Jennifer Aniston (“Cake”) Emily Blunt (“Into the Woods”) Jessica Chastain (“The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby,” “Interstellar,” “A Most Violent Year”) Gugu Mbatha-Raw (“Belle”) Shailene Woodley (“The Fault in Our Stars”)
Patricia Arquette (“Boyhood”) Laura Dern (“Wild”) Emma Stone (“Birdman”) Tilda Swinton (“Snowpiercer”)
Josh Brolin (“Inherent Vice”) Edward Norton (“Birdman”) Mark Ruffalo (“Foxcatcher”) J.K. Simmons (“Whiplash”) Christoph Waltz (“Big Eyes”)
Steve Carell (“Foxcatcher”) Benedict Cumberbatch (“The Imitation Game”) Robert Downey Jr. (“The Judge”) Michael Keaton (“Birdman”) Eddie Redmayne (“The Theory of Everything”)
J.C. Chandor (“A Most Violent Year”) Richard Linklater (“Boyhood”) James Marsh (“The Theory of Everything”) Bennett Miller (“Foxcatcher”) Jean-Marc Vallée (“Wild”)