2011: Year In Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. The Tree of Life (dir: Terrence Malick)

2. A Separation (dir: Asghar Farhadi)

3. House of Pleasures (dir: Bertrand Bonello)

4. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall Past Lives (dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul; US release date)

5. The Skin I Live In (dir: Pedro Almodovar)

6. Certified Copy (dir: Abbas Kiarostami; US release date)

7. Le Havre (dir: Aki Kaurismäki)

8. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (dir: Tomas Alfredson)

9. Love Exposure (dir: Sion Sono; US Release Date)

10. Melancholia (dir: Lars Von Trier)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): 50/50 (dir: Jonathan Levine), Beginners (dir: Mike Mills), Bernie (dir: Richard Linklater), Bridesmaids (dir: Paul Feig), Contagion (dir: Steven Soderbergh), A Dangerous Method (dir: David Cronenberg), Drive (dir: Nicolas Winding Refn), Hugo (dir: Martin Scorsese), Margaret (dir: Kenneth Lonergan), Martha Marcy May Marlene (dir: Sean Durkin), Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol (dir: Brad Bird), Take Shelter (dir: Jeff Nichols), Tomboy (dir: Céline Sciamma), We Need to Talk About Kevin (dir: Lynne Ramsay) and Weekend (dir: Andrew Haigh)

Best Film of the Year: The Tree of Life
Director: Terrence Malick Producers: Dede Gardner, Sarah Green, Grant Hill, Brad Pitt, Bill Pohland
US Distributor: Fox Searchlight

Best Director:
Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life
2. Asghar Farhadi, A Separation
3. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Unclee Boonmee Who Can Recall Past Lives
4. Sion Sono, Love Exposure
5. Bertrand Bonello, House of Pleasures

Best Actor:
Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2. Peyman Moaadi, A Separation
3. Jack Black, Bernie
4. Hunter McCracken, The Tree of Life
5. Michael Shannon, Take Shelter

Best Actress:
Kirsten Dunst, Melancholia
2. Juliette Binoche, Certified Copy
3. Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin
4. Elizabeth Olsen, Martha Marcy May Marlene
5. Anna Paquin, Margaret

Best Supporting Actor:
Brad Pitt, The Tree of Life
2. Christopher Plummer, Beginners
3. Corey Stoll, Midnight in Paris
4. Albert Brooks, Drive
5. Vincent Cassel, A Dangerous Method

Best Supporting Actress:
Rose Byrne, Bridesmaids
2. Shailene Woodley, The Descendants
3. Elle Fanning, Super 8
4. Jessica Chastain, Take Shelter AND The Tree of Life
5. Anna Kendrick, 50/50

Best Original Screenplay:
A Separation – Asghar Farhadi
2. Certified Copy — Abbas Kiarostami
3. Beginners ­– Mike Mills
4. Melancholia – Lars von Trier
5. The Tree of Life – Terrence Malick

Best Adapted Screenplay: 
The Skin I Live In  – Pedro Almodovar and Agustin Almodovar
2. Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy — Peter Straughan and Bridget O'Connor
3. Mysteries of Lisbon – Carlos Saboga
4. Moneyball – Steve Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin and Stan Chevrin
5. Drive – Hossein Amini

Best Cinematography:
The Tree of Life – Emmanuel Lubezki
2. Drive – Newton Thomas Sigel
3. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall Past Lives — Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
4. Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol — Robert Elswit
5. Melancholia – Manuel Alberto Claro

Best Original Score:
Drive – Cliff Martinez
2. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
3. The Skin I Live In – Alberto Iglesias
4. Contagion — Cliff Martinez
5. The Artist — Ludovic Borne

Best Film Editing:
Love Exposure — Junichi Itou
2. The Tree of Life – Hank Corwin, Jay Rabinowitz, Daniel Rezende, Billy Weber and Mark Yoshikawa
3. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy — Dino Jonsater
4. Drive – Mat Newman
5. Contagion — Stephen Mirrione

Best Production Design:
Hugo — Dante Ferreti and Francesca Lo Schiavo
2. Le Havre — Wouter Zoon
3. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Maria Djurkovic and Tatiana MacDonald
4. House of Pleasures — Alain Guffroy
5. The Skin I Live In — Anxton Gomez and Vincente Diaz

Best Costume Design:
House of Pleasures — Anaïs Romand
2. The Skin I Live In — Paco Delgado
3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — Trish Summerville
4. Hugo — Sandy Powell
5. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy — Jacqueline Durran

Best Visual Effects
Hugo
2. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
3. Sucker Punch

Best Sound
Moneyball
2. Hugo
3. Hanna

Best Makeup
House of Pleasures
2. The Skin I Live In
3. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Best Documentary Feature:
Wim Wenders, Pina

Best Animated Feature:
Gore Verbinski, Rango

Best Limited Series:
Todd Haynes and Jonathan Raymond, Mildred Pierce

Best Ensemble Cast:
House of Pleasures

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Sean Durkin, Martha Marcy May Marlene 

Best Ensemble Cast (dir: Bertrand Bonello; in alphabetical order): Alice Barnole, Xavier Beauvois, Adele Haenel, Hafsia Herzi, Noemie Lvosky, Jacques Nolot, Celine Sallette, Jasmine Trinca and Iliana Zabeth

Best First Feature: Sean Durkin, Martha Marcy May Marlene

RECAP

W I N S :

The Tree of Life — 4,
House of Pleasures — 3, Hugo — 2, Bridesmaids — 1, Drive — 1, Love Exposure — 1, Martha Marcy May Marlene — 1, Melancholia — 1, Mildred Pierce — 1, Moneyball — 1, Pina — 1, Rango — 1, A Separation — 1, The Skin I Live In — 1, Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

The Tree of Life — 8,
The Skin I Live In — 6, Cosmopolis — 5, Drive — 5, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy — 5, House of Pleasures — 4, Hugo — 4, Melancholia — 4, A Separation — 4, Certified Copy — 3, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — 3, Love Exposure — 3, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives — 3, Beginners — 2, Contagion — 2, Le Havre — 2, Martha Marcy May Marlene — 2, Moneyball — 2, Take Shelter — 2

the year-end project:
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Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s