| Anthropoid | Sean Ellis | France, United Kingdom, Czech Republic |
| Xuanzang | Huo Jianqi | People's Republic of China, India |
| In the Heart of the Sea | Ron Howard | Spain, United States, Australia |
| Bridge of Spies | Steven Spielberg | Germany, United States, India |
| Aferim! | Radu Jude | France, Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria |
| Amour Fou | Jessica Hausner | Germany, Luxembourg, Austria |
| Selma | Ava DuVernay | United Kingdom, United States |
| Michael Kohlhaas | Arnaud des Pallières | France, Germany |
| In the Crosswind | Martti Helde | Estonia |
| Argo | — | United States |
| The Mill and the Cross | Lech Majewski | Sweden, Poland |
| The King's Speech | Tom Hooper | United Kingdom |
| Sacrifice | Chen Kaige | People's Republic of China |
| Aftershock | Feng Xiaogang | People's Republic of China |
| Pope Joan | Sönke Wortmann | United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy |
| Chicogrande | Felipe Cazals | Mexico |
| Agora | Alejandro Amenábar | Spain |
| Arn – The Kingdom at Road's End | Peter Flinth | United Kingdom, Germany, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark |
| The Warlords | Peter Chan | People's Republic of China |
| American Gangster | Ridley Scott | United States |
| 1612 | Vladimir Khotinenko | Russia |
| The Counterfeiters | Stefan Ruzowitzky | Germany, Austria |
| The Tokyo Trial | Gao Qunshu | People's Republic of China |
| Fearless | Ronny Yu | People's Republic of China, Hong Kong |
| Kingdom of Heaven | Ridley Scott | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| The Aviator | Martin Scorsese | United States |
| Downfall | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Germany, Italy, Austria |
| Zhang Side | Yin Li | People's Republic of China |
| King Arthur | Antoine Fuqua | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| Girl with a Pearl Earring | Peter Webber | United Kingdom, Luxembourg |
| Taegukgi | Kang Je-gyu | South Korea |
| Gangs of New York | Martin Scorsese | United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Italy, Netherlands |
| K-19: The Widowmaker | Kathryn Bigelow | United Kingdom, Russia, Canada, Germany, United States |
| Brotherhood of the Wolf | Christophe Gans | France, Venezuela |
| In the Days of Whore | Thomas Zupko | United States |
| Prymas. Trzy lata z tysiąca | Teresa Kotlarczyk | Poland |
| The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc | Luc Besson | France |
| Roaring Across the Horizon | Chen Guoxing | People's Republic of China |
| The Opium War | Xie Jin | People's Republic of China |
| Titanic | James Cameron | United States |
| The Erotic Adventures of Marco Polo | Luca Damiano, Joe D'Amato | Italy |
| Apollo 13 | Ron Howard | United States |
| The Chongqing Negotiation | Li Qiankuan, Zhang Yifei, Xiao Guiyun | People's Republic of China |
| The Assassin of the Tsar | Karen Shakhnazarov | United Kingdom, Soviet Union |
| La teranyina | Antoni Verdaguer i Serra | Spain |
| Glory | Edward Zwick | United States |
| The Birth of New China | Li Qiankuan, Xiao Guiyun | People's Republic of China |
| Asterix in Britain | Pino van Lamsweerde | France, Denmark |