2016: Kyros Vassaras (GRE)
2015: No nominations
2014: Mohammed Guezzaz (MAR), Peter Mikkelsen (DEN)
2013: No nominations
2012: Lassina Pare (BFA), Lossene Pare (BFA)
2011: Vitor Melo Pereira (POR), Costas Kapitanis (CYP)
2010: Saad Kameel Al-Fadhli (KUW), Jacek Granat (POL), Jong Chul Kwon (KOR)
2009: Ubaldo Aquino (PAR), Henning Lund Sorensen (DEN)
2008: No nominations
2007: Marcio Rezende De Freitas (BRA)
2006: Falla N'Doye (SEN)
2005: Mario Sanchez Yanten (CHI), Felix Tangawarima (ZIM), Ryszard Wojcik (POL)
2004: No nominations
2003: No nominations
2002: No nominations
2001: Jamal Al-Sharif (SYR)
2000: Manuchehr Nazari Amine (IRN), Mohammad Salehi Ashtiani (IRN), Marc Batta (FRA), Jan Keizer (NED), Volker Roth (GER)
1999: Mamadouba Camara (GUI), Jean-Fidele Diramba (GAB), Marcel Hermann (LUX), Charles Masembe (UGA)
1998: No nominations
1997: No nominations
1996: Romualdo Arppi Filho (BRA), Paolo Casarin (ITA), George Joseph (MAS), Ki-Chul Kil (KOR), Juan Carlos Loustau (ARG), Vincent Mauro (USA), Abdelali Naciri (MAR), Karoly Palotai (HUN), Shizuo Takada (JPN)
1995: Ng Eng Khim (SIN), Roger Machin (FRA), Joel Quiniou (FRA), Idrissa Sarr (MTN), Bantsimba Simon (CGO)
1994: Vojtech Christov (SVK), George Courtney (ENG), Marco Dorantes (MEX), Siegfried Kirschen (GER), Jassim Mandi (BAH), George McCabe (ENG), Mario Rubio (MEX)
1993: Gerard Biguet (FRA), Angelo Bratsis (USA), Vichai Charupunt (THA), Tesfaye Gebreyesus (ETH), Elias Guerrero (ECU), Georges Konrath (FRA), Badara Sene (SEN), Hubert Tromp (ARU), Michel Vautrot (FRA)
1992: Erik Fredriksson (SWE)
1991: Juan Daniel Cardellino (URU), Lee Kok Leong (SIN), Adolf Prokop (GER), Toshikazu Sano (JPN), Chan Tam Sun (SIN)
1990: No nominations
1989: Ramon Barreto (URU), Paulus Roomer (NED), Franz Wohrer (AUT)
1988: Richard Ramcharan (TRI)
1987: Tevy Lawson-Hetcheli (TOG)
1986: No nominations
1985: Osmond Downer (TRI), Vijit Getkaew (THA), Erich Linemayr (AUT), Armando Marques (BRA)
1984: Winson Gumboh (ZAM), Abraham Klein (ISR), Henry Landauer (USA), Carlos Robles (CHI)
1983: Toshio Asami (JPN), Nelson Chirwa (MWI), Promsakhta Na Skolnakorn (THA)
1982: Angaud Blanchard (CGO), Martti Hirviniemi (FIN), Saleh Karthiravale (MAS), Youssouf N’Diaye (SEN), Patrick Partridge (ENG)
1981: John Eng Yong (SIN)
1980: No nominations
1979: Anton Bucheli (SUI), Kim Joo-Woo (KOR), Yoshiyuku Maruyama (JPN), Masatoshi Nagashima (JPN), Wolfgang Riedel (GER), Rudolf Scheurer (SUI), John Taylor (ENG)
1978: Tony Boskovic (AUS), Kenneth Chaplin (JAM), Albert Dutsch (GER), Mohammed El Attar (EGY), Johannes Malka (GER), Ferdinand Marschall (AUT), Jaffar Namdar (IRN), Ahmed Salih (SUD), Paul Schiller (AUT), Karl Stewart (JAM), Kurt Tschenscher (GER), Arturo Yamasaki (MEX)
1977: No nominations
1976: Joaquim Campos (POR), Maurice Guigue (FRA), Michel Kitabdjian (FRA), Thomas Wharton (SCO)
1975: Ho Van An (VIE), Ahmed Khelifi (ALG), Gration Matovu (TAN), Cheung Tang Sun (CHN)
1974: Leo Helge (NED), Carl Jorgensen (DEN), John Mowat (SCO), Juan Soto (CRC), Geoffrey Suppiah (SIN), Alberto Tejada Burga (PER), Hong Duk Yung (KOR)
1973: Fernando Alvarez (PHI)
1972: Vira Masapan (THA), Patrick Nice (MAS)
1971: Diego de Leo (MEX), Sobhi Hosseir (UAE), Ray Morgan (CAN)
1970: Karol Galba (CZE), Reginald Leafe (ENG)
1969: Charles DeLasalle (FRA), Oei Poh Hwa (MAS), Pierre Schwinte (FRA)
1968: John Best (USA), Leo Lemesic (YUG), Roger Philips (SCO), Karel Van der Meer (NED), Walter Rosenberg (AHO)
1967: Arthur Ellis (ENG)
1966: Kim Duk Chun (KOR), Friedrich Seipelt (AUT)
1965: Louis Baert (BEL), Pedro Escartin Moran (ESP), Nikolai Latyshev (RUS)