2004

1. Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. Kill Bill, vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
3. The Weeping Meadow (Theo Angelopoulos)
4. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
5. Undertow (David Gordon Green)
6. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
7. The White Diamond (Werner Herzog)
8. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
9. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
10. Collateral (Michael Mann)

Honorable Mentions:
Birth (Jonathan Glazer), The Aviator (Martin Scorsese), Vera Drake (Mike Leigh), District B13 (Pierre Morel), The Incredibles (Brad Bird), Mean Creek (Jacob Aaron Estes), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry), Triple Agent (Eric Rohmer), Closer (Mike Nichols), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Alfonso Cuaron)