"Spotlight" Runner up: "Mad Max: Fury Road"

George Miller
"Mad Max: Fury Road" Runner up: Todd Haynes
"Carol"

Michael Fassbender
"Steve Jobs" Runner up: Géza Röhrig
"Son Of Saul"

Charlotte Rampling
"45 Years" Runner up: Saoirse Ronan
"Brooklyn"

Michael Shannon
"99 Homes" Runner up: Mark Rylance
"Bridge Of Spies"

Alicia Vikander
"Ex Machina" Runner up: Kristen Stewart
"Clouds Of Sils Maria"

Josh Singer & Tom Mccarthy
"Spotlight" Runner up: Charlie Kaufman
"Anomalisa"

John Seale
"Mad Max: Fury Road" Runner up: Edward Lachman
"Carol"

Colin Gibson
"Mad Max: Fury Road" Runner up: Judy Becker
"Carol"

Hank Corwin
"The Big Short" Runner up: Margaret Sixel
"Mad Max: Fury Road"

Carter Burwell
"Anomalisa" & "Carol" Runner up: Ennio Morricone
"The Hateful Eight"

"Son Of Saul" Runner up: "The Tribe"

"Amy"
Asif Kapadia Runner up: "The Look Of Silence"
Joshua Oppenheimer

"Anomalisa"
Duke Johnson & Charlie Kaufman Runner up: "Inside Out"
Duke Johnson & Charlie Kaufman

Ryan Coogler
"Creed"

Anne V. Coates

Film Preservationist David Shepard