| 91 | 1957 | 1957 Larry Lansburgh - The Wetback Hound |
| 92 | 1958 | Walt Disney - Grand Canyon |
| 93 | 1959 | Jacques-Yves Cousteau - The Golden Fish |
| 94 | 1960 | Ezra R. Baker - Day of the Painter |
| 95 | 1961 | Lester A. Schoenfeld Films - Seawards the Great Ships |
| 96 | 1962 | Pierre Étaix, Jean-Claude Carrière - Heureux Anniversaire (Happy Anniversary) |
| 97 | 1963 | Paul De Roubaix, Marcel Ichac - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
| 98 | 1964 | Edward Schreiber - Casals Conducts: 1964 |
| 99 | 1965 | Claude Berri - The Chicken (Le Poulet) |
| 100 | 1966 | Edgar Anstey - Wild Wings |
| 101 | 1967 | Christopher Chapman - A Place to Stand - An Expo 67 movie at the Ontario Pavilion. |
| 102 | 1968 | Charles Guggenheim - Robert Kennedy Remembered |
| 103 | 1969 | Joan Keller Stern - The Magic Machines |
| 104 | 1970 | John Longenecker - The Resurrection of Broncho Billy |
| 105 | 1971 | Manuel Arango, Robert Amram -Sentinels of Silence |
| 106 | 1972 | Richard Barclay - Norman Rockwell's World... An American Dream |
| 107 | 1973 | Allan Miller, William Fertik - The Bolero |
| 108 | 1974 | 1974 Paul Claudon, Edmond Sechan - One-Eyed Men Are Kings |
| 109 | 1975 | 1975 Bert Salzman - Angel and Big Joe |
| 110 | 1976 | 1976 Andre Guttfreund, Peter Werner - In the Region of Ice |
| 111 | 1977 | Beverly Shaffer, Yuki Yoshida - I'll Find a Way - National Film Board of Canada |
| 112 | 1978 | Taylor Hackford - Teenage Father |
| 113 | 1979 | Sarah Pillsbury, Ron Ellis - Board and Care |
| 114 | 1980 | Lloyd Phillips - The Dollar Bottom |
| 115 | 1981 | Paul Kemp, Shelley Levinson - Violet |
| 116 | 1982 | Christine Oestreicher - A Shocking Accident |
| 117 | 1983 | Janice L. Platt - Boys and Girls |
| 118 | 1984 | Mike Hoover - Up |
| 119 | 1985 | Jeff Brown, Chris Pelzer - Molly's Pilgrim |
| 120 | 1986 | Chuck Workman - Precious Images |