- Spotlight – Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Blye Pagon Faust, producers
- * The Big Short – Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, producers
- * Bridge of Spies – Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt and Kristie Macosko Krieger, producers
- * Brooklyn – Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, producers
- * Mad Max: Fury Road – Doug Mitchell and George Miller, producers
- * The Martian – Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer and Mark Huffam, producers
- * The Revenant – Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Mary Parent and Keith Redmon, producers
- * Room – Ed Guiney, producer
| Alejandro G. Iñárritu – The Revenant* Adam McKay – The Big Short* George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road* Lenny Abrahamson – Room* Tom McCarthy – Spotlight |
| Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant as Hugh Glass* Bryan Cranston – Trumbo as Dalton Trumbo* Matt Damon – The Martian as Mark Watney* Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs as Steve Jobs* Eddie Redmayne – The Danish Girl as Lili Elbe | Brie Larson – Room as Joy "Ma" Newsome* Cate Blanchett – Carol as Carol Aird* Jennifer Lawrence – Joy as Joy Mangano* Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years as Kate Mercer* Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn as Eilis Lacey |
| Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies as Rudolf Abel* Christian Bale – The Big Short as Michael Burry* Tom Hardy – The Revenant as John Fitzgerald* Mark Ruffalo – Spotlight as Michael Rezendes* Sylvester Stallone – Creed as Rocky Balboa | Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl as Gerda Wegener* Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight as Daisy Domergue* Rooney Mara – Carol as Therese Belivet* Rachel McAdams – Spotlight as Sacha Pfeiffer* Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs as Joanna Hoffman |
| Spotlight – Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy * Bridge of Spies – Matt Charman, Ethan Coen & Joel Coen* Ex Machina – Alex Garland* Inside Out – Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley; Original story by Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen* Straight Outta Compton – Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; Story by S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus and Andrea Berloff | The Big Short – Charles Randolph and Adam McKay; based on the book by Michael Lewis* Brooklyn – Nick Hornby; based on the novel by Colm Tóibín* Carol – Phyllis Nagy; based on the novel The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith* The Martian – Drew Goddard; based on the novel by Andy Weir* Room – Emma Donoghue; based on her novel |
| Inside Out – Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera* Anomalisa – Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson and Rosa Tran* Boy and the World – Alê Abreu* Shaun the Sheep Movie – Mark Burton and Richard Starzak* When Marnie Was There – Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Yoshiaki Nishimura | Son of Saul in Hungarian – Directed by László Nemes* Embrace of the Serpent in Spanish – Directed by Ciro Guerra* Mustang in Turkish – Directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven* Theeb in Arabic – Directed by Naji Abu Nowar* A War in Danish – Directed by Tobias Lindholm |
| Amy – Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees* Cartel Land – Matthew Heineman and Tom Yellin* The Look of Silence – Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen* What Happened, Miss Simone? – Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby and Justin Wilkes* Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom – Evgeny Afineevsky and Den Tolmor | A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness – Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy* Body Team 12 – David Darg and Bryn Mooser* Chau, Beyond the Lines – Courtney Marsh and Jerry Franck* Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah – Adam Benzine* Last Day of Freedom – Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman |
| Stutterer – Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage* Ave Maria – Basil Khalil and Eric Dupont* Day One – Henry Hughes* Everything Will Be Okay – Patrick Vollrath* Shok – Jamie Donoughue | Bear Story – Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala* Prologue – Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton* Sanjay's Super Team – Sanjay Patel and Nicole Grindle* We Can't Live Without Cosmos – Konstantin Bronzit* World of Tomorrow – Don Hertzfeldt |
| The Hateful Eight – Ennio Morricone* Bridge of Spies – Thomas Newman* Carol – Carter Burwell* Sicario – Jóhann Jóhannsson* Star Wars: The Force Awakens – John Williams | "Writing's on the Wall" from Spectre – Music and Lyric by Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith* "Earned It" from Fifty Shades of Grey – Music and Lyric by The Weeknd, Ahmad Balshe, Jason Quenneville and Stephan Moccio* "Manta Ray" from Racing Extinction – Music by J. Ralph; Lyric by Anohni* "Simple Song #3" from Youth – Music and Lyric by David Lang* "Til It Happens to You" from The Hunting Ground – Music and Lyric by Lady Gaga and Diane Warren |
| Mad Max: Fury Road – Mark A. Mangini and David White* The Martian – Oliver Tarney* The Revenant – Martin Hernández and Lon Bender* Sicario – Alan Robert Murray* Star Wars: The Force Awakens – David Acord and Matthew Wood | Mad Max: Fury Road – Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo* Bridge of Spies – Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson and Drew Kunin* The Martian – Paul Massey, Mark Taylor and Mac Ruth* The Revenant – Randy Thom, Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and Chris Duesterdiek* Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Christopher Scarabosio, Andy Nelson and Stuart Wilson |
| Mad Max: Fury Road – Production Design: Colin Gibson; Set Decoration: Lisa Thompson* Bridge of Spies – Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Rena DeAngelo and Bernhard Henrich* The Danish Girl – Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Michael Standish* The Martian –Production Design: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Celia Bobak* The Revenant – Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Hamish Purdy | The Revenant – Emmanuel Lubezki* Carol – Edward Lachman* The Hateful Eight – Robert Richardson* Mad Max: Fury Road – John Seale* Sicario – Roger Deakins |
| Mad Max: Fury Road – Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin* The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared – Love Larson and Eva von Bahr* The Revenant – Siân Grigg, Duncan Jarman and Robert Pandini | Mad Max: Fury Road – Jenny Beavan* Carol – Sandy Powell* Cinderella – Sandy Powell* The Danish Girl – Paco Delgado* The Revenant – Jacqueline West |
| Mad Max: Fury Road – Margaret Sixel* The Big Short – Hank Corwin* The Revenant – Stephen Mirrione* Spotlight – Tom McArdle* Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey | Ex Machina – Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett* Mad Max: Fury Road – Andrew Jackson, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver and Andy Williams* The Martian – Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence and Steven Warner* The Revenant – Rich McBride, Matthew Shumway, Jason Smith and Cameron Waldbauer* Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould |