- Gauguin, voyage to Tahiti, Cohen Media Group, Move Movie and Studiocanal present ; director, Edouard Deluc ; written by Edouard Deluc, Etienne Comar, Thomas Lilti, Sarah Kaminsky ; producer, Bruno Levy
- Bohemian rhapsody, director, Bryan Singer
- A brief history of time, Janus Films ; an Anglia Television & Gordon Freedman production ; an Errol Morris film ; produced by David Hickman ; directed by Errol Morris ; produced in association with NBC, Tokyo Broadcasting System, & Channel Four, UK
- Spencer, Neon and Topic Studios present ; a Komplizen Film production ; a Fabula production ; a Shoebox Films production ; in association with FilmNation Entertainment ; directed by Pablo Larraín ; written by Steven Knight ; produced by Juan de Dios Larraín, Jonas Dornbach, Paul Webster ; produced by Pablo Larraín, Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade
- Ferrari, Neon presents ; a Forward Pass/Storyteller production ; in association with STX Films, Ketchup Entertainment, Esme Grace Media, Cecchi Gori USA, Inc., Red Sea Fund and Red Sea International Film Festival ; an Iervolino & Lady Bacardi Entertainment S.p.A. production ; written by Troy Kennedy Martin ; produced by Michael Mann and P.J. van Sandwijk, Marie Savare, John Lesher, Thomas Hayslip, John Friedberg, Laura Rister, Andrea Iervolino, Monika Bacardi, Gareth West, Lars Sylvest, Thorsten Schumacher ; directed by Michael Mann
- Jackie, Fox Searchlight Pictures and LD Entertainment present ; in association with Wild Bunch, Fabula, Why Not Productions, Bliss Media, Endemol Shine Studios ; a Protozoa production ; produced by Juan de Dios Larrain, Darren Aronofsky, Mickey Liddell, Scott Franklin, Ari Handel ; written by Noah Oppenheim ; directed by Pablo Larrain
- The disaster artist, A24 and New Line Cinema present ; screenwriters, Scott Neustader, Michael H. Weber ; producers, James Franco [and four others] ; directed by James Franco
- Free solo, National Geographic Documentary Films presents ; producer, National Geographic ; directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin
- The Mauritanian, STXfilms, 30West, Topic Studios present ; in association with BBC Film and Great Point Media ; a Shadowplay Features, SunnyMarch, Wonder Street production ; producers, Adam Ackland, Leah Clarke, Benedict Cumberbatch, Lloyd Levin, Beatriz Levin, Mark Holder, Christine Holder, Branwen Prestwood Smith, Michael Bronner ; screenwriters, M.B. Traven, Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani ; screen story by M.B. Traven; directed by Kevin Macdonald
- Infamous, Warner Independet Pictures presents a Killer Films/John Wells production ; produced by Jocelyn Hayes, Christine Vachon, Anne Walker-McBay ; written for the screen and directed by Douglas McGrath
- Bonnie and Clyde, Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; a Tatira-Hiller production ; written by David Newman & Robert Benton ; produced by Warren Beatty ; directed by Arthur Penn
- A united kingdom, Fox Searchlight Pictures presents ; Pathé, BBC Films, Ingenious Films and BFI present ; with the participation of Canal+ and Ciné+ ; a Yoruba Saxon/Harbinger Pictures/Perfect Weekend/Film United production ; produced by Rick McCallum, David Oyelowo, Peter Heslop, Brunson Green, Justin Moore-Lewy, Charlie Mason; screenplay by Guy Hibbert ; directed by Amma Asante
- I, Tonya, Neon and 30West present ; screenplay by Steven Rogers ; directed by Craig Gillespie
- Harriet, Focus Features presents in association with Perfect World Pictures a Stay Gold Features/Debra Martin Chase production ; screenplay by Gregory Allen Howard and Kasi Lemmons ; directed by Kasi Lemmons
- Life itself, Magnolia Pictures and CNN Films present a Kartemquin Films and Film Rites production in association with Katlei Productions ; a film by Steve James ; produced by Zak Piper, Steve James, Garrett Basch ; directed by Steve James
- 20 feet from stardom, Radius-TWC, Gil Friesen and Tremolo Productions present ; producers, Caitrin Rogers, Gil Friesen, Morgan Neville ; directed by Morgan Neville
- Searching for Sugar Man, producer, Simon Chinn ; director, Malik Bendjelloul
- The Galapagos affair, Satan came to Eden, a film by Dayna Goldfine & Dan Geller ; a Geller/Goldfine production ; directed by Dan Geller & Dayna Goldfine ; produced by Dayna Goldfine, Dan Geller, Celeste Schaefer Snyder ; written by Dayna Goldfine, Dan Geller, Celeste Schaefer Snyder
- Straight outta Compton, Universal Pictures and Legendary Pictures present in association with New Line Cinema/Cubevision/Crucial Films a Broken Chair Flickz production ; produced by Ice Cube [and five others] ; screenplay by Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff ; directed by Gary Gray
- Patch Adams, Universal Pictures presents a Blue Wolf-Farrell/Minoff-Bungalow 78 production ; screenplay by Steve Odekerk ; produced by Barry Kemp ... [et al.] ; directed by Tom Shadyac
- A private war, Aviron Pictures presents in association with Tri G and the Fyzz Facility ; a Kamala Films, Thunder Road Films, Savvy Media Holdings, Denver & Delilah Films production ; produced by Basil Iwanyk, Marissa McMahon, Matthew George, Matthew Heineman, Charlize Theron ; written by Arash Amel ; directed by Matthew Heineman
- The salt of the earth, Decia Films presents ; a film co-produced by Decia Films, Amazonas Images, Fondazione Solares delle Art ; a film by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado ; produced by David Rosier ; writers/directors, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders
- MLK FBI, Field of Vision and Play/Action Pictures present ; a TradeCraft Films production ; written by Benjamin Hedin, Laura Tomaselli ; produced by Benjamin Hedin ; directed by Sam Pollard
- American sniper, Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; in association with Village Roadshow Pictures ; a Mad Chance production ; a 22nd & Indiana production ; a Malpaso production ; written by Jason Hall ; produced by Robert Lorenz [and three others] ; produced and directed by Clint Eastwood
- Maiden, an Alex Holmes film ; Dogwoof presents ; a New Black Films production ; produced by Victoria Gregory ; written, produced & directed by Alex Holmes
- The last king of Scotland, DNA Films ; Fox Searchlight Pictures ; FilmFour ; Cowboy Films ; Scottish Screen ; Slate Films ; Tatfilm ; UK Film Council ; produced by Lisa Bryer, Andrea Calderwood, Christine Ruppert, Charles Steel ; written by Jeremy Brock, Peter Morgan ; directed by Kevin Macdonald