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10. Trent Reznor's Secret Composing Trick
Composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross rightly won Best Original Score Oscars for their fantastic work scoring the film, and true to form, Reznor employed some deeply experimental tricks to keep the audience on edge.
The song that plays during the opening credits, "Hand Covers Bruise," is a leitmotif used a few times throughout the film, but each version is slightly different due to one very special technique.
Reznor decided to record the track's distinctive piano tune with the microphone placed further and further away from his piano each time, so that each subsequent time the song is heard, it has more of a distant echo, implying Mark's increasing isolation.
That's the sort of top-level thinking that wins you Oscars, folks, whether you consciously picked up on it or not.