It was pencils down for Academy members yesterday at 5pm PT. The votes are in and being tabulated as you read these words. We'll know in due time what the winners of the 86th annual Academy Awards will be, but in the meantime, how about a crash course in how all of these films came to be, right from the horses' mouths? We've collected all of our interviews with the Oscar nominees in one easy-to-navigate guide below, so dig back into the talking points one more time before the big show on Sunday.
BEST PICTURE
Charles Roven & Richard Suckle, “American Hustle”
Robbie Brenner & Rachel Winter, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman, “Gravity”
Steve McQueen, “12 Years a Slave”
Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese “The Wolf of Wall Street”
BEST DIRECTOR
David O. Russell, “American Hustle”
Alfonso Cuarón, “Gravity”
Steve McQueen, “12 Years a Slave”
Martin Scorsese, “The Wolf of Wall Street”
BEST ACTOR
Christian Bale, “American Hustle”
Bruce Dern, “Nebraska”
Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Wolf of Wall Street”
Chiwetel Ejiofor, “12 Years a Slave”
Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”
BEST ACTRESS
Amy Adams, “American Hustle”
Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”
Sandra Bullock, “Gravity”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Barkhad Abdi, “Captain Phillips”
Michael Fassbender, “12 Years a Slave”
Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Julia Roberts, “August: Osage County”
June Squibb, “Nebraska”
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke, “Before Midnight”
Terence Winter, “The Wolf of Wall Street”
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
David O. Russell, “American Hustle”
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Philippe Le Sourd, “The Grandmaster”
Emmanuel Lubezki, “Gravity”
Bruno Delbonnel, “Inside Llewyn Davis”
Phedon Papamichael, “Nebraska”
Roger Deakins, “Prisoners”
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Michael Wilkinson, “American Hustle”
Catherine Martin, “The Great Gatsby”
BEST FILM EDITING
Christopher Rouse, “Captain Phillips”
John Mac MacMurphy (aka Jean-Marc Vallée), “Dallas Buyers Club”
Alfonso Cuarón, “Gravity”
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Adruitha Lee & Robin Mathews, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Stephen Prouty, “Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa”
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Steven Price, “Gravity”
Alexandre Desplat, “Philomena”
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Pharrell Williams, “Happy” from “Despicable Me 2”
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Judy Becker, “American Hustle”
Catherine Martin, “The Great Gatsby”
K.K. Barrett, “Her”
BEST SOUND EDITING
Steve Boeddeker & Richard Hymns, “All is Lost”
Glenn Freemantle, “Gravity”
Wylie Stateman, “Lone Survivor”
BEST SOUND MIXING
Skip Lievsay, “Gravity”
Skip Lievsay & Peter Kurland, “Inside Llewyn Davis”
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Joshua Oppenheimer, “The Act of Killing”