- 1960 Arthur Penn – The Miracle Worker
- Joseph Anthony – The Best Man
- Tyrone Guthrie – The Tenth Man
- Elia Kazan – Sweet Bird of Youth
- Lloyd Richards – A Raisin in the Sun
- 1961 John Gielgud – Big Fish, Little Fish
- Joseph Anthony – Rhinoceros
- Joan Littlewood – The Hostage
- Arthur Penn – All the Way Home
- 1962 Noel Willman – A Man for All Seasons
- Tyrone Guthrie – Gideon
- Donald McWhinnie – The Caretaker
- José Quintero – Great Day in the Morning
- 1963 Alan Schneider – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- George Abbott – Never Too Late
- John Gielgud – The School for Scandal
- Peter Glenville – Tchin-Tchin
- 1964 Mike Nichols – Barefoot in the Park
- June Havoc – Marathon '33
- Alan Schneider – The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
- Herman Shumlin – The Deputy
| - 1965 Mike Nichols – The Odd Couple y Luv
- William Ball – Tartuffe
- Ulu Grosbard – The Subject Was Roses
- Alan Schneider – Tiny Alice
- 1969 Peter Dews – Hadrian the Seventh|Hadrian VII
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