It bears mentioning that one of the two times we’ve gotten this category wrong was when we disregarded the almost always reliable frilliest-always-wins rule.
Like Avatar before it, Life of Pi is the kind of Oscar-y prestige pic that also stands as a benchmark for the medium.
This is the script Tarsem Singh should have directed.
If recent sci-fi film ads are any indication, all we are is pixels in the wind.
Even in lighter fare, they point to something sinister, be it imminent attack, loneliness, or even racism.