Best Up and Coming Directors (2014 Edition)

a. Nowhere Boy (2010)
b. Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

a. Smashed (2012)
b. The Spectacular Now (2013)

a. Please Give (2010)
b. Enough Said (2013)

a. Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
b. Untitled Project (2016)

a. No End in Sight (2007)
b. Inside Job (2010)
c. Hillary Clinton Documentary (2015)

a. Let the Right One In (2008)
b. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
c. The Brothers Lionheart (2016)

a. Margin Call (2011)
b. All is Lost (2013)
c. A Most Violent Year (2015)*

a. The Avengers (2012)
b. Much Ado About Nothing (2013)
c. The Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

a. Away from Her (2006)
b. Take This Waltz (2012)
c. Stories We Tell (2013)
d. Alias Grace (2015)

a. CRAZY (2006)
b. The Young Victoria (2009)
c. Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
d. Wild (2014)

a. Miracle (2004)
b. Pride and Glory (2008)
c. Warrior (2011)
d. Jane Got a Gun (2014)

a. Anvil!: The Story of Anvil (2009)
b. Hitchcock (2012)
c. My Dinner with Herve (2015)

a. Submarine (2011)
b. The Double (2014)

a. Animal Kingdom (2010)
b. The Rover (2014)

a. Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
b. The Future (2011)

a. Zombieland (2009)
b. 30 Minutes or Less (2011)
c. The Gangster Squad (2013)

a. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
b. 21 Jump Street (2012)
c. The Lego Movie (2014)
d. 22 Jump Street (2014)

a. An Education (2009)
b. One Day (2011)
c. Posh (2014)

a. Shotgun Stories (2008)
b. Take Shelter (2011)
c. Mud (2013)
d. Midnight Special (2014)

a. The Girl from Monaco (2008)
b. Coco Before Chanel (2009)
c. Gemma Bovary (2014)

a. OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
b. OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009)
c. The Artist (2011)
d. The Search (2014)

a. Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
b. Get Him to the Greek (2010)
c. Five-Year Engagement (2012)
d. Neighbors (2014)

a. Incendies (2011)
b. Prisoners (2013)
c. Enemy (2014)*

a. Bridesmaids (2011)
b. The Heat (2013)
c. Susan Cooper (2015)

a. In Bruges (2008)
b. Seven Psychopaths (2012)

a. Touching the Void (2003)
b. State of Play (2009)
c. Marley (2012)
d. Black Sea (2014)

a. The Wackness (2008)
b. 50/50 (2011)

a. Love Actually (2003)
b. Pirate Radio (2009)
c. About Time (2013)

a. Primer (2004)
b. Upstream Color (2013)

a. The Matador (2005)
b. The Hunting Party (2007)
c. Dom Hemingway (2014)

a. Crazy Heart (2009)
b. Out of the Furnace (2013)
c. Black Mass (2015)

a. The Illusionist (2006)
b. Limitless (2011)
c. Divergent (2014)

a. Synecdoche, New York (2008)
b. Anomalisa (2014)
c. How and Why (2015)

a. Irreversible (2002)
b. Enter the Void (2010)
c. The Golden Suicides (2015)

a. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)
b. Four Christmases (2008)
c. Horrible Bosses (2011)
d. Identity Thief (2013)
e. Marry Me (2014)

a. Michael Clayton (2008)
b. Duplicity (2009)
c. The Bourne Legacy (2012)

a. Hunger (2008)
b. Shame (2011)
c. 12 Years a Slave (2013)

a. Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
b. Ruby Sparks (2012)
c. The Good Luck of Right Now (2015)

a. Thumbsucker (2005)
b. The Beginners (2011)

a. Capote (2005)
b. Moneyball (2011)
c. Foxcatcher (2014)*

a. (500) Days of Summer (2009)
b. The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
c. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
d. The Only Living Boy in New York (2015)

a. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
b. Killing Them Softly (2012)
c. Blonde (2015)

a. Along Came Polly (2004)
b. I love You, Man (2009)
c. Brother from Another Mother (2015)

a. Monsters, Inc. (2001)
b. Up (2009)
c. Inside Out (2015)*

a. District 9 (2009)
b. Elysium (2013)
c. Chappie (2015)

a. Great World of Sound (2007)
b. Compliance (2012)
c. Z for Zachariah (2015)

a. Moon (2009)
b. Source Code (2011)
c. Warcraft (2016)

a. One Hour Photo (2002)
b. Never Let Me Go (2010)
c. The Visitors (2014)
d. The Lost Symbol (2016)*

a. Blue Valentine (2010)
b. The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)
c. Cagefighter (2014)*
d. Metalhead (2016)

a. Control (2007)
b. The American (2010)
c. A Most Wanted Man (2014)*
d. Life (2015)