Scribes behind six of the season's most acclaimed films — including John Krasinski, Tamara Jenkins and Peter Farrelly — dish on those wrongheaded studio notes, the "holy" state of stillness and how they'd bring the story of Donald Trump to the big screen: "It seems to always fall short of great drama."

Two black filmmakers — Steve McQueen ('12 Years a Slave') and Barry Jenkins ('Moonlight') — have won the Academy's top prize recently, and Ryan Coogler's Marvel superhero movie could make that three ... if the film plays its cards shrewdly and strategically.