The Claude Jutra Award is given for direction of a first feature film.

1993 – John Pozer - The Grocer's Wife

1994 – Michel Poulette - Louis 19, Le Roi Des Ondes

1995 – Robert Lepage - Le Confessionnal

1996 – Peter Wellington - Joe's So Mean To Josephine

1997 – Thom Fitzgerald - The Hanging Garden

1998 – Don McKellar - Last Night

1999 – Louis Bélanger - Post Mortem

2000 – Philippe Falardeau - La Moitié gauche du frigo

2001 – Zacharias Kunuk - Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)

2002 – Keith Behrman - Flower & Garnet

2003 – Sébastien Rose - Comment ma mère accoucha de moi durant sa ménopause / How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause

2004 – Daniel Roby - La peau blanche / White Skin