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THE BEST AND WORST OF 2011
The author’s considered best/worst in each category are listed in bold italics with an asterisk (*). The listed links will take you to more detailed reviews of each film.
The 10 Best Films
Worst Films
Best Director
Pedro Almodovar – The Skin I Live In
Mike Flanagan – Absentia
Terrence Malick – The Tree of Life (*)
Lucky McKee – The Woman
Lynne Ramsay – We Need to Talk About Kevin
Tarsem Singh Dhandwar – Immortals
Best Original Screenplay
Contagion
In Time (*)
Midnight in Paris
Paul
Red State
Scre4m
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Adjustment Bureau (*)
Batman: Year One
Frankenstein
Hugo
The Skin I Live In
Best Actor
Sean Bridgers – The Woman
Michael Fuith – Michael
Anthony Hopkins – The Rite
Neil Maskell – Kill List
Michael Parks – Red State (*)
Michael Shannon – Take Shelter
Best Actress
Emily Blunt – The Adjustment Bureau
Jessica Chastain – Take Shelter and The Tree of Life
Elle Fanning – Super 8
Fiona Gordon – The Fairy
Rooney Mara – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (*)
Pollyanna McIntosh – The Woman
Best Supporting Actor
John Goodman – Red State (*)
Dakota Goyo – Real Steel
Neil Patrick Harris – Beastly and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
Ben Kingsley – Hugo
Ezra Miller – We Need to Talk About Kevin
Best Supporting Actress
Rosanna Arquette – The Divide (*)
Alison Brie – Scre4m
Jennifer Ehle – Contagion
Luna Zimic Mijovic – Dreileben
Charlotte Rampling – Melancholia
Best Cinematography
Hugo
Midnight in Paris (*)
The Resident
The Tree of Life
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Best Special Effects
Battle Los Angeles
Green Lantern
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Real Steel
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (*)
Best Makeup Effects
Beastly
Final Destination 5
Green Lantern
The Thing (*)
Best Production Design
Captain America: The First Avenger
Green Lantern
Hugo (*)
Immortals
Priest
Thor