In the first year only of this award it was not made in respect of any specific movie.
- 1933 winners
- Charles Barton (Paramount)
- Scott Beal (Universal)
- Charles Dorian (MGM)
- Fred Fox (United Artists)
- Gordon Hollingshead (Warner Bros. )
- Dewey Starkey (RKO Radio)
- William Tummel (Fox)
- 1933 additional nominees
- Al Alleborn (Warner Bros.)
- Sid Brod (Paramount)
- Orville O. Dull (M-G-M)
- Percy Ikerd (Fox)
- Arthur Jacobson (Paramount)
- Edward Killy (RKO Radio)
- Joseph A. McDonough (Universal)
- William J. Reiter (Universal)
- Frank Shaw (Warner Bros.)
- Ben Silvey (UA)
- John Waters (M-G-M)
- 1934 John Waters - Viva Villa
- Scott Beal - Imitation of Life
- Cullen Tate - Cleopatra
- 1935 Clem Beauchamp and Paul Wing - The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
- Joseph Newman - David Copperfield
- Eric G. Stacey - Les Misérables
- Sherry Shourds - A Midsummer Night's Dream
- 1936 Jack Sullivan - The Charge of the Light Brigade
- Clem Beauchamp - The Last of the Mohicans
- William Cannon - Anthony Adverse
- Joseph Newman - San Francisco
- Eric G. Stacey - The Garden of Allah
- 1937 Robert Webb - In Old Chicago
- Charles C. Coleman - Lost Horizon
- Russ Saunders - The Life of Emile Zola
- Eric Stacey - A Star Is Born
- Hal Walker - Souls at Sea
