For 2007, he was ranked #7 in "Pool & Billiard Magazine"'s "Fans' Top 20 Favorite Players" poll. He competed in the 2008 World Straight Pool Championship as the Philippines' only entry. This was his first-ever participation in straight pool event. In the end, he finished at 2nd place behind Niels Feijen, the tournament winner. In 2010, Bustamante again reached the finals of the World Nine-ball Championship. Unlike his first final eight years ago, fate did not deny him. Bustamante won the match and the title against Taiwan's Kuo Po-cheng, a second-placer in the 2005 event. On July 27, 2010, Francisco Bustamante, along with Terry Bell and Larry Hubbart who are founders of the American Pool Players Association (APA), were elected to the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame. In this, Bustamante would become the second player from the Philippines after Efren Reyes to be added. The three were inducted on October 21, 2010. On June 15, 2008, Efren Reyes, Francisco "Django" Bustamante, and 2007 Women's Amway World Pool Championships finalist, Rubilen "Bingkay" Amit, will begin photography and had been cast to star with American Jennifer Barretta in an independent film, "9-Ball", at Universal Studios. This movie will be directed and produced by Main Street Production's Anthony Palma, with Ralph Clemente as executive producer.[15]