Roger Ebert 2006

1. Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)
2. Bubble (Steven Soderbergh)
3. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron)
4. The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
5. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck)
6. United 93 (Paul Greengrass)
7. Flags of Our Fathers/Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood)
8. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Tom Tykwer)
9. Babel (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
10. Man Push Cart (Ramin Bahrani)

Roger Ebert 2005

1. Crash (Paul Haggis)
2. Syriana (Stephen Gaghan)
3. Munich (Steven Spielberg)
4. Junebug (Phil Morrison)
5. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
6. Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July)
7. Nine Lives (Rodrigo Garcia)
8. King Kong (Peter Jackson)
9. Yes (Sally Potter)
10. Millions (Danny Boyle)

Roger Ebert 2004

1. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
2. Kill Bill, Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
3. Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
4. Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi)
5. Moolaade (Ousmane Sembene)
6. The Aviator (Martin Scorsese)
7. Baadasssss! (Mario Van Peebles)
8. Sideways (Alexander Payne)
9. Hotel Rwanda (Terry George)
10. Undertow (David Gordon Green)

Roger Ebert 2003

1. Monster (Patty Jenkins)
2. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
3. American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini)
4. Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich)
5. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir)
6. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
7. Owning Mahowny (Richard Kwietniowski)
8. The Son (Dardenne Brothers)
9. Whale Rider (Niki Caro)
10. In America (Jim Sheridan)