Boyhood – Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland
Birdman – Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole* The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson* The Imitation Game – Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky and Teddy Schwarzman* The Theory of Everything – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce and Anthony McCarten | Richard Linklater – Boyhood* Alejandro González Iñárritu – Birdman* Damien Chazelle – Whiplash* James Marsh – The Theory of Everything* Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel |
| Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking* Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game as Alan Turing* Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler as Louis Bloom* Michael Keaton – Birdman as Riggan Thomson* Ralph Fiennes – The Grand Budapest Hotel as Monsieur Gustave H. | Julianne Moore – Still Alice as Alice Daly Howland* Amy Adams – Big Eyes as Margaret Keane* Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything as Jane Hawking* Reese Witherspoon – Wild as Cheryl Strayed* Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl as Amy Elliott Dunne |
| J. K. Simmons – Whiplash as Terence Fletcher* Edward Norton – Birdman as Mike Shiner* Ethan Hawke – Boyhood as Mason Evans Sr.* Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher as Dave Schultz* Steve Carell – Foxcatcher as John du Pont | Patricia Arquette – Boyhood as Olivia Evans* Emma Stone – Birdman as Sam Thomson* Imelda Staunton – Pride as Hefina Headon* Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game as Joan Clarke* Rene Russo – Nightcrawler as Nina Romina |
| The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson* Birdman – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr. and Armando Bó* Boyhood – Richard Linklater* Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy* Whiplash – Damien Chazelle | The Theory of Everything – Anthony McCarten* American Sniper – Jason Hall* Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn* The Imitation Game – Graham Moore* Paddington – Paul King |
| Birdman – Emmanuel Lubezki* The Grand Budapest Hotel – Robert Yeoman* Ida – Łukasz Żal and Ryszard Lenczewski* Interstellar – Hoyte van Hoytema* Mr. Turner – Dick Pope | The Grand Budapest Hotel – Milena Canonero* The Imitation Game – Sammy Sheldon Differ* Into the Woods – Colleen Atwood* Mr. Turner – Jacqueline Durran* The Theory of Everything – Steven Noble |
| Whiplash – Tom Cross* Birdman – Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione* The Grand Budapest Hotel – Barney Pilling* The Imitation Game – William Goldenberg* Nightcrawler – John Gilroy* The Theory of Everything – Jinx Godfrey | The Grand Budapest Hotel – Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier* Guardians of the Galaxy – Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou and David White* Into the Woods – Peter King and J. Roy Helland* Mr. Turner – Christine Blundell and Lesa Warrender* The Theory of Everything – Jan Sewell and Kristyan Mallett |
| The Grand Budapest Hotel – Alexandre Desplat* Birdman – Antonio Sánchez* Interstellar – Hans Zimmer* The Theory of Everything – Jóhann Jóhannsson* Under the Skin – Micachu | The Grand Budapest Hotel – Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock* Big Eyes – Rick Heinrichs and Shane Vieau* The Imitation Game – Maria Djurkovic and Tatiana Macdonald* Interstellar – Nathan Crowley and Gary Fettis* Mr. Turner – Suzie Davies and Charlotte Watts |
| Whiplash – Thomas Curley, Ben Wilkins and Craig Mann* American Sniper – Walt Martin, John T. Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman* Birdman – Thomas Varga, Martin Hernández, Aaron Glascock, Jon Taylor and Frank A. Montaño* The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wayne Lemmer, Christopher Scarabosio and Pawel Wdowczak* The Imitation Game – John Midgley, Lee Walpole, Stuart Hilliker, Martin Jensen and Andy Kennedy | Interstellar – Paul Franklin, Scott R. Fisher, Andrew Lockley and Ian Hunter* Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Erik Winquist and Daniel Barrett* Guardians of the Galaxy – Stephane Ceretti, Paul Corbould, Jonathan Fawkner and Nicolas Aithadi* The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White* X-Men: Days of Future Past – Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Tim Crosbie and Cameron Waldbauer |
| The Theory of Everything – James Marsh, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce and Anthony McCarten* '71 – Yann Demange, Angus Lamont, Robin Gutch and Gregory Burke* The Imitation Game – Morten Tyldum, Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, Teddy Schwarzman and Graham Moore* Paddington – Paul King and David Heyman* Pride – Matthew Warchus, David Livingstone and Stephen Beresford* Under the Skin – Jonathan Glazer, James Wilson, Nick Wechsler and Walter Campbell | Pride – Stephen Beresford and David Livingstone * '71 – Gregory Burke and Yann Demange * Kajaki – Paul Katis and Andrew de Lotbiniere * Lilting – Hong Khaou * Northern Soul – Elaine Constantine |
| The Bigger Picture – Chris Hees, Daisy Jacobs and Jennifer Majka* Money Love Experiments – Ainslie Henderson, Cam Fraser and Will Anderson* My Dad – Marcus Armitage | Boogaloo and Graham – Brian J. Falconer, Michael Lennox and Ronan Blaney* Emotional Fusebox – Michael Berliner and Rachel Tunnard* The Karman Line – Campbell Beaton, Dawn King, Tiernan Hanby and Oscar Sharp* Slap – Islay Bell-Webb, Michelangelo Fano and Nick Rowland* Three Brothers – Aleem Khan, Matthieu de Braconier and Stephanie Paeplow |
| The Lego Movie – Phil Lord and Christopher Miller* Big Hero 6 – Don Hall and Chris Williams* The Boxtrolls – Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable | Citizenfour – Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky* 20 Feet from Stardom – Morgan Neville, Caitrin Rogers and Gil Friesen* 20,000 Days on Earth – Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard* Finding Vivian Maier – John Maloof and Charlie Siskel* Virunga – Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara |
| Ida – Paweł Pawlikowski, Eric Abraham, Piotr Dzieciol and Ewa Puszczynska* Leviathan – Andrey Zvyagintsev, Alexander Rodnyansky and Sergey Melkumov* The Lunchbox – Ritesh Batra, Arun Rangachari, Anurag Kashyap and Guneet Monga* Trash – Stephen Daldry, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Kris Thykier* Two Days, One Night – Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne and Denis Freyd | Jack O'Connell* Gugu Mbatha-Raw* Margot Robbie* Miles Teller* Shailene Woodley |