| Victim | Basil Dearden | United Kingdom |
| Whistle Down the Wind | Bryan Forbes | United Kingdom |
| Водил поезда машинист | Viktor Zhilin | Soviet Union |
| All the Fine Young Cannibals | Michael Anderson | United States |
| Good for Nothing | Yoshishige Yoshida | Japan |
| Il bell'Antonio | Mauro Bolognini | France, Italy |
| It Started in Naples | Melville Shavelson | United States, Italy |
| Kalathur Kannamma | A. Bhimsingh | India |
| Matteo Falcone | Tofig Taghizade | Soviet Union |
| Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | Karel Reisz | United Kingdom |
| Scandal in the Girls' School | Edvin Laine | Finland |
| Scar Yosaburo | Daisuke Itō | Japan |
| Song Without End | Charles Vidor, George Cukor | United States |
| Sons and Lovers | Jack Cardiff | United Kingdom |
| Stories of the Revolution | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Cuba |
| The Angel Wore Red | Nunnally Johnson | United States, Italy |
| The Magnificent Seven | John Sturges | United States |
| The Slinger | Karel Kachyňa | Czechoslovakia |
| The Sundowners | Fred Zinnemann | United Kingdom, United States, Australia |
| The Unforgiven | John Huston | United States |
| Two Women | Vittorio De Sica | France, Italy |
| Umma | Kunchacko | India |
| Under Ten Flags | Duilio Coletti, Carlo Lizzani | United States, Italy |
| Dagli Appennini alle Ande | Folco Quilici | Italy |
| Green Mansions | Mel Ferrer | United States |
| Jack the Ripper | Monty Berman | United Kingdom |
| The Miracle | Irving Rapper | United States |
| These Thousand Hills | Richard Fleischer | United States |
| Verboten! | Samuel Fuller | United States |
| Wish I Had a Horse | Ravjaagiin Dorjpalam | Mongolia |
| A Time to Love and a Time to Die | Douglas Sirk | United States |
| Auntie Mame | Morton DaCosta | United States |
| Carve Her Name with Pride | Lewis Gilbert | United Kingdom |
| Lafayette Escadrille | William A. Wellman | United States |
| Machete | Kurt Neumann | United States |
| Oi paranomoi | Nikos Koundouros | Greece |
| Our correspondent | Anatoliy Granik | Soviet Union |
| South Pacific | Joshua Logan | United States |
| Tana | Kristaq Dhamo | Albania |
| The Ballad of Narayama | Keisuke Kinoshita | Japan |
| The Barbarian and the Geisha | John Huston | United States |
| The Girl from the Marsh Croft | Gustav Ucicky | Germany |
| The Key | Carol Reed | United Kingdom |
| The Law | Jules Dassin | France, United States, Italy |
| The Naked Maja | Mario Russo, Henry Koster | France, United States, Italy |
| The Tarnished Angels | Douglas Sirk | United States |
| The True Story of Lynn Stuart | Lewis Seiler | United States |
| The Young Lions | Edward Dmytryk | United States |