| Year | Film | Winners and nominees | Ref. |
|---|
| 2005 | The Squid and the Whale | William Baldwin,Jeff Daniels,Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline,Laura Linney,Anna Paquin | [1] |
| Brokeback Mountain | Linda Cardellini,Anna Faris,Jake Gyllenhaal,Anne Hathaway,Heath Ledger,Randy Quaid,Michelle Williams |
| Crash | Chris "Ludacris" Bridges,Sandra Bullock,Don Cheadle,Matt Dillon,Jennifer Esposito,William Fichtner,Brendan Fraser,Nona Gaye,Terrence Howard,Thandie Newton,Michael Peña,Ryan Phillippe,Larenz Tate |
| Good Night, and Good Luck | Patricia Clarkson,George Clooney,Jeff Daniels,Robert Downey Jr.,Frank Langella,David Strathairn |
| Nine Lives | Kathy Baker,Amy Brenneman,Elpidia Carrillo,Glenn Close,Stephen Dillane,Dakota Fanning,William Fichtner,Lisa Gay Hamilton,Jason Isaacs,Joe Mantegna,Ian McShane,Molly Parker,Mary Kay Place,Sydney Tamiia Poitier,Aidan Quinn,Miguel Sandoval,Amanda Seyfried,Sissy Spacek,Robin Wright Penn |
| 2006 | Babel | Boubker Ait El Caid,Adriana Barraza,Gael García Bernal,Cate Blanchett,Rinko Kikuchi,Brad Pitt, Said Tarchani,Kōji Yakusho | [2] |
| For Your Consideration | Bob Balaban,Jennifer Coolidge,Christopher Guest,John Michael Higgins,Eugene Levy,Jane Lynch,Michael McKean,Catherine O'Hara,Parker Posey,Harry Shearer,Fred Willard |
| Little Miss Sunshine | Alan Arkin,Abigail Breslin,Steve Carell,Toni Collette,Paul Dano,Greg Kinnear |
| A Prairie Home Companion | Woody Harrelson,Tommy Lee Jones,L. Q. Jones,Garrison Keillor,Kevin Kline,Lindsay Lohan,Virginia Madsen,John C. Reilly,Maya Rudolph,Tim Russell,Sue Scott,Meryl Streep,Lily Tomlin |
| Shortbus | Raphael Barker,Lindsay Beamish,Jay Brannan,Justin Vivian Bond,Paul Dawson,PJ DeBoy,Sook-Yin Lee,Peter Stickles |
| 2007 | Before the Devil Knows You're Dead | Albert Finney,Rosemary Harris,Ethan Hawke,Philip Seymour Hoffman,Brían F. O'Byrne,Amy Ryan,Michael Shannon,Marisa Tomei | [3] |
| Talk to Me | Cedric the Entertainer,Don Cheadle,Chiwetel Ejiofor,Mike Epps,Vondie Curtis Hall,Taraji P. Henson,Martin Sheen |
| The Last Winter | Connie Britton,Kevin Corrigan,Zach Gilford,James LeGros,Ron Perlman |
| Margot at the Wedding | Jack Black, Flora Cross,Ciarán Hinds,Nicole Kidman,Jennifer Jason Leigh, Zane Pais,John Turturro |
| The Savages | Philip Bosco,Philip Seymour Hoffman,Laura Linney |
| 2008 | Synecdoche, New York | Hope Davis,Philip Seymour Hoffman,Catherine Keener,Jennifer Jason Leigh,Samantha Morton,Tom Noonan,Emily Watson,Dianne Wiest,Michelle Williams | [4] |
| Vicky Cristina Barcelona | Javier Bardem,Penélope Cruz,Rebecca Hall,Scarlett Johansson |
| Ballast | Johnny McPhail, Tarra Riggs, Jim Myron Ross, Michael J. Smith Sr. |
| Rachel Getting Married | Tunde Adebimpe,Rosemarie DeWitt, Anisa George,Anne Hathaway,Bill Irwin,Anna Deavere Smith,Debra Winger,Mather Zickel |
| The Visitor | Hiam Abbass,Danai Gurira,Richard Jenkins,Haaz Sleiman |
| 2009 | The Hurt Locker | Ralph Fiennes,Brian Geraghty,Evangeline Lilly,Anthony Mackie,David Morse,Guy Pearce,Jeremy Renner | [5] |
| Adventureland | Jesse Eisenberg,Bill Hader,Margarita Levieva,Ryan Reynolds,Martin Starr,Kristen Stewart,Kristen Wiig |
| Cold Souls | Paul Giamatti,Dina Korzun,David Strathairn,Emily Watson,Katheryn Winnick |
| A Serious Man | Richard Kind,Sari Lennick,Fred Melamed,Michael Stuhlbarg |
| Sugar | Richard Bull,Michael Gaston,Andre Holland, Ellary Porterfield, Rayniel Rufino,Algenis Perez Soto, Jaime Tirelli, Ann Whitney |