Movieline Interview Special Edition: Your Oscar Nominees, Grilled

A wise man once said that the road to the Academy Awards goes through Movieline HQ. Or something. For a healthy number of this year's higher profile nominees, anyway, that was indeed that case: From Annette Bening to Jesse Eisenberg to Hailee Steinfeld to Geoffrey Rush among numerous others, it was our pleasure to rendezvous with some of the year's most acclaimed actors, directors, and craftspeople. Read on for our comprehensive collection of Movieline Interviews with this year's Oscar nominees.

BEST PICTURE

Michael De Luca, The Social Network

Todd Lieberman, The Fighter

BEST DIRECTOR

Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan

Tom Hooper, The King's Speech

BEST ACTRESS

Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right

Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole

Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone

BEST ACTOR

Javier Bardem, Biutiful

Jeff Bridges, True Grit

Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network (plus series parts 2, 3, 4 and 5)

Colin Firth, The King's Speech

James Franco, 127 Hours (plus classic video from Sundance 2011)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Helena Bonham Carter, The King's Speech

Melissa Leo, The Fighter

Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit

Jacki Weaver (plus a pre-Globes follow-up)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

John Hawkes, Winter's Bone

Geoffrey Rush, The King's Speech

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Debra Granik, co-writer/director, Winter's Bone (with co-stars John Hawkes and Dale Dickey)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Charles Ferguson, Inside Job

Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington, Restrepo (plus post-nomination reaction from Junger)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Jeff Cronenweth, The Social Network

Roger Deakins, True Grit

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

John Powell, How to Train Your Dragon

Trent Reznor, co-composer, The Social Network

Hans Zimmer, Inception