| Year |
|
Winner |
Winner Work |
| 2014 |
|
Joe Hisaishi |
The Wind Rises |
| 2013 |
|
Ikuko Kawai |
A Chorus of Angels |
| 2012 |
|
Goro Yasukawa |
Rebirth |
| 2011 |
|
Joe Hisaishi |
Villain |
| 2010 |
|
Shin-ichiro Ikebe |
Mt. Tsurugidake |
| 2009 |
|
Joe Hisaishi |
Ponyo |
| 2008 |
|
Michiru Oshima |
Bizan |
| 2007 |
|
Takeshi Shibuya |
Memories of Matsuko |
|
Gabriele Roberto |
Memories of Matsuko |
| 2006 |
|
Naoki Sato |
Always: Sunset on Third Street |
| 2005 |
|
Mikkî Yoshino |
Swing Girls |
|
Hiroshi Kishimoto |
Swing Girls |
| 2004 |
|
Keiichi Suzuki |
Zat?ichi |
| 2003 |
|
Isao Tomita |
The Twilight Samurai |
| 2002 |
|
Gakuji Matsuda |
Waterboys |
|
Hitomi Shimizu |
Waterboys |
| 2001 |
|
Masaru Satoh |
After the Rain |
| 2000 |
|
Joe Hisaishi |
Kikujir? no Natsu |
| 1999 |
|
Joe Hisaishi |
Fireworks |
| 1998 |
|
Taeko Onuki |
Tokyo biyori |
| 1997 |
|
Yoshikazu Suo |
Shall We Dance? |
| 1996 |
|
T?ru Takemitsu |
Sharaku |
| 1995 |
|
Kiyoshiro Imawano |
119 |
| 1994 |
|
Joe Hisaishi |
Mizu no tabibito: Samurai kizzu, Sonatine, Haruka, nosutarujii |
| 1993 |
|
Joe Hisaishi |
Seishun dendekedekedeke |
| 1992 |
|
Joe Hisaishi |
Chizuko's Younger Sister, The Passage to Japan, Deer Friend, A Scene at the Sea |
| 1991 |
|
Shin-ichiro Ikebe |
Ruten no umi, Dreams, Childhood Days |
| 1990 |
|
T?ru Takemitsu |
Rikyu, Black Rain |
| 1989 |
|
Shigeaki Saegusa |
Oracion, Lady Camellia |
| 1988 |
|
Toshiyuki Honda |
A Taxing Woman |
| 1987 |
|
Takayuki Inoue |
House on Fire, Women Who Do Not Divorce |
| 1986 |
|
T?ru Takemitsu |
Shokutaku no nai ie, Ran, Fire Festival |
| 1985 |
|
Shin-ichiro Ikebe |
MacArthur's Children |
| 1984 |
|
Masaru Satoh |
The Geisha, Sensei |
| 1983 |
|
Masato Kai |
Fall Guy |
| 1982 |
|
Ryudo Uzaki |
Station |
| 1981 |
|
Masaru Satoh |
A Distant Cry from Spring |
| 1980 |
|
Masaru Satoh |
Hunter in the Dark, The Shogun Assassins, Oh! The Nomugi Pass |
| 1979 |
|
T?ru Takemitsu |
Empire of Passion, Moeru Aki |
| 1978 |
|
Yasushi Akutagawa |
Mount Hakkoda, Village of Eight Gravestones |
