Decade Rewind: The Best Movies of 2010

As the 2010’s have officially come to an end, I will be looking back at each cinematic year to give a personal decade retrospective of the best movies and performances of each year.  I will break down my Top 10 movies of each year, along with my favorite performances from that year.  I will also be listing my favorite’s from each genre, like Best Animated Movie and Best Action Movie, as well as best of the technical aspects, like Best Cinematography and Best Screenplay.  This will all culminate into my picks for the best movies and performances of the decade.  

*Rankings of movies and performances are numbered, with 1 being the best movie/performance.

*Gifs for each category are not specifically of the “winners” of each category, just one of the nominees.

 

 

 

 

 

THE YEAR: 2010

2010 was a very formative year for me and one of the stronger years of the decade.  This year was loaded with some of the biggest auteurs we have working in Hollywood today, like David Fincher, Darren Aronofsky, Dany Boyle, Martin Scorsese, Mike Leigh, The Coen Brothers, and Christopher Nolan, among others.  It was also a strong year for animation and indies.  For me, I just graduated from film school that summer.  I graduated having learned a lot of aspects of film, from production to studying history and genre, yet was still forming my opinion and perspective on film and having the great films of this year come out really helped shape that.  Here is a look at my favorite movies and performances of 2010.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BEST PICTURE

1. THE SOCIAL NETWORK (David Fincher)
2. INCEPTION (Christopher Nolan)
3. BLACK SWAN (Darren Aronofsky)
4. TOY STORY 3 (Lee Unkrich)
5. SHUTTER ISLAND (Martin Scorsese)
6. THE TOWN (Ben Affleck)
7. TRUE GRIT (The Coen Brothers)
8. THE OTHER GUYS (Adam McKay)
9. THE FIGHTER (David O. Russell)
10. SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD (Edgar Wright)

 

 

BEST DIRECTOR

1. David Fincher, The Social Network
2. Christopher Nolan, Inception
3. Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
4. Ben Affleck, The Town
5. Martin Scorsese, Shutter Island

 

 

BEST ACTOR

1. Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island
2. Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
3. James Franco, 127 Hours
4. Michael Cera, Scott Pilgrim vs the World 
5. Ryan Gosling, Blue Valentine

 

 

BEST ACTRESS

1. Natalie Portman, Black Swan
2. Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine
3. Emma Stone, Easy A
4. Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone
5. Carey Mulligan, Never Let Me Go

 

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Christian Bale, The Fighter
2. Andrew Garfield, The Social Network
3. Jeremy Renner, The Town
4. Vincent Cassell, Black Swan
5. Mark Ruffalo, Shutter Island

 

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit
2. Amy Adams, The Fighter
3. Rebecca Hall, The Town
4. Mila Kunis, Black Swan
5. Patricia Clarkson, Easy A

 

 

 

 

OTHER BESTS OF 2010

 

BEST ANIMATED MOVIE – TOY STORY 3

• Runner Up – How to Train Your Dragon

BEST ACTION MOVIE – UNSTOPPABLE

• Runner Up – The Expendables

BEST COMEDY – THE OTHER GUYS

• Runner Up – Hot Tub Time Machine

BEST HORROR MOVIE – LET ME IN

• Runner Up – The Crazies

BEST DOCUMENTARY – EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOT

• Runner Up – Restrepo

BEST MOVIE NOBODY SAW – NEVER LET ME GO

• Runner Up – The Ghost Writer

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – TRUE GRIT

• Runner Up – Inception

BEST EDITING – INCEPTION

• Runner Up – Black Swan

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS – TRON LEGACY

• Runner Up – Inception

BEST SCORE – THE SOCIAL NETWORK

• Runner Up – Inception

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY – INCEPTION

• Runner Up – Black Swan

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY – THE SOCIAL NETWORK

• Runner Up – Scott Pilgrim vs the World

 

 

 

Stay tuned for 2011!

 

 

 

 

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