2000s
- 2000 The Straight Story by David Lynch
- 2001 American Beauty by Sam Mendes
- 2002 Lord of the Rings by Peter Jackson
- 2003 Mulholland Drive by David Lynch
- 2004 Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore
- 2005 Lost in Translation by Sofia Coppola
- 2006 A History of Violence by David Cronenberg
- 2007 Babel by Alejandro González Iñárritu
- 2008 Letters from Iwo Jima by Clint Eastwood
- 2009 There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson
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