| CINEMATOGRAPHY | Erik Anderson | Evan Kost | Nicole Latayan | James Narvey | Adam Norbury | Jason Osiason | Chris Pepper | Long Pham | Kenneth Polischuk | Jacqui Sutherland | TOTAL POINTS | RANK |
| The Revenant | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 48 | 1 |
| Sicario | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 34 | 2 |
| Mad Max: Fury Road | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 30 | 3 |
| The Hateful Eight | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 5 | |||
| Carol | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 4 |
| Bridge of Spies | 5 | 3 | 4 | 6 | ||||||||
| The Martian | 5 | 1 | 7 | |||||||||
| Son of Saul | ||||||||||||
| Beasts of No Nation | ||||||||||||
| Brooklyn | ||||||||||||
| The Assassin | ||||||||||||
| Spectre | ||||||||||||
| Star Wars: The Force Awakens | ||||||||||||
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