Will: Slumdog Millionaire
Should: The Dark Knight

This category honors the masters of light and camera movement who conjure up the images that so often linger on in our dreams. This year it's a real horse race, between Anthony Dod Mantle, who used a handheld camera and bursts of unexpected color to create a sense of delirious energy in Slumdog Millionaire, and Wally Pfister, who conjured up a magisterial vision of a modern urban hell in The Dark Knight. (For those who saw The Dark Knight in the IMAX format, his achievement was even more awe-inspiring.) Slumdog mania will propel Mantle to victory, but Pfister -- previously nominated for two other Christopher Nolan films, Batman Begins and The Prestige -- is clearly overdue.

Watch 28 Days Later - by the same duo - Danny Boyle and Anthony Dod Mantle

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