2006

1. L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
2. Inland Empire (David Lynch)
3. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
4. Battle In Heaven (Carlos Reygades)
5. The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry)
6. Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
7. Three Times (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
8. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron)
9. The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
10. Fast Food Nation (Richard Linklater)

Honorable Mentions:
A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman), Babel (Alejandro Gonazalez Inarritu), Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro), Letters From Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood), Brick (Rian Johnson), Mary (Abel Ferrara), 49 Up (Michael Apted), United 93 (Paul Greengrass), The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma), Requiem (Hans-Christian Schmid)