Avatar
District 9
Star Trek
NASTINCHKA: What a year for big flashy nerdy blowin'-up movies, and what a year to not expand the VFX field. Ten Best Picture nominees and three films here means no Coraline, no 9, no The Box, no Knowing, no 2012, and Watchmen, and the awards are poorer for it.
WINNER: Avatar, for making a big dive-innable Sonic The Hedgehog world to get lost in.