The Academy has made some ridiculous decisions in the past, but there are cases where you just have such an obviously, inescapably towering achievement on your hands that, even for the Oscars, it would be inconceivable under any circumstances to not reward it. Think The Godfather winning BP and Actor, Chinatown and Pulp Fiction winning Best Original Screenplay, Days of Heaven and Apocalypse Now winning Cinematography, The Matrix and Avatar winning VFX, John Williams winning for Jaws and Star Wars, DDL winning for Daniel Plainview. I feel like Lubezki, with what he did in Gravity, belongs in that group. Not that I wasn't shocked when he lost for The Tree of Life - I was convinced he'd win there, too - but this is a different level even from that one. And if he somehow loses, well, it'll be a whole new level of fucked-up, mind-boggling and inexplicable.