Best New Director Awards
- 1996
- Stanley Tucci
- Big Night
- 1996
- Campbell Scott
- Big Night
- 1995
- Chris Noonan
- Babe
- 1994
- Darnell Martin
- I like it like that
- 1992
- Allison Anders
- Gas Food Lodging
- 1991
- John Singleton
- Boyz N the Hood
- 1990
- Whit Stillman
- Metropolitan
- 1989
- Kenneth Branagh
- Henry V
