Best Up and Coming Directors (2009 Edition)

a. Coaching the Minors (2003)
b. Father of Invention (2010)

a. 1408 (2007)
b. Shanghai (2009)

a. The Contender (2000)
b. Nothing But the Truth (2008)
c. Straw Dogs (2010)

a. Run Lola Run (1999)
b. The International (2009)
c. What is the What (2011)

a. The Crow (1994)
b. Dark City (1999)
c. I, Robot (2004)
d. Knowing (2009)
e. The Tripods (2011)

I know this is an iffy selection because he's been around for a while but he wasn't good enough for the last list and I didn't want to exclude him all together.

a. Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
b. Get Him to the Greek (2010)
c. Five-Year Engagement (2011)

a. Velvet Goldmine (1999)
b. I'm Not There (2007)

a. The Men Who Stare at Goats (2010)
b. Suburbicon (2011)

a. Control (2007)
b. A Very Private Gentleman (2010)

and Mark Duplass

a. The Puffy Chair (2005)
b. Baghead (2008)
c. The Do-Deca-Pentathlon (2009)

a. Hard Candy (2005)
b. 30 Days of Night (2007)
c. Twilight: Eclipse (2010)

a. Hustle and Flow (2005)
b. Black Snake Moan (2007)
c. Maggie Lynn (2010)
d. Mother Trucker (2011)

a. Man on Wire (2008)
b. Red Riding: 1980 (2009)
c. Prey (2010)

a. Pollock (2000)
b. Appaloosa (2008)

a. District 9 (2009)

a. (500) Days of Summer (2009)
b. Age of Rage (2011)

a. Tsotsi (2005)
b. Rendition (2007)
c. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

and Allen Hughes

a. American Pimp (1999)
b. Book of Eli (2010)

a. The Illusionist (2006)
b. The Lucky Ones (2008)
c. Bride of Frankenstein (2011)

a. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
b. Reservation Raod (2007)

a. Bobby (2006)
b. The Public (2010)
c. The Way (2010)

a. Sin Nombre (2009)
b. Beasts of No Nation (2011)

a. The Matador (2005)
b. The Hunting Party (2007)
c. I Knew it Was You: Rediscovering John Cazele (2009)
d. Diamond Anniversary (2010)

a. Gone Baby Gone (2007)
b. The Blade Itself (2010)
c. Arizona (2011)

a. Monsters, Inc. (2001)
b. Up (2009)

a. 9 (2009)

a. Donnie Darko (2001)
b. Southland Tales (2006)
c. The Box (2009)

a. You Can Count on Me (2000)
b. Margaret (2009)

a. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
b. Good Night and Good Luck (2006)
c. The Challenge (2010)

a. Brick (2005)
b. The Brothers Bloom (2009)
c. Looper (2011)

and Valerie Faris

a. Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
b. The Abstinence Teacher (2010)
c. Used Guys (2011)

a. The Proposition (2006)
b. The Road (2009)
c. Death of a Ladies' Man (2010)

a. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
b. Cities on the Plain (2012)

a. The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
b. Seven Pounds (2008)
c. Kiss Me Again (2010)

a. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
b. Lou Reed's Berlin (2008)
c. Miral (2010)

a. Whistle (2002)
b. Moon (2009)
c. Escape From the Deep (2011)

a. All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2005)
b. The Wackness (2008)
c. Echelon Vendetta (2010)

a. Love Actually (2003)
b. The Boat That Rocked (2009)

a. Michael Clayton (2007)
b. Duplicity (2009)

a. Synecdoche, New York (2008)

a. Atonement (2007)
b. The Soloist (2009)
c. Indian Summer (2010)

a. Chicago (2002)
b. Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
c. Nine (2009)

a. Superbad (2007)
b. Adventureland (2009)
c. Paul (2010)

a. All the Real Girls (2003)
b. Pineapple Express (2008)
c. Your Highness (2010)
d. Mr. Machine (2011)
e. Chef Ron (2011)

a. The Great World of Sound (2007)
b. Turkey in the Straw (2010)

a. Crash (2005)
b. In the Valley of Elah (2007)
c. The Next Three Days (2010)

a. 300 (2007)
b. Watchmen (2009)
c. Guardians of Ga'Hoole (2010)
d. Sucker Punch (2011)

a. Along Came Polly (2004)
b. I Love You, Man (2009)
c. The Troubleshooter (2010)
d. Secret Agent Men (2011)

a. Mission: Impossible III (2006)
b. Star Trek (2009)
c. Anatomy of Hope (2010)

a. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)
b. Four Christmases (2008)
c. The Only Living Boy in New York (2010)
d. King Dork (2011)