| Movie | Director | Year |
| Traffic* | |
| Billy Elliot | |
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | |
| Gladiator | |
| Erin Brockovich | |
| A Beautiful Mind* | |
| Gosford Park | |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | |
| Mulholland Dr. | |
| Black Hawk Down | |
| The Pianist* | |
| Talk to Her | |
| The Hours | |
| Chicago | |
| Gangs of New York | |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King* | |
| Lost in Translation | |
| Mystic River | |
| City of God | |
| Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | |
| Million Dollar Baby* | |
| Ray | |
| Vera Drake | |
| Sideways | |
| The Aviator | |
| | Movie | Director | Year |
| Brokeback Mountain* | |
| Good Night, and Good Luck | |
| Crash | |
| Capote | |
| Munich | |
| The Departed* | |
| Letters from Iwo Jima | |
| The Queen | |
| United 93 | |
| Babel | |
| No Country for Old Men* | |
| There Will Be Blood | |
| Michael Clayton | |
| Juno | |
| The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | |
| Slumdog Millionaire* | |
| The Reader | |
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | |
| Frost/Nixon | |
| Milk | |
| The Hurt Locker* | |
| Avatar | |
| Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire | |
| Up in the Air | |
| Inglourious Basterds | |
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