Other films in the shortlist included Chan-wook Park's "Oldboy" from South Korea and Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki's animated film "Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi" ("Spirited Away").
Mr. Park's best films, like the 2003 "Oldboy, " are Shakespearean in their violence, wildly surreal in their working out of convoluted plots that often turn on revenge.