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My Top 10 Films Of 2010
Dec 31st
I’m going to be totally honest and concede that I’m completely useless at compiling lists. Reason one: I’m always changing my mind. Reason two: Me preferring one film over another depends entirely on my mood. Reason three: I’m lazy. Reason four: Because I am. So without further ado here’s what I consider to be the 10 best films of 2010. (Please note these are the films I have seen in 2010, I know a couple of them aren’t released in the UK until 2011)
1. Blue Valentine
Blue Valentine is unquestionably the most beautifully heartrending film I’ve watched in a long, LONG time. It has it’s fair share of excruciatingly painful to watch moments, however in equal measures it’s full of humour, warmth and charm. Both Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams give ridiculously multi layered and human performances. Beautiful and brutal in equal measures, writer-director Derek Cianfrance I salute you!
2. Black Swan
Natalie Portman has never been better and Darren Aronofsky further cements his place as one of the best directors working today with Black Swan. The movie is on all counts breathtaking. You won’t see a more hauntingly enchanting film this year. No film commanded my attention as much as this did, I was spell bounded the whole time.
2010 MTV Movie Awards Winners
Jun 7th
Just from looking at the winners of this years MTV Awards I’m pretty sure this show must be either made solely for teenage girls, or it’s just full of sh*t. I’m happy The Hangover was recognised, I loved that film, but WTF man – Twilight winning so many awards! From when an audience has this reaction to a film – omg omg omg omg EDWARD IS SOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOT, I’m team Edward <3<3<3<3 luvluvluvluvluv……..I have no interest in that film, on a interest scale of 1 to 1232324424, I have 0. From looking at the Best Male Performance category alone I have lost faith in humanity!
Here are a complete list of winners:
BEST FIGHT
Beyonce Knowles vs. Ali Larter – Obsessed
Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber vs. Ryan Reynolds – X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Logan Lerman vs. Jake Abel – Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Robert Downey Jr. vs. Mark Strong – Sherlock Holmes
Sam Worthington vs. Stephen Lang – Avatar
Winner: Beyonce Knowles vs. Ali Larter – Obsessed
BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Amanda Seyfried – Dear John
Emma Watson – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Kristen Stewart – The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side
Zoe Saldana – Avatar
Winner: Kristen Stewart – The Twilight Saga: New Moon
BEST BREAKOUT STAR
Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
Chris Pine – Star Trek
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Logan Lerman – Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Quinton Aaron – The Blind Side
Zach Galifianakis – The Hangover
Winner: Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
BEST SCARED-AS-SH**T PERFORMANCE (New Category)
Alison Lohman – Drag Me To Hell
Amanda Seyfried – Jennifer’s Body
Jesse Eisenberg – Zombieland
Katie Featherston – Paranormal Activity
Sharlto Copley – District 9
Winner: Amanda Seyfried – Jennifer’s Body
BEST KISS
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson – The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning – The Runaways
Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds – The Proposal
Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner – Valentine’s Day
Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington – Avatar
Winner: Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson – The Twilight Saga: New Moon
BEST WTF MOMENT
Betty White – The Proposal, Cops a Feel
Bill Murray – Zombieland, Bill Murray?! A Zombie?!
Isabel Lucas – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Unexpected Transformation
Ken Jeong – The Hangover, Naked Trunk Surprise
Megan Fox – Jennifer’s Body, Vomits a Mysterious Black Ooze
Winner: Ken Jeong – The Hangover, Naked Trunk Surprise
BEST VILLAIN
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds
Helena Bonham Carter – Alice In Wonderland
Ken Jeong – The Hangover
Stephen Lang – Avatar
Tom Felton – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Winner: Tom Felton – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
BIGGEST BADASS STAR (New Category)
Rain
Angelina Jolie
Channing Tatum
Sam Worthington
Chris Pine
Winner: Rain
BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
Channing Tatum – Dear John
Daniel Radcliffe – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Robert Pattinson – The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Taylor Lautner – The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Zac Efron – 17 Again
Winner: Robert Pattinson – The Twilight Saga: New Moon.
GLOBAL SUPERSTAR (New Category)
Robert Pattinson
Kristen Stewart
Taylor Lautner
Johnny Depp
Daniel Radcliffe
Winner: Robert Pattinson
BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE
Ben Stiller – Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Bradley Cooper – The Hangover
Ryan Reynolds – The Proposal
Sandra Bullock – The Proposal
Zach Galifianakis – The Hangover
Winner: Zach Galifianakis – The Hangover
BEST MOVIE
Alice In Wonderland
Avatar
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Hangover
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Winner: The Twilight Saga: New Moon
2010 Bafta Nominations Announced
Jan 21st
The nominations are pretty good to be honest, I wasn’t a massive fan of An Education, I did think Carey Mulligan’s performance was great though. All in all it’s a pretty good list, it’s good to see Christian McKay get a nomination for Me & Orson Welles, hopefully (even though it’s probably a long shot) he will get some Oscar love as well. An Education, Avatar and The Hurt Locker lead the pack with 8 nominations each, District 9 has 7 nominations while Inglorious Basterds and Up In The Air both have 6. The awards takes place at London’s Royal Opera House on 21 February.
BEST FILM
AVATAR James Cameron, Jon Landau
AN EDUCATION Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer
THE HURT LOCKER Nominees TBC
PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness
UP IN THE AIR Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, Daniel Dubiecki
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
AN EDUCATION Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer, Lone Scherfig, Nick Hornby
FISH TANK Kees Kasander, Nick Laws, Andrea Arnold
IN THE LOOP Kevin Loader, Adam Tandy, Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche
MOON Stuart Fenegan, Trudie Styler, Duncan Jones, Nathan Parker
NOWHERE BOY Kevin Loader, Douglas Rae, Robert Bernstein, Sam Taylor-Wood, Matt Greenhalgh
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
LUCY BAILEY, ANDREW THOMPSON, ELIZABETH MORGAN HEMLOCK, DAVID PEARSON Directors, Producers –
Mugabe and the White African
ERAN CREEVY Writer/Director – Shifty
STUART HAZELDINE Writer/Director – Exam
DUNCAN JONES Director – Moon
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD Director – Nowhere Boy
DIRECTOR
AVATAR James Cameron
DISTRICT 9 Neill Blomkamp
AN EDUCATION Lone Scherfig
THE HURT LOCKER Kathryn Bigelow
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Quentin Tarantino
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
THE HANGOVER Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
THE HURT LOCKER Mark Boal
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Quentin Tarantino
A SERIOUS MAN Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
UP Bob Peterson, Pete Docter
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
DISTRICT 9 Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
AN EDUCATION Nick Hornby
IN THE LOOP Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE Geoffrey Fletcher
UP IN THE AIR Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
BROKEN EMBRACES Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar
COCO BEFORE CHANEL Carole Scotta, Caroline Benjo, Philippe Carcassonne, Anne Fontaine
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN Carl Molinder, John Nordling, Tomas Alfredson
A PROPHET Pascale Caucheteux, Marco Chergui, Alix Raynaud, Jacques Audiard
THE WHITE RIBBON Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Margaret Menegoz, Michael Haneke
ANIMATED FILM
CORALINE Henry Selick
FANTASTIC MR FOX Wes Anderson
UP Pete Docter
LEADING ACTOR
JEFF BRIDGES Crazy Heart
GEORGE CLOONEY Up in the Air
COLIN FIRTH A Single Man
JEREMY RENNER The Hurt Locker
ANDY SERKIS Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
LEADING ACTRESS
CAREY MULLIGAN An Education
SAOIRSE RONAN The Lovely Bones
GABOUREY SIDIBE Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
MERYL STREEP Julie & Julia
AUDREY TAUTOU Coco Before Chanel
SUPPORTING ACTOR
ALEC BALDWIN It’s Complicated
CHRISTIAN McKAY Me and Orson Welles
ALFRED MOLINA An Education
STANLEY TUCCI The Lovely Bones
CHRISTOPH WALTZ Inglourious Basterds
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
ANNE-MARIE DUFF Nowhere Boy
VERA FARMIGA Up in the Air
ANNA KENDRICK Up in the Air
MO’NIQUE Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS Nowhere Boy
The British Independent Film Awards Winners – Moon Wins Big
Dec 7th
The Duncan Jones science fiction thriller Moon was the big winner of the BIFA’s last night by winning the Best Independent Film Award and with Jones winning the Best Debut Director. I can’t really complain with the winners to be honest with you, they seem pretty spot on to me, Tom Hardy was brilliant in Bronson, Mugabe and the White African was one of the most moving documentary’s I’ve ever seen, In The Loop was hilarious and I thoroughly enjoyed Fishtank. I expect to see some WTF moments at the Oscars and Golden Globes though. The full list of winnersare below.
BEST BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM
Moon
BEST DIRECTOR
Andrea Arnold – Fish Tank
THE DOUGLAS HICKOX AWARD (BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR)
Duncan Jones – Moon
BEST SCREENPLAY
In The Loop – Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, and Tony Roche
BEST ACTRESS
Carey Mulligan – An Education
BEST ACTOR
Tom Hardy – Bronson
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Anne-Marie Duff – Nowhere Boy
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
John Henshaw – Looking for Eric
MOST PROMISING NEWCOMER
Katie Jarvis – Fish Tank
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION
Bunny And The Bull
RAIN DANCE AWARD
Down Terrace
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
Bright Star – Cinematography – Greig Fraser
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Mugabe and the White African
BEST BRITISH SHORT
Love You More
BEST FOREIGN FILM
Let The Right One In
THE RICHARD HARRIS AWARD (for outstanding contribution to British film)
Daniel Day-Lewis
THE VARIETY AWARD
Sir Michael Caine
THE SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
Baz Bamigboye