2015

Bajirao Mastani

Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Badlapur - Sriram Raghavan

Bajrangi Bhaijaan - Kabir Khan

Masaan - Neeraj Ghayawan

Talvar- Meghna Gulzar

2016

Neerja

Ram Madhvani

Airlift - Raja Krishna Menon

Aligarh - Hansal Mehta

Dangal - Nitesh Tiwari

Pink - Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury

Udta Punjab - Abhishek Chaubey

2017

A Death In The Gunj

Konkona Sen Sharma

Bareilly Ki Barfi - Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari

Lipstick Under My Burkha - Alankrita Shrivastava

Mukti Bhawan - Shubhashish Bhutiani

Newton - Amit V. Masurkar

Trapped - Vikramaditya Motwane

2018

Andhadhun

Sriram Raghavan

Gali Guleiyan - Dipesh Jain

Manto - Nandita Das

October - Shoojit Sircar

Raazi - Meghna Gulzar

Tumbbad - Adesh Prasad & Rahi Anil Barve

2019

Gully Boy

Zoya Akhtar

Article 15 – Anubhav Sinha

Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota – Vasan Bala

Photograph – Ritesh Batra

Sonchiriya – Abhishek Chaubey

Soni – Ivan Ayr