Simon Dillon reflects on this year's winners



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Best Film Editing: Whiplash - I'd have gone for Boyhood, purely for the seamless way the passing of time was depicted without drawing attention to itself.

Best Production Design: The Grand Budapest Hotel - A well-deserved winner.

Best Score: Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel) - A good score, certainly, but I preferred Hans Zimmer's work on Interstellar.

Best Costume Design: The Grand Budapest Hotel - Another well-deserved win.

Best Documentary: CitizenFour - I have yet to see CitizenFour, but by all accounts it is essential viewing.

Best Sound Editing: American Sniper - This really should have been Interstellar. Those spacecraft rumbles were wonderful.

Best Sound Mixing: Whiplash - Again, see above really. Interstellar fully deserved both sound awards.

So there we have it for another year. The usual disappointments but some delightful surprises too this time. I wonder how long it will be before I agree with another Best Picture winner? Who knows? Perhaps next year I'll score two in a row. CR

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