| Year | Best Picture | Best Director | Best Actor | Best Actress | Complete list |
| 2007 | Hula Girls | Lee Sang-Il | Ken Watanabe | Miki Nakatani | 30th |
| 2006 | ALWAYS - Sunset on Third Street | Takashi Yamazaki | Hidetaka Yoshioka | Sayuri Yoshinaga | 29th |
| 2005 | Half a Confession | Yoichi Sai | Akira Terao | Kyoka Suzuki | 28th |
| 2004 | When the Last Sword is Drawn | Yoshimitsu Morita | Kiichi Nakai | Shinobu Terajima | 27th |
| 2003 | The Twilight Samurai | Yoji Yamada | Hiroyuki Sanada | Rie Miyazawa | 26th |
| 2002 | Spirited Away | Isao Yukisada | Yosuke Kubozuka | Keiko Kishi | 25th |
| 2001 | When the Rain Lifts | Junji Sakamoto | Akira Terao | Sayuri Yoshinaga | 24th |
| 2000 | Railroad Man (Poppoya) | Yasuo Furuhata | Ken Takakura | Shinobu Otake | 23rd |
| 1999 | Begging for Love | Hideyuki Hirayama | Akira Emoto | Mieko Harada | 22nd |
| 1998 | Princess Mononoke | Shohei Imamura | Koji Yakusho | Hitomi Kuroki | 21st |
| 1997 | Shall We Dansu? | Masayuki Suo | Koji Yakusho | Tamiyo Kusakari | 20th |
| 1996 | A Last Note | Kaneto Shindo | Rentaro Mikuni | Yuko Asano | 19th |
| 1995 | Crest of Betrayal | Kinji Fukasaku | Koichi Sato | Saki Takaoka | 18th |
| 1994 | A Class to Remember | Yoji Yamada | Toshiyuki Nishida | Emi Wakui | 17th |
| 1993 | Sumo Do, Sumo Don't | Masayuki Suo | Masahiro Motoki | Yoshiko Mita | 16th |
| 1992 | My Sons | Kihachi Okamoto | Rentaro Mikuni | Tanie Kitabayashi | 15th |
| 1991 | Takeshi: Childhood Days | Masahiro Shinoda | Ittoku Kishibe | Keiko Matsuzaka | 14th |
| 1990 | Black Rain | Shohei Imamura | Rentaro Mikuni | Yoshiko Tanaka | 13th |
| 1989 | The Silk Road | Junya Sato | Toshiyuki Nishida | Sayuri Yoshinaga | 12th |
| 1988 | A Taxing Woman | Juzo Itami | Tsutomu Yamazaki | Nobuko Miyamoto | 11th |
| 1987 | House on Fire | Kinji Fukasaku | Ken Ogata | Ayumi Ishida | 10th |
| 1986 | Gray Sunset | Shinichiro Sawai | Minoru Chiaki | Mitsuko Baisho | 9th |
| 1985 | The Funeral | Juzo Itami | Tsutomu Yamazaki | Sayuri Yoshinaga | 8th |
| 1984 | Ballad of Narayama | Hideo Gosha | Ken Ogata | Rumiko Koyanagi | 7th |
| 1983 | Fall Guy | Kinji Fukasaku | Mitsuo Hirata | Keiko Matsuzaka | 6th |
| 1982 | Eki Station | Kohei Oguri | Ken Takakura | Keiko Matsuzaka | 5th |
| 1981 | Zigeunerweisen | Seijun Suzuki | Ken Takakura | Chieko Baisho | 4th |
| 1980 | Vengeance is Mine | Shohei Imamura | Tomisaburo Wakayama | Kaori Momoi | 3rd |
| 1979 | The Incident | Yoshitaro Nomura | Ken Ogata | Shinobu Otake | 2nd |
| 1978 | The Yellow Handkerchief | Yoji Yamada | Ken Takakura | Shima Iwashita | 1st |
