# Elan d'or Award Special Prize

The Elan d'or Award Special Prize is an award presented at the Elan d'or Awards in Japan. This award was first presented in 1972, and was discontinued after 2014.
| Year | Awardee |
| 1972 | Masahiro Shinoda Producers of the film Silence |
| 1973 | Yoji Yamada |
| 1974 | Hideki Takahashi Etsuko Takano |
| 1975 | N/A |
| 1976 | N/A |
| 1977 | Kiyoshi Atsumi Bunta Sugawara Producers and staff of the film Rokuwa no Kamome |
| 1978 | Shinobu Hashimoto Ken Takakura NHK Special documentary program Nihon no Sengo TBS Special Program Umi wa Yomigaeru |
| 1979 | Hashizo Okawa NHK Drama Ningen Moyō |
| 1980 | Taichi Yamada Keiko Kishi Toshiba Nichiyō Gekijō staff Masao Minami Junjirō Yamada |
| 1981 | Tatsuya Nakadai Eijirō Tōno Akira Hayasaka |
| 1982 | Chieko Baisho Sō Kuramoto NTV detective drama Taiyō ni Hoero! staff |
| 1983 | Seichō Matsumoto Keiko Matsuzaka NHK junior high school drama Chūgakusei Nikki staff |
| 1984 | Shohei Imamura Koreyoshi Kurahara Sugako Hashida Daishirō Miura |
| 1985 | Hisaya Morishige Mitsuko Mori |
| 1986 | Takeshi Kitano Kon Ichikawa New Century Producers |
| 1987 | Yoshiko Mita Masaru Kakutani Matsuo Takahashi |
| 1988 | Kaneto Shindo Miki James |
| 1989 | Sayuri Yoshinaga Seiken Tamukai |
| 1990 | Hayao Miyazaki Keiichiro Ryu (Ichirō Ikeda) |
| 1991 | Genjiro Arato Tatsurō Ishida |
| 1992 | Nagaharu Yodogawa Takeshi Kitano The staff of the film Sensō to Seishun |
| 1993 | Sugako Hashida Juzo Itami Naomi Fujiyama Shirō Sano |
| 1994 | Sumiko Haneda TBS drama Kōkō Kyōshi staff Atsuo Nakamura Hisao Masuda Chishū Ryū |
| 1995 | Kazuo Hara Yōichi Komatsuzawa NHK Hiroshima station Kinichi Hagimoto |
| 1996 | Kaneto Shindo Nobuko Otowa Frankie Sakai Yumi Adachi Tomiko Miyao Tetsuo Takaha |
| 1997 | Kiyoshi Atsumi Naoto Takenaka NHK drama Daichi no Ko production staff |
| 1998 | Princess Mononoke production staff Mansai Nomura Junichi Watanabe Shohei Imamura |
| 1999 | Takeshi Kaneshiro Takeshi Kitano Tōkai Television Broadcasting Drama production staff NTV drama Kayō Suspense Gekijō production staff Akira Kurosawa Nagaharu Yodogawa Keisuke Kimura |
| 2000 | Tsuguhiko Kadokawa Tamao Nakamura Utaemon Ichikawa |
| 2001 | Yasuyoshi Tokuma Drama Kanebō Human Special |
| 2002 | Takerō Itō Kazuki Enari Kōji Shundō Shinji Sōmai Tomi Taira Yoshinobu Nishioka |
| 2003 | Kaneto Shindo Saho Sasazawa Kinji Fukasaku |
| 2004 | Yumiko Inoue Seitan 100-nen Ozu Yasujirō Tokusū TV Asahi drama Doyō Wide Gekijō Kyotaro Nishimura TBS period drama Mito Kōmon |
| 2005 | Kazuo Kuroki Masahiko Kobayashi Hisashi Nozawa |
| 2006 | Mitsuko Mori Kihachi Production Densha Otoko Naoyuki Suzuki Yoshitarō Nomura |
| 2007 | Teruhiko Kuze Akio Jissoji Fuji TV drama Nodame Cantabile |
| 2008 | Hitoshi Ueki Staff of the film Koizora TV Tokyo Shinshun Wide Jidaigeki series production staff TBS drama Karei-naru Ichizoku production staff |
| 2009 | Kon Ichikawa Ken Ogata TV Asahi and Toei Kamen Rider Series production staff TBS drama Wataru Seken wa Oni Bakari production staff |
| 2010 | Daisaku Kimura Hisaya Morishige Staff and production team of the film Tsuribaka Nisshi TV Asahi drama Keiji Ichidai Hiratsuka Hachibē no Shōwa Jikenshi production team |
| 2011 | Shinobu Terajima NHK drama GeGeGe no Nyōbō production team |
| 2012 | TV Asahi drama Aibō production team TBS drama Kinpachi-sensei production team Taiga drama 50 |
| 2013 | TV Asahi Doyō Wide Gekijō 35th anniversary |
| 2014 | NHK drama Amachan production team |