2001

Pistol Opera (Seijun Suzuki)


The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
The Triumph of Love (Claire Peploe)
Love's Refrain (Nathaniel Dorsky)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (Shohei Imamura)
Pootie Tang (Louis C. K.)
CQ (Roman Coppola)
Musa - The Warrior (Kim Sang-su)
A.I. (Steven Spielberg)
Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow)

Honorable mention: L'Anglaise et la Duc (Eric Rohmer), Digitopia (John Akomfrah), Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (Shusuke Kaneko), Harmful Insect (Akihiko Shiota), Josie and the Pussycats (Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont), Kandahar (Mohsen Makhmalbaf), Manic (Jordan Melamed), Missing Young Woman (Lourdes Portillo), Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter, Lee Silverman, and Lee Unkrich), Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann), Ocean's Eleven (Steven Soderbergh), The Officers Ward (Francois Dupreyon), Quo Vadis (Jerzy Kawalerowicz), A Visit from the Incubus (Anna Biller), Volcano High (Kim Tae-kyun)