| Rocketman | Dexter Fletcher | United Kingdom, Canada, United States |
| Fighting with My Family | Stephen Merchant | United Kingdom, United States |
| Leader's path. Astana | Akan Satajew | Kazakhstan |
| Beautiful Boy | Felix van Groeningen | United States |
| My Foolish Heart | Rolf van Eijk | Netherlands |
| Outlaw King | David Mackenzie | United Kingdom, United States |
| BlacKkKlansman | Spike Lee | United States |
| Jan Palach | Robert Sedláček | Czech Republic, Slovakia |
| Messalina | Vittorio Cottafavi | Italy |
| Gundermann | Andreas Dresen | Germany |
| Sanju | Rajkumar Hirani | India |
| Adrift | Baltasar Kormákur | United States |
| Whitney | Kevin Macdonald | United Kingdom, United States |
| 3 Days in Quiberon | Emily Atef | France, Germany, Austria |
| Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. | Steve Loveridge | United Kingdom, United States, Sri Lanka |
| The Power of Silence | Manuel Huerga | Spain |
| Gwendolyn | Ruth Kaaserer | Austria |
| Only the Brave | Joseph Kosinski | United States |
| The Glass Castle | Destin Daniel Cretton | United States |
| All Eyez on Me | Benny Boom | United States |
| The Lost City of Z | James Gray | United States |
| The Young Karl Marx | Raoul Peck | France, Germany, Belgium |
| Hidden Figures | Theodore Melfi | United States |
| 150 Milligrams | Emmanuelle Bercot | France |
| Alone in Berlin | Vincent Perez | France, United Kingdom, Germany |
| La Chana | Lucija Stojevic | Iceland, Spain, United States |
| Chocolat | Roschdy Zem | France |
| A United Kingdom | Amma Asante | France, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, United States |
| Genius | Michael Grandage | United Kingdom, United States |
| Florence Foster Jenkins | Stephen Frears | France, United Kingdom |
| Xuanzang | Huo Jianqi | People's Republic of China, India |
| The Clan | Pablo Trapero | Spain, Argentina |
| Neerja | Ram Madhvani | India |
| The Big Short | Adam McKay | United States |
| Legend | Brian Helgeland | France, United Kingdom |
| The Revenant | Alejandro González Iñárritu | United States |
| The Sound of a Flower | Lee Jong-pil | South Korea |
| Steve Jobs | Danny Boyle | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Walk | Robert Zemeckis | United States |
| Manjhi: The Mountain Man | Ketan Mehta | India |
| Big Eyes | Tim Burton | United States |
| The Woman in Gold | Simon Curtis | United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Austria |
| Foxcatcher | Bennett Miller | United States |
| Selma | Ava DuVernay | United Kingdom, United States |
| I Am Ali | Clare Lewins | United Kingdom, United States |
| Million Dollar Arm | Craig Gillespie | United States |
| The Imitation Game | Morten Tyldum | United States |
| Iron Ivan | Gleb Orlov | Russia |