Refresh your memory - the 2011 Film Awards long list

johnny_ultimate

So Sad Professor and I have painstakingly thrown together the following general longlists for the upcoming nomination threads. It's by no means definitive so please add your own suggestions below

And here. We. Go!

johnny_ultimate

BEST FILM CATEGORIES

Best Hollywood Blockbuster
Battle Los Angeles
Captain America
Cowboys and Aliens
The Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Hugo
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Immortals
Mission Impossible
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Source Code
Super 8
Sherlock Holmes 2
Thor
X-Men First Class

Non-American English Language
Animal Kingdom
Attack the Block
Hanna
Jane Eyre
Kill List
Melancholia
Oranges and Sunshine
Submarine
Snowtown
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Tyrannosaur
The King’s Speech
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Wuthering Heights

Animation
Arthur Christmas
Arrietty
Happy Feet 2
Puss in Boots
Rango
Summer Wars
The Adventures of Tintin

Documentary
Bobby Fischer Against the World
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Herzog)
Dreams of a Life
Flying Monsters with David Attenborough
George Harrison: Living in the Material World (Scorsese)
Greatest Movie Ever Sold
Inside Job
Life in a Day
Page One – Inside the NY Times
Project Nim
Pearl Jam Twenty (Crowe)
Pina
Senna
The Interrupters
TT3D: Closer to the Edge
The Pipe
Waste Land

Foreign Language:
13 Assassins
A Separation
Beautiful Lies
Bedevilled
Biutiful
Cell 211
Cold Fish
Confessions
Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within
Guilty of Romance
I Saw the Devil
In a Better World
Incendies
La Quattro Volte
Las Acicas
Little White Lies
Miss Bala
Norwegian Wood
Outrage
Poetry
Potiche
Princess of Montpellier
Sarah’s Key
Sawako Decides
The Man from Nowhere
The Skin I Live In
The Yellow Sea
Tomboy
Troll Hunter

Not eligible, just in case you were considering voting for it: The Artist

American Arthouse & Indie:
Another Earth
Beginners
Black Swan
Blue Valentine
Cold Weather
Drive
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Kaboom
Meek’s Cutoff
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
Stakeland
Super
Take Shelter
The Beaver
The Fighter
The Future
The Help
The Ides of March
The Tree of Life
True Grit
Warrior
Win Win

Not eligible, just in case you were considering voting for it: Martha Marcy May Marlene, Shame, Margaret, Terri

Dumb Fun
The Adjustment Bureau
Bridesmaids
Cowboys & Aliens
Fast & Furious 5
Final Destination 5
Friends with Benefits
The Inbetweeners Movie
Immortals
Insidious
Paranormal Activity 3
Real Steel
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Super 8
Unknown
Horrible Bosses
Paul
Friends With Benefits
Arthur
Hall Pass
Trollhunter
Crazy, Stupid Love
Fright Night

Irish:
Ballymun Lullaby
Charlie Casanova
Parked
Sensation
Snap
The Guard
The Pipe
The Runway

johnny_ultimate

ACTING CATEGORIES

Best Actor
Andrew Garfield – Never Let Me Go
Antonio Banderas – Skin I Live In
Ben Mandelson – Animal Kingdom
Brad Pitt – Tree of Life
Brendan Gleeson – The Guard
Christian Bale – The Fighter
Colin Firth – The King’s Speech
Daniel Henshall – Snowtown
Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Geoffrey Rush – The King’s Speech
George Clooney – The Ides of March
Javier Bardem – Biutiful
Jeff Bridges – True Grit
Kôji Yakusho – 13 Assassins
Mark Wahlberg – The Fighter
Michael Shannon – Take Shelter
Payman Moaadi – A Separation
Peter Mullen – Tyrannosaur
Robert Downey Jr. – Sherlock Holmes 2
Ryan Gosling – Drive / Blue Valentine / The Ides of March
Russell Brand - Arthur
James Franco - Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Tom Hardy - Warrior
Joel Edgerton - Warrior

Best Actress
Carey Mulligan – Drive / Never Let Me Go
Catherine Devenue – Potiche
Charlotte Gainsbourg – Melancholia
Chloe Moretz - Hugo
Elena Anaya – Skin I Live In
Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit
Joeng-hie Yun - Poetry
Kirsten Dunst – Melancholia
Kirsten Wiig - Bridesmaids
Leila Hatami – A Separation
Michelle Monaghan – Source Code
Michelle Williams – Meek’s Cutoff / Blue Valentine / My Week with Marilyn
Natalie Portman – Black Swan
Olivia Colman - Tyrannosaur
Rooney Mara – Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Tilda Swinton – We Need to Talk About Kevin
Viola Davis - The Help

Supporting Actor
Andy Serkis – The Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Albert Brooks - Drive
Bruce Greenwood - Meek’s Cutoff
Christopher Plummer – Beginners/The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Chris Nolte - Warrior
Christian Bale – The Fighter
Choi Min-Sik – I Saw the Devil
Colin Firth – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Corey Stohl – Midnight in Paris
David Wenham – Oranges and Sunshine
Ezra Miller – We Need to Talk About Kevin
Geoffrey Rush – The King’s Speech
Jonah Hill – Moneyball
Kenneth Brannagh – My Week with Marylyn
Luis Tosar – Cell 211
Matt Damon - True Grit
Stellan Skasgaurd – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Tom Hardy – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams – The Fighter
Anna Kendrick - 50/50
Ellen Page - Super
Helana Bonham Carter – The King’s Speech
Jackee Weaver – Animal Kingdom
Jessica Chastain – Take Shelter/The Help/The Tree of Life
Lubna Azabal – Incendies
Marion Cotillard – Midnight in Paris
Melissa McCarthy - Bridesmaids
Mila Kunis – Black Swan
Melissa Leo – The Fighter
Octavia Spencer – The Help
Olivia Coleman – Tyrannosaur
Sareh Bayat – A Separation
Sally Hawkins – Submarine

Best Newcomer
Benedict Cumberbatch - Tinker Tailor
Chris Hemsworth - Thor
Chris O’Dowd - Bridesmaids
Craig Roberts / Yasmin Paige – Submarine
Domhnall Gleeson – Sensation
Ezra Miller – We Need to Talk About Kevin
Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit
Jeremy Irvine – War Horse
Jessica Chastain – Tree of Life / Take Shelter
John Boyega – Attack the Block
Kiko Mizuhara – Norwegian Wood
Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids
Rooney Mara – Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Sad Professor

MISC. AWARDS

Best Director:
Asghar Faradi – A Separation
Ben Wheatley – Kill List
Brad Bird – Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Coen Brothers – True Grit
Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
David Fincher – Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
David O. Russell – The Fighter
David Yates – Harry Potter & The Deathly Hollows Part 2
J.J. Abrams – Super 8
James Gunn – Super
Jee-woon Kim – I Saw the Devil
Jeff Nichols – Take Shelter
Joe Cornish – Attack the Block
John McDonagh – The Guard
Kelly Reichardt – Meek’s Cutoff
Kenneth Branagh - Thor
Lars von Trier – Melancholia
Lee Chang-dong – Poetry
Lynn Ramsey – We Need to Talk About Kevin
Martin Scorcese – Hugo
Michael Bay – Transformers 3 (Please don’t vote for this)
Nicholas Refn Windig – Drive
Pedro Almodovar – Skin I Live In
Richard Ayoade – Submarine
Roland Emmerich - Anonymous
Sion Sono – Cold Fish / Guilty of Romance
Steven Spielberg – Tintin / War Horse
Takeshi Kitano - Outrage
Takeshi Miike – 13 Assassins
Terence Malick – Tree of Life
Tetsuya Nakashima – Confessions
Thomas McCarthy – Win Win
Tom Hooper – The King’s Speech
Tomas Alfredson – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Woody Allen – Midnight in Paris / You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

Best Screenplay
50/50
Attack the Block
A Separation
Bridesmaids
Black Swan
Blue Valentine
Drive
Kill List
Moneyball
Midnight in Paris
Never Let Me Go
Submarine
The Help
The Tree of Life
Take Shelter
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The King’s Speech
True Grit
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Ides of March
We Need to Talk about Kevin

Best Cinematography:
13 Assassins
A Separation
Attack the Block
Black Swan
Confessions
Drive
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
I Saw the Devil
Kill List
Kung Fu Panda 2
La Quattro Volte
Meek’s Cutoff
Melancholia
Norwegian Wood
Poetry
Skin I Live In
Submarine
The King’s Speech
The Tree of Life
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
True Grit
War Horse
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Wuthering Heights

Best Soundtrack / Score
Black Swan
Confessions
Drive
Hugo
Moneyball
Norwegian Wood
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Tree of Life
True Grit
The King’s Speech
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The Adventures of Tintin
Sherlock Holmes 2

Best Scene / Moment
13 Assassins – the entire third act battle
A Separation – Final shot
Bridesmaids – Food poisoning
Confessions – The revelation
Drive - opening sequence
Hugo – Mélies studio recreations
I Saw the Devil – Mansion chase
Kill List – The kitchen table
Kung Fu Panda 2 – musical kung-fu
La Quattro Volte – The procession
Midnight in Paris – ‘Dallliii’
Skin I Live In – Surveillance
Thor – ‘I Need a Horse!’
The Tree of Life - creation sequence
Transformers 3 – stuff blowing up
True Grit – ride to the death
The Yellow Sea – axe fights

Newcomer of the Year (director)
Derek Cianfrance – Blue Valentine
Joe Cornish – Attack the Block
John McDonagh – The Guard
Justin Kurzel - Snowtown
Mike Cahill - Another Earth
Paddy Considine – Tyrannosaur
Richard Ayoade – Submarine

Best Special Effects
13 Assassins
Attack the Block
Battle: Los Angeles
Captain America
Cars 2
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 2
Hugo
Immortals
Kung Fu Panda 2
Melancholia
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Sherlock Holmes 2
Source Code
Super 8
Thor
Tintin
Transformers 3
Tree of Life
Troll Hunter
X-Men: First Class

Best Character
Billy Beane - Moneyball
Dicky – The Fighter
Kevin – We Need to Talk About Kevin
Kyung-Chul – I Saw the Devil
Libby / Boltie – Super
Lionel – The King’s Speech
Lisbeth / Mikael – Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Malamadre – Cell 211
Meek – Meek’s Cutoff
Megan – Bridesmaids
Moses – Attack the Block
Naoko / Midori – Norwegian Wood
Pope – Animal Kingdom
Rooster / Mattie – True Grit
Sgt. Gerry Boyle –The Guard
Smiley / Ricki Tarr – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The Driver – Drive
Thor – Thor
Yukio – Cold Fish

Film that Deserved Better
Attack the Block
Cars 2
Fast & Furious 5
Source Code
Summer Wars
Super
Troll Hunter
Anonymous
Moneyball
Straw Dogs
50/50
The Greatest Movie Ever Sold

Sad Professor

WALK OF SHAME AWARDS

Worst Film
Anonymous
Apollo 18
Big Momma’s House 3
Beastly
Cars 2
Dream House
I Am
Jack and Jill
The Chang-Up
The Dilemma
The Smurfs
Passion Play
New Year’s Eve
Sucker Punch
Transformers 3
Twilight
The Beaver
Your Highness
Zookeeper

Most Overrated Film
Black Swan
Hugo
Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows Part 2
Midnight in Paris
Super 8
Twilight
The King’s Speech
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
True Grit
The Tree of Life
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
(see every other category)

Worst Acting Performance
Adam Sandler – Jack & Jill
Kirsten Stewart - Twilight
Larry the Cable Guy – Cars 2
Martin Lawerence – Big Momma’s House 3
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley – Transformers 3
Shia LaBeouf – Transformers 3
The entire cast of New Years Eve

Most Disappointing
Battle: Los Angeles
Captain America
Cars 2
Cowboys & Aliens
Green Hornet
Green Lantern
The Guard
Hangover 2
Norwegian Wood
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Scream 4
Sherlock Holmes 2
Source Code
The Thing
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Tintin
Tree of Life
X-Men: First Class

Hank_Jones

Like to put Tom Hardy in for best actor for Warrior and Warrior for Best American Indie.

If at all possible, cheers.

JP Liz V1

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Like to put Tom Hardy in for best actor for Warrior and Warrior for Best American Indie.

If at all possible, cheers.

I add to nominate Joel Edgerton for best actor for Warrior

Tipsy McSwagger

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Like to put Tom Hardy in for best actor for Warrior and Warrior for Best American Indie.

If at all possible, cheers.

Warrior had a 30 million dollar budget so it's not really an Indie movie. I would definitely have Matt Damon in the best supporting actor category for True Grit.

Hank_Jones

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

Warrior had a 30 million dollar budget so it's not really an Indie movie. I would definitely have Matt Damon in the best supporting actor category for True Grit.

If we're not going to add it to the category, we should probably remove all of these films from said category.

American Indie:
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - $90 million budget
Moneyball - $50 million budget
The Beaver - $21 million
The Fighter - $25 million
The Help - $25 million
The Tree of Life - $32 million budget
True Grit - $38 million budget

Possibly Drive also ($15 million budget).

Also Starring LeVar Burton

I have quite a few suggestions for addition...

Non-American English Language
Anonymous

Animation
Arthur Christmas

Documentary
The Greatest Movie Ever Sold

Dumb Fun
Horrible Bosses
Paul
Friends With Benefits
Arthur
Hall Pass

Best Actor
Russell Brand - Arthur
James Franco - Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Best Supporting Actor
Nicholas Hoult - X Men: First Class
John Lithgow - Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Alexander Skarsgard - Straw Dogs

Best Supporting Actress
Anna Kendrick - 50/50

Best Director
Roland Emmerich - Anonymous

Best Screenplay
Anonymous

Best Soundtrack
Friends With Benefits
Footloose
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

Best Character
Billy Beane - Moneyball

Film That Deserved Better
Anonymous
Moneyball
Straw Dogs
50/50
The Greatest Movie Ever Sold

Most Disappointing
The Thing

Goldstein

Must have a better think but I'd suggest adding Another Earth into American indie and Rise of the Planet of the Apes into best visual effects.

Trollhunter, Crazy, Stupid Love and Fright Night for dumb fun

johnny_ultimate

Re: the 'indie' category. Initially it was 'arthouse and indie', which I prefer, but we changed it based on comments in the feedback thread. But basically it's just a category for less mainstream American films for all intents and purposes.

Sad Professor

A few other omissions that I just noticed:

Best Foreign Language Film
- Miss Bala
- Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within (I don't think this got a theatrical release here, but the DVD is out in a few days)

Best Hollywood/American Indie/Dumb Fun (?)
- Hanna

Best Actress
- Viola Davis - The Help

Best Dumb Fun
- The Adjustment Bureau

Tipsy McSwagger

Hank_Jones wrote: »

If we're not going to add it to the category, we should probably remove all of these films from said category.

American Indie:
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - $90 million budget
Moneyball - $50 million budget
The Beaver - $21 million
The Fighter - $25 million
The Help - $25 million
The Tree of Life - $32 million budget
True Grit - $38 million budget

Possibly Drive also ($15 million budget).

A movie directed by David Fincher and starring Daniel Craig, based on a very popular book with a $90 million dollar budget, is now classed as an Indie film? Ridiculous.

Sad Professor

I think there's too much overlap between Hollywood Blockbuster and Dumb Fun. Either more should be done to differentiate them or Dumb Fun should be dropped altogether.

Re: the indie category, as johnny_ultimate said above, I think we ended up using it as a place for more serious, award calibre type films this year. Dragon Tattoo probably doesn't really belong there either way, but we can't start excluding films from it because it has a big star or big name director. As in music, "indie" is just a label that doesn't really mean anything anymore.

Galvasean

Are there any plans for short film awards?

johnny_ultimate

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

A movie directed by David Fincher and starring Daniel Craig, based on a very popular book with a $90 million dollar budget, is now classed as an Indie film? Ridiculous.

I'm happy to throw it into the blockbuster category, but honestly this nitpicking is going to get us nowhere. It's only an internet poll at the end of the day, not worth getting worked up about. When we throw up the categories I'm just going to change indie back to 'arthouse & indie' because it seems to be pissing more people off shortened that it was when it was longer. Done, simple as that.

Galvasean wrote: »

Are there any plans for short film awards?

I don't think enough people will be familiar with the shorts of the year to make it worthwhile. Might be better starting off a dedicated thread in films to highlight the best of 'em

As for dumb fun, there's certainly overlap, but seemed to be a popular choice. Perhaps exclude the really big event movies and dedicate it to the slightly smaller or less popular movies that don't fit elsewhere? Bridesmaids, F&F or Final Destination, for example, I think fits snugly in there but not really anywhere else.

Galvasean

If possible I would like to nominate Flying Monsters with David Attenborough for best documentary?

It was released in IMAX and other selected cinemas in the UK in May 2011, however did not get any Irish cinematic release (that I know of), but was released here on BluRay/DVD. I think it was also shown on Sky 3D on Christmas Day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYa-PKsGUhM

Re: Dumb fun award, maybe don't allow anything on teh blockbusters list to be nominated for that, ie: make it more like a 'booby prize'?

Sad Professor

I've updated the list with most of the remaining suggestions that weren't already added.

Charlie Casanova

Johnny, it's very generous to include Charlie Casanova in your list, considering it's such a divisive film and you came down somewhere on the dark side of that divide, but Charlie hasn't been released here yet - it will be this year - so, while it is flattering, it is also probably a little premature. Next year might make more sense?

Thanks again and keep up the passionate work.

T

johnny_ultimate

Fair enough, T, your wish is our command.

titan18

Just wonderin, what does it mean by Newcomer. Is not newcomer to a leading role, to films in general, or just to a breakout performance?

johnny_ultimate

titan18 wrote: »

Just wonderin, what does it mean by Newcomer. Is not newcomer to a leading role, to films in general, or just to a breakout performance?

No strict definition, but pretty much anyone who 'broke out' big time this year, or came out of nowhere to surprise you

Sad Professor

I wasn't sure what to do with the Dumb Fun category tbh, so I just nominated my third and fourth favourite Hollywood Blockbusters.

johnny_ultimate

See what people nominate, I guess. Overlap isn't the end of the world