BEST MOTION PICTURE:

• the artist
• the descendants
• extremely loud & incredibly close
• the help
• hugo
• midnight in paris
• moneyball
• the tree of life
• war horse

BEST ACTOR:

• a better life (demian bichir)
• the descendants (george clooney)
• the artist (jean dujardin)
• tinker tailor soldier spy (gary oldman)
• moneyball (brad pitt)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

• my week with marilyn (kenneth branagh)
• moneyball (jonah hill)
• warrior (nick nolte)
• beginners (christopher plummer)
• extremely loud & incredibly close (max von sydow)

BEST ACTRESS:

• albert nobbs (glenn close)
• the help (viola davis)
• the girl with the dragon tattoo (rooney mara)
• the iron lady (meryl streep)
• my week with marilyn (michelle williams)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

• the artist (berenice bejo)
• the help (jessica chastain)
• bridesmaids (melissa mccarthy)
• albert nobbs (janet mcteer)
• the help (octavia spencer)

BEST ANIMATED FILM:

• a cat in paris
• chico & rita
• kung fu panda 2
• puss in boots
• rango

ART DIRECTION:

• the artist
• harry potter and the deathly hallows part 2
• hugo
• war horse

CINEMATOGRAPHY:

• the artist
• the girl with the dragon tattoo
• hugo
• the tree of life
• war horse

COSTUME DESIGN:

• anonymous
• the artist
• hugo
• jane eyre
• w.e.

BEST DIRECTOR:

• the artist
• the descendants
• hugo
• midnight in paris
• the tree of life

BEST DOCUMENTARY:

• hell and back again
• if a tree falls: a story of the earth liberation front
• paradise lost 3: purgatory
• undefeated

BEST DOCUMENTARY - SHORT:

• the barber of birmingham: foot soldier of the civil rights movement
• god is the bigger elvis
• incident in new baghdad
• saving face
• the tsunami and the cherry blossom

EDITING:

• the artist
• the descendants
• the girl with the dragon tattoo
• hugo
• moneyball

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:

• bullhead (belgium)
• monsieur lazhar (canada)
• a separation (iran)
• footnote (israel)
• in darkness (poland)

MAKEUP:

• albert nobbs
• harry potter and the deathly hallows part 2
• the iron lady

ORIGINAL SCORE:

• the adventures of tintin
• the artist
• hugo
• tinker tailor soldier spy
• war horse

ORIGINAL SONG:

• the muppets (man or muppet)
• rio (real in rio)

ANIMATED FILM - SHORT:

• dimanche/sunday
• the fantastic flying books of mr. morris lessmore
• la luna
• a morning stroll
• wild life

LIVE ACTION FILM - SHORT:

• pentecost
• raju
• the shore
• time freak
• tuba atlantic

SOUND EDITING:

• drive
• the girl with the dragon tattoo
• hugo
• transformers: dark of the moon
• war horse

SOUND MIXING:

• the girl with the dragon tattoo
• hugo
• moneyball
• transformers: dark of the moon
• war horse

VISUAL EFFECTS:

• harry potter and the deathly hallows part 2
• hugo
• real steel
• rise of the planet of the apes
• transformers: dark of the moon

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

• the descendants
• hugo
• the ides of march
• moneyball
• tinker tailor soldier spy

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

• the artist
• bridesmaids
• margin call
• midnight in paris
• a separation

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MOVIES I WATCHED IN 2011:

• (500) days of summer (2009) * | 03/06
• 127 hours (2010) * | 01/15
• 2012 (2009) | 01/08
• 30 minutes or less (2011) | 12/14
• 50/50 (2011) | 09/30 ($13.00)
• 8: the mormon proposition (2010) | 05/14
• abduction (2011) | 12/14
• the adjustment bureau (2011) | 12/14
• adventureland (2009) | 02/12
• albert nobbs (2011) | 12/17
• angels & demons (2009) | 01/10
• angus, thongs and perfect snogging (2008) | 05/05
• animal kingdom (2010) | 01/30
• another year (2010) | 02/27
• apollo 13 (1995) | 03/20
• arthur (1981) | 03/19
• arthur (2011) | 04/16 ($0.00)
• arthur christmas (2011) | 12/29
• attack the block (2011) | 12/20
• australia (2008) * | 09/10
• the aviator (2004) | 12/22
• babel (2006) | 03/31
• back street (1941) | 02/01
• back to the future (1985) | 01/06
• back to the future part II (1989) | 01/06
• back to the future part III (1990) | 01/06
• badlands (1973) | 06/20
• batman (1989) | 01/10
• batman: under the red hood (2010) | 07/24
• beginners (2010) | 12/23
• best in show (2000) * | 04/02
• the betrayal - nerakhoon (2008) | 03/12
• billy elliot (2000) | 02/23
• the birdcage (1996) | 07/17
• the black dahlia (2006) | 03/04
• blazing saddles (1974) | 03/16
• blue valentine (2010) | 01/22
• the bourne identity (2002) | 06/10
• bowling for columbine (2002) | 08/02
• bride of frankenstein (1935) | 03/25
• bridesmaids (2011) | 11/26
• brief interviews with hideous men (2009) | 04/01
• bronson (2008) | 07/29
• buried (2010) | 01/31
• capote (2005) | 12/24
• captain america: the first avenger (2011) | 07/31 ($11.00 paid for)
• carnage (2011) | 12/23
• cars 2 (2011) | 12/08
• catfish (2010) | 01/01
• cave of forgotten dreams (2010) | 05/12 ($6.00)
• ceremony (2010) | 05/12
• changeling (2008) | 08/29
• children of men (2006) | 08/29
• a christmas carol (2009) | 12/13
• the confession (2010) | 02/19
• the conspirator (2010) | 04/15 ($0.00); 04/22 ($0.00)
• contact (1997) | 07/28
• contagion (2011) | 12/10
• the corporation (2003) | 01/17
• cowboys & aliens (2011) | 08/08 ($7.00)
• crazy, stupid, love. (2011) | 08/07 ($7.00)
• creation (2009) | 07/17
• the crush (2010) | 02/19
• day & night (2010) * + | 01/31; 02/19 ($3.00)
• days of heaven (1978) | 07/02
• the debt (2010) | 09/01 ($7.00)
• die hard (1988) | 09/12
• dirty dancing (1987) * | 12/31
• drive (2011) | 09/16 ($7.00)
• dumb & dumber (1994) | 03/19
• edward scissorhands (1990) | 12/13
• elf (2003) * | 12/25
• encounters at the end of the world (2007) | 03/08
• fargo (1996) | 03/16
• a few good men (1992) * | 12/18
• the fighter (2010) + | 01/02; 02/24
• finding neverland (2004) | 12/30
• fish tank (2009) | 06/20
• freakonomics (2010) | 07/28
• free willy (1993) * | 08/17
• funny girl (1968) | 01/16
• gangs of new york (2002) | 04/03
• gasland (2010) | 01/29
• get shorty (1995) | 12/29
• gladiator (2000) | 11/26
• gnomeo & juliet (2011) | 12/10
• god of love (2010) | 02/19
• the green hornet (2011) | 01/21 ($26.00)
• grizzly man (2005) | 05/13
• the gruffalo (2009) + | 01/26; 02/19
• the guard (2011) | 12/17
• hairspray (2007) * | 08/30
• hall pass (2011) | 07/09
• hanna (2011) | 04/20 ($0.00)
• harry potter and the deathly hallows: part 2 (2011) | 07/15 ($0.00)
• the help (2011) | 12/07
• hereafter (2010) | 01/28
• high fidelity (2000) | 01/22
• hot fuzz (2007) | 08/20 
• how to succeed in business without really trying (1967) | 03/03
• the ides of march (2011) | 10/07 ($11.00 matt’s giftcard)
• the illusionist (2006) | 04/07
• i’m still here (2010) | 01/09
• imitation of life (1934) | 04/01
• in bruges (2008) | 06/11
• incendies (2010) | 05/24 ($0.00)
• inside job (2010) | 02/22
• invasion of the body snatchers (1956) | 03/07
• the invention of lying (2009) | 12/28
• it happened one night (1934) + | 02/08; 04/01
• jaws (1975) | 04/08
• jerry maguire (1996) | 01/11
• jesus camp (2006) | 02/28
• jurassic park (1993) | 07/07
• kill bill: vol. 1 (2003) | 11/27
• kill bill: vol. 2 (2004) | 11/28
• killing in the name (2010) | 02/19 ($3.00)
• the king’s speech (2010) + | 01/18; 02/03
• kramer vs. kramer (1979) | 03/30
• kung fu panda (2008) | 07/08
• kung fu panda 2 (2011) | 12/11
• kynodontas or, dogtooth (2009) | 02/25
• l’illusionniste or, the illusionist (2010) | 02/10
• la piel que habito or, the skin I live in (2011) | 12/26
• the last airbender (2010) | 07/23
• låt den rätte komma in or, let the right one in (2008) | 01/15
• let’s pollute (2011) | 02/19
• life of brian (1979) | 09/16
• lock, stock and two smoking barrels (1998) | 01/04
• the lost thing (2010) | 02/19
• love and other drugs (2010) | 01/20
• lymelife (2008) | 02/23
• the machinist (2004) | 01/15
• madagascar, carnet de voyage or, madagascar, a journey diary (2010) | 02/19
• man on wire (2008) | 03/08
• margin call (2011) | 12/27
• match point (2005) | 01/20
• me and orson welles (2008) | 08/04
• the mechanic (2011) | 02/09 ($10.50 matt’s giftcard)
• meet me in st. louis (1944) + | 03/11; 04/12
• the men who stare at goats (2009) | 02/21
• michael clayton (2007) | 12/23
• midnight in paris (2011) | 12/17
• a midsummer night’s dream (1999) | 05/15
• moneyball (2011) | 12/19
• monty python and the holy grail (1975) * | 08/30
• the most dangerous man in america: daniel ellsberg and the pentagon papers (2009) | 03/03
• the muppets (2011) | 12/26 ($54.00)
• my cousin vinny (1992) | 12/24
• my left foot: the story of christy brown or, my left foot (1989) | 06/07
• mystery team (2009) | 03/29
• na wewe (2010) | 02/19
• the naked gun: from the files of police squad! (1988) | 05/12
• the new world (2005) | 07/11
• no country for old men (2007) | 12/23
• north by northwest (1959) | 12/25
• notting hill (1999) | 01/05
• o brother, where art thou? (2000) | 11/25
• océans or, oceans (2009) | 03/31
• on the town (1949) | 12/29
• once (2006) * | 02/18
• our idiot brother (2011) | 08/26 ($11.00)
• the pajama game (1957) | 03/12
• paranormal activity 3 (2011) | 10/21 ($7.00)
• peeping tom (1960) | 03/21
• pi (1998) | 01/12
• pirates of the caribbean: the curse of the black pearl (2003) * | 08/30
• pirates of the caribbean: on stranger tides (2011) | 03/29 ($7.00)
• poster girl (2010) | 02/19
• powaqqatsi (1988) | 02/27
• the prince of egypt (1998) * | 04/24
• the proposal (2009) | 01/03
• pulp fiction (1994) | 07/29
• quills (2000) | 01/16
• rabbit hole (2010) | 01/01
• raiders of the lost ark (1981) | 07/07
• rango (2011) | 03/19 ($7.00)
• the reader (2008) | 12/21
• rear window (1954) | 09/09
• red riding: in the year of our lord 1980 (2009) | 02/20
• red riding: in the year of our lord 1983 (2009) | 02/21
• red riding hood (2011) | 07/09
• requiem for a dream (2000) | 12/06
• restrepo (2010) | 01/29
• rise of the planet of the apes (2011) | 08/11 ($11.00)
• the road to el dorado (2000) * | 11/24
• scream (1996) | 04/09
• scream 2 (1997) | 04/10
• scream 3 (2000) | 04/12
• scream 4 (2011) | 04/15 ($11.00)
• se7en (1995) | 03/10
• shadow of a doubt (1943) | 04/11
• shanghai express (1932) + | 02/01; 05/07
• sherlock holmes (2009) * | 12/27
• show boat (1951) | 03/12
• sideways (2004) | 12/26
• the silence of the lambs (1991) | 07/29
• since you went away (1944) | 04/05
• the sixth sense (1999) | 01/12
• sleepless in seattle (1993) | 01/05
• somewhere (2010) | 01/01
• source code (2011) | 04/02 ($10.50  coupon)
• south park: bigger longer & uncut (1999) | 11/24
• the squid and the whale (2005) | 01/31
• stagecoach (1939) | 02/15
• star wars: episode IV - a new hope (1977) | 01/02
• steamboat bill, jr. (1928) | 01/05
• strangers no more (2010) | 02/19
• submarine (2010) | 12/31
• sun come up (2010) | 02/19
• sunshine cleaning (2008) | 04/18
• super 8 (2011) | 08/29
• teeth (2007) | 04/16
• tell your children or, reefer madness (1936) | 04/16
• the tempest (2010) | 12/26
• them! (1954) | 03/29
• the thin red line (1998) | 07/10
• this film is not yet rated (2006) | 01/01
• this is spinal tap (1984) | 04/15
• timer (2009) | 04/27
• tonari no totoro or, my neighbor totoro (1988) | 12/27
• touching the void (2003) | 02/05
• toy story 3 (2010) * | 01/09
• the tree of life (2011) | 11/25
• the trip (2010) | 06/21 ($0.00)
• tron: legacy (2010) | 01/08 ($9.00 coupon/gift card)
• true grit (2010) + | 01/03; 01/03 ($7.00 christmas cash); 03/24
• tucker and dale vs evil (2010) | 12/08 
• the ugly truth (2009) | 01/05
• the union: the business behind getting high (2007) | 01/18
• unstoppable (2010) | 01/28
• the usual suspects (1995) | 07/18
• vertigo (1958) | 08/23
• vidocq or, dark portals: the chronicles of vidocq (2001) | 02/20
• the virgin suicides (1999) | 03/29
• the visitor (2007) | 04/14
• walkabout (1971) | 01/10
• warrior (2011) | 11/27
• the warriors of quigang (2010) | 02/19
• waste land (2010) | 03/19
• the way back (2010) | 02/27
• we need to talk about kevin (2011) | 12/17
• which way home (2009) | 03/08
• wicker park (2004) | 05/06
• wild wild west (1999) * | 01/11
• winter’s bone (2010) * | 02/10
• wish 143 (2009) | 02/19
• the wolf man (1941) | 03/28
• the wolfman (2010) | 01/27
• x-men: first class (2011) | 06/10 ($6.00)

total: 250 ($193.00)

(*) seen previous to 2011 (+) seen multiple times in 2011

FUN FACTS!:

• 16% were seen in theaters
• 92% were movies I’d never seen before
• I spent $100 less on movie tickets than I did last year

oh shit this is long, sorry.

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so I’ve been going through my different movie lists/websites and I’m starting to realize my 2010 count was probably closer to 197. I know I at least forgot to put the lotr trilogy and mysterious skin on from part of our summer marathon, and I know I watched book of eli and I don’t think that was a whole year ago. oh shit I forgot tron too!

IF I REACHED 199 WITHOUT REALIZING IT I’LL PUNCH SOMETHING, BECAUSE I TOTALLY HAD TIME FOR ONE LAST MOVIE.

MOVIES I WATCHED IN 2010:

• (500) days of summer (2009) *
• 127 hours (2010)
• 2001: a space odyssey (1968)
• 28 days later… (2002)
• 300 (2006) *
• 42nd street (1933)
• alice in wonderland (2010)
• american beauty (1999)
• american psycho (2000)
• annie hall (1977)
• australia (2008) *
• avatar (2009) * +
• babies (2010)
• becoming jane (2007)
• before sunset (2004)
• big (1988)
• big fish (2003)
• the big lebowski (1998)
• black swan (2010)
• the blair witch project (1999)
• the blind side (2009)
• the boondock saints (1999)
• boy a (2007)
• breaking upwards (2009)
• brick (2005)
• the bridge (2006)
• bright star (2009)
• burma vj (2008)
• burn after reading (2008)
• cars (2006)
• catch me if you can (2002)
• charlie bartlett (2007)
• a christmas carol (1999)
• the chronicles of narnia: the voyage of the dawn treader (2010)
• citizen kane (1941)
• city island (2009)
• a clockwork orange (1971)
• cloverfield (2008) *
• clueless (1995)
• coraline (2009)
• the cove (2009)
• crazy heart (2009)
• dear john (2010)
• despicable me (2010)
• the dark knight (2008) *
• date night (2010) +
• dinner for schmucks (2010)
• district 9 (2009) +
• easy a (2010)
• eclipse (2010)
• an education (2009) +
• el laberinto del fauno or, pan’s labyrinth (2006)
• elf (2003) *
• eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (2004)
• exit through the gift shop (2010)
• the exorcism of emily rose (2005)
• the exorcist (1973)
• the fall (2006) * +
• fantastic mr fox (2009)
• finding nemo (2003) *
• a fish called wanda (1988)
• food inc (2008)
• frost/nixon (2008)
• gake no ue no ponyo or, ponyo on the cliff by the sea (2008) *
• get him to the greek (2010)
• get low (2010)
• the ghost writer (2010)
• going the distance (2010)
• the good guy (2009)
• the goonies (1985)
• harry potter and the deathly hallows: part 1 (2010)
• heathers (1989)
• heavenly creatures (1994)
• holy rollers (2010)
• hot tub time machine (2010)
• how to train your dragon (2010)
• howl (2010)
• hunger (2008)
• the hurt locker (2008)
• i am love (2009)
• i love you phillip morris (2009)
• i love you, man (2009) *
• i’m not there. (2007)
• the imaginarium of doctor parnassus (2009)
• in the land of women (2007)
• inception (2010) +
• the incredibles (2004) *
• infamous (2006)
• inglourious basterds (2009) *
• invictus (2009)
• iron man 2 (2010) +
• the iron giant (1999)
• it’s kind of a funny story (2010)
• joan rivers: a piece of work (2010)
• julie & julia (2009)
• just like us (2010)
• kaze no tani no naushika or, nausicaä of the valley of the wind (1984)
• kick-ass (2010)
• the kids are all right (2010)
• la môme or, la vie en rose (2007)
• the last king of scotland (2006)
• the last kiss (2006)
• the last station (2009)
• le fabuleux destin d’amélie poulain or, amélie (2001) +
• leap year (2010)
• let me in (2010)
• the life aquatic with steve zissou (2004)
• lost in translation (2003)
• love actually (2003)
• the lovely bones (2009)
• majo no takkyubin or, kiki’s delivery service (1989) *
• mary and max (2009)
• megamind (2010)
• the messenger (2009)
• miracle (2004)
• miss pettigrew lives for a day (2008)
• mononoke-hime or, princess mononoke (1997)
• monsters, inc. (2001) *
• moon (2009)
• muriel’s wedding (1994)
• my cousin vinny (1992)
• never let me go (2010)
• new moon (2009)
• new york, i love you (2009)
• the nightmare before christmas (1993)
• nine (2009)
• nosferatu, eine symphonie des grauens or, nosferatu, a symphony of horror (1922)
• ondine (2009)
• one flew over the cuckoo’s nest (1975)
• penelope (2006)
• percy jackson & the olympians: the lightning thief (2010)
• perfume: the story of a murderer (2006)
• persepolis (2007)
• the pixar story (2007)
• pocahontas (1995) *
• pop star on ice (2009)
• possession (2009)
• precious (2009)
• the prince of egypt (1998) *
• prince of persia: the sands of time (2010)
• the princess and the frog (2009) +
• the producers (1968)
• psycho (1960)
• punch-drunk love (2002)
• ratatouille (2007)
• red riding: in the year of our lord 1974 (2009)
• revolutionary road (2008)
• the rocky horror picture show (1975)
• the romantics (2010)
• the royal tenenbaums (2001) *
• rushmore (1998)
• salt (2010)
• scott pilgrim vs. the world (2010)
• the secret of kells (2009)
• sen to chihiro no kamikakushi or, spirited away (2001)
• a serious man (2009)
• shakespeare in love (1998)
• she’s out of my league (2010)
• the shining (1980)
• shrek forever after (2010)
• shutter island (2010)
• singin’ in the rain (1952)
• a single man (2009)
• the social network (2010) +
• soldier’s girl (2003)
• solitary man (2009)
• stranger than fiction (2006)
• step up 2: the streets (2008)
• tangled (2010)
• there will be blood (2007)
• the time traveler’s wife (2009)
• titanic (1997)
• top hat (1935)
• the tourist (2010)
• the town (2010)
• toy story 3 (2010) +
• a trip to the moon (1902)
• up (2009) *
• up in the air (2009) +
• valentine’s day (2010)
• wall-e (2008) *
• when harry met sally… (1989) +
• when in rome (2010)
• the white ribbon (2009)
• win a date with tad hamilton! (2004)
• winter’s bone (2010)
• you will meet a tall dark stranger (2010)
• you’ve got mail (1998)
• the young victoria (2009)
• zodiac (2007)
• zombieland (2009)

total: 191

(*) seen previous to 2010 (+) seen multiple times in 2010

FUN FACTS!:

• ~20% were seen in theaters
• ~90% were movies I’d never seen before (some I’d seen parts/most of, though)
• ~10% were ones I watched in the last four days in an attempt to reach 200
• I spent $293 at the movies this year, excluding popcorn/drink/snack purchases. you’re welcome, economy.

All the lists are starting to come out now. Golden Globes nominations. Epert’s top 20. IMDB’s top 10. Video compilations of what was released. So here for my own uses is my list of movies-I-haven’t-seen-yet-and-should-slash-want-to-slash-will-never-find-an-online-copy-of. luckily some are out in theaters or have already shown up online.

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