† = Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture
    ‡ = Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture

    2000:
        Quills
        Traffic ‡
        Croupier
        You Can Count On Me
        Billy Elliot
        Before Night Falls
        Gladiator †
        Wonder Boys
        Sunshine
        Dancer in the Dark

    2001:
        Moulin Rouge! ‡
        In the Bedroom ‡
        Ocean's Eleven
        Memento
        Monster's Ball
        Black Hawk Down
        The Man Who Wasn't There
        A.I. Artificial Intelligence
        The Pledge
        Mulholland Drive

    2002:
        The Hours ‡
        Chicago †
        Gangs of New York ‡
        The Quiet American
        Adaptation.
        Rabbit-Proof Fence
        The Pianist ‡
        Far from Heaven
        Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
        Frida

    2003:
        Mystic River ‡
        The Last Samurai
        The Station Agent
        21 Grams
        House of Sand and Fog
        Lost in Translation ‡
        Cold Mountain
        In America
        Seabiscuit ‡
        Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ‡

    2004:
        Finding Neverland ‡
        The Aviator ‡
        Closer
        Million Dollar Baby †
        Sideways ‡
        Kinsey
        Vera Drake
        Ray ‡
        Collateral
        Hotel Rwanda

    2005: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
        Good Night, and Good Luck. ‡
        Brokeback Mountain ‡
        Capote ‡
        Crash †
        A History of Violence
        Match Point
        Memoirs of a Geisha
        Munich ‡
        Syriana
        Walk the Line

    2006: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
        Letters from Iwo Jima ‡
        Babel ‡
        Blood Diamond
        The Departed †
        The Devil Wears Prada
        Flags of Our Fathers
        The History Boys
        Little Miss Sunshine ‡
        Notes on a Scandal
        The Painted Veil

    2007: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
        No Country for Old Men †
        The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
        The Bourne Ultimatum
        The Bucket List
        Into the Wild
        Juno ‡
        The Kite Runner
        Lars and the Real Girl
        Michael Clayton ‡
        Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

    2008: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
        Slumdog Millionaire †
        Burn After Reading
        Changeling
        The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ‡
        The Dark Knight
        Defiance
        Frost/Nixon ‡
        Gran Torino
        Milk ‡
        WALL-E
        The Wrestler

    2009: (in alphabetical order, except for 1)
        Up in the Air ‡
        (500) Days of Summer
        An Education ‡
        The Hurt Locker †
        Inglourious Basterds ‡
        Invictus
        The Messenger
        A Serious Man ‡
        Star Trek
        Up ‡