2000
Amores Perros - director Alejandro González Iñárritu (Mexico)Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - director Ang Lee (China)
Erin Brockovich - director Steven Soderbergh (US)
Love's Labour's Lost - director Kenneth Branagh (UK)
Mission: Impossible 2 - director John Woo (US)
Rules of Engagement - director William Friedkin (US)
U-571 - director Jonathan Mostow (US)
Vertical Limit - director Martin Campbell (US)
2001
Donnie Darko - director Richard Kelly (US)Enemy at the Gates - director Jean-Jacques Annaud (Fr/UK)
Gosford Park - director Robert Altman (UK/US)
Hannibal - director Ridley Scott (US)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - director Chris Columbus (US/UK)
2002
About Schmidt - director Alexander Payne (US)Catch Me If You Can - director Steven Spielberg (US)
City of God - director Fernando Meirelles (Brazil)
The Count of Monte Cristo - director Kevin Reynolds (US)
Die Another Day - director Lee Tamahori (UK)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - director Chris Columbus (US/UK)
The Hours - director Stephen Daldry (US/UK)
Minority Report - director Steven Spielberg (US)
Star Trek: Nemesis - director Stuart Baird (US)
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones - director George Lucas (US)
The Sum of all Fears - director Phil Alden Robinson (US)
The Time Machine - director Simon Wells (Gore Verbinski) (US)
2003
The Core - director Jon Amiel (US)The Last Samurai - director Edward Zwick (US)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World - director Peter Weir (US)
School of Rock - director Richard Linklater (US)
2004
The Alamo - director John Lee Hancock (US)Collateral - director Michael Mann (US)
The Day After Tomorrow - director Roland Emmerich (US)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - director Alfonso Cuarón (UK/US)
Hellboy - director Guillermo del Toro (US)
The Incredibles - director Brad Bird (US)
King Arthur - director Antoine Fuqua (US)
The Motorcycle Diaries - director Walter Salles (Arg/Peru/US/UK/Germ/Chile/Peru)
Troy - director Wolfgang Peterson (US)
2005
Batman Begins - director Christopher Nolan (US)Capote - director Bennett Miller (US)
Crash - director Paul Haggis (US)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - director Mike Newell (UK/US)
Pride and Prejudice - director Joe Wright (UK)
The Proposition - director John Hillcoat (Aus)
Red Eye - director Wes Craven (US)
Syriana - director Stephen Gaghan (US)
Walk the Line - director James Mangold (US)
2006
Apocalypto - director Mel Gibson (US)Blood Diamond - director Edward Zwick (US)
The Da Vinci Code - director Ron Howard (US)
The Devil Wears Prada - director David Frankel (US)
The Illusionist - director Neil Burger (US)
The Last King of Scotland - director Kevin Macdonald (UK/US)
Mission: Impossible: III - director JJ Abrams (US)
Notes on a Scandal - director Richard Eyre (UK)
Poseidon - director Wolfgang Petersen (US)
The Queen - director Stephen Frears (UK)
Thank You For Smoking - director Jason Reitman (US)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley - director Ken Loach (Irl/UK)
2007
Beowulf - director Robert Zemeckis (US)Control - director Anton Corbijn (UK)
The Golden Compass - director Chris Weitz (US)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - director David Yates (UK/US)
Mr. Brooks - director Bruce A Evans (US)
I Am Legend - director Francis Lawrence (US)
Nightwatching - director Peter Greenaway (UK/Canada/France/Holland/Germany/Poland)
Stardust - director Matthew Vaughan (UK)
Sunshine - director Danny Boyle (UK/US)
2008
Body of Lies - director Ridley Scott (US)Brideshead Revisited - director Julian Jarrold (UK)
Good - director Vincente Amorim (UK/Germ/Hung)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army - director Guillermo del Toro (US)
In Bruges - director Martin McDonagh (UK)
Slumdog Millionaire - director Danny Boyle (UK/India)
2009
The Blind Side - director John Lee Hancock (US)An Education - director Lone Scherfig (UK)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - director David Yates (UK/US)
The Hurt Locker - director Kathryn Bigelow
The International - director Tom Twyker (US)
Public Enemies - director Michael Mann (US)
Sherlock Holmes - director Guy Ritchie (US)
Solomon Kane - director Michael J. Bassett (UK)
Up in the Air - director Jason Reitman (US)
The Young Victoria - director Jean-Marc Vallée (UK)