| ORIGINAL SCORE | 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 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 37 | 1 |
| Inside Out | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 32 | 2 |
| Carol | 4 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 31 | 3 |
| The Hateful Eight | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 30 | 4 | |
| Bridge of Spies | 5 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 5 | ||||
| The Danish Girl | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 6 | |||||||
| Sicario | 3 | 3 | 7 | |||||||||
| Spotlight | 5 | 1 | 8 | |||||||||
| Beasts of No Nation | ||||||||||||
| Mad Max: Fury Road | ||||||||||||
| The 33 | ||||||||||||
| Southpaw | ||||||||||||
| Brooklyn | ||||||||||||
| Steve Jobs | ||||||||||||
| The Walk |
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