| Film |
Director(s) |
Producer(s) |
Country |
2000 (54th) |
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Ang Lee | Hsu Li Kong Bill Kong Ang Lee | Taiwan/Hong Kong/USA/ China |
| Girl on the Bridge | Patrice Leconte | Christian Fechner | France |
| Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien | Dominik Moll | Michel Saint-Jean | France |
| In the Mood for Love | Wong Kar-wai | Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong/France |
| Malèna | Giuseppe Tornatore | Harvey Weinstein Carlo Bernasconi | Italy/USA |
2001 (55th) |
| Amores Perros | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Mexico |
| Amélie | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Claudie Ossard | France/Germany |
| Behind the Sun | Walter Salles | Arthur Cohn | Brazil/France/Switzerland |
| Monsoon Wedding | Mira Nair | Caroline Baron | India/USA/France/ Italy/Germany |
| The Piano Teacher | Michael Haneke | Veit Heiduschka | France/Germany/Poland/ Austria |
2002 (56th) |
| Talk to Her | Pedro Almodóvar | Agustín Almodóvar | Spain |
| Y tu mamá también | Alfonso Cuarón | Jorge Vergara | Mexico |
| City of God | Fernando Meirelles Kátia Lund | Andrea Barata Ribeiro Mauricio Andrade Ramos | Brazil/France/USA |
| Devdas | Sanjay Leela Bhansali | Bharat Shah | India |
| The Warrior | Asif Kapadia | Bertrand Faivre | UK/Germany |
2003 (57th) |
| In This World | Michael Winterbottom | Andrew Eaton Anita Overland | UK |
| The Barbarian Invasions (Les invasions barbares) | Denys Arcand | Denise Robert Daniel Louis | Canada |
| The Triplets of Belleville | Sylvain Chomet | Didier Brunner | France/Belgium/Canada/ UK |
| To Be and To Have | Nicolas Philibert | Gilles Sandoz | France |
| Good Bye Lenin! | Wolfgang Becker | Stefan Arndt | Germany |
| Spirited Away | Hayao Miyazaki | Toshio Suzuki | Japan |
2004 (58th) |
| The Motorcycle Diaries | Walter Salles | Michael Nozik Edgard Tenenbaum Karen Tenkhoff | Brazil/Argentina/Peru/Chile/ UK/USA/France/ Germany |
| The Chorus | Christophe Barratier | Arthur Cohn Nicolas Mauvernay Jacques Perrin | France/Switzerland/Germany |
| A Very Long Engagement | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Francis Boespflug | France/USA |
| Bad Education | Pedro Almodóvar | Agustín Almodóvar | Spain |
| House of Flying Daggers | Zhang Yimou | William Kong | China/Hong Kong |
2005 (59th) |
| The Beat That My Heart Skipped | Jacques Audiard | Pascal Caucheteux | France |
| Le Grand Voyage | Ismaël Ferrouhki | Humbert Balsan | France/Morocco |
| Joyeux Noël | Christian Carion | Christophe Rossignon | France/Germany/Belgium/ UK/Romania |
| Kung Fu Hustle | Stephen Chow | Po Chu Chui Jeffrey Lau | China/Hong Kong |
| Tsotsi | Gavin Hood | Peter Fudakowski | South Africa/UK |
2006 (60th) |
| Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) | Guillermo del Toro | Alfonso Cuarón Bertha Navarro Frida Torresblanco | Mexico/Spain |
| Apocalypto | Mel Gibson | Bruce Davey | USA |
| Black Book | Paul Verhoeven | Teun Hilte, San Fu Maltha Jens Meurer | Netherlands/Belgium/UK/ Germany |
| Rang De Basanti | Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra | Ronnie Screwvala | India |
| Volver | Pedro Almodóvar | Agustín Almodóvar | Spain |
2007 (61st) |
| The Lives of Others | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Quirin Berg, Max Wiedemann | Germany |
| The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Julian Schnabel | Kathleen Kennedy, Jon Kilik | France/USA |
| The Kite Runner | Marc Forster | William Horberg, Walter Parkes, Rebecca Yeldham, E. Bennett Walsh, Laurie Macdonald | USA |
| La Vie en Rose | Olivier Dahan | Alain Goldman | France/UK/Czech Republic |
| Lust, Caution | Ang Lee | Ang Lee William Kong James Schamus | USA/China/Taiwan/ Hong Kong |
2008 (62nd) |
| I've Loved You So Long | Philippe Claudel | Sylvestre Guarino, Yves Marmion | France |
| The Baader Meinhof Complex | Uli Edel | Bernd Eichinger | Germany |
| Gomorrah | Matteo Garrone | Domenico Procacci | Italy |
| Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud | Xavier Rigault, Marc-Antoine Robert | France/USA |
| Waltz with Bashir | Ari Folman | Ari Folman, Serge Lalou, Gerhard Meixner, Yael Nahlieli, Roman Paul | Israel/Germany/France/USA |
2009 (63rd) |
| A Prophet | Jacques Audiard | Pascal Caucheteux, Marco Cherqui, Alix Raynaud, Jacques Audiard | France |
| Broken Embraces | Pedro Almodóvar | Agustín Almodóvar Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| Coco Before Chanel | Anne Fontaine | Carole Scotta, Caroline Benjo, Philippe Carcassonne, Anne Fontaine | France |
| Let the Right One In | Tomas Alfredson | Carl Molinder, John Nordling, Tomas Alfredson | Sweden |
| The White Ribbon | Michael Haneke | Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Margaret Menegoz, Michael Haneke | Austria/Germany/France/Italy |