- Moonlight – Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner
- Arrival – Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, Aaron Ryder, and David Linde
- Fences – Scott Rudin, Denzel Washington, and Todd Black
- Hacksaw Ridge – Bill Mechanic and David Permut
- Hell or High Water – Carla Hacken and Julie Yorn
- Hidden Figures – Donna Gigliotti, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Pharrell Williams, and Theodore Melfi
- La La Land – Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, and Marc Platt
- Lion – Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, and Angie Fielder
- Manchester by the Sea – Matt Damon, Kimberly Steward, Chris Moore, Lauren Beck, and Kevin J. Walsh
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- Manchester by the Sea – Kenneth Lonergan
| - Moonlight – Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney from In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney
- Arrival – Eric Heisserer from "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang
- Fences – August Wilson from Fences by August Wilson (posthumous nomination)
- Hidden Figures – Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi from Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
- Lion – Luke Davies from A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley and Larry Buttrose
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- Zootopia – Byron Howard, Rich Moore, and Clark Spencer
- Kubo and the Two Strings – Travis Knight and Arianne Sutner
- Moana – John Musker, Ron Clements, and Osnat Shurer
- My Life as a Zucchini – Claude Barras and Max Karli
- The Red Turtle – Michaël Dudok de Wit and Toshio Suzuki
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- O.J.: Made in America – Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow
- Fire at Sea – Gianfranco Rosi and Donatella Palermo
- I Am Not Your Negro – Raoul Peck, Rémi Grellety, and Hébert Peck
- Life, Animated – Roger Ross Williams and Julie Goldman
- 13th – Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick, and Howard Barish
| Cel mai bun scurt-metraj documentar - The White Helmets – Orlando von Einsiedel și Joanna Natasegara
- Extremis – Dan Krauss
- 4.1 Miles – Daphne Matziaraki
- Joe's Violin – Kahane Cooperman and Raphaela Neihausen
- Watani: My Homeland – Marcel Mettelsiefen and Stephen Ellis
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- Sing – Kristóf Deák și Anna Udvardy
- Ennemis intérieurs – Sélim Azzazi
- La Femme et le TGV – Timo von Gunten și Giacun Caduff
- Silent Nights – Aske Bang și Kim Magnusson
- Timecode – Juanjo Giménez
| - Piper – Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer
- Blind Vaysha – Theodore Ushev
- Borrowed Time – Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj
- Pear Cider and Cigarettes – Robert Valley and Cara Speller
- Pearl – Patrick Osborne
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| - "City of Stars" from La La Land – Music by Justin Hurwitz, Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
- "Audition (The Fools Who Dream)" from La La Land – Music by Justin Hurwitz, Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
- "Can't Stop the Feeling!" from Trolls – Music and Lyric by Justin Timberlake, Max Martin, and Karl Johan Schuster (Shellback)
- "The Empty Chair" from Jim: The James Foley Story – Music and Lyric by J. Ralph and Sting
- "How Far I'll Go" from Moana – Music and Lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda
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- Arrival – Sylvain Bellemare
- Deepwater Horizon – Wylie Stateman and Renée Tondelli
- Hacksaw Ridge – Robert Mackenzie and Andy Wright
- La La Land – Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan
- Sully – Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
| - Hacksaw Ridge – Kevin O'Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie, and Peter Grace
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- Suicide Squad – Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini, and Christopher Nelson
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| - The Jungle Book – Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones, and Dan Lemmon
- Deepwater Horizon – Craig Hammeck, Jason Snell, Jason Billington, and Burt Dalton
- Doctor Strange – Stephane Ceretti, Richard Bluff, Vincent Cirelli, and Paul Corbould
- Kubo and the Two Strings – Steve Emerson, Oliver Jones, Brian McLean, and Brad Schiff
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – John Knoll, Mohen Leo, Hal Hickel, and Neil Corbould
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