January

• Kung Fu Divas by Onat Diaz
• Into the Woods by Rob Marshall

February

• The Thing Called Tadhana by Antoinette Jadaone
• Gone Girl by David Fincher
• Life After Beth by Jeff Baena
• Chef by Jon Favreau
• Burlesque by Steve Antin
• Home by Tim Johnson

April

• Two Days, One Night by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
• Birdman by Alejandro González Iñárritu
• Whiplash by Damien Chazelle
• Princess Kaguya by Isao Takahata

June

• Ex-Machina by Alex Garland

July

• La Belle Et Ta Bete by Christophe Gans
• Mad Max by George Miller
• Insiang by Lino Brocka
• The Wind Rises by Hayao Miyazaki
• Still Alice by Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland
• Wild Tales by Damián Szifrón
• Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter by David Zellner

August

• Inside Out by Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen
• Trainwreck by Judd Apatow

October

• Pixels by Chris Columbus
• Zodiac by David Fincher
• Z for Zachariah by Craig Zobel

December

• The Revenant by Alejandro G. Iñárritu