**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Brokeback Mountain* | Ang Lee | 474 |
| 2 | Sin City | Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez | 575 |
| 3 | Batman Begins | Christopher Nolan | 592 |
| 4 | Hidden | Michael Haneke | 836 |
| 5 | Serenity | Joss Whedon | 893 |
| 6 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | Steve Box and Nick Park | 951 |
| 7 | A History of Violence | David Cronenberg | 994 |
| 8 | King Kong | Peter Jackson | 1075 |
| 9 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Mike Newell | 1214 |
| 10 | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith | George Lucas | 1252 |
| 11 | The 40 Year Old Virgin | Judd Apatow | 1339 |
| 12 | Brick | Rian Johnson | 1379 |
| 12 | V for Vendetta | James McTeigue | 1634 |
| 13 | Grizzly Man | Werner Herzog | 1390 |
| 14 | Walk the Line | James Mangold | 1400 |
| 15 | Capote* | Bennett Miller | 1425 |
| 16 | War of the Worlds | Steven Spielberg | 1449 |
| 17 | Cinderella Man | Ron Howard | 1624 |
| 18 | The Descent | Neil Marshall | 1648 |
| 19 | Pride & Prejudice | Joe Wright | 1751 |
| 20 | Wedding Crashers | David Dobkin | 1855 |
| 21 | Good Night, and Good Luck.* | George Clooney | 1901 |
| 22 | Munich* | Steven Spielberg | 1923 |
| 23 | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Andrew Adamson | 2109 |
| 24 | The Constant Gardner | Fernando Meirelles | 2235 |
| 25 | The Beat That My Heart Skipped | Jacques Audiard | 2257 |
| 26 | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Shane Black | 2352 |
| 27 | Murderball | Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro | 2379 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Pan's Labyrinth | Guillermo del Toro | 353 |
| 2 | The Lives of Others | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | 505 |
| 3 | The Departed** | Martin Scorsese | 522 |
| 4 | Children of Men | Alfonso Cuarón | 609 |
| 5 | Little Miss Sunshine* | Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris | 851 |
| 6 | Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan | Larry Charles | 905 |
| 7 | Casino Royale | Martin Campbell | 917 |
| 8 | Letters from Iwo Jima* | Clint Eastwood | 1069 |
| 9 | United 93 | Paul Greengrass | 1169 |
| 10 | 300 | Zack Snyder | 1393 |
| 11 | Once | John Carney | 1604 |
| 13 | The Queen* | Stephen Frears | 1639 |
| 14 | The Prestige | Christopher Nolan | 1688 |
| 15 | Black Book | Paul Verhoeven | 1851 |
| 16 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | Gore Verbinski | 1874 |
| 17 | Flags of Our Fathers | Clint Eastwood | 1944 |
| 18 | Babel* | Alejandro González Iñárritu | 1957 |
| 19 | Volver | Pedro Almodóvar | 2012 |
| 20 | Days of Glory | Rachid Bouchareb | 2143 |
| 21 | Little Children | Todd Field | 2149 |
| 22 | A Scanner Darkly | Richard Linklater | 2183 |
| 23 | An Inconvenient Truth | Davis Guggenheim | 2188 |
| 24 | This Is England | Shane Meadows | 2247 |
| 25 | The Host | Joon-ho Bong | 2276 |
| 26 | The Fountain | Darren Aronofsky | 2278 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | There Will Be Blood* | Paul Thomas Anderson | 533 |
| 2 | No Country for Old Men** | Ethan and Joel Coen | 589 |
| 3 | The Bourne Ultimatum | Paul Greengrass | 859 |
| 4 | Ratatouille | Brad Bird | 1181 |
| 5 | Hot Fuzz | Edgar Wright | 1195 |
| 6 | Juno* | Jason Reitman | 1378 |
| 7 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Julian Schnabel | 1467 |
| 8 | Persepolis | Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi | 1651 |
| 9 | Atonement* | Joe Wright | 1655 |
| 10 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | Andrew Dominik | 1876 |
| 11 | Superbad | Greg Mottola | 1959 |
| 12 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Tim Burton | 1975 |
| 13 | Into the Wild | Sean Penn | 1983 |
| 14 | Knocked Up | Judd Apatow | 2171 |
| 15 | La Vie en rose | Olivier Dahan | 2195 |
| 16 | The Orphanage | Juan Antonio Bayona | 2236 |
| 17 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | David Yates | 2292 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Dark Knight | Christopher Nolan | 581 |
| 2 | WALL•E | Andrew Stanton | 650 |
| 3 | Slumdog Millionaire** | Danny Boyle | 872 |
| 4 | The Wrestler | Darren Aronofsky | 1399 |
| 5 | Let the Right One In | Tomas Alfredson | 1444 |
| 6 | Man on Wire | James Marsh | 1809 |
| 7 | Milk* | Gus Van Sant | 1856 |
| 8 | Gran Torino | Clint Eastwood | 1929 |
| 9 | Iron Man | Jon Favreau | 1934 |
| 10 | Waltz with Bashir | Ari Folman | 1981 |
| 11 | The Hurt Locker** | Kathryn Bigelow | 2031 |
| 12 | Cloverfield | Matt Reeves | 2063 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Up* | Pete Docter | 1065 |
| 2 | Avatar* | James Cameron | 1376 |
| 3 | Inglourious Basterds* | Quentin Tarantino | 1738 |
| 4 | Star Trek | J.J. Abrams | 2062 |
| 5 | District 9* | Neill Blomkamp | 2070 |
| 6 | Coraline | Henry Selick | 2242 |
| 7 | Moon | Duncan Jones | 2256 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Inception* | Christopher Nolan | 1654 |
| 2 | Toy Story 3* | Lee Unkrich | 1967 |
**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
