As I recall, the soundtrack to Episode One was released slightly ahead of the actual movie - or there were announcements about the soundtrack beforehand, something like that - in which it was revealed that one of the tracks was titled "Qui-Gon's Funeral" or something similar.    So, oops.

Well, I'm not exactly stunned (nor upset) that Avengers made the cut - it IS solid work after all, and I probably should have given more weight to the sizable ILM voting block in the VFX branch.   

And now that Avengers is in the running, I hereby revise my prediction of the eventual winner.  Avengers' "biggest movie of the year" cred beats Hobbit's "they'll be back for the next two years anyway".

So - Avengers for the win, Life of Pi for potential upset.

EDIT:  Just noticed something else - we mentioned Chris Corbould was on the list for three potential nominated projects... none of which were actually nominated.   Ouch.   

But he's already got an Oscar (Inception) and his brother's nominated for Snow White.   He's probably fine.

Just back from the VFX bakeoff, where I saw ten minutes of Hobbit in 3D and HFR...

...and  I really liked it. 

I might feel different after two and a half hours, but for those ten minutes I thought the 3D and the HFR were pretty cool.

One of my faves is the Last of the Mohicans soundtrack by Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman - sometimes I put it on when I'm writing.  Generally ominous without being too bombastic.

You'll shoot your eye out, Zarban.

/pavlovian response

After years in seclusion an aging Bruce Wayne must become Batman once more in order to combat the greatest menace Gotham City has ever known: a dude with a thing on his face. *

*Last part still needs some work