2000

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
Tears of the Black Tiger (Wisit Sasanatieng)
The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin)
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis)
Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine (Bahman Farmanara)
The House of Mirth (Terence Davies)
Platform (Jia Zhang-ke)
The Foul King (Kim Jeewoon)
Dora-Heita (Kon Ichikawa)
George Washington (David Gordon Green)
Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku)
Little Otik (Jan Svankmajer)
Suzhou River (Lou Ye)
Charlie's Angels (McG)
Timecode (Mike Figgis)

Honorable mention: Blackboards (Samira Makhmalbaf), Camera (David Cronenberg), Chicken Run (Peter Lord and Nick Park), The Circle (Jafar Panahi), La Commune (Paris, 1871) (Peter Watkins), Daughters of the Sun (Maryam Shahriar), Entropy 1 (Duraid Munajim), Erik Bruhn: I'm the Same - Only More (Lennart Pasborg), Face (Junji Sakamoto), Film (emend) (deco dawson), The Golden Bowl (James Ivory), Hamlet (Michael Almereyda), Hospital Fragment (Guy Maddin), JSA - Joint Security Area (Park Chan-Wook), Meet the Parents (Jay Roach), Memento (Christopher Nolan), Phoenix Tapes (Christophe Girardet and Matthias Muller), Prelude (Michael Snow), The Princess and the Warrior (Tom Twyker), Seance (Kiyoshi Kurosawa), Sons of Hercules (William Comstock and John Kirk), Subject to a Film: Marnie (Stan Douglas), Time and Tide (Tsui Hark), 24 Hour Psycho (Douglas Gordon), Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan), Variations (Nathaniel Dorsky), Wild Zero (Tetsuro Takeuchi)