David Heyman, Dan Lin, Debra Martin Chase and Emma Tillinger Koskoff also open up about the threat of lawsuits, how they deal with eleventh-hour scrambles and why controversy isn't necessarily a bad thing: "To encourage a conversation is really healthy."

'Honey Boy' and 'Give Me Liberty' landed four noms each, followed by 'Clemency,' 'Hustlers,' 'The Last Black Man in San Francisco,' 'Luce' and 'The Third Wife,' with three apiece.