- Spin me round, IFC Films ; executive produced by Mark Duplass [and 3 others] ; written by Jeff Baena & Alison Brie ; directed by Jeff Baena
- Devil's knot, RLJ Entertainment ; Worldview Entertainment ; The Weinstein Company ; produced by Elizabeth Fowler [and others] ; written by Paul Harris Boardman & Scott Derrickson ; directed by Atom Egoyan
- Mansfield Park, Miramax Films ; BBC Films ; The Arts Council of England ; produced by Sarah Curtis ; written and directed by Patricia Rozema
- Amsterdam, 20th Century Studios ; Regency Enterprises ; written and directed by David O. Russell
- Jurassic Park III, Universal Pictures; Amblin Entertainment ; producers, Kathleen Kennedy, Larry Franco ; writers, Peter Buchman, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor ; director, Joe Johnston
- Howl [2010], Oscilloscope Laboratories presents ; a Werc Werk Works production ; in association with Telling Pictures and Rabbit Bandini productions ; produced by Elizabeth Redleaf, Christine Kunewa Walker ; written for the screen and directed by Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman ; produced by Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
- A most violent year, A24 ; Participant Media [and others] ; produced by Neal Dodson, Anna Gerb and J.C. Chandor ; written and directed by J.C. Chandor
- Disobedience, Bleecker Street ; Film4 [and others] ; produced by Frida Torresblanco, Ed Guiney, Rachel Weisz ; screenplay by Sebastián Lelio, Rebecca Lenkiewicz ; directed by Sebastián Lelio
- Selma, Paramount Pictures ; Pathé ; Harpo Films [and others] ; produced by Oprah Winfrey [and others] ; written by Paul Webb ; directed by Ava Duvernay
- Laurel Canyon, Sony Pictures Classics presents in association with Good Machine International an Antidote Films production, a film by Lisa Cholodenko ; producers, Susan A. Stover, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte ; written & directed by Lisa Cholodenko
- The art of self-defense, Bleeker Street presents an End Cue production ; produced by Cody Ryder, Andrew Kortschak, Stephanie Whonsetler, Walter Kortschak ; written and directed by Riley Stearns
- The clearing, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Thousand Words present in association with Mediastream III, a Thousand Words/Wildwood Enterprises production ; produced by Palmer West, Jonah Smith ; screenplay by Justin Haythe ; produced and directed by Pieter Jan Brugge
- You were never really here, Amazon Studios ; written and directed by Lynne Ramsay
- The many saints of Newark, Warner Bros. Pictures ; New Line Cinema ; Home Box Office ; written by David Chase & Lawrence Konner ; directed by Alan Taylor
- The wizard of lies, HBO Films ; a Tribeca, Levinson/Fontana production ; screenplay by Sam Levinson and John Burnham Schwartz and Samuel Baum ; directed by Barry Levinson
- $5 a day, Capitol Films ; Carol Baum Productions ; Goldenring Productions ; Grand Army Entertainment ; Road Rebel ; produced by Carol Baum, Jane Goldenring, Kia Jam ; written by Neal H. Dobrofsky, Tippi Dobrofsky ; directed by Nigel Cole