Second and third place in this year's category goes to the Pixar contingent. One of the key aspects of the voting process is that certain films are passionately supported by some but ignored by others. With regards to Pixar, something of a compromise candidacy occurs wherein most people at least like the discs enough to mention them somewhere on the ballot. A little bit here and there adds up to a lot in the end with the result being that Up is our second favorite choice of the year, primarily due to its freshness. Meanwhile, the clearly the superior feature set of Monsters, Inc., flush with four discs worth of content, finishes a distant third. Up was only one point away from pulling an epic upset in this category while Monsters, Inc., a film I would maintain is better in quality and possessing a definitely superior disc set, is well behind it in third place. I'll have to chat with the voters about having a better perspective of movie history before next year's vote.

We are all over the place with the rest of our selections. Fourth belongs to Watchmen – The Director's Cut. It features a movie some of us love while others are quite blasé about. Something that makes us all nod our heads in agreement, however, is that it contains the proper deference to the world Alan Moore created and Zack Snyder brought to life. No, it doesn't quite contain the feature set of the later Ultimate Cut of the same movie, but it has several featurettes that painstakingly detail the process of bringing Moore's world to the screen. In terms of bang for the buck, this is one of the best purchases currently available on Blu-ray. Similarly, Disney loves its limited time promotions wherein they release a classic animated movie on disc while limiting the amount of time consumers have to purchase it. This creates a rush factor to the demand while also guaranteeing that once the titles are out of print, their price points will be maintained due to the scarcity of the products. It's a clever marketing strategy and one we should expect from a company that has three of the top five discs this year. In this case, the selection is Sleeping Beauty, which is also celebrating its 50th anniversary in release this year. What you can take from this is that 1959 was a great year for cinema and that 2009 was a great year for Blu-ray releases of said titles.

Sixth and seventh place go to a popular television show box set and a movie that in some ways defined all of 2009's box office behavior. The television show is Lost and we once again behaved like good little lemmings in rushing out to buy the box set for its fifth season. Personally, I thought this season of Lost was atrocious and have little interest in seeing how it ends, but I am hugely in the minority on this point. I do agree with the group about Coraline, however, as its clever implementation of 3D hinted at greater things to come for titles such as Ice Age 3, Monsters Vs. Aliens, Up and (particularly) Avatar. Even if you are like Futurama's Turanga Leela and don't care for the 3D aspect, Coraline is still a wonderful Neil Gaiman story about the dangers of seeing the grass as greener on the other side. Sure, it looks nice from here but once you get over there, they try to give you buttons for eyes.

Our final three selections in the category are a great science fiction movie and a pair of now defunct television shows. The film is District 9 and it blew us away with its creative storytelling. Its disc features are also notable, particularly the short entitled Metamorphosis: The Transformation of Wikus and the improvisational acting video. Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.5 and Better Off Ted: Season One are the television box sets. Assuming you read the Best TV Show category, their selections here should be self-explanatory.

Just missing the list this year are the discs for Star Trek, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Simpsons: The Complete Twelfth Season, Mad Men: Season Two, Donnie Darko, Fight Club and the 40th Anniversary Edition of Woodstock. (David Mumpower/BOP)

Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Album
Best Breakthrough Performance
Best Cast
Best Director
Best DVD
Best Overlooked Film
Best Picture
Best Scene
Best Screenplay
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best TV Show
Best Use of Music
Best Videogame
Worst Performance
Worst Picture

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