The Year in Film: 2011


Best Picture
#1: Certified Copy (dir: Abbas Kiarostami)
#2: A Separation (dir: Asghar Farhadi)
#3: Drive (dir: Nicolas Winding Refn)
#4: House of Pleasures (dir: Bertrand Bonello)
#5: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
#6: Martha Marcy May Marlene (dir: Sean Durkin)
#7: Melancholia (dir: Lars von Trier)
#8: Meek’s Cutoff (dir: Kelly Reichardt)
#9: Mysteries of Lisbon (dir: Raul Rúiz)
#10: Hugo (dir: Martin Scorsese)

Honorable Mentions: The Tree of Life (dir: Terrence Malick), A Dangerous Method (dir: David Cronenberg), The Myth of the American Sleepover (dir: David Robert Mitchell), Take Shelter (dir: Jeff Nichols), Le Quattro Volte (dir: Michelangelo Frammartino), The Interrupters (dir: Steve James), Of Gods and Men (dir: Xavier Beauvois), The Trip (dir: Michael Winterbottom), Putty Hill (dir: Matt Porterfield), The Arbor (dir: Clio Barnard), The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (dir: Andrei Ujica), Tomboy (dir: Céline Sciamma), Petition (dir: Zhao Liang), Weekend (dir: Andrew Haigh), The Skin I Live In (dir: Pedro Almodóvar), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (dir: Tomas Alfredson), Submarine (dir: Richard Ayoade), Attack the Block (dir: Joe Cornish), Midnight in Paris (dir: Woody Allen), and Cave of Forgotten Dreams (dir: Werner Herzog).

Best Director
#1: Abbas Kiarostami (Certified Copy)
#2: Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive)
#3: Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives)
#4: Lars von Trier (Melancholia)
#5: Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life)

Best Actor
#1: Michael Fassbender (Shame)
#2: George Clooney (The Descendants)
#3: Brad Pitt (The Tree of Life)
#4: Michael Shannon (Take Shelter)
#5: Peyman Moaadi (A Separation)

Best Actress
#1: Juliette Binoche (Certified Copy)
#2: Leila Hatami (A Separation)
#3: Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy May Marlene)
#4: Kirsten Dunst (Melancholia)
#5: Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk About Kevin)

Best Supporting Actor
#1: Albert Brooks (Drive)
#2: John Hawkes (Martha Marcy May Marlene)
#3: Shahab Hosseini (A Separation)
#4: Christopher Plummer (Beginners)
#5: Bruce Greenwood (Meek’s Cutoff)

Best Supporting Actress
#1: Sareh Bayat (A Separation)
#2: Charlotte Gainsbourg (Melancholia)
#3: Jessica Chastain (Take Shelter)
#4: Kate Winslet (Carnage)
#5: Shailene Woodley (The Descendants)

Best Original Screenplay
#1: Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
#2: A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
#3: Martha Marcy May Marlene(Sean Durkin)
#4: Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
#5: Of Gods and Men (Erienne Comar and Xavier Beauvois)

Best Adapted Screenplay
#1: Mysteries of Lisbon (Carlos Saboga)
#2: A Dangerous Method (Christopher Hampton)
#3: Hugo (John Logan)
#4: The Descendants (Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, and Alexander Payne)
#5: Drive (Hossein Amini)

Best Cinematography
#1: Emmanuel Lubezki (The Tree of Life)
#2: Newton Thomas Sigel (Drive)
#3: Robert Richardson (Hugo)
#4: Manuel Alberto Claro (Melancholia)
#5: André Szankowski (Mysteries of Lisbon)

Best Film Editing
#1: Drive
#2: The Tree of Life
#3: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
#4: Hugo
#5: Melancholia

Best Score
#1: Drive (Cliff Martinez)
#2: The Tree of Life (Alexandre Desplat)
#3: The Skin I Live In (Alberto Iglesias)
#4: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo(Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross)
#5: Mysteries of Lisbon (Jorge Arrigada)

Best Song
TBD

Best Production Design
#1: Hugo
#2: The Skin I Live In
#3: House of Pleasures
#4: Mysteries of Lisbon
#5: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Best Costume Design
#1: Mysteries of Lisbon
#2: House of Pleasures
#3: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
#4: The Mill and the Cross
#5: The Skin I Live In

Best Makeup
#1: The Skin I Live In
#2: Mysteries of Lisbon
#3: House of Pleasures
#4: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
#5: The Way Back

Best Sound
#1: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
#2: Drive
#3: Melancholia
#4: The Tree of Life
#5: The Arbor

Best Visual Effects
#1: Hugo
#2: Thor
#3: Sucker Punch
#4: War Horse
#5: The Tree of Life

Best Breakthrough Performance – Male
Tom Cullen (Weekend)

Best Breakthrough Performance – Female
Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy May Marlene)

Best First Feature
Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene)

Worst Film of the Year
The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) (dir: Tom Six)