My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with me or inspire, both at the time, and still today. Subject to alter choices if new viewings are worthy enough. Other published Film Honors posts can be found at the menu at the top of the page.
Screenwriting Original
Maren Ade (Alle Anderen)
Efthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos (Kynodontas)
Abbas Kiarostami (Copie conforme)
David Michôd (Animal Kingdom)
Christopher Nolan (Inception)
Screenwriting Adapted
Michael Bacall, Edgar Wright (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World)
Peter Craig, Ben Affleck, Aaron Stockard (The Town)
Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini (Winter’s Bone)
Robert Harris, Roman Polanski (The Ghost Writer)
Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network)
Sound Designing
How to Train Your Dragon
Inception
Iron Man 2
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Set Designing
Alice in Wonderland
Inception
The King’s Speech
Mic Macs à Tire-Larigot
Shutter Island
Costume Designing
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
The King’s Speech
Made in Dagenham
The Tempest
Actor Lead
Leonardo DiCaprio (Shutter Island)
Colin Firth (The King’s Speech)
James Franco (127 Hours)
Ryan Gosling (Blue Valentine)
Tahar Rahim (Un prophète)
Actor Support
Christian Bale (The Fighter)
Andrew Garfield (The Social Network)
John Hawkes (Winter’s Bone)
Ben Mendelsohn (Animal Kingdom)
Geoffrey Rush (The King’s Speech)
Cast Ensemble
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Inception
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
The Social Network
Cinematography
Thimios Bakatakis (Kynodontas)
Benoît Debie (Enter the Void)
Matthew Libatique (Black Swan)
Wally Pfister (Inception)
Robert Richardson (Shutter Island)
Picture Editing
127 Hours
Black Swan
Inception
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
The Social Network
Special Effects
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Inception
Iron Man 2
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
Actress Lead
Juliette Binoche (Copie conforme)
Isabelle Huppert (White Material)
Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone)
Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
Seo Young-hee (Kim Bok-nam salinsageonui jeonmal)
Actress Support
Dale Dickey (Winter’s Bone)
Mila Kunis (Black Swan)
Lesley Manville (Another Year)
Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)
Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom)
Score Composing
Alexandre Desplat (The Ghost Writer)
Danny Elfman (Alice in Wonderland)
John Powell (How to Train Your Dragon)
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross (The Social Network)
Hans Zimmer (Inception)
Directing
Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)
David Fincher (The Social Network)
Abbas Kiarostami (Copie conforme)
Yorgos Lanthimos (Kynodontas)
Christopher Nolan (Inception)
Motion Picture
Animal Kingdom (David Michôd) Australia
Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky) USA
Copie conforme (Abbas Kiarostami) France / Iran
Kynodontas (Yorgos Lanthimos) Greece
Inception (Christopher Nolan) UK / USA
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright) UK / Japan / USA
The Social Network (David Fincher) USA
Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich) USA
Un prophète (Jacques Audiard) France / Italy
Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik) USA
Filmotomy 
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