1935
Conrad Nervig - Eskimo (Eskimo)

1936
Ralph Dawson - Sogno di una notte di mezza estate (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

1937
Ralph Dawson - Avorio nero (Anthony Adverse)

1938
Gene Havlick e Gene Milford - Orizzonte perduto (Lost Horizon)

1939
Ralph Dawson - Robin Hood (The Adventures of Robin Hood)

1940
Hal C. Kern e James E. Newcom - Via col vento (Gone with the Wind)

1941
Anne Bauchens - Giubbe Rosse (North West Mounted Police)

1942
William Holmes - Il sergente York (Sergeant York)

1943
Daniel Mandell - L'idolo delle folle (The Pride of the Yankees)

1944
George Amy - Arcipelago in fiamme (Air Force)

1945
Barbara McLean - Wilson (Wilson)

1946
Robert J. Kern - Gran Premio (National Velvet)

1947
Daniel Mandell - I migliori anni della nostra vita (The Best Years of Our Lives)

1948
Francis Lyon e Robert Parrish - Anima e corpo (Body and Soul)

1949
Paul Weatherwax - La città nuda (The Naked City)

1950
Harry Gerstad - Il grande campione (Champion)

1951
Ralph E. Winters e Conrad A. Nervig - Le miniere di Re Salomone (King Solomon's Mines)

1952
William Hornbeck - Un posto al sole (A Place in the Sun)

1953
Elmo Williams e Harry Gerstad - Mezzogiorno di fuoco (High Noon)

1954
William Lyon - Da qui all'eternità (From Here to Eternity)

1955
Gene Milford - Fronte del porto (On the Waterfront)

1956
Charles Nelson e William A. Lyon - Picnic (Picnic)

1957
Gene Ruggiero e Paul Weatherwax - Il giro del mondo in 80 giorni (Around the World in 80 Days)

1958
Peter Taylor - Il ponte sul fiume Kwai (The Bridge on the River Kwai)

1959
Adrienne Fazan - Gigi (Gigi)

1960
Ralph E. Winters e John D. Dunning - Ben-Hur (Ben-Hur)

1961
Daniel Mandell - L'appartamento (The Apartment)

1962
Thomas Stanford - West Side Story (West Side Story)

1963
Anne Coates - Lawrence d'Arabia (Lawrence of Arabia)

1964
Harold F. Kress - La conquista del West (How the West Was Won)

1965
Cotton Warburton - Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins)

1966
William Reynolds - Tutti insieme appassionatamente (The Sound of Music)

1967
Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stewart Linder e Frank Santillo - Grand Prix (Grand Prix)

1968
Hal Ashby - La calda notte dell'ispettore Tibbs (In the Heat of the Night)

1969
Frank P. Keller - Bullitt (Bullitt)

1970
Françoise Bonnot - Z - L'orgia del potere (Z)

1971
Hugh S. Fowler - Patton, generale d'acciaio (Patton)

1972
Jerry Greenberg - Il braccio violento della legge (The French Connection)

1973
David Bretherton - Cabaret (Cabaret)

1974
William Reynolds - La stangata (The Sting)

1975
Harold F. Kress e Carl Kress - L'inferno di cristallo (The Towering Inferno)

1976
Verna Fields - Lo squalo (Jaws)

1977
Richard Halsey e Scott Conrad - Rocky (Rocky)

1978
Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas e Richard Chew - Guerre stellari (Star Wars)

1979
Peter Zinner - Il cacciatore (The Deer Hunter)

1980
Alan Heim - All that jazz - Lo spettacolo comincia (All That Jazz)

1981
Thelma Schoonmaker - Toro scatenato (Raging Bull)

1982
Michael Kahn - I predatori dell'Arca perduta (Raiders of the Lost Ark)

1983
John Bloom - Gandhi (Gandhi)

1984
Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart e Tom Rolf - Uomini veri (The Right Stuff)

1985
Jim Clark - Urla del silenzio (The Killing Fields)

1986
Thom Noble - Witness - Il testimone (Witness)

1987
Claire Simpson - Platoon (Platoon)

1988
Gabriella Cristiani - L'ultimo imperatore (The Last Emperor)

1989
Arthur Schmidt - Chi ha incastrato Roger Rabbit? (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)

1990
David Brenner e Joe Hutshing - Nato il quattro luglio (Born on the Fourth of July)

1991
Neil Travis - Balla coi lupi (Dances with Wolves)

1992
Joe Hutshing e Pietro Scalia - JFK - un caso ancora aperto (JFK)

1993
Joel Cox - Gli spietati (Unforgiven)

1994
Michael Kahn - Schindler's List (Schindler's List)

1995
Arthur Schmidt - Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump)

1996
Mike Hill e Dan Hanley - Apollo 13 (Apollo 13)

1997
Walter Murch - Il paziente inglese (The English Patient)

1998
Conrad Buff, James Cameron e Richard A. Harris - Titanic (Titanic)

1999
Michael Kahn - Salvate il soldato Ryan (Saving Private Ryan)

2000
Zach Staenberg - Matrix (The Matrix)

2001
Stephen Mirrione - Traffic (Traffic)

2002
Pietro Scalia - Black Hawk Down (Black Hawk Down)

2003
Martin Walsh - Chicago (Chicago)

2004
Jamie Selkirk - Il Signore degli Anelli: il ritorno del Re (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)

2005
Thelma Schoonmaker - The Aviator (The Aviator)

2006
Hughes Winborne - Crash - Contatto fisico (Crash)

2007
Thelma Schoonmaker - The Departed (The Departed)

2008
Christopher Rouse - The Bourne Ultimatum - Il ritorno dello sciacallo (The Bourne utlimatum)

2009
Chris Dickens - The Millionaire (Slumdog Millionaire)

2010
Chris Innis e Bob Murawski - The Hurt Locker (The Hurt Locker)