2009

1) The Fantastic Mr. Fox
2) Up In The Air
3) Two Lovers
4) A Serious Man 
5) The Hurt Locker
6) Goodbye Solo
7) Adventureland
8) Moon
9) The Cove
10) Up!

Runners-Up: 

An Education, (500) Days of Summer, Broken Embraces, Paranormal Activity, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, District 9, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Taken, The Headless Woman, Drag Me to Hell

2008

1) The Wrestler
2) Hunger
3) WALL-E 
4) The Dark Knight
5) Gran Torino/Changeling
6) 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 
7) Waltz With Bashir
8) Slumdog Millionaire
9) A Christmas Tale
10) Burn After Reading  

Runners-Up:

Wendy and Lucy, Funny Games, The Visitor, Tell No One, Pineapple Express, The Class, Doubt, Ip Man, Iron Man , JCVD, Flight of the Red Balloon

2007

1) No Country For Old Men
2) There Will Be Blood
3) Zodiac
4) Michael Clayton
5) Ratatouille
6) Before Devil Knows You're Dead
7) Superbad
8) Sweeney Todd
9) American Gangster
10) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Runners-Up:  

The Mist, The Assassination of Jesse James By Robert Ford, Death Proof, Persepolis, Eastern Promises, The Darjeeling Limited, Juno, Black Book, Into the Wild, A Mighty Heart, The Lookout, Lust Caution

2006

1) Children Of Men
2) The Departed
3) The Death Of Mr. Lazarescu
4) United 93
5) Borat
6) Little Miss Sunshine
7) Pan's Labyrinth
8) Apocalypto
9) Babel
10) Blood Diamond

Runners-Up: 

The Prestige, Little Children, Casino Royale, Inside Man, The Illusionist, Dave Chappelle’s Block Party, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, The Descent, Hard Candy, Crank

2005

1) A History Of Violence
2) Cache/Hidden 
3) Oldboy 
4) Downfall
5) Munich
6) The Squid And The Whale
7) Capote
8) Me, You and Everyone We Know
9) The 40-Year-Old Virgin
10) Broken Flowers

Runners-Up:

Cinderella Man, Grizzly Man, Batman Begins, Hustle and Flow, Red Eye, Lord of War, War of the Worlds, King Kong, Pride and Prejudice, Good Night and Good Luck, Howl’s Moving Castle, The Best That My Heart Skipped

2004

1) Sideways
2) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3) The Aviator 
4) Birth 
5) Collateral
6) Spider-Man 2
7) Maria Full of Grace
8) The Manchurian Candidate
9) Kill Bill: Volume Two
10) The Dreamers

Runners-Up:

Hotel Rwanda, The Passion of the Christ, The Incredibles, Fahrenheit 9/11, Dogville, The Motorcycle Diaries, Million Dollar Baby, The Bourne Supremacy, Ripley's Game, Red Lights, Since Otar Left, The Ladykillers, I’m Not Scared

2003

1) Elephant
2) Lost In Translation 
3) The Return Of The King
4) Mystic River
5) City Of God
6) Kill Bill: Volume One
7) The Magdalene Sisters
8) Finding Nemo
9) Capturing The Friedmans
10) 21 Grams

Runners-Up:

Triplets of Belleville, The Station Agent, To Be and To Have School of Rock, 28 Days Later, Spellbound, Irreversible, Gerry, Swimming Pool, House of Sand and Fog, Dirty Pretty Things

2002

1) Spirited Away
2) Punch Drunk Love
3) The 25th Hour
4) Y Tu Mama Tambien
5) Gangs of New York
6) Adaptation
7) Minority Report 
8) Bowling For Columbine
9) Atanarjuat
10) The Pianist & The Piano Teacher

Runners-Up: 

Time Out, Road to Perdition, About Schmidt, Catch Me If You Can, About a Boy, One Hour Photo, Frailty, The Grey Zone, The Bourne Identity, Monsoon Wedding

2001

1) Mulholland Drive
2) Memento
3) Ghost World
4) A.I. Artificial Intelligence 
5) Amelie
6) In The Bedroom
7) The Royal Tenenbaums
8) Shrek/Waking Life
9) Black Hawk Down
10) The Son’s Room

Runners-Up: 

The Pledge, The Man Who Wasn’t There, The Fellowship of the Ring, Amores Perros, The Others, Moulin Rouge, Ali, A Beautiful Mind, Ocean’s Eleven, Joy Ride, Tape, Das Experiment

2000

1) Dancer In The Dark
2) Wonder Boys
3) Traffic
4) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
5) You Can Count On Me
6) Almost Famous
7) O' Brother Where Art Thou
8) Requiem For A Dream
9) Unbreakable
10) Chicken Run

Runners-Up:

High Fidelity, Gladiator, Bamboozled, Nurse Betty, Billy Elliot, Cast Away, Erin Brockovich, Meet The Parents, Hamlet, American Psycho