Kishida Prize for Drama

List of winners

1955–1960

• 1955 - Not awarded
• *Honorable mention: Hekiga Seiichi Yashiro
• 1956 - Kiichi Ohashi for Kusunoki Sankichi no seishun and Kinji Obata for Kikeiji
• 1957 - Not awarded
• *Honorable mention: Ashita o tsumuzu musumetachi
• 1958 - Hotta Hotta Kiyomi for Shima
• 1959 - Not awarded
• *Honorable mention: Nagai Bohyō no retsu Yoshiyuki Fukuda and Gyoko of Gen'ichi Hara and Yūjōbutōkai Masayuki Hiroda
• 1960 - Masaru Kobayashi for Ori and Hisako Hayasaka for ''Saga''

1961–1970

• 1961 - Not awarded
• 1962 - Ken Miyamoto for Nihonjin tami Kyowakoku ''The sakusen Mechanism and Shuichiro Yagi for Hatoba Kojiki rokunin no musukotachi and Kombeya wa tomaranai
• 1963 - Masakazu Yamazaki for Zeami Motokiyo
• 1964 - Hitomi Kakuhiko for Tomoe no tsuzumi and Ryuichi Suga for Onna no Gongyo and Yoshiyuki Fukuda for Hakamatare wa doko da
• 1965 - Not awarded
• 1966 - Koji Kawamata for Kantō heiya and Masayuki Hirota for Suna to shiro
• 1968 - Minoru Betsuyaku for Match uri no Shōjo and Akai tori no iru Fukei
• 1969 - Satoshi Akihama for Yōjitachi no ato no matsuri ua
• 1970 - Juro Kara for Shōjo kamen''

1971–1980

• 1971 - Makoto Sato for Nezumi Kozō Jirokichi
• 1972 - Hisashi Inoue to Dōgen no Bōken
• 1974 - Kōhei Tsuka for Atami satsujin jiken and Kunio Shimizu for Bokura ga hijo no taiga o kudaru Toki
• 1975 - Not awarded
• *Honorable mention: Mokuren numa Tomiko Ishizawa
• 1976 - Tomiko Ishizawa for Biwa-den
• 1977 - Not awarded
• 1978 - Shōgo Oda Komachi kaze-den and Seishin Chinen for Jinruikan
• 1979 - Kodai Okabe for Hizen Matsuura kenmai shinjū
• 1980 - Ren Saitō for ''Vance King Shanghai''

1981–1990

• 1981 - Jūichirō Takeuchi for Ano daikarasu saemo
• 1982 - Tetsu Yamazaki for Hyōryū kazoku and Uo densetsu
• 1983 - Hideki Noda for Nokemono kitarite and Kiyokazu Yamamoto for Pinocchio janbaraya and Eri Watanabe for Gegege no ge
• 1984 - Sō Kitamura for Jūichijin no shōnen
• 1985 - Rio Kishida for Ito jigoku
• 1986 - Takeshi Kawamura for Shinjuku Hakkenden daiikkan inu no tanjo
• 1987 - Not awarded
• 1988 - Yasuhiko Ohashi for Gojira
• 1989 - Riyo Iwamatsu for Futon to daruma
• 1990 - Not awarded

1991–2000

• 1991 - Yōji Sakate for Breathless Gomibukuro o kokyūsuru no yoru monogatari
• 1992 - Kensuke Yokouchi for Gusha ni wa mienai La Mancha no Osama no hadaka
• 1993 - Akio Miyazawa for Hinemi and Miri Yū for Sakana no matsuri
• 1994 - Yoshinobu Tei for Za Terayama
• 1995 - Shoji Kokami for Sunafukin no tegami and Orisa Horisa for Tokyo nōto
• 1996 - Toshirō Suzue for Kami o kakiageru and Masataka Matsuda for Umi to Higasa
• 1997 - Suzuki Matsuo for Funky! Uchū wa mieru tokoro made shika nai
• 1998 - Fukatsu Shigefumi for Uchiya matsuri
• 1999 - Keralino Sandorovich for Frozen Beach
• 2000 - Ai Nagai for ''Ani kaeru''

2001–2010

• 2001 - Kōki Mitani for Okepi!
• 2002 - Not awarded
• 2003 - Kazuki Nakashima for Aterui
• 2004 - Yutaka Kuramochi for One man show
• 2005 - Kankurō Kudō for Donjū and Toshiki Okada for Five Days in March (Sangatsu no itsukakan
• 2006 - Norohiko Tsukuda for Nukegara and Daisuke Miuara for Ai no uzu
• 2007 - Not awarded
• 2008 - Shirō Maeda for Ikiteru mono wa inai no ka
• 2009 - Ryuta Horai for Mahoroba and Yukiko Motoya for Shiawase Saiko Arigato maji de
• 2010 - Yukio Shiba for ''Waga Hoshi''

2010s

• 2011 - Shū Matsui for Jiman no musuko
• 2012 - Seiji Nozoe for 00 to aru Fukei and Fujita Takahiro for Kaeri no Aizu matteta Shokutaku soko Kito shiofuru sekai and Mikuni Yanaihana for Maemuki! Taimon
• 2013 - Masaaki Akahori for Itchōmei zomeki and Hideto Iwai for Aru onna
• 2014 - Ameya Norimizu for Blue Sheet
• 2015 - Kenji Yamauchi for Troisgros
• 2016 - Kuro Tanino for The Dark Inn
• 2017 - Makoto Ueda for This New World that Had to Come
• 2018 - Kamisato Yūdai for Valparaiso no nagai saka o kudaru hanashi and Fukuhara Mitsunori for Atarashii explosion
• 2019 - Shuntaro Matsubara for "Yamayama"
• 2020 - Satoko Ichihara for "The Bacchae – Holstein Milk Cows"; and Kenichi Tani for "Fukushima Trilogy"