2011 Blog Awards

With so little to get excited about in the last few months of 2011, I found it really difficult to get excited about anything enough to write about it. Still, I did manage to fill out a top fifteen films of the year, and the detailed list you can find here. Also, with the Oscar nominations less than a week away, here are my own personal selections for all of their categories. Naturally, expect a majority of these mentions to be completely invisible come Tuesday morning.

**winner**

Best Picture
**Drive**
Moneyball
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Weekend

Best Director
Tomas Alfredson - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Andrew Haigh - Weekend
Bennett Miller - Moneyball
Lynn Ramsey - We Need to Talk About Kevin
**Nicolas Winding Refn - Drive**

Best Actor
Tom Cullen - Weekend
**Michael Fassbender - Shame**
Joseph Gordon-Levitt - 50/50
Ryan Gosling - Drive
Chris New - Weekend

Best Actress
Viola Davis - The Help
Elizabeth Olsen - Martha Marcy May Marlene
Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady
**Tilda Swinton - We Need to Talk About Kevin**
Michelle Williams - My Week with Marilyn

Best Supporting Actor
Albert Brooks - Drive
**Nick Nolte - Warrior**
Michael Parks - Red State
Christopher Plummer - Beginners
Andy Serkis - Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Best Supporting Actress
Anjelica Huston - 50/50
**Melissa McCarthy - Bridesmaids**
Carey Mulligan - Drive
Octavia Spencer - The Help
Shainlene Woodley - The Descendants

Best Original Screenplay
50/50
The Artist
A Better Life
Rango
**Weekend**

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Descendants
Drive
**Moneyball**
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
We Need to Talk About Kevin

Best Animated Feature
The Adventures of Tintin
Kung Fu Panda 2
**Rango**

Best Art Direction
The Artist
**Hugo**
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
X-Men: First Class

Best Costume Design
Anonymous
Hugo
**Immortals**
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Water for Elephants

Best Cinematography
Bellfower
**The Girl with the Drgaon Tattoo**
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The Tree of Life
We Need to Talk About Kevin

Best Film Editing
**Drive**
The Girl with the Drgaon Tattoo
Moneyball
Senna
We Need to Talk About Kevin

Best Original Score
Contagion
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
**Hugo**
I Saw the Devil

Best Original Song
*There were no original songs released in 2011 that I deemed worthy enough for this award.

Best Makeup
Attack the Block
The Iron Lady
**There Be Dragons**

Best Sound Mixing
**Drive**
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Super 8
Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Best Sound Editing
Rango
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Thor
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
**War Horse**

Best Visual Effects
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Hugo
**Rise of the Planet of the Apes**
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
The Tree of Life