The Audience, which imagines the Queen's private weekly meetings with prime ministers from Winston Churchill to David Cameron, gets five nominations, including best director for Stephen Daldry, fresh from his year overseeing the Olympic opening and closing ceremonies.
In a trilogy of rather brilliant short films, WaterAid imagines how different society would be if it were men who lost the endometrium of their wombs every month.
The Man in the High Castle Amazon Prime Instant Video The standout of this year's crop of Amazon pilots, an alternative history drama based on a Philip K Dick novel that imagines a world in which the allies lost the second world war, leaving America partitioned between Germany and Japan.
Here is a leader who is at nostalgic ease as he imagines himself addressing every hearth in the country, through a plain-speaking fireside chat.
And the sci-fi film Surrogates, out last month, imagines a future in which people prefer to stay at home and control avatars of themselves in the outside world.
One imagines immediately the loneliness that must have gnawed at these immigrants whose memory of their sunny, convivial island communities was their only refuge at such moments.
What kind of cultural implications this has, what kind of society this imagines, is a question to be asked urgently".
The intervening week, one imagines, replete as it was with a range of shootings, bombings, arrests and court judgments across the world all involving Islamist extremism, has not improved things.
In one scrap of paper he imagines "as background, perhaps: An electric fête recalling the decorative lighting of Magic city or Luna Park or the Pier Pavilion at Herne Bay..."....
Douglas's film imagines Davis going further, and incorporating the genre of Afrobeat into his oeuvre.
He writes "I have an odd prejudice against climbing in dress clothes", and in another letter imagines himself in the future: "I, in about 1930, have stood my trial for sodomy in defence of my conduct and am playing altogether a very heroic part".
