| PRODUCTION DESIGN | Erik Anderson | Evan Kost | Nicole Latayan | James Narvey | Adam Norbury | Jason Osiason | Chris Pepper | Long Pham | Kenneth Polischuk | Jacqui Sutherland | TOTAL POINTS | RANK |
| Bridge of Spies | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 39 | 1 |
| The Martian | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 31 | 2 |
| Star Wars: The Force Awakens | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 25 | 3 | |
| The Danish Girl | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 24 | 4 | |||
| Mad Max: Fury Road | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 5 | ||||
| Carol | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 6 | ||||||
| Cinderella | 4 | 2 | 7 | |||||||||
| Crimson Peak | 4 | 2 | 7 | |||||||||
| The Revenant | 5 | 5 | 2 | 7 | ||||||||
| Brooklyn | ||||||||||||
| Ex Machina | ||||||||||||
| The Hateful Eight | ||||||||||||
| Black Mass | ||||||||||||
| Trumbo |
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