| Some Shooting Stars | Fabien Onteniente | France |
| Young Woman and the Sea | Joachim Rønning | United States |
| The Underdoggs | Charles Stone III | United States |
| The Featherweight | Robert Kolodny | United States |
| The First Slam Dunk | Takehiko Inoue | Japan |
| Hustle | Jeremiah Zagar | United States |
| Tigers | Ronnie Sandahl | Sweden, Denmark, Italy |
| Raise the Bar | — | Iceland, Finland |
| Ice 2 | Zhora Kryzhovnikov | Russia |
| Ford v Ferrari | James Mangold | France, United States |
| The Art of Racing in the Rain | Simon Curtis | United States |
| Fighting with My Family | Stephen Merchant | United Kingdom, United States |
| Heels | — | United States |
| The Fencer | Klaus Härö | Germany, Estonia, Finland |
| Foxcatcher | Bennett Miller | United States |
| Million Dollar Arm | Craig Gillespie | United States |
| Iron Ivan | Gleb Orlov | Russia |
| Rush | Ron Howard | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| 42 | Brian Helgeland | United States |
| Trouble with the Curve | Robert Lorenz | United States |
| Chasing Mavericks | Curtis Hanson, Michael Apted | United States |
| Soul Surfer | Sean McNamara | United States |
| Win Win | Tom McCarthy | United States |
| Moshidora | Makoto Tanaka | Japan |
| Secretariat | Randall Wallace | United States |
| Grand Prix | Yang Yun-ho | South Korea |
| The Karate Kid | Harald Zwart | People's Republic of China, United States |
| Redline | Takeshi Koike | Japan |
| The Wrestler | Darren Aronofsky | France, United States |
| Chak De! India | Shimit Amin | India |
| The Battery | Yōjirō Takita | Japan |
| Jump In! | Paul Hoen | United States |
| Ice Princess | Tim Fywell | United States |
| Vertical Limit | Martin Campbell | United States |
| The Icebreaker | Heikki Kujanpää | Finland |
| Point Break | Kathryn Bigelow | Japan, United States |
| Days of Thunder | Tony Scott | United States |
| Field of Dreams | Phil Alden Robinson | United States |
| The Second Attempt of Viktor Krokhin | Igor Sheshukov | Soviet Union |
| Body Girls | Bob Chinn | United States |
| The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner | Tony Richardson | United Kingdom |
| The Wrestler and the Clown | Boris Barnet, Konstantin Yudin | Soviet Union |
| Our Erika | German Golub | Estonia |
| Chang Can Dunk | — | United States |
| Forever | Anders Hazelius | Sweden |
| Panga | Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari | India |
| Uhm Bok-dong | Kim Yu Sung | South Korea |
| Zhol | Askar Uzabayev | Kazakhstan |