| VISUAL EFFECTS | Erik Anderson | Evan Kost | Nicole Latayan | James Narvey | Adam Norbury | Jason Osiason | Chris Pepper | Long Pham | Kenneth Polischuk | Jacqui Sutherland | TOTAL POINTS | RANK |
| Star Wars: The Force Awakens | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 47 | 1 |
| Mad Max: Fury Road | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 38 | 2 |
| The Martian | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 31 | 3 |
| Avengers: Age of Ultron | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 4 | ||
| Jurassic World | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 5 | ||
| The Revenant | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | ||||||||
| Ant-Man | 5 | 1 | 7 | |||||||||
| Ex Machina | ||||||||||||
| The Walk | ||||||||||||
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