Sunday, January 22, 2012

2011 Filmspots Ballot

This is my ballot for the 2011 Filmspots for Filmspotting.net. Over the course of the past year and especially the last month I've put a lot of time, thought, and honesty into my picks and rankings and this is what I ended up with.

PICTURE
1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2. Shame
3. Drive
4. The Descendants
5. The Tree of Life

CAST
1. Margin Call
2. The Ides of March
3. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
4. Contagion
5. Drive

DIRECTOR
1. David Fincher (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
2. Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life)
3. Alexander Payne (The Descendants)
4. Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive)
5. Steve McQueen (Shame)

ACTOR
1. Michael Fassbender (Shame)
2. Demian Bichir (A Better Life)
3. George Clooney (The Descendants)
4. Brad Pitt (Moneyball)
5. Leonardo DiCaprio (J. Edgar)

ACTRESS
1. Kirsten Dunst (Melancholia)
2. Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn)
3. Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
4. Saoirse Ronan (Hanna)
5. Felicity Jones (Like Crazy)

SUPPORTING ACTOR
1. Christopher Plummer (Beginners)
2. Albert Brooks (Drive)
3. Brad Pitt (The Tree of Life)
4. Nick Nolte (Warrior)
5. Kenneth Branagh (My Week with Marilyn)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1. Jessica Chastain (The Tree of Life)
2. Carey Mulligan (Shame)
3. Charlotte Gainsbourg (Melancholia)
4. Shailene Woodley (The Descendants)
5. Elle Fanning (Super 8)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
1. Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life)
2. Steve McQueen and Abi Morgan (Shame)
3. Lars Von Trier (Melancholia)
4. Mike Mills (Beginners)
5. J.J. Abrams (Super 8)

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
1. Nat Faxon, Alexander Payne, and Jim Rash (The Descendants)
2. George Clooney, Grant Heslov, and Beau Willimon (The Ides of March)
3. Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy)
4. Aaron Sorkin and Steve Zaillian (Moneyball)
5. Steve Zaillian (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)

DEBUT
1. J.C. Chandor (Margin Call)
2. John Michael McDonaugh (The Guard)
3. Simon Curtis (My Week with Marilyn)
4. Dan Rush (Everything Must Go)
5. John Wells (The Company Men)

SCORE
1. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
2. John Williams (War Horse)
3. Harry Escott (Shame)
4. Michael Giacchino (Super 8)
5. Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons (Hanna)

SOUNDTRACK
1. Drive
2. The Tree of Life
3. The Descendants
4. Shame
5. 50/50

ART DIRECTION
1. Hugo
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II
3. J. Edgar
4. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
5. My Week with Marilyn

CINEMATOGRAPHY
1. The Tree of Life
2. War Horse
3. Drive
4. Shame
5. Meek's Cutoff

EDITING
1. Drive
2. The Tree of Life
3. Shame
4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
5. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

SOUND
1. Super 8
2. War Horse
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II
4. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
5. Drive

VISUAL EFFECTS
1. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2. The Tree of Life
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II
4. Super 8
5. Melancholia

SURPRISE
1. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2. X-Men: First Class
3. 30 Minutes or Less
4. Our Idiot Brother
5. Like Crazy

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