The Best
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
- Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck)
- Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright)
- In the Shadow of the Moon (David Sington)
- Jimmy Carter Man from Plains (Jonathan Demme)
- The King of Kong (Seth Gordon)
- My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)
- No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen)
- Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
- Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi)
- Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
- Secret Sunshine (Chang-dong Lee)
- There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Time to Die (Dorota Kedzierzawska)
- You, the Living (Roy Andersson)
Not Quite There
- [Rec] (Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza)
- 5 Centimeters per Second (Makoto Shinkai)
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
- Atonement (Joe Wright)
- Bridge to Terabithia (Gabor Csupo)
- Chop Shop (Ramin Bahrani)
- The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
- Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino)
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
- Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
- Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog)
- Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
- Hairspray (Adam Shankman)
- The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin)
- Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie)
- The Last Mimzy (Robert Shaye)
- Light Is Waiting (Michael Robinson)
- Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach)
- Meet the Robinsons (Stephen J. Anderson)
- My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar Wai)
- My Kid Could Paint That (Amir Bar-Lev)
- Nanking (Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman)
- Planet Terror (Robert Rodriguez)
- Sicko (Michael Moore)
- Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
- Snow Angels (David Gordon Green)
- Sunshine (Danny Boyle)
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber from Fleet Street (Tim Burton)
- Up the Yangtze (Yung Chang)
- La Vie en rose (Olivier Dahan)
- We Own the Night (James Gray)
- Zodiac (David Fincher)
The Rest
- 1408 (Mikael Håfström)
- 28 Weeks Later (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo)
- 3:10 to Yuma (James Mangold)
- 30 Days of Night (David Slade)
- 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (Tim Story)
- 88 Minutes (Jon Avnet)
- Across the Universe (Julie Taymor)
- Agnieszka 2039 (Martin Gavreau)
- American Gangster (Ridley Scott)
- Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (Sidney Lumet)
- Beowulf (Robert Zemeckis)
- Big Man Japan (Hitoshi Matsumoto)
- Blades of Glory (Josh Gordon, Will Speck)
- Bliss (Abdullah Oguz)
- The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass)
- Breach (Billy Ray)
- Breath (Ki-duk Kim)
- Buddha Collapses Out of Shame (Hana Makhmalbaf)
- Cassandra’s Dream (Woody Allen)
- Catacombs (Tomm Coker, David Elliot)
- Charlie Wilson’s War (Mike Nichols)
- Disturbia (D.J. Caruso)
- Egg (Semih Kaplanoglu)
- Elite Squad (José Padilha)
- Enchanted (Kevin Lima)
- Evan Almighty (Tom Shadyac)
- Fermat’s Room (Luis Piedrahita, Rodrigo Sopeña)
- Funny Games U.S. (Michael Haneke)
- Garbage Warrior (Oliver Hodge)
- Glory to the Filmmaker! (Takeshi Kitano)
- The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz)
- Halloween (Rob Zombie)
- Hansel & Gretel (Pil-Sung Kim)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (David Yates)
- Hotel Chevalier (Wes Anderson)
- I Am Legend (Francis Lawrence)
- I’m Not There (Todd Haynes)
- In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín)
- Inside (Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury)
- Into the Wild (Sean Penn)
- Juno (Jason Reitman)
- Katyn (Andrzej Wajda)
- The Kite Runner (Marc Forster)
- Knocked Up (Judd Apatow)
- The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat)
- Live Free or Die Hard (Len Wiseman)
- The Lookout (Scott Frank)
- Mad Detective (Johnny To, Wai Ka-Fai)
- Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
- The Mist (Frank Darabont)
- Mr. Brooks (Bruce A. Evans)
- National Treasure: Book of Secrets (Jon Turteltaub)
- No End in Sight (Charles Ferguson)
- The Number 23 (Joel Schumacher)
- Ocean’s Thirteen (Steven Soderbergh)
- Odin’s Shield Maiden (Guy Maddin)
- The Orphanage (Juan Antonio Bayona)
- Paranormal Activity (Oren Peli)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (Gore Verbinski)
- Resident Evil: Extinction (Russell Mulcahy)
- Rogue (Greg Mclean)
- Run Fatboy Run (David Schwimmer)
- Shooter (Antoine Fuqua)
- Shrek the Third (Chris Miller, Raman Hui)
- The Simpsons Movie (David Silverman)
- Smiley Face (Gregg Araki)
- Spider-Man 3 (Sam Raimi)
- Stardust (Matthew Vaughn)
- Stuck (Stuart Gordon)
- Sukiyaki Western Django (Takashi Miike)
- Super High Me (Michael Blieden)
- Superbad (Greg Mottola)
- Surf’s Up (Ash Brannon, Chris Buck)
- Teeth (Mitchell Lichtenstein)
- Terra (Aristomenis Tsirbas)
- Timecrimes (Nacho Vigalondo)
- Transformers (Michael Bay)
- Vacancy (Nimród Antal)
- Waitress (Adrienne Shelly)
- Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Jake Kasdan)
- Zeitgeist (Peter Joseph)
