| Year |
Title |
Director(s) |
Country of production |
2000
(13th) | Dancer in the Dark | Lars von Trier | Denmark |
2001
(14th) | Amélie | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | France |
| The Son's Room | Nanni Moretti | Italy |
| Bridget Jones's Diary | Sharon Maguire | United Kingdom |
| Chocolat | Lasse Hallström | United Kingdom, United States |
| Enemy at the Gates | Jean-Jacques Annaud | France, Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| The Experiment | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Germany |
| Hannibal | Ridley Scott | United States |
| Intimacy | Patrice Chéreau | France, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain |
| Italian for Beginners | Lone Scherfig | Denmark, Sweden |
| The Piano Teacher | Michael Haneke | France, Austria, Germany |
| The Crimson Rivers | Mathieu Kassovitz | France |
| Brotherhood of the Wolf | Christophe Gans | France |
| Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella | Santiago Segura | Spain |
| Malèna | Giuseppe Tornatore | Italy |
| The Princess and the Warrior | Tom Tykwer | Germany |
| Common Wealth | Álex de la Iglesia | Spain |
2002
(15th) | Talk to Her | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| The Man Without a Past | Aki Kaurismäki | Finland, Germany, France |
| Bloody Sunday | Paul Greengrass | Ireland, United Kingdom |
| All or Nothing | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom |
| The Spanish Apartment | Cédric Klapisch | France, Spain |
| Burning in the Wind | Silvio Soldini | Italy, Switzerland |
| The Son | Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne | Belgium, France |
| Grill Point | Andreas Dresen | Germany |
| My Mother's Smile | Marco Bellocchio | Italy |
| Minor Mishaps | Annette K. Olesen | Denmark, Sweden |
| The Best Day of My Life | Cristina Comencini | Italy |
2003
(16th) | Good Bye, Lenin! | Wolfgang Becker | Germany |
| 28 Days Later | Danny Boyle | United Kingdom |
| Swimming Pool | François Ozon | France, United Kingdom |
| Dogville | Lars von Trier | Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Italy |
| The Man on the Train | Patrice Leconte | France |
| Mondays in the Sun | Fernando León de Aranoa | Spain |
| Noi the Albino | Dagur Kári | Iceland |
| Respiro | Emanuele Crialese | Italy |
| Distant | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Turkey |
| Kitchen Stories | Bent Hamer | Norway, Sweden |
2004
(17th) | Head-On | Fatih Akın | Germany, Turkey |
| Code 46 | Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom |
| Bad Education | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow | Theo Angelopoulos | Greece, France, Italy, Germany |
| The Dreamers | Bernardo Bertolucci | Italy, France, United Kingdom |
| Since Otar Left | Julie Bertuccelli | France, Belgium |
| Take My Eyes | Icíar Bollaín | Spain |
| Love Actually | Richard Curtis | United Kingdom |
| Intimate Strangers | Patrice Leconte | France |
2005
(18th) | Sophie Scholl – The Final Days | Marc Rothemund | Germany |
| Night Watch | Timur Bekmambetov | Russia |
| The Perfect Crime | Álex de la Iglesia | Spain |
| A Very Long Engagement | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | France |
| Enduring Love | Roger Michell | United Kingdom |
| Being Julia | István Szabó | Hungary, Canada, United States |
| The Consequences of Love | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy |
| As It Is in Heaven | Kay Pollak | Sweden |
| Go for Zucker! | Dani Levy | Germany |
| The Beat That My Heart Skipped | Jacques Audiard | France |
2006
(19th) | Volver | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| March of the Penguins | Luc Jacquet | France |
| Pride and Prejudice | Joe Wright | United Kingdom, France, United States |
| Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | Nick Park, Steve Box | United Kingdom |
| Something Like Happiness | Bohdan Sláma | Czech Republic, Germany |
| Criminal Novel | Michele Placido | Italy |
| Paradise Now | Hany Abu-Assad | Palestine, Netherlands, Israel, Germany, France |
| Oliver Twist | Roman Polanski | United Kingdom, Czech Republic, France, Italy |
| Merry Christmas | Christian Carion | France, Germany, United Kingdom, Belgium, Romania |
| The Elementary Particles | Oskar Roehler | Germany |
| Adam's Apples | Anders Thomas Jensen | Denmark |
| The Child | Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne | Belgium |
2007
(20th) | The Unknown Woman | Giuseppe Tornatore | Italy |
| I Served the King of England | Jiří Menzel | Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Hungary |
| The Last King of Scotland | Kevin Macdonald | United Kingdom, Germany |
| Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | Tom Tykwer | Germany, Spain, France |
| 12:08 East of Bucharest | Corneliu Porumboiu | Romania |
| The Queen | Stephen Frears | United Kingdom |
| La Vie en Rose | Olivier Dahan | France, Canada |
| Reprise | Joachim Trier | Norway |
| Black Book | Paul Verhoeven | Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom, Belgium |
| Alatriste | Agustín Díaz Yanes | Spain |
| 2 Days in Paris | Julie Delpy | France, Germany |
2008
(21st) | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | David Yates | United Kingdom |
| [REC] | Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza | Spain |
| Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan | Sergei Bodrov | Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan |
| Rabbit Without Ears | Til Schweiger | Germany |
| Atonement | Joe Wright | United Kingdom, France |
| Welcome to the Sticks | Dany Boon | France |
| The Wave | Dennis Gansel | Germany |
| The Orphanage | Juan Antonio Bayona | Spain, Mexico |
| Hunting and Gathering | Claude Berri | France |
| Ben X | Nic Balthazar | Belgium, Netherlands |
| Arn – The Knight Templar | Peter Flinth | Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany |
| Saturn in Opposition | Ferzan Özpetek | Italy |
2009
(22nd) | Slumdog Millionaire | Danny Boyle | United Kingdom |
| Transporter 3 | Olivier Megaton | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| Mid-August Lunch | Gianni di Gregorio | Italy |
| Let the Right One In | Tomas Alfredson | Sweden |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Niels Arden Oplev | Sweden |
| Fly Me to the Moon | Ben Stassen | Belgium, United States |
| The Duchess | Saul Dibb | United Kingdom, United States |
| Coco Before Chanel | Anne Fontaine | France, Belgium |
| Broken Embraces | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| The Baader Meinhof Complex | Uli Edel | Germany, France, Czech Republic |
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