It’s a surprising shortlist for the best visual effects Oscar this year, with some startling inclusions and some even more startling omissions.

Here you go Hollywood — when the awards are handed out, you will be making your acceptance speeches on the sidewalk.

Always the bridesmaid, never the bride, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and their Golden Globe Awards are certainly important this time of year — but they are no Academy Awards.

For a moment there, you may have thought that you had seen the last of “The Oscar Beat”, our now annual feature that brings you the best (and worst) of Awards season.