2008

Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
Hunger (Steve McQueen)

Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley)
Ip Man (Wilson Yip)
Burn After Reading (Joel and Ethan Coen)
Spanky: To the Pier and Back (Guy Maddin)
Cloverfield (Matt Reeves)
In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)
Ponyo (Hayao Miyazaki)

The Chaser (Na Hong-jin)

Honorable mention: Appaloosa (Ed Harris), The Baader Meinhof Complex (Uli Edel), The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan), Man on Wire (James Marsh), Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller), Wall-E (Andrew Stanton)