2009
Avant-Garde
1 Let Each One Go Where He May (Ben Russell)
2 Sound Over Water (Mary Helena Clark)
3 In Comparison (Harun Farocki)
4 Compline (Nathaniel Dorsky)
5 Wednesday Morning Two A.M. (Lewis Klahr)
6 Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis (Daïchi Saïto)
7 If There Be Thorns (Michael Robinson)
8 A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
9 Parties visible et invisible d’un ensemble sous tension (Emmanuel LeFrant)
10 Straight Lines (Vincent Grenier)
Narrative
1 Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu)
2 Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl (Manoel de Oliveira)
3 Dogtooth (Giorgos Lanthimos)
4 Antichrist (Lars von Trier)
5 Bluebeard (Catherine Breillat)
6 Everyone Else (Maren Ade)
7 Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
8 White Material (Claire Denis)
9 Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
10 The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh)
2008
Avant-Garde
1 Easter Morning (Bruce Conner)
2a Winter (Nathaniel Dorsky)
2b Sarabande (Nathaniel Dorsky)
3 1859 (Fred Worden)
4 Film For Invisible Ink Case No. 142: Abbreviation For Dead Winter [Diminished by 1,794] (David Gatten)
5 Hold Me Now (Michael Robinson)
6 Sphinx on the Seine (Paul Clipson)
7 All Through the Night (Michael Robinson)
8 The Scenic Route (Ken Jacobs)
9 16-18-4 (Tomonari Nishikawa)
10 Horizontal Boundaries (Pat O'Neill)
Narrative
1 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis)
2 Frontier of Dawn (Philippe Garrel)
3 The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
4 À l'aventure (Jean-Claude Brisseau)
5 Che (Steven Soderbergh)
6 Jerichow (Christian Petzold)
7 24 City (Jia Zhang-ke)
8 Afterschool (Antonio Campos)
9 Revanche (Götz Spielmann)
10 Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
2007
Avant-Garde
1 A Pitcher of Colored Light (Robert Beavers)
2 RR (James Benning)
3 Light is Waiting (Michael Robinson)
4 After Writing (Mary Helena Clark)
5 Quartet (Nicky Hamlyn)
6 Black and White Trypps Number Three (Ben Russell)
7 Kalendar (Naomi Uman)
8 False Friends (Sylvia Schedelbauer)
9 Victory Over the Sun (Michael Robinson)
10 The Phantom Harp (Paul Clipson)
Narrative
1 In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín)
2 There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3 The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat)
4 Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
5 Zodiac (David Fincher)
6 Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach)
7 I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)
8 Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
9 Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino)
10 Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
2006
1 Song and Solitude (Nathaniel Dorsky)
2a The General Returns from One Place to Another (Michael Robinson)
2b And We All Shine On (Michael Robinson)
3 Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa)
4 Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke)
5 Lady Chatterley (Pascale Ferran)
6 Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
7a The Surging Sea of Humanity (Ken Jacobs)
7b Capitalism: Child Labor (Ken Jacobs)
8 Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt)
9 Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
10 Belle toujours (Manoel de Oliveira)
2005
1 Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel)
2 You Don't Bring Me Flowers (Michael Robinson)
3 Caché (Michael Haneke)
4 The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang)
5 Ghosts (Christian Petzold)
6 Last Days (Gus Van Sant)
7 The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
8 Three Times (Hou Hsaio-hsien)
9 Who's Camus Anyway? (Mitsuo Yanagimachi)
10 Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
2004
1 Threnody (Nathaniel Dorsky)
2 Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3 Star Sprangled to Death (Ken Jacobs)
4 And We All Shine On (Michael Robinson)
5 Notre musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
6 The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel)
7 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
8 The Case of the Grinning Cat (Chris Marker)
9 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
10 The Whirled (Ken Jacobs)
2003
1 Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
2 Dogville (Lars von Trier)
3 Chinese Series (Stan Brakhage)
4 The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo)
5 Chiquitita and the Soft Escape (Michael Robinson)
6 The Story of Marie and Julien (Jacques Rivette)
7 Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont)
8 Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
9 Goodbye Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
10 The Forest for the Trees (Maren Ade)
2002
1 Panels for the Walls of Heaven (Stan Brakhage)
2 The Visitation (Nathaniel Dorsky)
3 Friday Night (Claire Denis)
4 Gerry (Gus Van Sant)
5 Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov)
6 Secret Things (Jean-Claude Brisseau)
7 Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
8 Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
9 8 Women (François Ozon)
10 The Son (Jean Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne)
2001
1 Lovesong (Stan Brakhage)
2 In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard)
3 The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)
4 What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang)
5 Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
6 Millenium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsein)
7 Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
8 The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
9 Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis)
10 The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen)
2000
1 Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr)
2 Les destinées sentimentales (Olivier Assayas)
3 In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
4 Code Unknown (Michael Haneke)
5 Platform (Jia Kheng-ke)
6 In Vanda's Room (Pedro Costa)
7 Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
8 Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang Wen)
9 George Washington (David Gordon Green)
10 Hamlet (Michael Almereyda)