From Simon Dillon

Cinematography - Hugo, Richard Robertson. The cinematography in Hugo was very good indeed, but frankly this ought to have gone to The Tree of Life, simply for containing some of the most staggeringly beautiful images ever committed to celluloid.

Best Sound Mixing - Hugo, Tom Fleischman and John Midgley. Hmm. I'm torn on this one. Perhaps War Horse should have got this, but Hugo made great use of sound too.

Best Sound Editing - Hugo, Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty. Again, perhaps War Horse ought to have got this?

Best Original Song - Bret McKenzie, Man or Muppet from The Muppets. I've not seen Rio, but I'm going to see The Muppets this week, and quite frankly of the two songs nominated I'm sure this was the correct choice.

Best Original Score - Ludovic Bource, The Artist. OK, bit of an axe to grind on this one. The Artist does have a good score, and this was a strong year for original scores (one other very deserving nominee was Howard Shore's wonderful work on Hugo). But darn it, John Williams should have got this. The score for War Horse is absolutely vintage Williams and is amongst his very best. Yes, it's deliberately old fashioned (ie actually recorded with an orchestra), evoking Max Steiner and others (not to mention classical composers like Elgar), but the sheer quality of the War Horse score far outstripped anything else this year (no mean feat in such a strong year for music). Perhaps the Williams vote was split between this and his score for Tintin (also nominated). Or perhaps because The Artist was such a favourite that Williams never stood a chance. Either way, it should have been Williams. Not that I think he'll mind, having been nominated forty-something times and won for five of them.

Best Costumes - Mark Bridges, The Artist. Fair enough.

Best Documentary Feature - Undefeated. I don't care what the technical reasons were that Senna was left out of the nominations, the lack of a win here (let alone the lack of a nomination) is an absolute disgrace. Senna is quite the most brilliant documentary I have seen this side of Grizzly Man, and that is coming from someone who has no interest in motor racing (or sport in general). Senna is thrilling, thought provoking and deeply moving - everything a great film should be. It's themes of ambition, rivalry, faith, courage and loss are universally relatable, and there is no excuse whatsoever for the Academy overlooking it. Every man, woman and child should see this film, then be as vocal as possible about 1) its brilliance and 2) the insanity of it not winning in this category. This one rates very highly on my list of Oscar's greatest injustices of all time.

Best Visual Effects - Hugo, Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning. A well deserved win, especially as the film contains the best use of 3D I have ever seen.

Best Make-Up - The Iron Lady, Mark Coulier and J Roy Helland. Again, well deserved. Making someone look like Margaret Thatcher is not easy.

That's it for this year. Looking forward to another rant next year.