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- Christian Bale — The Big Short
- Mark Ruffalo — Spotlight
- Mark Rylance — Bridge of Spies
- Sylvester Stallone — Creed
- Tom Hardy — The Revenant
- Bryan Cranston — Trumbo
- Eddie Redmayne — The Danish Girl
- Leonardo DiCaprio — The Revenant
- Matt Damon — The Martian
- Michael Fassbender — Steve Jobs
- Racing Extinction — "Manta Ray" by J. Ralph, Antony Hegarty
- Spectre — "Writing's on the Wall" by Jimmy Napes, Sam Smith
- The Hunting Ground — "Til It Happens to You" by Lady Gaga, Diane Warren
- Fifty Shades of Grey — "Earned It" by Abel Tesfaye, Ahmad Balshe, Jason Daheala Quenneville, Stephan Moccio
- Adam McKay — The Big Short
- George Miller — Mad Max: Fury Road
- Lenny Abrahamson — Room
- Tom McCarthy — Spotlight
- Alejandro González Iñárritu — The Revenant
- Brie Larson — Room
- Cate Blanchett — Carol
- Charlotte Rampling — 45 Years
- Jennifer Lawrence — Joy
- Saoirse Ronan — Brooklyn
- Mad Max: Fury Road — Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega, Damian Martin
- The Revenant — Siân Grigg, Duncan Jarman, Robert Pandini
- The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared — Love Larson, Eva von Bahr
- The Martian — Arthur Max, Celia Bobak
- The Revenant — Jack Fisk, Hamish Purdy
- Bridge of Spies — Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo, Bernhard Henrich
- Mad Max: Fury Road — Colin Gibson, Lisa Thompson
- The Danish Girl — Eve Stewart, Michael Standish
- Inside Out — Pete Docter,Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley, Ronnie del Carmen
- Straight Outta Compton — Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff, S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus
- Ex Machina — Alex Garland
- Spotlight — Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy
- Bridge of Spies — Matt Charman, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- The Revenant — Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mary Parent, Keith Redmon
- The Martian — Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer, Mark Huffam
- Spotlight — Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin, Blye Pagon Faust
- Brooklyn — Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey
- Room — Ed Guiney
- Mad Max: Fury Road — Doug Mitchell, George Miller
- Bridge of Spies — Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt, Kristie Macosko Krieger
- The Big Short — Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner
- Ave Maria — Basil Khalil, Eric Dupont
- Day One — Henry Hughes
- Everything Will Be Okay — Patrick Vollrath
- Shok — Jamie Donoughue
- Stutterer — Benjamin Cleary, Serena Armitage
- Sicario — Alan Robert Murray
- The Martian — Oliver Tarney
- The Revenant — Martin Hernandez, Lon Bender
- Mad Max: Fury Road — Mark Mangini, David White
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens — Matthew Wood, David Acord
- Carol — Ed Lachman
- Mad Max: Fury Road — John Seale
- Sicario — Roger Deakins
- The Hateful Eight — Robert Richardson
- The Revenant — Emmanuel Lubezki
- Body Team 12 — David Darg, Bryn Mooser
- A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
- Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah — Adam Benzine
- Chau, Beyond the Lines — Courtney Marsh, Jerry Franck
- Last Day of Freedom — Dee Hibbert-Jones, Nomi Talisman
- Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom — Evgeny Afineevsky, Den Tolmor
- Amy — Asif Kapadia, James Gay-Rees
- The Look of Silence — Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sorensen
- Cartel Land — Matthew Heineman, Tom Yellin
- What Happened, Miss Simone? — Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby, Justin Wilkes
- Bridge of Spies — Thomas Newman
- Carol — Carter Burwell
- Sicario — Jóhann Jóhannsson
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens — John Williams
- The Hateful Eight — Ennio Morricone
- Brooklyn — Nick Hornby
- Carol — Phyllis Nagy
- Room — Emma Donoghue
- The Big Short — Charles Randolph, Adam McKay
- The Martian — Drew Goddard
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens — Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan, Chris Corbould
- Mad Max: Fury Road — Andrew Jackson, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver, Andy Williams
- Ex Machina — Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington, Sara Bennett
- The Revenant — Rich McBride, Matthew Shumway, Jason Smith, Cameron Waldbauer
- The Martian — Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence, Steven Warner
- Sanjay's Super Team — Sanjay Patel, Nicole Grindle
- The Revenant — Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Randy Thom, Chris Duesterdiek
- Anomalisa — Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson, Rosa Tran
- Embrace of the Serpent from Colombia — Ciro Guerra
- A War from Denmark — Tobias Lindholm
- Alicia Vikander — The Danish Girl
- Bear Story — Gabriel Osorio, Pato Escala
- Boy & the World — Alê Abreu
- Carol — Sandy Powell
- Cinderella — Sandy Powell
- Inside Out — Pete Docter, Jonas Rivera
- Jennifer Jason Leigh — The Hateful Eight
- Kate Winslet — Steve Jobs
- Mad Max: Fury Road — Jenny Beavan
- Mad Max: Fury Road — Margaret Sixel
- Mustang from France — Deniz Gamze Ergüven
- Mad Max: Fury Road — Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff, Ben Osmo
- Prologue — Richard Williams, Imogen Sutton
- Rachel McAdams — Spotlight
- Rooney Mara — Carol
- Son of Saul from Hungary — László Nemes
- Spotlight — Tom McArdle
- The Big Short — Hank Corwin
- The Danish Girl — Paco Delgado
- The Revenant — Jacqueline West
- The Revenant — Stephen Mirrione
- Theeb from Jordan — Naji Abu Nowar
- World of Tomorrow — Don Hertzfeldt
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens — Maryann Brandon, Mary Jo Markey
- We Can't Live Without Cosmos — Konstantin Bronzit
- Shaun the Sheep Movie — Mark Burton, Richard Starzak
- Bridge of Spies — Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom, Drew Kunin
- When Marnie Was There — Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Yoshiaki Nishimura
- The Martian — Paul Massey, Mark Taylor, Mac Ruth
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens — Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio, Stuart Wilson
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