| Year | Film | Director | Producer(s) | Country | 
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| 2010 (16th)
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| The Hurt Locker | Kathryn Bigelow | Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro | United States | 
| 35 Shots of Rum | Claire Denis | Bruno Pésery | France Germany
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| Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans | Werner Herzog | Stephen Belafonte, Randall Emmett, Avi Lerner, Alan Polsky, Gabe Polsky, Edward R. Pressman | United States | 
| Still Walking | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Yoshihiro Kato, Satoshi Kōno, Hijiri Taguchi, Masahiro Yasuda | Japan | 
| The White Ribbon | Michael Haneke | Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Michael Katz, Margaret Ménégoz, Andrea Occhipinti | Germany | 
| 2011 (17th)
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| Winter's Bone | Debra Granik | Anne Rosellini, Alix Madigan-Yorkin | United States | 
| I Killed My Mother | Xavier Dolan | Xavier Dolan, Carole Mondello, Daniel Morin | Canada | 
| Jack Goes Boating | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Emily Ziff Griffin, Beth O'Neil, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub | United States | 
| The King's Speech | Tom Hooper | Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin | United Kingdom Australia
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| Mother | Bong Joon-ho | Choi Jae-won, Seo Woo-sik | South Korea | 
| Undertow | Javier Fuentes-León | Javier Fuentes-León | Peru Colombia
 France
 Germany
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| 2012 (18th)
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| The Artist | Michel Hazanavicius | Thomas Langmann | France | 
| Another Year | Mike Leigh | Georgina Lowe | United Kingdom | 
| Pariah | Dee Rees | Nekisa Cooper | United States | 
| Poetry | Lee Chang-dong | Lee Joon-dong | South Korea France
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| Weekend | Andrew Haigh | Tristan Goligher | United Kingdom | 
| 2013 (19th)
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| Perks of Being a Wallflower | Stephen Chbosky | Lianne Halfon, Russell Smith, John Malkovich | United States | 
| Beasts of the Southern Wild | Benh Zeitlin | Dan Janvey, Josh Penn, Michael Gottwald | United States | 
| Bullhead | Michaël R. Roskam | Savage Film | Belgium | 
| Monsieur Lazhar | Philippe Falardeau | Luc Déry, Kim McCraw | Canada | 
| Tyrannosaur | Paddy Considine | Diarmid Scrimshaw, Mark Herbert | United Kingdom | 
| 2014 (20th)
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| The Past | Asghar Farhadi | Alexandre Mallet-Guy | France Italy
 Iran
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| The Act of Killing | Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn | Signe Byrge Sørensen, Joram ten Brink, Michael Uwemedimo | Denmark, Indonesia, Norway, United Kingdom | 
| Frances Ha | Noah Baumbach | Noah Baumbach, Scott Rudin, Lila Yacoub, Rodrigo Teixeira | United States | 
| The Hunt | Thomas Vinterberg | Morten Kaufmann, Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark | 
| Paradise: Faith | Ulrich Seidl | Ulrich Seidl | Austria | 
| Short Term 12 | Destin Daniel Cretton | Maren Olson, Asher Goldstein, Joshua Astrachan, Ron Najor | United States | 
| 2015 (21st)
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| Boyhood | Richard Linklater | Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland, Jonathan Sehring, John Sloss | United States | 
| Birdman | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, Arnon Milchan, James W. Skotchdopole | United States | 
| A Coffee in Berlin | Jan-Ole Gerster | Jan-Ole Gerster | Germany | 
| Ida | Paweł Pawlikowski | Eric Abraham, Piotr Dzięcioł, Ewa Puszczyńska | Poland Denmark
 France
 United Kingdom
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| Like Father, Like Son | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Kaoru Matsuzaki, Hijiri Taguchi | Japan | 
| Mommy | Xavier Dolan | Xavier Dolan, Nancy Grant | Canada | 
| 2016 (22nd)
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| Spotlight | Tom McCarthy | Blye Pagon Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin, Michael Sugar | United States | 
| The Assassin | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Wen-Ying Huang, Liao Ching-Sung | Taiwan China
 Hong Kong
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| The Duke of Burgundy | Peter Strickland | Andy Starke | United Kingdom | 
| Girlhood | Céline Sciamma | Bénédicte Couvreur | France | 
| Tangerine | Sean Baker | Sean Baker, Karrie Cox, Marcus Cox, Darren Dean, Shih-Ching Tsou | United States | 
| Timbuktu | Abderrahmane Sissako | Sylvie Pialat, Étienne Comar, Remi Burah, Oliver Pere | Mauritania France
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| White God | Kornél Mundruczó | Eszter Gyárfás, Viktória Petrányi | Hungary Germany
 Sweden
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| Wild Tales | Damián Szifron | Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar, Esther García, Matías Mosteirín, Felipe Photiades, Gerardo Rozín, Hugo Sigman | Argentina Spain
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| 2017 (23rd)
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| Moonlight | Barry Jenkins | Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner | United States | 
| The Handmaiden | Park Chan-wook | Park Chan-wook, Syd Lim | South Korea | 
| Little Men | Ira Sachs | Lucas Joaquin, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Jim Lande, Ira Sachs, L. A. Teodosio | United States Greece
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| Manchester by the Sea  [2] | Kenneth Lonergan | Matt Damon, Kimberly Steward, Chris Moore, Lauren Beck, Kevin J. Walsh | United States | 
| Mountains May Depart | Jia Zhangke | Ren Zhonglun, Nathanaël Karmitz, Liu Shiyu, Shozo Ichiyama | China France
 Japan
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| Our Little Sister | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Kaoru Matsuzaki, Hijiri Taguchi | Japan | 
| 2018 (24th)
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| Call Me By Your Name | Luca Guadagnino | Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Rodrigo Teixeira, Marco Morabito, James Ivory, Howard Rosenman | Italy United States
 France
 Brazil
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| After the Storm | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Kaoru Matsuzaki, Akihiko Yose, Hijiri Taguchi | Japan | 
| I, Tonya | Craig Gillespie | Tom Ackerley, Margot Robbie, Steven Rogers, Bryan Unkeless | United States | 
| Little Boxes | Rob Meyer | Jared Ian Goldman, Jordan Horowitz, Ken H. Keller, Caron Rudner | United States | 
| Paterson | Jim Jarmusch | Joshua Astrachan, Carter Logan | United States | 
| 2019 (25th)
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| Shoplifters | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Matsuzaki Kaoru, Yose Akihiko, Taguchi Hijiri | Japan | 
| Burning | Lee Chang-dong | Lee Joon-dong, Lee Chang-dong | South Korea Japan
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| Leave No Trace | Debra Granik | Anne Harrison, Linda Reisman, Anne Rosellini | United States | 
| Madeline's Madeline | Josephine Decker | Krista Parris, Elizabeth Rao | United States | 
| The Rider | Chloé Zhao | Chloé Zhao, Mollye Asher, Bert Hamelinck, Sacha Ben Harroche | United States | 
| Suspiria | Luca Guadagnino | Marco Morabito, Bradley J. Fischer, Luca Guadagnino, David Kajganich, Silvia Venturini Fendi, Francesco Melzi d'Eril | Italy United States
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