1955–1960 • 1955 - Not awarded • Honorable mention: Seiichi Yashiro • 1956 - Kiichi Ohashi for and Kinji Obata for • 1957 - Not awarded • Honorable mention: • 1958 - Hotta Hotta Kiyomi for • 1959 - Not awarded • Honorable mention:
Yoshiyuki Fukuda and of Gen'ichi Hara and Masayuki Hiroda • 1960 - Masaru Kobayashi for and Hisako Hayasaka for
1961–1970 • 1961 - Not awarded • 1962 - Ken Miyamoto for and Shuichiro Yagi for (
The Beggar Docks and Six Sons) and (
The Conveyor Belt That Never Stops) • 1963 -
Masakazu Yamazaki for • 1964 - Hitomi Kakuhiko for and Ryuichi Suga for and
Yoshiyuki Fukuda for • 1965 - Not awarded • 1966 - Koji Kawamata for and Masayuki Hirota for • 1968 -
Minoru Betsuyaku for and • 1969 - Satoshi Akihama for ua • 1970 -
Juro Kara for
1971–1980 • 1971 - Makoto Sato for • 1972 -
Hisashi Inoue to • 1974 -
Kōhei Tsuka for and
Kunio Shimizu for • 1975 - Not awarded • Honorable mention: Tomiko Ishizawa • 1976 - Tomiko Ishizawa for • 1977 - Not awarded • 1978 - Shōgo Oda and Seishin Chinen for • 1979 - Kodai Okabe for • 1980 - Ren Saitō for
1981–1990 • 1981 - Jūichirō Takeuchi for • 1982 - Tetsu Yamazaki for and • 1983 -
Hideki Noda for and Kiyokazu Yamamoto for and
Eri Watanabe for • 1984 - Sō Kitamura for • 1985 -
Rio Kishida for • 1986 - Takeshi Kawamura for • 1987 - Not awarded • 1988 - Yasuhiko Ohashi for • 1989 - Riyo Iwamatsu for • 1990 - Not awarded
1991–2000 • 1991 -
Yōji Sakate for • 1992 - Kensuke Yokouchi for • 1993 - Akio Miyazawa for and Miri Yū for • 1994 - Yoshinobu Tei for • 1995 -
Shoji Kokami for and Orisa Horisa for • 1996 - Toshirō Suzue for and Masataka Matsuda for • 1997 -
Suzuki Matsuo for • 1998 - Fukatsu Shigefumi for • 1999 - Keralino Sandorovich (KERA) for • 2000 -
Ai Nagai for
2001–2010 • 2001 -
Kōki Mitani for • 2002 - Not awarded • 2003 -
Kazuki Nakashima for • 2004 - Yutaka Kuramochi for • 2005 -
Kankurō Kudō for and
Toshiki Okada for Five Days in March ( • 2006 - Norohiko Tsukuda for and Daisuke Miuara for • 2007 - Not awarded • 2008 - Shirō Maeda for • 2009 - Ryuta Horai for and
Yukiko Motoya for • 2010 - Yukio Shiba for
2010s • 2011 - Shū Matsui for • 2012 - Seiji Nozoe for and Fujita Takahiro for and Mikuni Yanaihana for • 2013 - Masaaki Akahori for and Hideto Iwai for • 2014 - Ameya Norimizu for
Blue Sheet () • 2015 - Kenji Yamauchi for
Troisgros (トロワグロ) • 2016 -
Kuro Tanino for
The Dark Inn (地獄谷温泉 無明ノ宿) • 2017 - Makoto Ueda for This New World that Had to Come (来てけつかるべき新世界) • 2018 - Kamisato Yūdai for Valparaiso no nagai saka o kudaru hanashi (バルパライソの長い坂をくだる話) and Fukuhara Mitsunori for Atarashii explosion (あたらしいエクスプロージョン) • 2019 - Shuntaro Matsubara for "Yamayama" (I Would Prefer Not To) • 2020 - Satoko Ichihara for "The Bacchae – Holstein Milk Cows"; and Kenichi Tani for "Fukushima Trilogy" ==References==