Mad Max: Fury Road, dir. George Miller
Girlhood, dir. Céline Sciamma
The Lobster, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
Anomalisa, dir. Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson
Queen of Earth, dir. Alex Ross Perry
It Follows, dir. David Robert Mitchell
45 Years, dir. Andrew Haigh
Magic Mike XXL, dir. Gregory Jacobs
The Diary of a Teenage Girl, dir. Marielle Heller
James White, dir. Josh Mond
Tangerine, dir. Sean Baker
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, dir. Roy Andersson
Mistress America, dir. Noah Baumbach
Appropriate Behavior, dir. Desiree Akhavan
Nasty Baby, dir. Sebastián Silva
Inside Out, dir. Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, dir. J.J. Abrams
The Hateful Eight, dir. Quentin Tarantino
Maps to the Stars, dir. David Cronenberg
Entertainment, dir. Rick Alverson
The Mend, dir. John Magary
Junun, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Special Mention to Possibly the Greatest Short Film Ever Made: World of Tomorrow (dir. Don Hertzfeldt)
Honorable Mentions: Amy (dir. Asif Kapadia), Beasts of No Nation (dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga), Clouds of Sils Maria (dir. Olivier Assayas), Creed (dir. Ryan Coogler), The Look of Silence (dir. Joshua Oppenheimer) Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (dir. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon), Reality (dir. Quentin Dupieux), The Revenant (dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu), The Tribe (dir. Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy), and White God (dir. Kornél Mundruczó)