2010: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives
The Social Network (dir: David Fincher)
Mother (dir: Bong Joon Ho; US release date)
A Prophet (dir: Jacques Audiard; US release date)
Dogtooth (dir: Yorgos Lanthimos; US release date)
Another Year (dir: Mike Leigh)
Everyone Else (dir: Maren Ade; US release date)
Secret Sunshine (dir: Lee Chang-dong; US release date)
True Grit (dir: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)
Somewhere (dir: Sofia Coppola)
Honorable Mention (in alphabetical order): Daddy Longlegs (dir: Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie; US release date), Easy A (dir: Will Gluck), Enter the Void (dir: Gaspar Noé), The Ghost Writer (dir: Roman Polanski), Greenberg (dir: Noah Baumbach), The House of the Devil (dir: Ti West; US release date), I Am Love (dir: Luca Guadagnino; US release date), Let Me In (dir: Matt Reeves), Life During Wartime (dir: Todd Solondz), Nowhere Boy (dir: Sam Taylor-Johnson; US release date), Toy Story 3 (dir: Lee Unkrich), and Winter's Bone (dir: Debra Granik)
Best Film of the Year: The Social Network
Director: David Fincher Producers: Dana Brunetti, Cean Chaffin, Michael De Luca, Scott Rudin
US Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Best Director:
David Fincher, The Social Network
2. Bong Joon Ho, Mother
3. Edgar Wright, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
4. Jacques Audiard, A Prophet
5. Yorgos Lanthimos, Dogtooth
Best Actor:
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
2. Jeff Bridges, True Grit
3. Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island
4. Ben Stiller, Greenberg
5. Ben Mendelsohn, Animal Kingdom
Best Actress:
Jeon Do-yeon, Secret Sunshine
2. Kim Hye-ja, Mother
3. Emma Stone, Easy A
4. Elle Fanning, Somewhere
5. Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone
Best Supporting Actor:
Song Kang-ho, Secret Sunshine
2. John Hawkes, Winter's Bone
3. Richard Jenkins, Let Me In
4. Christian Bale, The Fighter
5. Craig Robinson, Hot Tub Time Machine
Best Supporting Actress:
Lesley Manville, Another Year
2. Olivia Williams, The Ghost Writer
3. Aggeliki Papoulia, Dogtooth
4. Anne-Marie Duff, Nowhere Boy
5. Rooney Mara, The Social Network
Best Original Screenplay:
Another Year — Mike Leigh
2. Dogtooth – Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou
3. Everyone Else – Maren Ade
4. Mother – Bong Joon Ho and Park Eun-kyo
5. Life During Wartime — Todd Solondz
Best Adapted Screenplay:
The Social Network – Aaron Sorkin
2. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World – Michael Bacall and Edgar Wright
3. The Ghost Writer — Robert Harris and Roman Polanski
4. Winter’s Bone – Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini
5. A Prophet – Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Garouf Dafri and Nicolas Peaufaillit
Best Cinematography:
Enter the Void – Benoît Debie
2. Shutter Island — Robert Richardson
3. A Prophet — Stephane Fontaine
4. The Social Network — Jeff Cronenweth
5. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World — Bill Pope
Best Original Score:
The Social Network – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
2. TRON: Legacy – Daft Punk
3. The House of the Devil – Jeff Grace
4. Inception – Hans Zimmer
5. Somewhere — Phoenix
Best Film Editing:
The Social Network – Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter
2. Toy Story 3 – Ken Schretzmann
3. Inception – Lee Smith
4. The House of the Devil – Ti West
5. Piranha 3D – Baxter
Best Production Design:
Shutter Island — Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo
2. True Grit – Jess Gonchor and Nancy Haigh
3. TRON: Legacy — Darren Gilford and Lin MacDonald
4. Alice in Wonderland — Robert Stromberg and Karen O'Hara
5. Inception – Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias and Doug Mowat
Best Costume Design:
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World — Laura Jean Shannon
2. Vincere — Sergio Ballo
3. Alice in Wonderland — Colleen Atwood
4. Shutter Island — Sandy Powell
5. TRON: Legacy — Michael Wilkinson and Christine Bieselin Clark
Best Visual Effects
Inception
2. Hereafter
3. TRON: Legacy
Best Sound
Enter the Void
2. True Grit
3. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Best Makeup
The Fighter
2. The Wolfman
3. Black Swan
Best Documentary Feature:
Kimberly Reed, Prodigal Sons
Best Animated Feature:
Lee Unkirk, Toy Story 3
Best Limited Series:
Olivier Assayas, Dan Franck, Daniel Leconte, and Jens Meurer, Carlos
Best Ensemble Cast:
Dogtooth
Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie, Daddy Longlegs
Best Ensemble Cast (dir: Yorgos Lanthimos in alphabetical order): Anna Kalaitzidou (pictured), Angeliki Papoulia (pictured), Christos Passalis, Christos Stergioglou, Mary Tsoni (pictured), and Michelle Valley
Best First Feature: Ronald Bronstein and a gaggle of kids (pictured) in Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie's Daddy Longlegs
RECAP
W I N S :
The Social Network — 5,
Another Year — 2, Enter the Void — 2, Secret Sunshine — 2, Carlos — 1, Daddy Longlegs — 1, Dogtooth – 1, The Fighter — 1, Inception — 1, Prodigal Sons — 1, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World —1, Shutter Island— 1, Toy Story 3 —1
M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :
The Social Network — 6,
Dogtooth — 5, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World — 5, Inception — 4, Mother — 4, A Prophet — 4, Shutter Island — 4, TRON: Legacy — 4, True Grit — 4, Another Year — 3, Somewhere — 3, Secret Sunshine — 3, Winter’s Bone — 3, Alice in Wonderland — 2, Enter the Void — 2, Everyone Else — 2, The Fighter — 2, The Ghost Writer — 2, House of the Devil — 2, Toy Story 3 — 2
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Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s