REVIEW OF 2015 - BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

1. Lee Ping Bin (The Assassin)

2. Stuart Dryburgh (Blackhat)

3. Emmanuel Lubezki (Knight of Cups)

4. Edward Lachman (Carol)

5. John Seale (Mad Max: Fury Road)

6. Josee Deshaies (Saint Laurent)

7. Christophe Beaucarne (The Blue Room)

8. Martin Gschlacht (Goodnight Mommy)

9. Peter Suschitzky (Tale of Tales)

10. Roger Deakins (Sicario)

REVIEW OF 2015 - BEST SOUND

1. The Walk

2. Knight of Cups

3. Goodnight Mommy

4. The Assassin

5. The Witch

6. The Revenant

7. Sicario

8. Mad Max: Fury Road

9. Star Wars: The Force Awakens

10. The Nightmare

THE ACADEMY NARROWS ITS FOREIGN LANGUAGE 2015 LIST DOWN TO 9

...and the overwhelming favourite to win remains in play. Nemes Laszlo's Son of Saul will have to make it past eight other films in the race to win the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar - eight others which, alongside itself, have been narrowed down to form this final shortlist prior to the nominations announcement on the 14th of January. As usual, this list is a mix of the expected and the unexpected, and the big story surrounds more the films that missed than those that made it: big contenders like Sweden's A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, Austria's Goodnight Mommy and, my personal choice, The Assassin (RIP <3). The full list of titles still in the race is below:

The Brand New Testament (Jaco van Dormael) - Belgium

Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra) - Colombia

The Fencer (Klaus Haro) - Finland

Labyrinth of Lies (Giulio Ricciarelli) - Germany

Mustang (Deniz Gamze Erguven) - France

Son of Saul (Nemes Laszlo) - Hungary

Theeb (Naji Abu Nowar) - Jordan

Viva (Paddy Breathnach) - Ireland

A War (Tobias Lindholm) - Denmark