- Green Book – Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga
- *Black Panther – Kevin Feige
- *BlacKkKlansman – Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Jordan Peele and Spike Lee
- * Bohemian Rhapsody – Graham King
- * The Favourite – Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday and Yorgos Lanthimos
- *Roma – Gabriela Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón
- *A Star Is Born – Bill Gerber, Bradley Cooper and Lynette Howell Taylor
- *Vice – Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay and Kevin Messick
| Alfonso Cuarón – Roma* Spike Lee – BlacKkKlansman* Paweł Pawlikowski – Cold War* Yorgos Lanthimos – The Favourite* Adam McKay – Vice |
| Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody as Freddie Mercury*Christian Bale – Vice as Dick Cheney* Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born as Jackson "Jack" Maine* Willem Dafoe – At Eternity's Gate as Vincent van Gogh*Viggo Mortensen – Green Book as Tony Vallelonga | Olivia Colman – The Favourite as Queen Anne* Yalitza Aparicio – Roma as Cleodegaria "Cleo" Gutierrez* Glenn Close – The Wife as Joan Castleman* Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born as Ally Maine* Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Lee Israel |
| Mahershala Ali – Green Book as Don Shirley* Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman as Philip "Flip" Zimmerman* Sam Elliott – A Star Is Born as Bobby Maine* Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Jack Hock* Sam Rockwell – Vice as George W. Bush | Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk as Sharon Rivers*Amy Adams – Vice as Lynne Cheney*Marina de Tavira – Roma as Sofía*Emma Stone – The Favourite as Abigail Masham*Rachel Weisz – The Favourite as Sarah Churchill |
| Green Book – Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie and Peter Farrelly* The Favourite – Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara* First Reformed – Paul Schrader* Roma – Alfonso Cuarón* Vice – Adam McKay | BlacKkKlansman – Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Spike Lee; based on the book Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth* The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen; All Gold Canyon is based on a story by Jack London; The Gal Who Got Rattled is inspired by a story by Stewart Edward White.* Can You Ever Forgive Me? – Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty; based on the memoir by Lee Israel* If Beale Street Could Talk – Barry Jenkins; based on the book by James Baldwin* A Star Is Born – Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper and Will Fetters; based on the 1954 screenplay by Moss Hart and 1976 screenplay by Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne and Frank Pierson; based on a story by Robert Carson and William A. Wellman |
| Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller* Incredibles 2 – Brad Bird, John Walker and Nicole Paradis Grindle* Isle of Dogs – Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson* Mirai – Mamoru Hosoda and Yuichiro Saito* Ralph Breaks the Internet – Rich Moore, Phil Johnston and Clark Spencer | Roma in Spanish and Mixtec – Directed by Alfonso Cuarón* Capernaum in Arabic – Directed by Nadine Labaki* Cold War in Polish and French – Directed by Paweł Pawlikowski* Never Look Away in German – Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck* Shoplifters in Japanese – Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda |
| Free Solo – Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes and Shannon Dill* Hale County This Morning, This Evening – RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes and Su Kim* Minding the Gap – Bing Liu and Diane Quon* Of Fathers and Sons – Talal Derki, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme and Tobias N. Siebert* RBG – Betsy West and Julie Cohen | Period. End of Sentence. – Rayka Zehtabchi and Melissa Berton* Black Sheep – Ed Perkins and Jonathan Chinn* End Game – Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman* Lifeboat – Skye Fitzgerald and Bryn Mooser* A Night at the Garden – Marshall Curry |
| Skin – Guy Nattiv and Jaime Ray Newman* Detainment – Vincent Lambe and Darren Mahon* Fauve – Jérémy Comte and Maria Gracia Turgeon* Marguerite – Marianne Farley and Marie-Hélène Panisset* Mother – Rodrigo Sorogoyen and María del Puy Alvarado | Bao – Domee Shi and Becky Neiman-Cobb* Animal Behaviour – Alison Snowden and David Fine* Late Afternoon – Louise Bagnall and Nuria González Blanco* One Small Step – Andrew Chesworth and Bobby Pontillas* Weekends – Trevor Jimenez |
| Black Panther – Ludwig Göransson* BlacKkKlansman – Terence Blanchard* If Beale Street Could Talk – Nicholas Britell* Isle of Dogs – Alexandre Desplat* Mary Poppins Returns – Marc Shaiman | "Shallow" from A Star Is Born – Music and lyrics by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt* "All the Stars" from Black Panther – Music by Mark "Sounwave" Spears, Kendrick Lamar and Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith; lyrics by Kendrick Lamar, Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith and SZA* "I'll Fight" from RBG – Music and lyrics by Diane Warren* "The Place Where Lost Things Go" from Mary Poppins Returns – Music by Marc Shaiman; lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman* "When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings" from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Music and lyrics by David Rawlings and Gillian Welch |
| Bohemian Rhapsody – John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone* Black Panther – Benjamin A. Burtt and Steve Boeddeker* First Man – Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan* A Quiet Place – Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl* Roma – Sergio Díaz and Skip Lievsay | Bohemian Rhapsody – Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali* Black Panther – Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor and Peter J. Devlin* First Man – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Ai-Ling Lee and Mary H. Ellis* Roma – Skip Lievsay, Craig Henighan and José Antonio García* A Star Is Born – Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Jason Ruder and Steve Morrow |
| Black Panther – Production Design: Hannah Beachler; Set Decoration: Jay Hart* The Favourite – Production Design: Fiona Crombie; Set Decoration: Alice Felton* First Man – Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Kathy Lucas* Mary Poppins Returns – Production Design: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim* Roma – Production Design: Eugenio Caballero; Set Decoration: Bárbara Enríquez | Roma – Alfonso Cuarón* Cold War – Łukasz Żal* The Favourite – Robbie Ryan* Never Look Away – Caleb Deschanel* A Star Is Born – Matthew Libatique |
| Vice – Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe and Patricia Dehaney* Border – Göran Lundström and Pamela Goldammer* Mary Queen of Scots – Jenny Shircore, Marc Pilcher and Jessica Brooks | Black Panther – Ruth E. Carter* The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Mary Zophres* The Favourite – Sandy Powell* Mary Poppins Returns – Sandy Powell* Mary Queen of Scots – Alexandra Byrne |
| Bohemian Rhapsody – John Ottman* BlacKkKlansman – Barry Alexander Brown* The Favourite – Yorgos Mavropsaridis* Green Book – Patrick J. Don Vito* Vice – Hank Corwin | First Man – Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles and J. D. Schwalm* Avengers: Infinity War – Dan DeLeeuw, Kelly Port, Russell Earl and Dan Sudick* Christopher Robin – Christopher Lawrence, Michael Eames, Theo Jones and Chris Corbould* Ready Player One – Roger Guyett, Grady Cofer, Matthew E. Butler and David Shirk* Solo: A Star Wars Story – Rob Bredow, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Dominic Tuohy |