Boyhood (2014/I)

Selma (2014)

Dear White People (2014): Justin Simien, Effie Brown, Ann Le, Julia Lebedev, Angel Lopez, Lena Waithe

Obvious Child (2014): Gillian Robespierre, Elisabeth Holm

Damien Chazelle for Whiplash (2014)

Alejandro González Iñárritu for Birdman (2014)

Marion Cotillard for The Immigrant (2013)

Jenny Slate for Obvious Child (2014)

André Benjamin for All Is by My Side (2013)

John Lithgow for Love Is Strange (2014)

Jessica Chastain for A Most Violent Year (2014)

Emma Stone for Birdman (2014)

Riz Ahmed for Nightcrawler (2014)

Alfred Molina for Love Is Strange (2014)

Big Eyes (2014/I): Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski

A Most Violent Year (2014): J.C. Chandor

Appropriate Behavior (2014): Desiree Akhavan

She's Lost Control (2014): Anja Marquardt

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014): Lyle Vincent

Selma (2014): Bradford Young

Leviathan (2014): Andrey Zvyagintsev

Norte, the End of History (2013): Lav Diaz

Under the Skin (2013/I): Jonathan Glazer

20,000 Days on Earth (2014): Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard, Dan Bowen, James Wilson

The Salt of the Earth (2014): Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders, David Rosier

Blue Ruin (2013): Jeremy Saulnier, Richard Peete, Vincent Savino, Anish Savjani

Man from Reno (2014): Dave Boyle, Joel Clark, Michael Lerman, Ko Mori

Approaching the Elephant (2014): Amanda Wilder

The Last Season (2014): Sara Dosa

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014): Ana Lily Amirpour

Chad Burris

Boyhood (2014/I): Sandra Adair

A Most Violent Year (2014): Ron Patane