| Raging Bull | Martin Scorsese | United States |
| Eleven Hopes | Viktor Sadovsky | Soviet Union |
| Grandmaster | Sergey Mikaelyan | Soviet Union |
| Royal Regatta | Yuri Chulyukin | Soviet Union |
| The Hockey Players | Rafail Goldin | Soviet Union |
| The Wrestler and the Clown | Boris Barnet, Konstantin Yudin | Soviet Union |
| Fear Strikes Out | Robert Mulligan | United States |
| Our Erika | German Golub | Estonia |
| Chang Can Dunk | — | United States |
| Amateur | Ryan Koo | United States |
| Borg McEnroe | Janus Metz Pedersen | Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden, Denmark |
| Perfect | Jérémie Battaglia | Canada |
| The Champions: Faster. Higher. Stronger | Artyom Aksenenko | Russia |
| The Champions | Dmitri Dyuzhev, Artyom Aksenenko | Russia |
| Fighting Fear | Macario De Souza | Australia |
| Simsons | Yūichi Satō | Japan |
| The Upside of Anger | Mike Binder | United States |
| Michel Vaillant | Louis-Pascal Couvelaire | France |
| Crackerjack | Paul Moloney | Australia |
| YMCA Baseball Team | Kim Hyun-seok | South Korea |
| Without Limits | Robert Towne | United States |
| The Air Up There | Paul Michael Glaser | United States |
| Babe Ruth | Mark Tinker | United States |
| Bull Durham | Ron Shelton | United States |
| The Color of Money | Martin Scorsese | United States |
| Skydivers | Yuri Ivanchuk | Soviet Union |
| The Drive to Win | Zhang Nuanxin | People's Republic of China |
| A Moment Decides Everything | Viktor Sadovsky | Soviet Union |
| Long-Haired Wonder | Viktor Titov | Soviet Union |
| Zhrebiy | Igor Voznesensky | Soviet Union |
| Bolshoy tramplin | Leanid Martynyuk | Soviet Union |
| Grand Prix | John Frankenheimer | United States |
| Naughty Curves | Kaljo Kiisk, Julij Kuhn | Soviet Union, Estonia |
| Rodeo | William Beaudine | United States |
| Where's George? | Jack Raymond | United Kingdom |
| Fast Companions | Kurt Neumann | United States |