2010

1. The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
2. Vincere (Marco Bellocchio)
3. Everyone Else (Maren Ade)
4. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Oliver Stone)
5. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright)
6. The Girl On the Train (André Téchiné)
7. Winter's Bone (Debra Granik)
8. 127 Hours (Danny Boyle)
9. Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)
10. Bellamy (Claude Chabrol)

Honorable Mentions:
True Grit (Joel and Ethan Coen), The Fighter (David O. Russell), Mother and Child (Rodrigo García), The Runaways (Floria Sigismondi), Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky), The Social Network (David Fincher), Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance), From Paris With Love (Pierre Morel), My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (Werner Herzog), The Other Guys (Adam McKay)