2008

1. The Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
2. Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World (Ken Jacobs)
3. Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
4. Che (Steven Soderbergh)
5. Waltz With Bashir (Ari Folman)
6. Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
7. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
8. In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín)
9. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)
10. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
    

2007

1. I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)
2. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
3. 13 Lakes and Ten Skies (James Benning)
4. Southland Tales (Richard Kelly)
5. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
6. Offside (Jafar Panahi)
7. Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev)
8. Terror's Advocate (Barbet Schroeder)
9. Panoramas of the Moving Image (Ernie Gehr)
10. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
    

2006

1. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
2. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles)
3. The Decay of Fiction (Pat O'Neill)
4. A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater)
5. The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry)
6. Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
7. L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
8. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (Spike Lee)
9. Inland Empire (David Lynch)
10. Battle in Heaven (Carlos Reygadas)
    

2005

1. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
2. Last Days (Gus Van Sant)
3. Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
4. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
5. Kings and Queens (Arnaud Desplechin)
6. The World (Jia Zhang-ke)
7. 2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
8. The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel)
9. The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
10. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
    

2004

1. Star Spangled to Death (Ken Jacobs)
2. Dogville (Lars von Trier)
3. Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. Cowards Bend the Knee (Guy Maddin)
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
6. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
7. Springtime in a Small Town (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
8. Goodbye Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
9. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (Mamoru Oshii)
10. Anatomy of Hell (Catherine Breillat)
    

2003

1. Spider (David Cronenberg)
2. Unknown Pleasures (Jia ZhangKe)
3. Decasia (Bill Morrison)
4. The Fog of War (Errol Morris)
5. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (Guy Maddin)
6. Angels in America (Mike Nichols)
7. The Son (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
8. Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
9. Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
10. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
    

2002

1. Paris Commune, 1871 (Peter Watkins)
2. The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat) (Zacharias Kunuk)
3. Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov)
4. *Corpus Callosum (Michael Snow)
5. Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
6. The Lady and the Duke (Eric Rohmer)
7. Solaris (Steven Soderbergh)
8. What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang)
9. Adaptation. (Spike Jonze)
10. Late Marriage (Dover Koshashvili)
    

2001

1. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
2. Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr)
3. The Captive (Chantal Akerman)
4. In The Mood For Love (Wong Kar-wai)
5. Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
6. Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (Claude Lanzmann)
7. The Heart Of The World (Guy Maddin)
8. Platform (Jia Zhang-ke)
9. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)
10. Little Otik (Jan Svankmajer)
    

2000

1. Fragments * Jerusalem (Ron Havilio)
2. Time Regained (Raul Ruiz)
3. The House of Mirth (Terence Davies)
4. The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)
5. Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
6. Taboo (Nagisa Oshima)
7. Shadow of the Vampire (E. Elias Merhige)
8. Suzhou River (Lou Ye)
9. Kikujiro (Takeshi Kitano)
10. The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (Djibril Diop Mambety)