Member Top 10s

[awardskel Joined: Nov 6th, 2010 Topics: 180 Posts: 193 View Predictions]

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Top 10 Performance by a Male Actor (Lead/Support)

1. Brad Pitt as Mr. O’Brien in The
   Tree of Life (2011)
2. Gary Oldman as George Smiley in
   Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011)
3. Michael Shannon as Curtis in Take
   Shelter (2011)
4. Corey Stoll as Ernest Hemingway
   in Midnight in Paris (2011)
5. Michael Fassbender as Brandon
   Sullivan in Shame (2011)
6. Christopher Plummer as Hal
   Fields in Beginners (2011)
7. Brendan Gleeson as Sergeant
   Gerry Boyle in The Guard (2011)
8. John Hawkes as Patrick in Martha
   Marcy May Marlene (2011)
9. Benedict Cumberbatch as Peter
   Guillam in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011)
10. Paul
    Giamatti as Mike Flaherty in Win Win (2011)

HM: Patton Oswalt as Matt Freehauf
in Young Adult (2011)

Top 10 Performance by a Female Actor (Lead/Support)

1. Charlize Theron as Mavis Gary
   in Young Adult (2011)
2. Jessica Chastain as Mrs.
   O’Brien in The Tree of Life (2011)
3. Marion Cotillard as Adriana in Midnight
   in Paris (2011)
4. Adepero Oduye as Alike in Pariah
   (2011)
5. Carey Mulligan as Sissy
   Sullivan in Shame (2011)
6. Olivia Colman as Hannah in Tyrannosaur
   (2011)
7. Rooney Mara as Lisabeth
   Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
8. Vera Farmiga as Corinne in Higher
   Ground (2011)
9. Tilda Swinton as Eva Khatchadourian
   in We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
10. Vanessa
    Redgrave as Volumnia in Coriolanus (2011)

HM: Kim Wayans as Audrey in Pariah
(2011) AND Michelle
Williams as Emily Tetherow in Meek’s Cutoff (2011) – tie

Top 10 Breakthroughs

1. Tom Cullen & Chris New for
   their performances in Weekend (2011) – tie
2. Jessica
   Chastain for her performances in The Tree of Life (2011), The Help (2011) and Take Shelter (2011)
3. Adepero Oduye for her
   performance in Pariah (2011)
4. Corey Stoll for his performance
   in Midnight in Paris (2011)
5. Andrew Haigh for Directing Weekend
   (2011)
6. Bradford Young for
   photographing Pariah (2011)
7. Will Reiser for Writing 50/50
   (2011)
8. Alex Shaffer for his
   performance in Win Win (2011)
9. Sean Durkin for Directing Martha
   Marcy May Marlene (2011)
10. Elizabeth
    Olsen for her performance in Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)

HM: Hunter McCracken for his performance in The Tree of
Life (2011)

Top 10 Directors

1. Tomas Alfredson for Tinker,
   Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011)
2. Dee Rees for Pariah (2011)
3. Steve McQueen for Shame (2011)
4. Terrence Malick for The Tree
   of Life (2011)
5. Andrew Haigh for Weekend (2011)
6. Nicolas Winding Refn for Drive
   (2011)
7. Jason Reitman for Young
   Adult (2011)
8. Steven Spielberg for The
   Adventures of Tintin (2011)
9. Bennett Miller for Moneyball
   (2011)
10. Martin
    Scorsese for Hugo (2011)

HM: Mike Mills for Beginners (2011)

Top 10 Screenplays (Original/Adapted)

1. Andrew Haigh for Weekend (2011)
2. Bridget O’Connor & Peter
   Straughan for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
3. Woody Allen for Midnight in
   Paris (2011)
4. Alexander Payne, Jim Rash,
   & Nat Faxon for The Descendants (2011)
5. Mike Mills for Beginners (2011)
6. Hossein Amini for Drive (2011)
7. Will Reiser for 50/50 (2011)
8. Steven Zaillian for The Girl
   with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
9. John Logan, Gore Verbinski,
   & James Ward Byrkit for Rango (2011)
10. Stan
    Chervin, Aaron Sorkin, & Steven Zaillian for Moneyball (2011)

Top 10 Movies

1. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
   (2011)
2. Pariah (2011)
3. Midnight in Paris (2011)
4. Weekend (2011)
5. The Tree of Life (2011)
6. Young Adult (2011)
7. The Descendants (2011)
8. We Were Here (2011)
9. Moneyball (2011)
10. The
    Guard (2011)

HM: The Artist (2011) AND Drive (2011)

Top 10 Animated Films

1. Rango (2011)
2. The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
3. Puss in Boots (2011)
4. Arthur Christmas (2011)
5. Chico & Rita (2011)
6. Winnie the Pooh (2011)
7. A Cat in Paris (2011)
8. Cars 2 (2011)
9. Gnomeo and Juliet (2011)
10. Kung
    Fu Panda 2 (2011)

HM: Rio

Top 10 Documentaries

1. Pina (2011)
2. Project Nim (2011)
3. The Interrupters (2011)
4. We Were Here (2011)
5. Dreams of a Life (2011)
6. Into the Abyss (2011)
7. Undefeated (2011)
8. Buck (2011)
9. African Cats (2011)
10. Zeitgeist:
    Moving Forward (2011)

HM: Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain (2011)

Top 10 Technical Achievements

1. Francois Garnier for Pina (2011) – 3D supervisor
2. Maria Djurkovic for Tinker
   Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) – art direction
3. Trent Raznor & Atticus Ross
   for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) – original score
4. Emmanuel Lubezki for The
   Tree of Life (2011)
   – cinematography
5. Mat Newman for Drive (2011) – film editing
6. Bradford Young for Pariah (2011) – cinematography
7. Dante Ferretti & Francesca
   Lo Schiavo for Hugo (2011) – art direction
8. Matt
   Aiken, Scott Anderson, Joe Letteri, Matt Menz, & Keith Miller for Adventures
   of Tintin (2011)
   – visual effects
9. Mark
   Bridges for The Artist (2011) – costume design
10. Jacqueline
    West for The Tree of Life (2011) – costume design

HM: Alberto Iglesias for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) – original score

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[Scottferguson Joined: Sep 26th, 2011 Topics: 136 Posts: 11099 View Predictions]

#46216

Hi there & welcome –

Could you change the thread title to “Member Top 10s”? If everyone here starts setting up one for him or herself, it’s going to take up a lot of pages.

Thanks!

(Just click EDIT on the thread, change the title, then click UPDATE)

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[pacinofan Joined: Nov 28th, 2011 Topics: 8 Posts: 4211 View Predictions]

#46217

I still have to many films to see to make any type of top ten list but at this point I would say “Moneyball”, “Midnight in Paris” and “The Descendants” will likely make it. “The Skin I Live In” and “Drive” are possible. “Hugo” keeps hauting my mind with its imagery, much like “Black Swan” last year, so it sould make my top ten despite some initial reservations. “Melancholia” is a film that will likely make a lot of top ten lists around here but no mine.

I anxiously await seeing “The Artist”, “Poetry”, “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”, “A Separation”, etc. so I can make my personal top ten.

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[Adam Waldowski Joined: Aug 24th, 2011 Topics: 1 Posts: 154 View Predictions]

#46218

I just realized my top ten has stuff I’m embargoed on. Standby.

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[Ethel Charles Joined: Sep 23rd, 2011 Topics: 5 Posts: 308 View Predictions]

#46219

You mean that Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is on it?!

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[Novic Joined: May 23rd, 2011 Topics: 3 Posts: 323 View Predictions]

#46220

You mean that Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is on it?!

Or Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

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BTW, I’m so excited to see ‘Young Adult’. ‘Tree of Life’, and ‘Drive’ with multiple mentions!

I am so far from making a top 10 list. I’m behind on everything.

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[Adam Waldowski Joined: Aug 24th, 2011 Topics: 1 Posts: 154 View Predictions]

#46221

Only reviews — full-length or capsules — aren’t permitted. So here we go.

Top Ten Films
01. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)

02. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Stephen Daldry)
03. Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols)

04. Beauty (Oliver Hermanus)
05. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher)

06. We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay)

07. Moneyball (Bennett Miller)

08. In Darkness (Angieszka Holland)

09. A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg)

10. Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky) 

Lead Actor

Michael Shannon, Take Shelter

Brad Pitt, Moneyball

Thomas Horn, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Leonardo DiCaprio, J. Edgar

Deon Lotz, Beauty

Lead Actress

Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady

Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin

Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Anna Paquin, Margaret

Cameron Diaz, Bad Teacher

Supporting Actor
Brad Pitt, The Tree of Life
Hunter McCracken, The Tree of Life
Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Armie Hammer, J. Edgar
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Patagonia
 

Supporting Actress

Jessica Chastain, The Tree of Life
Jessica Chastain, Take Shelter
Evan Rachel Wood, The Ides of March
Jessica Barden, Hanna
Jessica Chastain, The Help
 
Director

Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life
Stephen Daldry, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Oliver Hermanus, Beauty
David Fincher, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Jeff Nichols, Take Shelter

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[Kevin Dillon Joined: Jun 12th, 2011 Topics: 0 Posts: 40 View Predictions]

#46222

http://eternalthoughtsofkevinsmind.blogspot.com/2011/12/entertainers-of-year-adele-is.html

My entertainers of the year!

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[M H Joined: Nov 7th, 2010 Topics: 0 Posts: 1025 View Predictions]

#46223

I have seen only 17 2011 movies, so no where close to making a Top Ten list. But, at this point the only film that I am sure will be on it is Rango, which would be my No. 1 at the moment. 

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[babypook Joined: Nov 4th, 2010 Topics: 143 Posts: 17022 View Predictions]

#46224

I’ve only seen seventy+ films so far this year. I’m behind my usual pace but so far, this is mine: All of these films moved me in some way, and are filled with technical mastery and great perfs and ensembles (imo)

HUGO   Hugo is  so rich in detail I dont know where to begin, from the smoke hovering in the air to the fabulous buttons on Isabelle’s coat. A film made by a director who clearly loves the movies, as do you and I. A Masterpiece. My chip is on Hugo for BP. I think this may be my favorite ensemble.

Midnight In Paris    A great ensemble and a loving view of Paris. The only true comedy for me this year. Thanks Woody.

Tree of Life    Why do you make us wait so long for your next film???

Rango   Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp can make such a great team. Still my favorite animated film this year.

My Week With Marilyn   Just a split-second look from Michelle Williams is all it took, So happy for Eddie Redmayne too, who can now choose whether he wears a codpiece in his next film, or not.

 I can sense I’m going to time out, so I’ll finish later.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K Dick Blade Runner

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[Scottferguson Joined: Sep 26th, 2011 Topics: 136 Posts: 11099 View Predictions]

#46225

This is a work in progress, since there are significant films I have not yet seen (Margaret, The Interrupters, The Arbor, To Die Like a Man, The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu included), but here is a work in progress of 9 films (leaving room for one more)

Top tier:

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Poetry
Melancholia
Hugo

Very close:

A Separation
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Certified Copy
How I Ended This Summer
Mysteries of Lisbon

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[babypook Joined: Nov 4th, 2010 Topics: 143 Posts: 17022 View Predictions]

#46226

Only reviews — full-length or capsules — aren’t permitted. So here we go.

Top Ten Films
01. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
02. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Stephen Daldry)
03. Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols)
04. Beauty (Oliver Hermanus)
05. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher)
06. We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay)
07. Moneyball (Bennett Miller)
08. In Darkness (Angieszka Holland)
09. A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg)
10. Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky) 

Lead Actor
Michael Shannon, Take Shelter
Brad Pitt, Moneyball
Thomas Horn, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Leonardo DiCaprio, J. Edgar
Deon Lotz, Beauty

Lead Actress
Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin
Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Anna Paquin, Margaret
Cameron Diaz, Bad Teacher

Supporting Actor
Brad Pitt, The Tree of Life
Hunter McCracken, The Tree of Life
Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Armie Hammer, J. Edgar
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Patagonia  

Supporting Actress
Jessica Chastain, The Tree of Life
Jessica Chastain, Take Shelter
Evan Rachel Wood, The Ides of March
Jessica Barden, Hanna
Jessica Chastain, The Help
 
Director
Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life
Stephen Daldry, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Oliver Hermanus, Beauty
David Fincher, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Jeff Nichols, Take Shelter

Love all of your mentions for TGwTDT. After reading your take on “Shame”, I’m wondering if Fassbender’s perf and the film itself would make your ‘top’ ten thousand?
And you’re a young ‘un to boot!

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K Dick Blade Runner

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[Ryan_Fernand Joined: May 20th, 2011 Topics: 3 Posts: 205 View Predictions]

#46227

1. The Tree of Life
2. Super 8
3. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
4. Source Code
5. The Help
6. Moneyball
7. Martha Marcy May Marlene
8. Kung Fu Panda 2
9. Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol
10. The Muppets 

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[pacinofan Joined: Nov 28th, 2011 Topics: 8 Posts: 4211 View Predictions]

#46228

I see “A Separation” and “We Need to Talk About Kevin” this weekend but as of 2/1/12 my top ten would be…

1) The Artist
2) Moneyball
3) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
4) The Descendants
5) Poetry
6) Midnight in Paris
7) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II
8) The Skin I Live In
9) Hugo
10) Drive

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[Smaller Bill Joined: May 22nd, 2011 Topics: 1 Posts: 46 View Predictions]

#46229

For now, this is mine. I’m still looking forward to watching Hugo and my golly, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I mean, I put off EL&IC to my bucket list because of the bad reviews it had gotten. But because of that BP nom, I’m considering putting it back. 

1. The Descendants

2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

3. Midnight in Paris

4. The Artist

5. Bridesmaids

6. A Separation

7. The Help

8. Moneyball

9. The Ides of March

10. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 

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