| Hemingway & Gellhorn | Philip Kaufman | Amerika Serikat |
| Bernie | Richard Linklater | Amerika Serikat |
| My Way | Florent-Emilio Siri | Prancis, Belgia |
| Chasing Mavericks | Curtis Hanson, Michael Apted | Amerika Serikat |
| Lincoln | Steven Spielberg | Amerika Serikat |
| Greetings from Tim Buckley | Daniel Algrant | Amerika Serikat |
| Searching for Sugar Man | Malik Bendjelloul | Britania Raya, Swedia |
| Soul Surfer | Sean McNamara | Amerika Serikat |
| Perfect Game | Park Hee-gon | Korea Selatan |
| Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir | Laurent Bouzereau | Britania Raya, Jerman, Italia |
| Heleno | José Henrique Fonseca | Brasil |
| Moneyball | Bennett Miller | Amerika Serikat |
| 127 Hours | Danny Boyle | Amerika Serikat |
| Cornelis | Amir Chamdin | Norwegia, Swedia |
| Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life | Joann Sfar | Prancis, Britania Raya |
| The Great Vazquez | Óscar Aibar | Spanyol |
| The Runaways | Floria Sigismondi | Amerika Serikat |
| Agora | Alejandro Amenábar | Spanyol |
| The Wildest Dream | Anthony Geffen | Amerika Serikat |
| Milk | Gus Van Sant | Amerika Serikat |
| Max Manus: Man of War | Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg | Norwegia |
| Forever Enthralled | Chen Kaige | Tiongkok |
| North Face | Philipp Stölzl | Jerman, Swiss, Austria |
| I'm Not There | Todd Haynes | Jerman, Amerika Serikat |
| A Mighty Heart | Michael Winterbottom | Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat |
| Invincible (film 2006) | Ericson Core | Amerika Serikat |
| The Amazing Grace | Jeta Amata | Nigeria, Britania Raya |
| Becoming Jane | Julian Jarrold | Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat |
| Hollywoodland | Allen Coulter | Amerika Serikat |
| Catch a Fire | Phillip Noyce | Prancis, Britania Raya, Afrika Selatan, Amerika Serikat |
| Copying Beethoven | Agnieszka Holland | Jerman, Hungaria, Amerika Serikat |
| United 93 | Paul Greengrass | Prancis, Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat |
| Good Night, and Good Luck. | George Clooney | Prancis, Amerika Serikat |
| Everything Is Illuminated | Liev Schreiber | Amerika Serikat |
| Come Into the Light | Roberto Faenza | Italia |
| Alexander | Oliver Stone | Prancis, Britania Raya, Jerman, Amerika Serikat, Italia, Belanda |
| The Motorcycle Diaries | Walter Salles | Prancis, Britania Raya, Brasil, Jerman, Spanyol, Chili, Amerika Serikat, Argentina, Peru |
| De-Lovely | Irwin Winkler | Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat |
| Salvador Allende | Patricio Guzmán | Prancis, Chili, Argentina |
| Girl with a Pearl Earring | Peter Webber | Britania Raya, Luksemburg |
| Miracle | Gavin O'Connor | Amerika Serikat |
| Gunnar Goes Comfortable | Gunnar Hall Jensen | Norwegia |
| Veronica Guerin (film) | Joel Schumacher | Britania Raya, Republik Irlandia, Amerika Serikat |
| Sibelius | Timo Koivusalo | Finlandia |
| Confessions of a Dangerous Mind | George Clooney | Kanada, Jerman, Amerika Serikat |
| Deng Xiaoping (film 2002) | Ding Yinnan | Tiongkok |
| Bad Boys | Aleksi Mäkelä | Finlandia |
| Ali | — | Amerika Serikat |