1996

Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh)

News from the Good Lord (Didier Le Pecheur)
Happy End (Peter Tscherkassky)
Crash (David Cronenberg)
Looking for Richard (Al Pacino)
Comrades, Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan)
Thieves (Andre Techine)
Conspirators of Pleasure (Jan Svankmajer)
Once Upon a Time in Triad Society (Cha Chuen-Yee)
Schizopolis (Steven Soderbergh)
Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
The Frighteners (Peter Jackson)
Mars Attacks! (Tim Burton)
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (Baz Luhrmann)
Fargo (Joel Coen)
Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore (Sarah Jacobson)

Honorable mention: Battle for the Minds (Steven Lipscomb), Big Night (Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott), The Emperor's Shadow (Zhao Xiaowen), Gabbeh (Mohsen Makhmalbaf), Gray's Anatomy (Steven Soderbergh), Lost and Found (Lee Chi-Ngai), Michael Collins (Neil Jordan), My Secret Cache (Shinobu Yaguchi), The People vs. Larry Flynt (Milos Forman), Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Srdjan Dragojevic), Prisoner of the Mountains (Sergei Bodrov), Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh)