If you close your eyes, you can probably conjure them up even now though it's been days or weeks or even months since you've seen them; images swimming out of the deep memory pool created by those whose Oscar dreams will be dashed or fulfilled tonight. For whatever else the films of 2009 tell us about the state of the union in Hollywood, this group is a brilliant reminder that at its essence, film is made powerful, made real, made unreal, by the images on screen.