Best of 2011

Based on US Release Date

Best Film: 
1- The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick) 
2- A Separation (Asghar Farhadi) 
3- Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami) 
4- Of Gods and Men (Xavier Beauvois) 
5- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson) 
6- Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols) 
7- Like Crazy (Drake Doremus)  
8- City of Life and Death (Lu Chuan) 
9- Into the Abyss (Werner Herzog) 
10- War Horse (Steven Spielberg) 

Runners-Up: J. Edgar (Clint Eastwood), Higher Ground (Vera Farmiga), How I Ended This Summer (Aleksey Popogrebsky) 

Director: 
1- Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life 
2- Asghar Farhadi, A Separation 
3- Abbas Kiarostami, Certified Copy 
4- Xavier Beauvious, Of Gods and Men 
5- Tomas Alfredson, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 

Actor: 
1- Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 
2- Michael Shannon, Take Shelter 
3- Michael Fassbender, Shame 
4- Grigoriy Dobrygin, How I Ended This Summer 
5- Michael Sheen, Beautiful Boy 

Actress: 
1- Juliette Binoche, Certified Copy 
2- Maria Bello, Beautiful Boy 
3- Vera Farmiga, Higher Ground 
4- Yun Jeong-hee, Poetry 
5- Olivia Colman, Tyrannosaur 

Supporting Actor: 
1- Armie Hammer, J. Edgar 
2- Shahab Hosseini, A Separation 
3- Norbert Leo Butz, Higher Ground 
4- Jeremy Irons, Margin Call 
5- Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Ides of March 

Supporting Actress: 
1- Jessica Chastiain, Take Shelter (and The Debt, The Help, Coriolanus, and The Tree of Life) 
2- Vanessa Redgrave, Coriolanus 
3- Sareh Bayet, A Separation 
4- Carey Mulligan, Shame 
5- Jeannie Berlin, Margaret 

Ensemble: 
1- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 
2- A Separation 
3- Higher Ground 
4- Margaret 
5- Crazy Stupid Love 

Adapted Screenplay: 
1- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 
2- Higher Ground 
3- Moneyball 
4- One Day 
5- Incendies 

Original Screenplay: 
1- A Separation 
2- Certified Copy 
3- Take Shelter 
4- J. Edgar 
5- Margin Call 

Cinematography: 
1- The Tree of Life 
2- City of Life and Death 
3- Mysteries of Lisbon 
4- Like Crazy 
5- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 

Editing: 
1- The Tree of Life 
2- Certified Copy 
3- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 
4- Moneyball 
5- A Separation 

Score: 
1- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 
2- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 
3- Take Shelter 
4- City of Life and Death 
5- War Horse 

Production Design: 
1- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 
2- City of Life and Death 
3- War Horse 
4- Shame 
5- The Tree of Life 

Costume Design: 
1- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 
2- J. Edgar 
3- Mysteries of Lisbon 
4- Crazy Stupid Love 
5- Higher Ground 

Makeup: 
1- Girl With the Dragon Tattoo 
2- City of Life and Death 
3- Contagion 
4- The Ides of March 
5- Higher Ground 

Sound: 
1- The Tree of Life 
2- How I Ended This Summer 
3- City of Life and Death 
4- War Horse 
5- Drive 

Sound Effects: 
1- War Horse 
2- Drive 
3- City of Life and Death 
4- How I Ended This Summer 
5- The Robber 

Visual Effects: 
1- The Tree of Life 
2- Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol 
3- Rise of the Planet of the Apes