2011- The First Half

I still have to write my review of Super 8, but here are the films I've been keeping as "For Your Consideration" for my Filmspotting ballot. I should point out that at the end of the year, things do change when I reevaluate everything. So as of now, here it is, a recap of my favorite films and performances...

FYC

PICTURE

-Biutiful

-Hanna

-The Sunset Limited

-Super 8

-The Way Back

-X-Men: First Class

DIRECTOR

-J.J. Abrams (Super 8)

-Miguel Arteta (Cedar Rapids)

-Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu (Biutiful)

-Tommy Lee Jones (The Sunset Limited)

-Matthew Vaughn (X-Men: First Class)

-Peter Weir (The Way Back)

-Joe Wright (Hanna)

ACTOR

-Javier Bardem (Biutiful)

-Steve Coogan (The Trip)

-Joel Courtney (Super 8)

-Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class)

-Paul Giamatti (Win Win)

-Jake Gyllenhaal (Source Code)

-Samuel L. Jackson (The Sunset Limited)

-Tommy Lee Jones (The Sunset Limited)

-James McAvoy (The Conspirator)

-James McAvoy (X-Men: First Class)

-Ray Stevenson (Kill the Irishman)

-Rainn Wilson (Super)

ACTRESS

-Saoirse Ronan (Hanna)

SUPPORTING ACTOR

-Kevin Bacon (Super)

-Kevin Bacon (X-Men: First Class)

-Eric Bana (Hanna)

-Rob Brydon (The Trip)

-Kyle Chandler (Super 8)

-Colin Farrell (The Way Back)

-Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover Part II)

-Ed Harris (The Way Back)

-Tom Hollander (Hanna)

-Danny Huston (The Conspirator)

-John C. Reilly (Cedar Rapids)

-Tom Wilkinson (The Conspirator)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

-Cate Blanchett (Hanna)

-Elle Fanning (Super 8)

-Ellen Page (Super)

CAST

-Biutiful

-Cedar Rapids

-The Company Men

-The Conspirator

-Hanna

-Kill the Irishman

-Super

-Super 8

-Thor

-The Way Back

-Win Win

-X-Men: First Class

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

-J.J. Abrams (Super 8)

-Armando Bo, Nicholas Giacobone, and Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu (Biutiful)

-David Farr and Seth Lochhead (Hanna)

-Phil Johnston (Cedar Rapids)

-John Wells (The Company Men)

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

-Keith Clarke and Peter Weir (The Way Back)

-Cormac McCarthy (The Sunset Limited)

FILMS I WANTED TO SEE THAT WERE RELEASED

-Beginners

-A Better Life

-Cinema Verite

-Everything Must Go

-Meek's Cutoff

-Midnight in Paris

-Too Big to Fail

-The Tree of Life

MY RANKINGS AS OF NOW

1. Super 8

2. Biutiful

3. The Sunset Limited

4. Hanna

5. The Trip

6. The Way Back

7. X-Men: First Class

8. The Company Men

9. Cedar Rapids

10. The Conspirator

11. The Hangover Part II

12. Thor

13. Kill the Irishman

14. Win Win

15. Super

16. Source Code

17. Battle: Los Angeles

18. Fast Five

19. The Eagle

20. The Mechanic

21. Green Lantern

22. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

23. Limitless

24. Paul

25. The Green Hornet

26. Your Highness

MOVIES I'D SEE FOR THE SECOND HALF (ordered by CONFIRMED release date/schedule and is VERY subject to change)

-Transformers 3

-Horrible Bosses

-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II

-Captain America

-Cowboys and Aliens

-The Devil's Double

-The Guard

-The Change-Up

-Rise of the Planet of the Apes

-30 Minutes or Less

-Conan

-One Day

-Colombiana

-Our Idiot Brother

-The Debt

-Warrior

-Drive

-Abduction

-Killer Elite

-Moneyball

-50/50

-Dream House

-The Ides of March

-Wanderlust

-The Big Year

-The Thing

-The Three Musketeers

-Contagion

-Red State

-In Time

-The Rum Diary

-Like Crazy

-Tower Heist

-My Week with Marilyn

-Immortals

-Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

-Hugo Cabret

-The Muppets

-Coriolanus

-The Sitter

-Mission Impossible IV

-Sherlock Holmes 2

-The Descendants

-Tintin

-The Darkest Hour

-The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

-We Bought a Zoo

-In the Land of Blood and Honey

-War Horse