, Arashi ga oka) | Hiroshi Nishikawa (Kyōshū) | - |
| 14 | 1989 | Toshio Masuda (Shaso) | Untamagiru (Gō Takamine) | Die Hard (John McTiernan) | Rentarō Mikuni (Sen no Rikyū, Tsuribaka Nisshi) | Yoshiko Tanaka (Black Rain) | Yoshio Harada (Dotsuitarunen) | Hideko Yoshida (Shaso) | Hidekazu Akai (Dotsuitarunen) | Yūsaku Matsuda (Black Rain) |
| 15 | 1990 | Jun Ichikawa (Tsugumi) | Sakura no Sono (Shun Nakahara) | Field of Dreams (Phil Alden Robinson) | Bunta Sugawara (Tekken) | Keiko Matsuzaka (The Sting of Death) | Renji Ishibashi (Rōnin-gai) | Kanako Higuchi (Rōnin-gai) | Riho Makise (Tokyo Heaven, Tsugumi), Director Joji Matsuoka (Bataashi kingyo) | - |
| 16 | 1991 | Takeshi Kitano (A Scene at the Sea) | Musuko (Yōji Yamada) | The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme) | Masatoshi Nagase (Musuko, Asian Beat: I Love Nippon, Mo no shigoto) | Youki Kudoh (War and Youth) | Hiroshi Kanbe (Nowhere Man) | Jun Fubuki (Nowhere Man) | Hikari Ishida (Chizuko's Younger Sister, Waiting for the Flood, My Soul Is Slashed), Naoto Takenaka (Nowhere Man) | - |
| 17 | 1992 | Yōichi Higashi (The River with No Bridge) | Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (Masayuki Suo) | A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall) | Masahiro Motoki (Sumo Do, Sumo Don't) | Misa Shimizu (Okoge, Sumo Do, Sumo Don't, Future Memories: Last Christmas) | Takehiro Murata (Okoge, Minbo) | Miwako Fujitani (The Oil-Hell Murder, Netorare Sosuke) | Yuki Sumida (The Strange Tale of Oyuki), Yoshiyuki Omori (The Rocking Horsemen, The Strange Tale of Oyuki) | - |
| 18 | 1993 | Yoichi Sai (All Under the Moon) | All Under the Moon (Yoichi Sai) | Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood) | Ken Tanaka (Bokyo) | Ruby Moreno (All Under the Moon) | Ittoku Kishibe (Made in Japan, Samurai Kids, Dying at a Hospital, Many Happy Returns) | Junko Sakurada (Moving) | Tomoko Tabata (Moving) | - |
| 19 | 1994 | Tatsumi Kumashiro (Like a Rolling Stone) | A Dedicated Life (Kazuo Hara) | Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg) | Kenichi Hagiwara (Ghost Pub) | Saki Takaoka (Crest of Betrayal) | Kiichi Nakai (47 Ronin) | Shigeru Muroi (Ghost Pub) | Tomoko Yamaguchi (Ghost Pub) | - |
| 20 | 1995 | Shunji Iwai (Love Letter) | A Last Note (Kaneto Shindō) | The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont) | Hiroyuki Sanada (Emergency Doctor/Emergency Call, Sharaku, East Meets West) | Miho Nakayama (Love Letter) | Etsushi Toyokawa (Love Letter, No Way Back, Hanako) | Meiko Kaji (Onihei's Detective Records) | Sae Isshiki (Kura) | - |
| 21 | 1996 | Yoshimitsu Morita ((Haru)) | Shall We Dance? (Masayuki Suo) | Seven (David Fincher) | Koji Yakusho (Shall We Dance?, Sleeping Man, Shabu gokudo) | Mieko Harada (Village of Dreams) | Tetsuya Watari (Waga Kokoro no Ginga Tetsudō Miyazawa Kenji Monogatari) | Eriko Watanabe (Shall We Dance?) | Masanobu Andō (Kids Return) | Kyoshi Atsumi |
| 22 | 1997 | Masato Harada (Bounce ko Gals) | Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (Kōki Mitani) | Jerry Maguire (Cameron Crowe) | Koji Yakusho (The Eel, Paradise Lost, Bounce ko Gals) | Hitomi Kuroki (Paradise Lost) | Masahiko Nishimura (Marutai no onna, Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald) | Mitsuko Baisho (Tokyo Lullaby, The Eel) | Takako Matsu (Tokyo biyori) | Work of Art Princess Mononoke |
| 23 | 1998 | Takeshi Kitano (Hana-bi) | Hana-bi (Takeshi Kitano) | Titanic (James Cameron) | Akira Emoto (Dr. Akagi) | Mieko Harada (Begging for Love) | Ren Osugi (Hana-bi, Dog Race) | Kumiko Asō (Dr. Akagi) | Rena Tanaka (Ganbatte Ikimasshoi) | - |
| 24 | 1999 | - | Spellbound (Masato Harada) | Shakespeare in Love (John Madden) | Tomokazu Miura (M/Other, Wait and See) | Jun Fubuki (Coquille, Spellbound) | Kippei Shiina (Spellbound, Sloping Shoulder Fox) | Junko Fuji (Wait and See, The Geisha House, Dreammaker) | Chizuru Ikewaki (Osaka Story), Director Akihiko Shiota (Moonlight Whispers, Don't Look Back) | - |
| 25 | 2000 | Yuji Nakae (Nabbie's Love) | Face (Junji Sakamoto) | Space Cowboys (Clint Eastwood) | Yūji Oda (Whiteout) | Naomi Fujiyama (Face) | Tadanobu Asano (Taboo, Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle) | Naomi Nishida (Nabbie's Love) | Madoka Matsuda (Nagisa) | - |
| 26 | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away) | Go (Isao Yukisada) | Galaxy Quest (Dean Parisot) | Yōsuke Kubozuka (Go) | Kyōko Koizumi (Kaza-hana) | Tsutomu Yamazaki (Go, The Guys from Paradise, High School Girl's Friend) | Kou Shibasaki (Go, Battle Royale, Kakashi) | Hitomi Manaka (Koko ni irukoto) | - |
| 27 | 2002 | Yoji Yamada (The Twilight Samurai) | The Twilight Samurai (Yoji Yamada) | Monsters, Inc. (Peter Docter) | Seiichi Tanabe (Hush!, Harmful Insect) | Rie Miyazawa (The Twilight Samurai) | Ryo Ishibashi (Aiki, Dog Star) | Miho Kanno (Kewaishi, Dolls) | Kazushige Nagashima (Mr. Rookie) | - |
| 28 | 2003 | Hideo Onchi (Warabi no kō) | Doing Time (Yoichi Sai) | My Sassy Girl (Kwak Jae-yong) | Toshiyuki Nishida (Get Up!, Tsuribaka nishi 14) | Shinobu Terajima (Akame 48 Waterfalls) | Hiroyuki Miyasako (Thirteen Steps, Wild Berries) | Eri Fukatsu (Like Asura, Bayside Shakedown 2) | Satomi Ishihara (My Grandpa) | - |
| 29 | 2004 | Yoichi Sai (Blood and Bones) | Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda) | Seabiscuit (Gary Ross) | Satoshi Tsumabuki (Josee, the Tiger and the Fish, A Day on the Planet, 69) | Takako Matsu (The Hidden Blade) | Yoshido Harada (A Boy's Summer in 1945, The Face of Jizo, Niwatori wa hadashi da) | Masami Nagasawa (Crying Out Love in the Center of the World, Breath In, Breath Out) | Anna Tsuchiya (Kamikaze Girls, The Taste of Tea) | - |
| 30 | 2005 | Kenji Uchida (A Stranger of Mine) | Always Sanchōme no Yūhi (Takashi Yamazaki) | Cinderella Man (Ron Howard) | Somegoro Ichikawa (Ashurajō no Hitomi, The Samurai I Loved) | Yūko Tanaka (Hibi, The Milkwoman) | Shinichi Tsutsumi (Fly, Daddy, Fly, Always Sanchōme no Yūhi) | Hiroko Yakushimaru (Always Sanchōme no Yūhi) | Erika Sawajiri (Break Through!) | - |
| 31 | 2006 | Kichitaro Negishi (What the Snow Brings) | Hula Girls (Sang-il Lee) | Flags of Our Fathers (Clint Eastwood) | Ken Watanabe (Memories of Tomorrow) | Miki Nakatani (Memories of Matsuko and others) | Teruyuki Kagawa (Sway and others) | Yū Aoi (Hula Girls, Honey and Clover and others) | Kenichi Matsuyama | Anime The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Kazuo Kuroki |
| 32 | 2007 | Nobuhiro Yamashita (A Gentle Breeze in the Village, The Matsugane Potshot Affair) | I Just Didn't Do It (Masayuki Suo) | A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman) | Ryō Kase (I Just Didn't Do It) | Kumiko Asō (Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms) | Shirō Itō (Talk, Talk, Talk, Maiko Haaaan!!!) | Hiromi Nagasaku (Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!) | Kaho (A Gentle Breeze in the Village) | - |
| 33 | 2008 | Ryōsuke Hashiguchi (Gururi no koto) | Departures (Yōjirō Takita) | The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan) | Shinichi Tsutsumi | Kyōko Koizumi | Masato Sakai | Kirin Kiki | Ayane Nagabuchi | - |
| 34 | 2009 | Miwa Nishikawa
(Dear Doctor) | Shizumanu Taiyō (Setsurō Wakamatsu) | Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood) | Ken Watanabe | Takako Matsu | Eita | Kaoru Yachigusa | Masaki Okada
Hikari Mitsushima | Michael Jackson's This Is It |
| 35 | 2010 | Tetsuya Nakashima
(Confessions) | Villain | Avatar | Etsushi Toyokawa
A Good Husband
Hisshiken Torisashi | Eri Fukatsu
Villain | Akira Emoto
Villain | Rie Tomosaka
A Boy and His Samurai | Nanami Sakuraba
Shodo Girls
Takahiro Miura
Railways | - |
| 36 | 2011 | Sion Sono
(Cold Fish) | Youkame no Semi | Moneyball | Masato Sakai
(Tsure ga Utsu ni Narimashite)
(Nichirin no isan)
(Bushi no Kakeibo) | Hiromi Nagasaku
(Wandering Home)
(Youkame no Semi) | Denden
(Cold Fish) | Nobuko Miyamoto
(Hankyū Densha) | Mami Sunada
(Ending Note) | Kaneto Shindō
(Postcard) |
| 37 | 2012 | Daihachi Yoshida
(The Kirishima Thing) | Kagi Dorobō no Method
(Kenji Uchida) | Argo
(Ben Affleck) | Ken Takakura
(Anata e) | Sayuri Yoshinaga
(Kita no Kanaria-tachi) | Mirai Moriyama | Sakura Ando | Shinnosuke Mitsushima
(11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate)
Rena Nōnen
(Karasu no Oyayubi) | - |
| 38 | 2013 | Kazuya Shiraishi
(The Devil's Path) | The Great Passage
(Yuya Ishii) | 42
(Brian Helgeland) | Ryuhei Matsuda
(The Great Passage) | Yōko Maki
(The Ravine of Goodbye, Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship) | Pierre Taki
(The Devil's Path, Like Father, Like Son) | Chizuru Ikewaki
(The Devil's Path, The Great Passage) | Tatsuki Yoshioka
(A Boy Called H) | - |
| 39 | 2014 | Takashi Koizumi
(A Samurai Chronicle) | 0.5 mm
(Momoko Andō) | Jersey Boys
(Clint Eastwood) | Junichi Okada
(The Eternal Zero) | Rie Miyazawa
(Pale Moon) | Masahiko Tsugawa
(0.5 mm) | Yuko Oshima
(Pale Moon) | Nana Komatsu (The World of Kanako)
Hiroomi Tosaka (Hot Road)
Masafumi Nishida (Oh Brother, Oh Sister!) | Frozen
Ken Takakura |
| 40 | 2015 | Yukihiko Tsutsumi
(The Big Bee, Initiation Love) | Solomon's Perjury
(Izuru Narushima) | Still Life
(Uberto Pasolini) | Kōichi Satō
(Kishūteneki Terminal, The Pearls of the Stone Man) | Kirin Kiki
(Sweet Bean) | Masahiro Motoki
(The Emperor in August) | Yō Yoshida
(Flying Colors, Nōnai Poison Berry, The Pearls of the Stone Man, Hero) | Suzu Hirose
(Our Little Sister)
Ryōko Fujino
(Solomon's Perjury) | Momoiro Clover Z
(Maku ga Agaru)
Katsuyuki Motohiro
(Maku ga Agaru) |
| 41 | 2016 | Lee Sang-il
(Rage) | Her Love Boils Bathwater
(Ryōta Nakano) | Creed
(Ryan Coogler) | Tomokazu Miura
(The Katsuragi Murder Case) | Rie Miyazawa
(Her Love Boils Bathwater) | Gō Ayano
(Rage) | Hana Sugisaki
(Her Love Boils Bathwater) | Takanori Iwata
(Evergreen Love)
Ryōta Nakano
(Her Love Boils Bathwater) | Your Name |
