1 – Mother
I can't think of another filmmaker who handles drastic tonal shifts with such adroitness and confidence.
2 – Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
I've seen it twice now and on both occasions I have been moved in different ways by the picture
3 – Still Walking
Still Walking is a film filled with a sense of loss, but Kore-Eda finds a pitch-perfect balance between sadness, humour and joy
4 – Dogtooth
A shockingly brilliant and completely original piece of work that confounds every expectation
5 – Toy Story 3
Made with incredible love, care and attention, Toy Story 3 is the climax this series deserves
6 – The Father of My Children
So many scenes here are handled with a delicacy and insight that moved me to tears
7 – The Social Network
The Social Network is one of the most purely entertaining and stimulating movies of the year
8 – Carlos
A ceaselessly invigorating cinematic spectacle
9 – Mary & Max
A beautiful, imaginative and deeply moving achievement
10 – Enter the Void
Enter the Void is the most staggering display of filmmaking technique I have seen for a long time
Honourable Mentions
Alamar
Another Year
Catfish
Certified Copy
Lourdes
The Maid
Please Give
Shutter Island
Tetro
Winter's Bone
Worst
1 - Alice in Wonderland
The only curious aspect of this misfire is how the filmmakers have managed to get everything so fundamentally wrong
2 - TRON: Legacy
There's nothing inventive or imaginative under the surface of this unspeakably boring update
3 - The Wolfman
A mongrel of a film
4 - Gulliver's Travels
An all-too-familiar slapdash assemblage of tired gags, haphazard plotting and phoned-in performances
5 - The A-Team
A crushingly boring cinematic experience
6 - Death at a Funeral
A tiresome retread of a movie that wasn't any good in the first place
7 - Dinner for Schmucks
The dinner may be for schmucks, but does the movie have to be made for idiots?
8 - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
I found it impossible to maintain any interest in the film as it crawled towards its meaningless conclusion
9 - The Lovely Bones
The film gets worse with every passing minute
10 - Legion
A baffling action film with biblical pretensions that ultimately works best as an unintentional comedy
Dishonourable Mentions
Cemetery Junction
Chloe
Despicable Me
Edge of Darkness
Knight and Day
Love and Other Drugs
Machete
Miral
Takers
Whatever Works
Best Director
1 - Apichatpong Weerasethakul – Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
2 - Bong Joon-ho – Mother
3 - Giorgos Lanthimos – Dogtooth
4 - Olivier Assayas – Carlos
5 - Gaspar Noé – Enter the Void
Best Actor
1 - Édgar Ramírez - Carlos
2 - Jesse Eisenberg - The Social Network
3 - Eric Elmosnino - Gainsbourg
4 - Louis-Do de Lencquesaing - The Father of My Children
5 - Jim Carrey - I Love You Phillip Morris
6 - Philip Seymour Hoffman - Mary & Max
7 - Nicolas Cage - Bad Lieutenant
8 - Tahar Rahim - A Prophet
9 - Casey Affleck - The Killer Inside Me
10 - Colin Farrell - Ondine
Best Actress
1 - Kim Hye-ja - Mother
2 - Sylvie Testud - Lourdes
3 - Juliette Binoche - Certified Copy
4 - Aggeliki Papoulia - Dogtooth
5 - Tilda Swinton - I Am Love
6 - Catalina Saavedra - The Maid
7 - María Onetto - The Headless Woman
8 - Noomi Rapace - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
9 - Jennifer Lawrence - Winter's Bone
10 - Lesley Manville - Another Year
Best Supporting Actor
1 - Niels Arestrup - A Prophet
2 - Christos Stergioglou - Dogtooth
3 - John Hawkes - Winter's Bone
4 - Andrew Garfield - The Social Network
5 - Oliver Platt - Please Give
6 - Doug Jones - Gainsbourg
7 - Colin Farrell - The Way Back
8 - Ned Beatty - Toy Story 3
9 - Yoshio Harada - Still Walking
10 - Alexander Scheer - Carlos
Best Supporting Actress
1 - Dale Dickey - Winter's Bone
2 - Tamsin Greig - Tamara Drewe
3 - Alice de Lencquesaing - The Father of My Children
4 - Nora von Waldstätten - Carlos
5 - Marcia Gay Harden - Whip It
6 - Olivia Williams - The Ghost Writer
7 - Delphine Chanéac - Splice
8 - Amanda Peet - Please Give
9 - Laetitia Casta - Gainsbourg
10 - Julia Hummer - Carlos
Best Original Screenplay
1 - Mother
2 - Still Walking
3 - Toy Story 3
4 - Please Give
5 - Mary & Max
Best Adapted Screenplay
1 - The Social Network
2 - Winter's Bone
3 - Shutter Island
4 - The Illusionist
5 - Whip It
Best Cinematography
1 - Enter the Void
2 - Tetro
3 - Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
4 - Dogtooth
5 - Another Year
Best Editing
1 - Mother
2 - The Social Network
3 - Toy Story 3
4 - Enter the Void
5 - Carlos
Best Score
1 - Mother
2 - The Social Network
3 - I Am Love
4 - Mary & Max
5 - Still Walking
Best Costume Design
1 - Carlos
2 - Gainsbourg
3 - Black Dynamite
4 - The Social Network
5 - Agora
Best Production Design
1 - Enter the Void
2 - Shutter Island
3 - Monsters
4 - Inception
5 - Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Cinema Experience of the Year
1 - Peeping Tom at the Curzon Soho
A screening of a beautiful new print followed by an onstage discussion with Martin Scorsese, Thelma Schoonmaker, Anna Massey and Columba Powell
2 - The Great White Silence at the Odeon West End
Herbert Ponting's record of Captain Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition, presented at the London Film Festival with a live score
3 - Metropolis at the NFT
The astonishing new reconstruction, finally allowing us to see the film in something like Lang's original vision
4 - The Leopard at the NFT
Luchino Visconti's masterpiece seen on the big screen for the first time
5 - Ugetsu Monogotari at the NFT
My first viewing of Kenji Mizoguchi's ghost story, which instantly became one of my favourite films