| BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY | Erik Anderson | Evan Kost | Nicole Latayan | James Narvey | Adam Norbury | Jason Osiason | Chris Pepper | Long Pham | Kenneth Polischuk | Jacqui Sutherland | TOTAL POINTS | RANK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Big Short | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 47 | 1 |
| Room | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 30 | 2 | |
| Carol | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 30 | 2 |
| Brooklyn | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 4 | ||
| Steve Jobs | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 5 | ||||
| The Martian | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 6 | |||
| Anomalisa | ||||||||||||
| Trumbo | ||||||||||||
| The Revenant | ||||||||||||
| Beasts of No Nation |
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