1. Where the Wild Things Are
2. An Education
3. The Hurt Locker
4. Fantastic Mr. Fox
5. Up in the Air
6. (500) Days of Summer
7. Inglorious Basterds
8. Crazy Heart
9. A Serious Man
10. The Informant!
11. The Brothers Bloom
12. Adam
13. Moon
14. Brothers
15. The Hangover
16. Avatar
17. Star Trek
18. Sunshine Cleaning
19. Away We Go
20. Public Enemies
21. Up
22. Adventureland
23. Precious
24. Sugar
25. Coraline
26. State of Play
27. The Messenger

1. mewithoutYou - It's all crazy! It's all false! It's all a dream! It's alright.
2. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
3. Kings of Convenience - Declaration of Dependence
4. God Help the Girl - God Help the Girl
5. The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
6. M. Ward - Hold Time
7. Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything to Nothing
8. A Fine Frenzy - Bomb in a Birdcage
9. Tegan and Sara - Sainthood
10. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
11. Regina Spe...

1. The Dark Knight
2. The Wrestler
3. Slumdog Millionaire
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5. WALL-E
6. Let the Right One In
7. I've Loved You So Long
8. Revolutionary Road
9. Gran Torino
10. Changeling
11. Milk
12. The Reader
13. The Visitor
14. Wendy and Lucy
15. Rachel Getting Married
16. Iron Man
17. In Bruges
18. Doubt
19. Burn After Reading
20. Boy A

(Honorable Mentions: Pineapple Express, Frozen River)

1. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
2. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
3. She & Him - Volume 1
4. Kings of Leon - Only By The Night
5. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
6. Jamie Lidell - JIM
7. Cœur de Pirate - Cœur de Pirate
8. Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
9. Copeland - You Are My Sunshine
10. Cold War Kids - Loyalty to Loyalty
11. Meiko - Meiko
12. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
13. Death Cab For Cutie- Narrow Stairs
14. The Black Keys - Attack and Release
15. Flight...

1. There Will Be Blood
2. No Country for Old Men
3. Juno
4. Zodiac
5. Lars and the Real Girl
6. Margot at the Wedding
7. The Darjeeling Limited
8. 3:10 to Yuma
9. Once
10. Across the Universe
11. Atonement
12. Eastern Promises
13. The Savages
14. Into the Wild
15. Ratatouille
16. The Bourne Ultimatum
17. Breach
18. Sweeny Todd
19. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

(Honorable Mentions: Paris, Je T'aime, Rescue Dawn, The Diving Bell & The Butterfly)

1. Fiest - The Reminder
2. Band of Horse - Cease to Begin
3. Ingrid Michaelson - Girls and Boys
4. Rilo Kiley - Under the Blacklight
5. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
6. MIKA - Life in Cartoon Motion
7. Rooney - Calling the World
8. Lovedrug - Everything Starts Where it Ends
9. Radiohead - In Rainbows
10. Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
11. Various Artists - Juno Soundtrack
12. Norah Jones - Not Too Late
13. Over the Rhine - The Trumpet Child
14. The Shins - Winc...