“The Big Short”
Screenwriters Adam McKay and Charles Randolph, adapted from Michael Lewis’s nonfiction work “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine”
Paramount Pictures and W.W. Norton
“Brooklyn”
Novelist Colm Tóibín and screenwriter Nick Hornby
Fox Searchlight and Viking
“The End Of The Tour”
Screenwriter Donald Margulies, adapted from David Lipsky’s memoir “Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace”
A24 and Broadway Books
“The Martian”
Novelist Andy Weir and screenwriter Drew Goddard
Twentieth Century Fox and Crown Publishing Group
“Room”
Emma Donoghue for the novel and screenplay
A24 and Little, Brown and Company
