Everyone thought Waltz for Bashir was a sure thing. Dark horse Departures from Japan won instead. And I was hoping for a great anti-war acceptance speech from the makers of Bashir, the rotoscoped, partly-animated film
depicting the horrors of Israel's first war in Lebanon in 1982, and the
events leading up to the killings in the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian
refugee camps in Lebanon.

But no. It went to Departures, of which I know nothing. Time to Google…