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)

Last updated: September 23, 2017

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)

Last updated: January 22, 2016