The Oscar nominations are out. (BBC list)

It starts off quite well. The Best Actor/Actress/Supporting/Director/Animation categories are all well and good. A few usual suspects, a few unusual suspects and a lot of reminders of how little I went to the cinema last year (in a can-count-it-on-my-fingers kinda way).

And then we get to the reason I go to the cinema. The effects, the makeup and the costumes. If only there was a category for set design. And I’m suddenly disappointed. I’ve got nothing against the effects in Harry Potter, or I, Robot or Spiderman-2 (admittedly I only saw one of these and haven’t seen any in the makeup or costume categories) but none of them are Lord of the Rings or The Matrix or even StarWars. I guess I’m kinda missing the hordes of CGI Mordor….