| RBG | Julie Cohen, Betsy West | Amerika Serikat |
| Rosogolla | Pavel | India |
| A Private War | Matthew Heineman | Amerika Serikat |
| First Man | Damien Chazelle | Amerika Serikat |
| Green Book | Peter Farrelly | Amerika Serikat |
| Jan Palach | Robert Sedláček | Ceko, Slowakia |
| Petitet | Carles Bosch Arisó | Spanyol |
| Mary Magdalene | Garth Davis | Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat, Australia |
| Dovlatov | Aleksei Alekseivich German | Rusia, Polandia, Serbia |
| Molly's Game | Aaron Sorkin | Amerika Serikat |
| The Greatest Showman | Michael Gracey | Amerika Serikat |
| Going Vertical | Anton Megerdichev | Rusia |
| Gwendolyn | Ruth Kaaserer | Austria |
| Tom of Finland (film) | Dome Karukoski | Jerman, Amerika Serikat, Finlandia, Swedia, Denmark |
| The Lost City of Z | James Gray (sutradara) | Amerika Serikat |
| Jackie | Pablo Larraín | Prancis, Chili, Amerika Serikat |
| Lion | Garth Davis | Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat, Australia |
| La Chana | Lucija Stojevic | Islandia, Spanyol, Amerika Serikat |
| Chocolat | Roschdy Zem | Prancis |
| Denial | Mick Jackson | Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat |
| A United Kingdom | Amma Asante | Prancis, Britania Raya, Ceko, Amerika Serikat |
| Anthropoid | Sean Ellis | Prancis, Britania Raya, Ceko |
| Xuanzang | Huo Jianqi | Tiongkok, India |
| Nina (film 2016) | Cynthia Mort | Amerika Serikat |
| Chiamatemi Francesco | Daniele Luchetti | Italia |
| The Sound of a Flower | Lee Jong-pil | Korea Selatan |
| Concussion | Peter Landesman | Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat, Australia |
| Steve Jobs | Danny Boyle | Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat |
| Everest | Baltasar Kormákur | Britania Raya, Islandia, Amerika Serikat |
| Spotlight | Thomas McCarthy | Amerika Serikat |
| Woman in Gold | Simon Curtis | Britania Raya, Jerman, Amerika Serikat, Austria |
| Messalina | Carmine Gallone | Prancis, Spanyol, Italia |
| Amour Fou (film 2014) | Jessica Hausner | Jerman, Luksemburg, Austria |
| Wild | Jean-Marc Vallée | Amerika Serikat |
| Jersey Boys (film) | Clint Eastwood | Amerika Serikat |
| Iron Ivan | Gleb Orlov | Rusia |
| Saving Mr. Banks | John Lee Hancock | Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat, Australia |
| Cesar Chavez (film) | Diego Luna | Amerika Serikat, Meksiko |
| Dallas Buyers Club | Jean-Marc Vallée | Amerika Serikat |
| The Railway Man | Jonathan Teplitzky | Britania Raya, Australia |
| The Fifth Estate | Bill Condon | Amerika Serikat, India |
| The Look of Love | Michael Winterbottom | Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat |
| Marina | Stijn Coninx | Belgia, Belanda |
| Renoir | Gilles Bourdos | Prancis |
| The Dance of Reality | Alejandro Jodorowsky | Prancis, Chili |
| 42 | Brian Helgeland | Amerika Serikat |
| Enemies in Love | Werner Schweizer | Swiss |
| Lovelace | Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | Amerika Serikat |