It was great to see a Christopher Nolan film finally be given the recognition it deserves from the Academy, with his mind-bending sci-fi masterpiece Inception receiving a whopping 8 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography. It went on to win four Oscars (all in technical categories), though one missed nomination that proved really puzzling was for Best Film Editing, especially considering the film was originally pipped as a front-runner in this category. Given the film's complicated narrative web, Lee Smith's editing work, cutting between various dream layers, had to be absolutely spot-on in order not to confuse the viewer and allow them to keep up with what was going on. He did a splendid job in helping Nolan achieve his vision, yet somehow, the editing branch of the Academy didn't deem it worthy of a nod, while more ordinarily-edited films such as The King's Speech, Black Swan and The Fighter somehow made it through instead. We can only assume the editing branch didn't like the film very much, so opted not to recognise the editing. Disgraceful.