Bimal Roy (1954) · Bimal Roy (1955) · Bimal Roy (1956) · V. Shantaram (1957) · Mehboob Khan (1958) · Bimal Roy (1959) · Bimal Roy (1960)
Bimal Roy (1961) · B.R. Chopra (1962) · Abrar Alvi (1963) · Bimal Roy (1964) · Raj Kapoor (1965) · Yash Chopra (1966) · Vijay Anand (1967) · Manoj Kumar (1968) · Ramanand Sagar (1969) · Yash Chopra (1970) · Asit Sen (1971) · Raj Kapoor (1972) · Sohanlal Kanwar (1973) · Yash Chopra (1974) · Manoj Kumar (1975) · Yash Chopra (1976) · Gulzar (1977) · Basu Chatterjee (1978) · Satyajit Ray (1979) · Shyam Benegal (1980)
Govind Nihalani (1981) · Muzaffar Ali (1982) · Raj Kapoor (1983) · Govind Nihalani (1984) · Sai Paranjpye (1985) · Raj Kapoor (1986) · no award (1987) · no award (1988) · Mansoor Khan (1989) · Vidhu Vinod Chopra (1990) · Rajkumar Santoshi (1991) · Subhash Ghai (1992) · Mukul S. Anand (1993) · Rajkumar Santoshi (1994) · Sooraj Barjatya (1995) · Aditya Chopra (1996) · Shekhar Kapur (1997) · J. P. Dutta (1998) · Karan Johar (1999) · Sanjay Leela Bhansali (2000)
Rakesh Roshan (2001) · Ashutosh Gowariker (2002) · Sanjay Leela Bhansali (2003) · Rakesh Roshan (2004) · Kunal Kohli (2005) · Sanjay Leela Bhansali (2006) · Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra (2007) · Aamir Khan (2008) · Ashutosh Gowariker (2009) · Rajkumar Hirani (2010) · Karan Johar (2011)
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