# | Year | Winner | Film |
1 | 1963 | Lee Bong-seon | Kinship |
2 | 1964 | Park Seok-in | Extra Human Being |
3 | 1965 | Jeong Woo-taek | Heukmaek |
4 | 1966 | Noh In-taek | I Will Be King for a Day |
5 | 1967 | Park Seok-in | Han (Regret) |
6 | 1969 | Im Yeong-su | You |
7 | 1970 | Kim Ho-kyun | The Old Jar Craftsman |
8 | 1971 | Park Seok-in | Woman of Fire |
9 | 1972 | Kim Yu-jin | Drum Sound of Sae Nam Teo |
10 | 1973 | Park Seok-in | The Three-Day Reign |
25 | 2004 | Kim Ki-chul | Once Upon a Time in High School |
26 | 2005 | Lee Hyeong-ju, Cho Geun-hyun | Duelist |
27 | 2006 | Cho Geun-hyun, Hong Joo-hee | Forbidden Quest |
28 | 2007 | Kim Yu-jeong, Lee Min-bok | Epitaph |
29 | 2008 | Cho Hwa-sung | The Good, the Bad, the Weird |
30 | 2009 | Cho Hwa-sung, Choi Hyeon-seok | Private Eye |
31 | 2010 | Lee Ha-jun | The Housemaid |
32 | 2011 | Ryu Seong-hui | The Front Line |
33 | 2012 | Oh Heung-seok | Masquerade |
34 | 2013 | Ondrej Nekvasil | Snowpiercer |
35 | 2014 | Lee Ha-jun | Haemoo |
36 | 2015 | Ryu Seong-hui | Ode to My Father |
37 | 2016 | The Handmaiden |
38 | 2017 | Lee Hoo-kyung | The Battleship Island |
39 | 2018 | Park Il-hyun | The Spy Gone North |
40 | 2019 | Lee Ha-jun | Parasite |
41 | 2020 | Bae Jung-yoon | Samjin Company English Class |
42 | 2021 | Kim Bo-mook | Escape from Mogadishu |
43 | 2022 | Han Ah-reum | Kingmaker |
44 | 2023 | Jung Yi-jin | Cobweb |