2001

1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
3. Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
4. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
5. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
6. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
7. Gosford Park (Robert Altman)
8. Tape (Richard Linklater)
9. Va Savoir (Jacques Rivette)
10. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)

Honorable Mentions:
Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann), The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke), In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard), The Lady and the Duke (Eric Rohmer), Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly), Winged Migration (Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud), 'R Xmas (Abel Ferrara), Hell House (George Ratliff), Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter and David Silverman), The Devil's Backbone (Guillermo Del Toro)