The word 'caper' is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used as a verb meaning 'to skip or jump around playfully or friskily'. For example, "The children were capering around the playground with delight."
For the beautifully-shot Anton Corbijn-directed video (there's also an interactive experience available if you're interested), the band don some giant papier mache heads and indulge in some slightly hard to follow crime caper that involves a man dressed entirely in a suit made of broken mirrors.
As a caper it leaves this year's other contenders, David Mamet's shopworn Heist and Frank Oz's flaccid The Score, standing.
Janet McTeer beat Sharon Stone and Julia Roberts to the best comedy actress globe for Tumbleweeds, a low-budget caper in which she plays a hippy, dippy Southern belle kept in line by her old-before-her-time daughter.
His universally acclaimed drama 12 Years a Slave picked up nine nominations in total, including best actor for Chiwetel Ejiofor, but was pipped in the race for total nominations by American Hustle, the 70s-set con caper directed by David O Russell, and Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón's space walk thriller, which both scored 10.
As with any good caper movie, Soderbergh dwells lovingly on the assembly of the crew and the ingenious mechanics of the robbery itself.
It's a fantastic Bloody Mary: briny with caper juice, the vodka pressure-infused with horseradish in a cream whipper using nitrous oxide.
David O Russell's con-artist caper American Hustle won the comedy category, while Matthew McConaughey triumphed for best drama actor in Dallas Buyers Club.
Fans of Ian Fleming and PG Wodehouse were treated to new books: William Boyd's Solo (Jonathan Cape) took Bond on an African adventure, while Sebastian Faulks' Jeeves and the Wedding Bells (Hutchinson) set Bertie Wooster off on a typically madcap caper replete with am dram and aunts.
"I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Mars spoiling their manicures in the rock quarry at Folsom, alongside of the poor little slum-bred guys that got knocked over on their first caper and never had a break since.
The Johannesburg-set dystopian tale, from District 9 and Elysium director Neill Blomkamp, knocked Will Smith heist caper Focus off the top spot despite mostly negative reviews.
Films Ocean's Eleven (Steven Soderbergh, 2001) 7am, 1pm, Sky Cinema 2 Soderbergh's loose remake of the rat pack's 1960 caper is smarter, glitzier, funnier - in fact just about every "er" you can think of - than the original.
