Awards Season 2010

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Everyone everywhere comes up with a Top 10 list at this time of the year, but there is only one that I look forward to and its the one by BFI's Sights and Sounds Magazine. It's a very interesting list and its even more interesting to find last years very remarkable A Prophet, which topped their list for 2009, also in the 2010 list!

The Social Network has earned the rare distinction, for an American studio film, of topping Sight & Sound’s list of the best films of 2010. According to Guy Lodge at incontention.com, the full lists are only available in the print magazine right now, but will be online Dec. 7. This year’s Best Picture list is a Top 12, due to numerous ties.

1. The Social Network (David Fincher)
2. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. Another Year (Mike Leigh)
4. Carlos (Olivier Assayas)
5. The Arbor (Clio Barnard)
6. Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik)
6. I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino)
8. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (Andrei Ujica)
8. Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
8. Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzman)
8. Poetry (Lee Chang-dong)
8. A Prophet (Jacques Audiard)

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And just in time are the winners of NBR:

Best Film: The Social Network
Best Director: David Fincher, The Social Network
Best Actor: Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
Best Actress: Lesley Manville, Another Year
Best Supporting Actor: Christian Bale, The Fighter
Best Supporting Actress: Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom
Best Foreign Language Film: Of Gods and Men
Best Documentary: Waiting for “Superman”
Best Animated Feature: Toy Story 3
Best Ensemble Cast: The Town
Breakthrough Performance: Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone
Debut Directors: Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington, Restrepo
Spotlight Award: Sylvain Chomet and Jacques Tati, The Illusionist
Best Original Screenplay: Chris Sparling, Buried
Best Adapted Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network
Special Filmmaking Achievement Award: Sofia Coppola for writing, directing, and producing Somewhere
William K. Everson Film History Award: Leonard Maltin

NBR Freedom of Expression: Fair Game, Conviction, Howl
Production Design Award: Dante Ferretti, Shutter Island

Ten Best Films
(in alphabetical order)
Another Year
The Fighter
Hereafter
Inception
The King’s Speech
Shutter Island
The Town
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone

Five Best Foreign-Language Films
(in alphabetical order)
I Am Love
Incendies
Life, Above All
Soul Kitchen
White Material

Five Best Documentaries
(in alphabetical order)
A Film Unfinished
Inside Job
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
Restrepo
The Tillman Story

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And finally (for today), just for laughs, is Stephen King's Top 10 for the year:

Stephen King serves up a top 10 smorgasbord that encompasses a wide range of strange flavors, including a couple of things I have no intention of sampling. We’ll list them in backwards order like he does — presumably so his excellent top choices can erase the bad taste left in our mouths from the worst ones. There’s sometimes a line I have trouble crossing in a few of King’s creations and here I’ll draw that line between 8 and 9. Thanks to Marshall for the slashfilm link.

10. Green Zone – “one Iraq war movie that puts story and suspense above shrill outrage.”
9. Jackass 3D
8. Monsters
7. Splice
6. Kick-Ass
5. Takers – “This satisfyingly complex cops-’n’-robbers movie features great performances … and the armored-car heist is the best action sequence I’ve seen this year.”
4. The Social Network – “succeeds where Michael Douglas; Wall Street sequel fails.”
3. Inception
2. The Town – “Bad title, fantastic movie. … a strangely intimare film”
1. Let Me In

[kaytee]

LOL @ Stephen Hawkings list. The Takers really?? And I hate sights and sound now because I will need to make space for Poetry somehow now during DIFF.

[shariqq]

LOL @ Stephen Hawkings list.

I don't think Hawkings gets enough time out of his stars and black holes to watch movies

[shariqq]

Stephen King actually has Jackass 3D in there!

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LOL @ Stephen Hawkings list. The Takers really?? And I hate sights and sound now because I will need to make space for Poetry somehow now during DIFF.

Just make sure POETRY is the first or second film you see during a day. It's long, deliberately-paced and totally worth it.

Also, not surprised to see FILM SOCIALISME on S&S's list; it's more accessible than some of Godard's recent works. I saw it at the AFI Fest, and there were only 15 walkouts, which is a miracle.

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It seems like Fincher is headed for the top prize at this year's Oscars. Here's Ebert's Top-10 of 2010:

The Best Films of 2010 BY ROGER EBERT

1. The Soical Network
2. The King's Speech
3. Black Swan
4. I Am Love
5. Winter's Bone
6. Inception
7. The Secret In Their Eyes
8. The American
9. Kids Are All Right
10. The Ghost Writer

Yay for #3!

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i love the title of his review..

"She became perfect in every area except life"

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As always, with minor exceptions, Ebert's list sucks.

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The Golden Globe nominations:


Best Motion Picture, Drama
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The King’s Speech
The Social Network

Best Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
Alice in Wonderland
Burlesque
The Kids Are All Right
Red
The Tourist

Best Director - Motion Picture
Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
David Fincher, The Social Network
Tom Hooper, The King's Speech
Christopher Nolan, Inception
David O. Russell, The Fighter

Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
Colin Firth, The King's Speech
James Franco, 127 Hours
Ryan Gosling, Blue Valentine
Mark Wahlberg, The Fighter

Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
Halle Berry, Frankie and Alice
Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone
Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine

Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy
Johnny Depp, Alice in Wonderland
Johnny Depp, The Tourist
Paul Giamatti, Barney's Version
Jake Gyllenhaal, Love and Other Drugs
Kevin Spacey, Casino Jack

Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy
Anne Hathaway, Love and Other Drugs
Julianne Moore, The Kids Are All Right
Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right
Emma Stone, Easy A
Angelina Jolie, The Tourist

Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
Christian Bale, The Fighter
Michael Douglas, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Andrew Garfield, The Social Network
Jeremy Renner, The Town
Geoffrey Rush, The King's Speech

Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Amy Adams, The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter, The King's Speech
Mila Kunis, Black Swan
Melissa Leo, The Fighter
Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
127 Hours
The Kids Are All Right
The King's Speech
The Social Network
Inception

Best Animated Feature Film
Despicable Me
How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Toy Story 3
Tangled

Best Foreign Language Film
Biutiful
The Concert
The Edge
I Am Love
In a Better World

Best Original Song - Motion Picture
Bound to You, Burlesque
Coming Home, Country Strong
I See the Light, Tangled
There's a Place for Us, Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
You Haven't Seen the Last of Me, Burlesque

Best Original Score - Motion Picture
Alexandre Desplot, The King's Speech
Danny Elfman, Alice in Wonderland
A.R. Rahmin, 127 Hours
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, The Social Network
Hans Zimmer, Inception

[kaytee]

Clearly the foreign press have no clue what is happening. They have nominated The Tourist as Best Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical. I thought they were making a thriller. Ditto for Johnny Depp and Angie Jolie.

[shariqq]

lol! I never gave it a second thought. The Tourist should make our list of "Films We Never Saw But Know Are Bad, Really Fucking Bad:"

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lol! I never gave it a second thought. The Tourist should make our list of "Films We Never Saw But Know Are Bad, Really Fucking Bad:"

lol, I like that suggestion very much! I've wanted to watch THE TOURIST, but everytime I think about seriously acting upon my urge, I perish the thought!

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lol! I never gave it a second thought. The Tourist should make our list of "Films We Never Saw But Know Are Bad, Really Fucking Bad:"

I second that.