REVIEW OF 2015 - BEST FILM

1. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao Hsien)

2. The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer)

3. Carol (Todd Haynes)

4. Park Lanes (Kevin Jerome Everson)

5. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)

6. The Forbidden Room (Evan Johnson and Guy Maddin)

7. The Blue Room (Mathieu Amalric)

8. Phoenix (Christian Petzold)

9. The Witch (Robert Eggers)

10. Inside Out (Ronnie del Carmen and Pete Docter)

11. World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt)

12. Eisenstein in Guanajuato (Peter Greenaway)

13. 45 Years (Andrew Haigh)

14. The Salt of the Earth (Juliano Ribeiro Salgado)

15. Chi-Raq (Spike Lee)

16. Son of Saul (Nemes Laszlo)

17. By the Sea (Angelina Jolie)

18. The Wonders (Alice Rohrwacher)

19. Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

20. Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick)

21. Tangerine (Sean Baker)

22. Sherpa (Jennifer Peedom)

23. Under Electric Clouds (Aleksey German)

24. A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino)

25. Innocence of Memories (Grant Gee)

26. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming Liang)

27. My Nazi Legacy (David Evans)

28. Stinking Heaven (Nathan Silver)

29. Aferim! (Radu Jude)

30. Wild Tales (Damian Szifron)

REVIEW OF 2015 - BEST SCREENPLAY

1. Phyllis Nagy (Carol)

2. Spike Lee and Kevin Willmott (Chi-Raq)

3. Peter Greenaway (Eisenstein in Guanajuato)

4. Andrew Haigh (45 Years)

5. Don Hertzfeldt (World of Tomorrow)

6. Mathieu Amalric and Stephane Cleau (The Blue Room)

7. Radu Jude and Florin Lazarescu (Aferim!)

8. Evan Johnson, Robert Kotyk and Guy Maddin (The Forbidden Room)

9. Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch (Tangerine)

10. Robert Eggers (The Witch)

INSIDE OUT SWEEPS THE ANNIE AWARDS

The Academy didn't see fit to give Inside Out the same treatment they've given other, equally-successful, equally-acclaimed Pixar films in recent years, fobbing it off with two token nominations. At least Annie voters saw some sense, handing it out 10 awards from its 14 nominations; double noms in some categories mean that Inside Out misses only one potential win, taking every single other. While this does mean that other, deserving titles have slim pickings to choose from, I'm not complaining - this from the once-DreamWorks-dominated group that gave Kung Fu Panda every award it could find, snubbing WALL-E in the process. Pixar may be no underdog, but I was always rooting for it anyway. Here are their nominations, and below, their awards:

Best Animated Feature

Inside Out

Outstanding Directing in an Animated Feature Production

Pete Docter (Inside Out)

Outstanding Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production

Phyllis Smith (Inside Out)

Outstanding Writing in an Animated Feature Production

Josh Cooley, Pete Docter and Meg LeFauve (Inside Out)

Outstanding Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production

Tony Rosenast (Inside Out)

Outstanding Editorial in an Animated Feature Production

Kevin Nolting (Inside Out)

Outstanding Production Design in an Animated Feature Production

Ralph Eggleston (Inside Out)

Outstanding Animated Effects in an Animated Production

Michael Hall, Stephen Marshall, Michael K. O'Brien, Jon Reisch and Magnus Wrenninge (The Good Dinosaur)

Outstanding Animated Effects in a Live Action Production

Florent Andorra, Michael Balog, George Kaltenbrunner and Jim van Allen (Avengers: Age of Ultron)

Outstanding Music in an Animated Feature Production

Michael Giacchino (Inside Out)

Outstanding Character Animation in an Animated Production

Allison Rutland (Inside Out)

Outstanding Character Animation in a Live Action Production

Kevin Lan, Adrian Millington, Alexander Poei, Matthew Shumway and Blaine Toderian - 'Judy' (The Revenant)

Outstanding Character Design in an Animated Feature Production

Albert Lozano and Chris Sasaki (Inside Out)

Best Animated Feature - Independent

The Boy and the World

Best Student Film

Ed (Taya Neyestani)

Best Animated Short Subject

World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt)

Best Animated Special Production

He Named Me Malala

REVIEW - WORLD OF TOMORROW (DON HERTZFELDT)

Don Hertzfeldt's World of Tomorrow is our world of today. Humanity has a remarkable knack for destruction, why imagine our clones would be any different? This is where the Western World is leading us, an immersion into a technological realm over which we imagine, naively, we harbour control. World of Tomorrow is Hertzfeldt's imagination, or at least some marvellous, minuscule fragment of it - just glance at this great filmmaker's other output and you'll find this film not to be the grand unleashing of an artist's invention, rather the intricately-formed details therein. A great filmmaker, since he is so generous: World of Tomorrow is hilarious, terrifying, intellectually challenging, heartbreaking, baffling, all in turn and together, like a miniature symphony of emotion filtered through the absurd and the unfamiliar. We're presented with a world in which we are the playthings, where technological advancements have overtaken our pitiful capacities as intelligent entities - it is the reverse of what we think we know, and the absence of clarity and security is unnerving, not least in that it so succinctly highlights the value of such qualities. In our opposite, we observe that which we are not, and thus that which we are; opposite sides on a coin, but it's still the same coin. Tomorrow is not today, but it's still the same dimension, shuttled back and forth in an unreliable time machine from World of Tomorrow to the world of today. From your digital screen to your actual life. Prescient and profound, and appropriately unforgettable.