Adam McKay – The Big Short – 2015
Ale Abreu – Boy and the World – 2015
Alejandro G. Iñárritu – Birdman – 2014
Alejandro G. Iñárritu – The Revenant – 2015
Alice Rohrwacher – Corpo Celeste – 2011
Andrew Haigh – 45 Years – 2015
Anna Muylaert – The Second Mother – 2015
Anthony Russo – Captain America: The Winter Soldier – 2014
Apichatpong Weerasethakul – Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives – 2010
Apichatpong Weerasethakul – Cemetary of Splendor – 2015
Arnaud Desplechin – A Christmas Tale – 2008
Asghar Farhadi – A Separation – 2011
Asghar Farhadi – The Past – 2013
Asif Kapadia – Amy – 2015
Ben Stiller – Tropic Thunder – 2008
Ben Wheatley – Kill List – 2011
Bertrand Bonello – House of Pleasures – 2011
Billy Ray – Breach – 2007
Byron Howard – Tangled – 2010
Byron Howard – Zootopia – 2016
Chantal Akerman – La folie Almayer – 2011
Charlie Kaufmann – Anomalisa – 2015
Ciro Guerra – Embrace of the Serpent – 2015
Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire – 2008
Danny Boyle – 127 Hours – 2010
Danny Boyle – Steve Jobs – 2015
David O. Russell – The Fighter – 2010
David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook – 2012
David O. Russell – American Hustle – 2013
Dawn Porter – Gideon’s Army – 2013
Denis Villeneuve – Incendies – 2010
Denis Villeneuve – Sicario – 2015
Deniz Gamze Ergüven – Mustang – 2015
Duke Johnson – Anomalisa – 2015
Ethan Coen – No Country for Old Men – 2007
Ethan Coen – True Grit – 2010
Evan Johnson – The Forbidden Room – 2016
Francis Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – 2013
Francis Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 – 2014
Frederick Wiseman – In Jackson Heights – 2015
Gavin O’Connor – Warrior – 2011
Glenn Ficara – Crazy Stupid Love – 2011
Guy Maddin – My Winnipeg – 2007
Guy Maddin – The Forbidden Room – 2016
Hsiao-Hsien Hou – The Assassin – 2015
Jacques Audiard – A Prophet – 2009
Jacques Audiard – Rust and Bone – 2012
Jafar Panahi – This is Not a Film – 2010
Jafar Panahi – Closed Curtain – 2013
Jafar Panahi – Jafar Panahi’s Taxi – 2015
James Bobin – The Muppets – 2011
Jeff Nichols – Shotgun Stories – 2007
Jeff Nichols – Take Shelter – 2011
Jeff Nichols – Mud – 2012
Jennifer Yuh Nelson – Kung Fu Panda 2 – 2011
Jeremy Saulnier – Blue Ruin – 2013
Jeremy Saulnier – Green Room – 2015
Jia Zhang Ke – A Touch of Sin – 2013
JJ Abrams – Star Trek – 2009
JJ Abrams – Star Trek Into Darkness – 2013
Joe Russo – Captain America: The Winter Soldier – 2014
Joe Wright – Atonement – 2007
Joel Coen – No Country for Old Men – 2007
Joel Coen – True Grit – 2010
John Carney – Once – 2007
John Crowley – Boy A – 2007
John Hillcoat – The Road – 2009
John Requa – Crazy Stupid Love – 2011
Jon Favreau – Iron Man – 2008
Jon Favreau – Iron Man II – 2010
Julian Jarrold – Red Riding: 1974 – 2009
Justin Kerzel – The Snowton Murders – 2011
Justin Kerzel – Macbeth (2015) – 2015
Kent Jones – Hitchcock/Truffaut – 2015
Laszlo Nemes – Son of Saul – 2015
Laura Gabbert – City of Gold – 2015
Luca Guadagnino – I Am Love – 2009
Mark Osborne – Kung-Fu Panda – 2008
Marya Cohn – The Girl in the Book – 2015
Matteo Garrone – Gomorrah – 2008
Michael Moore – Sicko – 2007
Michael Moore – Capitalism: A Love Story – 2009
Nadav Lapid – Policeman – 2011
Pablo Larrain – No – 2012
Paolo Sorrentino – Il Divo – 2008
Paolo Sorrentino – The Great Beauty – 2013
Patricio Guzman – Pearl Button – 2015
Pete Docter – Up – 2009
Pete Docter – Inside Out – 2015
Quinten Tarentino – Grindhouse – 2007
Quinten Tarentino – Inglorious Bastards – 2009
Quinten Tarentino – The Hateful Eight – 2015
Radu Jude – Aferim – 2015
Ramin Bahrani – Chop Shop – 2007
Ramin Bahrani – 99 Homes – 2014
Rich Moore – Zootopia – 2016
Richard Linklater – Before Midnight – 2013
Richard Linklater – Boyhood – 2014
Richard Linklater – Everybody Wants Some – 2016
Ridley Scott – American Gangster – 2007
Robert Eggers – The Witch – 2015
Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon – 2008
Ron Howard – Rush – 2013
Ryan Coogler – Fruitvale Station – 2013
Sam Mendes – Revolutionary Road – 2008
Sam Mendes – Skyfall – 2012
Shane Black – Iron Man 3 – 2013
Shane Black – The Nice Guys – 2016
Spike Lee – Passing Strange – 2008
Stanley Nelson Jr – American Experience: Freedom Riders – 2011
Stephane Brize – Mademoiselle Chambone – 2009
Stephen Spielberg – Lincoln – 2012
Stephen Spielberg – Bridge of Spies – 2015
Terence Malick – The Tree of Life – 2011
Tim Miller – Deadpool – 2016
Todd Haynes – I’m Not There – 2007
Todd Haynes – Carol – 2015
Tom Hooper – John Adams – 2008
Tom Hooper – The King’s Speech – 2010
Tom McCarthy – The Visitor – 2007
Tom McCarthy – Spotlight – 2015
Toni Myers – Hubble – 2010
Trey Edward Shults – Krisha – 2015
Vicente Amorim – Good – 2008
Xavier Giannoli – Marguerite – 2015
Yorgos Lanthimos – Dogtooth – 2009
Yorgos Lanthimos – The Lobster – 2015
Zhang Yimou – Coming Home – 2014