The Writers Guild Nominates…

Los Angeles and New York, January 5, 2012 – The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) have announced nominations for outstanding achievement in writing for the screen during 2011. Winners will be honored at the 2012 Writers Guild Awards on Sunday, February 19, 2012, during simultaneous ceremonies…

Critics Top Ten List 2011: Josh Katz

“While some critics might bemoan the lack of audacity on display, I felt a certain egalitarian spirit. The great films maintained, for the most part, a quality baseline, regardless of whether they sprung from the minds of the young up-and-comers (Sean Durkin, Steve McQueen, J.C. Chandor) or the great masters (Woody Allen, Steven Soderbergh, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg).”

Critics Top Ten List 2011: Casey Menninger

“There are 10 films here that legitimately restored the magic of the movies in 2011 and it’s an embarrassment of riches. There are small independent films, brilliantly epic films and a lot of gems that fell in the middle.”

Critics Top Ten List 2011: John Thomason

“Epic and intimate, sprawling and contained, personal and universal, arrogant and modest, “The Tree of Life” has more ideas in its two and a half hours that some filmmakers generate over the course of entire careers. “

Critics Top Ten List 2011: David Elliott

David Elliott San Diego Reader 1. Buck 2. Moneyball 3. The Artist 4. Inspector Bellamy 5. Le Quattro Volte 6. Midnight in Paris 7. Blackthorn 8. Of Gods and Men 9. A Better Life 10. Hugo

Art Directors Guild Sets Period, Fantasy And Contemporary Feature Nominees

Art Directors Guild Sets Period, Fantasy And Contemporary Feature Nominees; No War Horse, Tree Of Life

The Vancouver Film Critics Circle Nominations

To be awarded January 9. Best Canadian film: Cafe de flore Small Town Murder Songs Starbuck Best actor in a Canadian film: Mohamed Fellag, Monsieur Lazhar Patrick Huard, Starbuck Peter Stormare, Small Town Murder Songs Best actress in a Canadian film: Keira Knightley, A Dangerous Method Vanessa Paradis, Cafe de flore Ingrid Veninger, i am…

Critics Top Ten List 2011: Robert Levin

Robert Levin Freelance 1. The Descendants 2. The Interrupters 3. Hugo 4. Another Earth 5. 50/50 6. Pariah 7. A Separation 8. The Tree of Life 9. Drive 10. Incendies

Critics Top Ten List 2011: Kim Voynar

Kim Voynar Movie City News I Saw the Devil Martha Marcy May Marlene Meek’s Cutoff Melancholia Pariah Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Tinker Tailor Solider Spy The Tree of Life We Need to Talk About Kevin Without

Cinema Eye Honors Set Nominees For “Heterodox Award” For Fiction Films Using Documentary Strategies

Cinema Eye Honors Set Nominees For “Heterodox Award” For Fiction Films Using Documentary Strategies

The Top Tens: Updated January 2

There’s little movement among the top ten, but further down the list, We Need to Talk About Kevin moves into the Top 20. 50/50 climbs nine spots, Warrior fights into the top 50 and The Muppets continue their steady rise up the chart.

See the individual Top Ten lists here.

Critics Top Ten List 2011: Scott Marks

“There were some surprises (a summer blockbuster made this year’s list for the first time in ages) and even a shock — David Croneberg bored me — but for the most part it was brainless business as usual at the multiplex. ”

Critics Top Ten List 2011: Scott Sawitz

“All in all 10 films still managed to prove to me that film can do wondrous things. Unlike the past couple years; the top of this year in terms of film is significantly higher than it has been in years past. That’s the thing that genuinely shocked me; there were more than the usual amount of great films.”

Critics Top Ten List 2011: Elisabeth Rappe

“When you approach this list, please do so with the understanding that it’s my favorite films of the year, not necessarily anything approaching the best films. These were just the ones that stuck out to me, and I find myself revisiting — or eager to revisit — again and again.”

Critics Top Ten List 2011: Moira Macdonald

“those hundreds of hours in dimly lit theaters, gazing at a big screen, come just a few hours of being truly transported; brought to a different place, forgetting that my theater seat has a loose spring and my Diet Coke has lost its bubble. Those are the movies I want to watch again and again, preferably immediately after I’ve just seen them for the first time; those are the movies in my annual Top 10.”

Critics Top Ten List 2011: Brian Gallagher

“This truly has it all with big laughs, big drama, some wonderful little song-and-dance numbers, and even an adorable little dog thrown in to boot. I was smiling from ear to ear throughout the entire film, which is one of the few movies released in 2011 that proves originality isn’t totally dead in Hollywood after all.”

Critics Top Ten List 2011: Charles Mudede

Charles Mudede The Stranger 1. Nostalgia for the Light 2. A Screaming Man 3. I Want to See 4. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth 5. Urbanized 6. Higher Ground 7. Rise of the Planet of the Apes 8. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 9. The Tree of Life 10. War Horse

Oklahoma Film Critics: 2011 Awards

Best Film The Artist Best Director Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist Best First Feature Sean Durkin, Martha Marcy May Marlene Best Actress Michelle Williams, My Week with Marilyn Best Actor George Clooney, The Descendants Best Supporting Actress Octavia Spencer, The Help Best Supporting Actor Albert Brooks, Drive Best Screenplay, Adaptation Moneyball, Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin…

Austin Film Critics: 2011 Awards

Best Film: Hugo Best Director: Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive Best Actor: Michael Shannon, Take Shelter Best Actress: Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin Best Supporting Actor: Albert Brooks, Drive Best Supporting Actress: Jessica Chastain, Take Shelter Best Original Screenplay: Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen Best Adapted Screenplay: Drive, Hossein Amini Best Cinematography: The…

The 2011-2012 Critics Awards Scoreboard

The Tree of Life leads the Top Tens, but it’s The Artist at the top of the Critics Scoreboard. And The Descendants holds the number two spot on both charts.