Top Tier Contenders
- 1 The Counselor – Cormac McCarthy
- 2 Captain Phillips – Billy Ray
- 3 Fruitvale Station - Ryan Coogler
- 4 Inside Llewyn Davis - Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
- 5 Gravity - Alfonso Cuaron and Jonas Cuaron
- 6 Can a Song Save Your Life? - John Carney
- 7 American Hustle – Eric Singer
- 8 The Immigrant – James Gray, Ric Menello
- 9 Frances Ha - Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig
- 10 Nebraska - Bob Nelson
- 11 The Past - Asghar Farhadi
- 12 Prisoners - Aaron Guzikowski
- 13 Dallas Buyer’s Club - Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack
- 14 Saving Mr. Banks - Sue Smith, Kelly Marcel
- 15 The Bling Ring - Sofia Coppola
- 16 Out of the Furnace - Brad Inglesby and Scott Cooper
- 17 The Grand Budapest Hotel - Wes Anderson
- 18 Stories We Tell - Sarah Polley
- 19 The Rocket - Kim Mourdant
- 20 Blue Jasmine - Woody Allen
Also In Contention
- 21 Diana – Stephen Jeffreys
- 22 The Kings of Summer – Chris Galletta
- 23 Rush - Peter Morgan
- 24 Parkland – Peter Landesman
- 25 Elysium - Neill Blomkamp
- 26 Only God Forgives – Nicolas Winding Refn
- 27 Nymphomaniac - Lars von Trier
- 28 The Sapphires - Tony Biggs, Keith Thompson
- 29 Kill Your Darlings - Austin Bunn, John Krokidas
- 30 Grace of Monaco - Arash Amel
- 31 Runner Runner – Brian Koppelman, David Levien
- 32 Girl Most Likely – Michelle Morgan
- 33 The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: His - Ned Benson
- 34 The Zero Theorem - Pat Rushin
- 35 33 Dias - Elias Querejeta, Carlos Saura, Louis-Charles Sirjaca
- 36 Only Lovers Left Alive - Jim Jarmusch
- 37 Hide Your Smiling Faces – Daniel Patrick Carbone
- 38 Closed Circuit - Steven Knight
- 39 The Way, Way Back - Nat Faxon and Jim Rash
- 40 G.B.F. – George Northy
