2009

Wild Grass (Alain Resnais)
Inglorious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
Vengeance (Johnnie To)
The Road (John Hillcoat)

Avatar (James Cameron)

District 9 (Neill Blomkamp)

Up (Pete Docter)

Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)

A Tour of the Cryosphere 2009 (Horace Mitchell)

Star Trek (J. J. Abrams)

Honorable mention: Black Dynamite (Scott Sanders), Monsters vs. Aliens (Rob Letterman and Conrad Vernon), Moon (Duncan Jones), Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie), Watchmen (Zack Snyder)

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)