The Year in Film: 2010


Best Picture
#1: Toy Story 3 (dir: Lee Unkrich)
#2: The Social Network (dir: David Fincher)
#3: Black Swan (dir: Darren Aronofsky)
#4: A Prophet (dir: Jacques Audiard)
#5: White Material (dir: Claire Denis)
#6: Animal Kingdom (dir: David Michôd)
#7: Inception (dir: Christopher Nolan)
#8: Life During Wartime (dir: Todd Solondz)
#9: Secret Sunshine (dir: Lee Chang-dong)
#10: Enter the Void (dir: Gaspar Noé)

Honorable Mentions: Carlos (dir: Olivier Assayas), The Girl (dir: Fredrik Edfeldt), The American (dir: Anton Corbijn), Let Me In (dir: Matt Reeves), Dogtooth (dir: Giorgos Lanthimos), Somewhere (dir: Sofia Coppola), Howl (dir: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman), Alamar (dir: Pedro González-Rubio), Mother (dir: Bong Joon-ho), Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno (dir: Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea), Vincere (dir: Marco Bellocchio), Prodigal Sons (dir: Kimberly Reed), and Winter’s Bone (dir: Debra Granik)
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Best Director
#1: David Fincher (The Social Network)
#2: Christopher Nolan (Inception)
#3: Gaspar Noé (Enter the Void)
#4: Darren Aronofsky (The Black Swan)
#5: Olivier Assayas (Carlos)

Best Actor
#1: Colin Firth (The King’s Speech)
#2: Leonard DiCaprio (Shutter Island)
#3: Edgar Ramirez (Carlos)
#4: Javier Bardem (Biutiful)
#5: James Franco (Howl)

Best Actress
#1: Jeon Do-yeon (Secret Sunshine)
#2: Tilda Swinton (I Am Love)
#3: Isabelle Hupert (White Material)
#4: Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine)
#5: Kim Hye-ja (Mother)

Best Supporting Actor
#1: Christian Bale (The Fighter)
#2: John Hawkes (Winter’s Bone)
#3: Michael Fassbender (Fish Tank)
#4: Song Kang-ho (Secret Sunshine)
#5: Geoffrey Rush (The King’s Speech)

Best Supporting Actress
#1: Alison Janney (Life During Wartime)
#2: Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom)
#3: Melissa Leo (The Fighter)
#4: Aggeliki Papoulia (Dogtooth)
#5: Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech)

Best Original Screenplay
#1: Toy Story 3 (Michael Arndt)
#2: Life During Wartime (Todd Solondz)
#3: Black Swan (Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, and John McLaughlin)
#4: Carlos (Olivier Assayas and Dan Franck)
#5: Dogtooth (Giorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou)

Best Adapted Screenplay
#1: The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin)
#2: Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini)
#3: Shutter Island (Laeta Kalogridis)
#4: Never Let Me Go (Alex Garland)
#5: A Prophet (Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Garouf Dafri, and Nicolas Peufaillit)

Best Cinematography
#1: Benoît Debie (Enter the Void)
#2: Wally Pfister (Inception)
#3: Matthew Libatique (Black Swan)
#4: Manuel Dacosse (Amer)
#5: Pedro González-Rubio (Alamar)

Best Film Editing
#1: Inception
#2: Enter the Void
#3: Black Swan
#4: Carlos
#5: Let Me In

Best Score
#1: Inception (Hans Zimmer)
#2: Vincere (Carlo Crivelli)
#3: The Social Network (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross)
#4: Toy Story 3 (Randy Newman)
#5: Black Swan (Clint Mansell)

Best Song
#1: “Love Like a Sunset (Part 2)” (Somewhere)
#2: “Kick Ass” (Kick-Ass)
#3: “Black Sheep” (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World)
#4: “Life During Wartime” (Life During Wartime)
#5: “Dear Laughing Doubters” (Dinner for Schmucks)

Best Production Design
#1: Inception
#2: Shutter Island
#3: Black Swan
#4: Vincere
#5: Dogtooth

Best Costume Design
#1: Carlos
#2: Black Swan
#3: Vincere
#4: Amer
#5: True Grit

Best Makeup
#1: The Fighter
#2: Carlos
#3: 127 Hours
#4: Black Swan
#5: Vincere

Best Sound
#1: Enter the Void
#2: Inception
#3: Black Swan
#4: Toy Story 3
#5: True Grit

Best Visual Effects
#1: Inception
#2: Kick-Ass
#3: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
#4: The Social Network
#5: Enter the Void

Best Breakthrough Performance – Male
Edgar Ramirez (Carlos)

Best Breakthrough Performance – Female
Katie Jarvis (Fish Tank)

Best First Feature
David Michôd (Animal Kingdom)

Worst Film of the Year
The Human Centipede (First Sequence)(dir: Tom Six)