2000's

2000

• Memento (Christopher Nolan, USA)

• Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer, UK-Spain-USA)

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2001

• The Deep End (Scott McGehee & David Siegel, USA)

• Heist (David Mamet, USA-Canada)

• The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, USA-UK)

• Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, USA-France)

• Training Day (Antoine Fuqua, USA-Australia)

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2002

• Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma, France-Switzerland)

• Insomnia (Christopher Nolan, USA)

• Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, USA)

• Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes, USA)

• The Salton Sea (D.J. Caruso, USA)

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2003

• The Cooler (Wayne Kramer, USA)

• I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (Mike Hodges, UK-USA)

• Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)

• Out of Time (Carl Franklin, USA)

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2004

• Collateral (Michael Mann, USA)

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2005

• The Aura (Fabián Bielinsky, Argentina-Spain-France)

• Brick (Rian Johnson, USA)

• A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, USA-Germany)

• Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (Shane Black, USA)

• Sin City (Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller, USA)

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2006

• The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma, USA-Germany-France)

• The Departed (Martin Scorsese, USA-Hong Kong)

• Hollywoodland (Allen Coulter, USA)

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2007

• Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet, USA)

• Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck, USA)

• No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, USA)

• Zodiac (David Fincher, USA)

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2008

• The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, USA-UK)