| Team Havnaa | Bård Breien | Norway, Czech Republic, Slovakia |
| The Featherweight | Robert Kolodny | United States |
| Mukkabaaz | Anurag Kashyap | India |
| Irudhi Suttru | Sudha Kongara Prasad | India |
| Southpaw | Antoine Fuqua | United States |
| Unbeatable | Dante Lam | People's Republic of China, Hong Kong |
| Cinderella Man | Ron Howard | United States |
| Snatch | Guy Ritchie | United Kingdom, United States |
| Legionnaire | Peter MacDonald | United States |
| The Boxer | Jim Sheridan | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| Homeboy | Michael Seresin | United States |
| Teen Wolf Too | Christopher Leitch | United States |
| Raging Bull | Martin Scorsese | United States |
| The Champ | Franco Zeffirelli | United States |
| Rocky II | Sylvester Stallone | United States |
| The Greatest | Tom Gries, Monte Hellman | United Kingdom, United States |
| Rocky | John G. Avildsen | United States |
| I, His Father | Mario Bonnard | Italy |
| Tatanka | Giuseppe Gagliardi | Italy |
| Assault in the Ring | Eric Drath | United States |
| Poor Boy's Game | Clement Virgo | Canada |
| City of the Rising Sun | Kim Sung-su | South Korea |
| Twenty Four Seven | Shane Meadows | United Kingdom |
| Diggstown | Michael Ritchie | United States |
| The All-American Boy | Charles K. Eastman | United States |
| Ripped Off | Franco Prosperi | Italy |
| The Great White Hope | Martin Ritt | United States |
| Glory Alley | Raoul Walsh | United States |
| Iron Man | Joseph Pevney | United States |
| Right Cross | John Sturges | United States |
| The Kid from Brooklyn | Norman Z. McLeod | United States |
| The Champion | Carlo Borghesio | Italy |
| The Prizefighter and the Lady | Howard Hawks, W. S. Van Dyke | United States |