01) Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
02) In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)
03) Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard)
04) Ghost Town (David Koepp)
05) The Bank Job (Roger Donaldson)
06) Body of Lies (Ridley Scott)
07) Lakeview Terrace (Neil LaBute)
08) Standard Operating Procedure (Errol Morris)
09) The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)
10) Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)

Honorable Mention: Milk, The Dark Knight, Wall-E, Splinter, Paranoid Park, Religulous, Recount, Encounters at the End of the World, Taken

Worst of 2008:
01) Seven Pounds (Gabriele Muccino)
02) Funny Games (Michael Haneke)
03) Righteous Kill (Jon Avnet)
04) 88 Minutes (Jon Avnet)
05) Max Payne (John Moore)
06) The Happening (M. Night Shyamalan)
07) Be Kind Rewind (Michel Gondry)
08) Blindness (Fernando Meirelles)
09) Rambo (Sylvester Stallone)
10) Mamma Mia! (Phyllida Lloyd)