Oscar Predictions: The Technical Awards

Welcome once again to A Mighty Fine Blog's Oscar prediction special! Much like the ceremony itself, it promises to be overlong, sporadically interesting and ultimately futile. On the plus side, there will be no interpretative dance sequences or mawkish tributes to people you've never heard of, and it won't take you five hours to read. (Though it may take me that fucking long to write.)

As with last year, I will split the predictions into two posts; one for the Technical Awards and one for the Main Awards. This is intended to make them easier to digest, so that you, the reader, won't have to read through one mammoth post, but it also means that if you don't care about Best Cinematography you can just look at the other post and see who is going to win the awards that most people care about.

So, unfunny introduction down, let's delve into the Academy Awards, 2011, and try to make some sense of them.

Ed's Top 10 (and a bit) Films of 2010

Every year, critics, pundits and bloggers try to boil down a varied and amorphous year into far too rigid ranking systems that, through a similarly restrictive consensus, tell us what the best films of the year were. And who am I to go against the tide? To (ever, ever so slightly) fight the system, I've done a sort of Top 20. This first ten have been ranked, whilst the second ten have been listed alphabetically. This year was such a strong one for film in general that I wanted to show my love for the ones that just missed out.

Note: Where possible, I've included links to my reviews of the films in question. Some I haven't had time to review fully, but they are well good.