1. Syriana (Stephen Gaghan)
2. The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
3. Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad)
4. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
5. Munich (Steven Spielberg)
6. Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch)
7. The Ice Harvest (Harold Ramis)
8. Capote (Bennett Miller)
9. Winter Solstice (Josh Sternfeld)
10. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black)

Still need to see: "Brokeback Mountain"; "Match Point"; "The New World"

Runner's Up (in alphabetical order):
"Crash" (Paul Haggis)
"Jarhead" (Sam Mendes)
"King Kong" (Peter Jackson)
"Last Days" (Gus Van Sant)
"March of the Penguins" (Luc Jacquet)
"Me and You and Everyone We Know" (Miranda July)
"Shopgirl" (Anand Tucker)
"Sin City" (Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, and Quentin Tarantino)
"Stay" (Marc Forster)
"The Upside of Anger" (Mike Binder)