Portrait of a Lady on Fire

• Runner-up: 1917
  • Ad Astra
  • The Irishman
  • Marriage Story

Céline Sciamma – Portrait of a Lady on Fire

• Runner-up: Sam Mendes – 1917
  • Greta Gerwig – Little Women

Adam Driver – Marriage Story as Charlie Barber

• Runner-up: Antonio Banderas – Pain and Glory as Salvador Mallo
  • Taron Egerton – Rocketman as Elton John
  • Joaquin Phoenix – Joker as Arthur Fleck / Joker
  • Franz Rogowski – Transit as Georg
  • Adam Sandler – Uncut Gems as Howard Ratner

Scarlett Johansson – Marriage Story as Nicole Barber

• Runner-up: Florence Pugh – Midsommar as Dani Ardor
  • Elisabeth Moss – Her Smell as Becky Something
  • Charlize Theron – Bombshell as Megyn Kelly
  • Renée Zellweger – Judy as Judy Garland

Joe Pesci – The Irishman as Russell Bufalino

• Runner-up: John Lithgow – Bombshell as Roger Ailes
  • Tom Hanks – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood as Fred Rogers
  • Anthony Hopkins – The Two Popes as Pope Benedict XVI
  • Brad Pitt – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as Cliff Booth

Laura Dern – Marriage Story as Nora Fanshaw

• Runner-up: Isla Fisher – The Beach Bum as Minnie
• Runner-up: Margot Robbie – Bombshell as Kayla Pospisil
  • Annette Bening – The Report as Dianne Feinstein
  • Scarlett Johansson – Jojo Rabbit as Rosie Beltzer
  • Jennifer Lopez – Hustlers as Ramona Vega
  • Zhao Shuzhen – The Farewell as Nai Nai

Greta Gerwig – Little Women

• Runner-up: Steven Zaillian – The Irishman
  • Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
  • Terrence Malick – A Hidden Life
  • Anthony McCarten – The Two Popes
  • Taika Waititi – Jojo Rabbit

Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie, and Josh Safdie – Uncut Gems

• Runner-up: Lulu Wang – The Farewell
  • Noah Baumbach – Marriage Story
  • Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won – Parasite
  • Céline Sciamma – Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • Quentin Tarantino – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

I Lost My Body

• Runner-up: Toy Story 4
  • Frozen II
  • How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
  • Weathering with You

Apollo 11

• Runner-up: Honeyland
  • American Factory
  • The Biggest Little Farm

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

• Runner-up: Parasite
  • The Farewell
  • Long Day's Journey into Night
  • Pain and Glory

Little Women

• Runner-up: The Farewell
  • The Irishman
  • Marriage Story
  • Parasite

Barbara Ling – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

• Runner-up: Kevin Constant, Christa Munro, Alison Sadler, David Scott, and Gary Warshaw – Ad Astra
  • Dennis Gassner and Lee Sandales – 1917

Roger Deakins – 1917

• Runner-up: Claire Mathon – Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • Hoyte van Hoytema – Ad Astra
  • Jörg Widmer – A Hidden Life

Daniel Lopatin – Uncut Gems

• Hildur Guðnadóttir – Joker
• Randy Newman – Marriage Story
• Thomas Newman – 1917
• Max Richter – Ad Astra

Alita: Battle Angel

• Runner-up: Ad Astra
• Runner-up: Avengers: Endgame

Queen & Slim

• Runner-up: Honeyland
  • Booksmart
  • The Last Black Man in San Francisco

Florence Pugh – Midsommar, Fighting with My Family, and Little Women as Dani Ardor, Saraya Knight / Paige, and Amy March

• Runner-up: Lulu Wang – The Farewell
  • Honor Swinton Byrne – The Souvenir as Julie
  • Roman Griffin Davis – Jojo Rabbit as Johannes "Jojo" Beltzer