| Year | Movie | Winner and Nominee |
| 2003 | | Grant Major, Dan Hennah and Alan Lee |
| 2003 | ' | |
| 2003 | The Last Samurai | |
| 2003 | ' | |
| 2003 | Seabiscuit | |
| 2003 | Whale Rider | |
| 2004 | De-Lovely | Eve Stewart, John Bush and John Hill |
| 2004 | The Aviator | |
| 2004 | House of Flying Daggers | |
| 2004 | The Phantom of the Opera | |
| 2004 | Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow | |
| 2004 | Vanity Fair | |
| 2005 | Good Night, and Good Luck | James D. Bissell |
| 2005 | Kingdom of Heaven | |
| 2005 | Memoirs of a Geisha | |
| 2005 | Modigliani | |
| 2005 | Sin City | |
| 2005 | ' | |
| 2006 | Flags of Our Fathers | Henry Bumstead, Jack G. Taylor Jr. and Richard C. Goddard |
| 2006 | Dreamgirls | |
| 2006 | Marie Antoinette | |
| 2006 | Pan's Labyrinth | |
| 2006 | V for Vendetta | |
| 2007 | | Guy Hendrix Dyas and David Allday |
| 2007 | Across the Universe | |
| 2007 | Amazing Grace | |
| 2007 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | |
| 2007 | Hairspray | |
| 2007 | Sunshine | |
| 2008 | Australia | Catherine Martin, Ian Gracie and Karen Murphy |
| 2008 | Brideshead Revisited | Alice Normington, Thomas Brown, Lynne Huitson, Ben Munro |
| 2008 | City of Ember | Martin Laing, Jon Billington, Ross Bradshaw, James Foster, Ashleigh Jeffers |
| 2008 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Donald Graham Burt, Kelly Curley, Michele Laliberte, Randy Moore, Scott Plauche, Tom Reta |
| 2008 | The Duchess | Michael Carlin and Karen Wakefield |
| 2008 | Revolutionary Road | Kristi Zea, Teresa Carriker-Thayer, John Kasarda, Nicholas Lundy |
| 2009 | A Single Man | Dan Bishop and Ian Phillips' |
| 2009 | 2012 | Barry Chusid and Elizabeth Wilcox |
| 2009 | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | Anastasia Masaro, Dave Warren, Terry Gilliam |
| 2009 | Public Enemies | Nathan Crowley, Patrick Lumb, William Ladd Skinner |
| 2009 | Red Cliff | Eddy Wong and Tim Yip |
| 2009 | The Road'' | Chris Kennedy |
