2009

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

Runners-Up: 

(500) Days of Summer, Broken Embraces, Paranormal Activity, Bad Lieutenant, The Informant!, Antichrist, Taken, An Education, Drag Me to Hell, District 9, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, The Headless Woman, Observe and Report, Public Enemies, The Girlfriend Experience

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) Burn After Reading  
10) A Christmas Tale

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 The 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, Bug, I Am Legend, Rendition, Rescue Dawn, Charlie Wilson’s War, Breach, We Own the Night, Live Free or Die Hard

2006

1) Children Of Men
2) The Departed
3) The Death Of Mr Lazarescu
4) United 93
5) Borat
6) Apocalypto
7) Little Miss Sunshine
8) Pan's Labyrinth
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, V For Vendetta, The Queen

2005

1) Cache/Hidden 
2) Oldboy
3) A History Of Violence
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) Cinderella Man

Runners-Up:

Grizzly Man, Broken Flowers, 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, The Ice Harvest

2004

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

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, Spartan

2003

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

Runners-Up:

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, Matchstick Men, Bad Santa, Les Invasions Barbares, Shattered Glass, Dark Blue, Phone Booth, A Mighty Wind

2002

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

Runners-Up: 

Time Out, Atanarjuat, 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, Das Experiment, The Kid Stays in the Picture, 13 Conversations About One Thing, Red Dragon, Panic Room, Solaris, Lovely & Amazing, Rabbit Proof Fence, Insomnia

2001

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

Runners-Up: 

The Fellowship of the Ring, A Beautiful Mind, Shrek, The Pledge, The Man Who Wasn’t There, Amores Perros, The Others, Moulin Rouge, Ali, Ocean’s Eleven, Joy Ride, Tape, Heist, Vanilla Sky, Enemy at the Gates, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Monster’s Ball

2000

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

Runners-Up:

High Fidelity, O Brother Where Art Thou? Bamboozled, Nurse Betty, Billy Elliot, Cast Away, Erin Brockovich, Meet The Parents, Hamlet, American Psycho