The Best
- 13 Assassins (Takashi Miike)
- Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky)
- Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance)
- Carlos (Olivier Assayas)
- Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
- Confessions (Tetsuya Nakashima)
- Day & Night (Teddy Newton)
- Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
- Honey (Semih Kaplanoglu)
- I’m Still Here (Casey Affleck)
- The Illusionist (Sylvain Chomet)
- Inception (Christopher Nolan)
- Kosmos (Reha Erdem)
- Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzmán)
- Poetry (Chang-dong Lee)
- Le quattro volte (Michelangelo Frammartino)
- Tangled (Nathan Greno, Byron Howard)
Not Quite There
- 127 Hours (Danny Boyle)
- The American (Anton Corbijn)
- Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari)
- The Book of Eli (Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes)
- The Borrowers (Hiromasa Yonebayashi)
- Catfish (Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman)
- Colorful (Keiichi Hara)
- Cyrus (Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass)
- Essential Killing (Jerzy Skolimowski)
- The Fighter (David O. Russell)
- Film Unfinished (Yael Hersonski)
- Four Lions (Christopher Morris)
- GasLand (Josh Fox)
- Get Him to the Greek (Nicholas Stoller)
- The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
- Greenberg (Noah Baumbach)
- Hahaha (Sang-soo Hong)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (David Yates)
- Hot Tub Time Machine (Steve Pink)
- How to Train Your Dragon (Dean DuBlois, Chris Sanders)
- I Saw the Devil (Ji-woon Kim)
- I Wish I Knew (Jia Zhang Ke)
- Inside Job (Charles Ferguson)
- The King’s Speech (Tom Hooper)
- Let Me In (Matt Reeves)
- The Man from Nowhere (Jeong-beom Lee)
- Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
- Norwegian Wood (Tran Anh Hung)
- The Oath (Laura Poitras)
- The Robber (Benjamin Heisenberg)
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright)
- The Social Network (David Fincher)
- Somewhere (Sofia Coppola)
- The Town (Ben Affleck)
- True Grit (Joel Coen)
- Tucker & Dale vs Evil (Eli Craig)
- Tuesday, After Christmas (Radu Muntean)
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik)
- The Yellow Sea (Hong-jin Na)
The Rest
- The A-Team (Joe Carnahan)
- Act da Fool (Harmony Korine)
- Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton)
- Animal Kingdom (David Michôd)
- Another Year (Mike Leigh)
- Big Tits Zombie (Takao Nakano)
- Biutiful (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
- Boy (Taika Waititi)
- Buried (Rodrigo Cortés)
- Burning Bright (Carlos Brooks)
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog)
- Centurion (Neil Marshall)
- Clash of the Titans (Louis Leterrier)
- The Crazies (Breck Eisner)
- Date Night (Shawn Levy)
- Death at a Funeral (Neil LaBute)
- The Debt (John Madden)
- Despicable Me (Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud)
- Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (Tsui Hark)
- Devil (John Erick Dowdle)
- Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (Troy Nixey)
- Due Date (Todd Phillips)
- Easy A (Will Gluck)
- Eclipse (David Slade)
- Edge of Darkness (Martin Campbell)
- Elite Squad 2 (José Padilha)
- Everything Must Go (Dan Rush)
- Film socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Frozen (Adam Green)
- Green Zone (Paul Greengrass)
- Grown Ups (Dennis Dugan)
- Hereafter (Clint Eastwood)
- The Housemaid (Sang-soo Im)
- Howl (Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman)
- I Spit on Your Grave (Steven R. Monroe)
- Ip Man 2 (Wilson Yip)
- Iron Man 2 (Jon Favreau)
- It’s Kind of a Funny Story (Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck)
- Jackass 3D (Jeff Tremaine)
- Kick-Ass (Matthew Vaughn)
- The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko)
- The Last Airbender (M. Night Shyalaman)
- Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (Zack Snyder)
- Legion (Scott Stewart)
- MacGruber (Jorma Taccone)
- Machete (Ethan Maniquis, Robert Rodriguez)
- Megamind (Tom McGrath)
- Monsters (Gareth Edwards)
- Moss (Woo-Suk Kang)
- Never Let Me Go (Mark Romanek)
- A Nightmare on Elm Street (Samuel Bayer)
- The Other Guys (Adam McKay)
- Paranormal Activity 2 (Tod Williams)
- The Perfect Host (Nick Tomnay)
- Piranha (Alexandre Aja)
- Predators (Nimród Antal)
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Mike Newell)
- Red (Robert Schwentke)
- Red Hill (Patrick Hughes)
- Repo Men (Miguel Sapochnik)
- Resident Evil: Afterlife (Paul W.S. Anderson)
- Restrepo (Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger)
- Robin Hood (Ridley Scott)
- Shanghai (Mikael Håfström)
- She’s Out of My League (Jim Field Smith)
- Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)
- Skeletons (Nick Whitfield)
- Skyline (Colin Strause, Greg Strause)
- Surviving Life (Theory and Practice) (Jan Svankmajer)
- Tamara Drewe (Stephen Frears)
- The Troll Hunter (André Øvredal)
- Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)
- TRON: Legacy (Joseph Kosinski)
- Unstoppable (Tony Scott)
- Vanishing on 7th Street (Brad Anderson)
- Waiting for Superman (Davis Guggenheim)
- Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Oliver Stone)
- Waste Land (Lucy Walker)
- The Way Back (Peter Weir)
- The Wolfman (Joe Johnston)
- You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (Woody Allen)