Best of 2011

 Films
  1  Melancholia
  2  The Descendants
  3  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  4  Midnight in Paris
  5  Carnage
  6  Win Win
  7  Super 8
  8  Margin Call
  9  Rampart
10  Contagion

11  Young Adult

12  Moneyball
13  Rango
14  The Guard
15  Meek’s Cutoff
16  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
17  The Help
18  Blackthorn
19  Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
20  Terri

Directors

1  Lars von Trier,  Melancholia
2  Alexander Payne, The Descendants
3  David Fincher, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
4  Woody Allen,  Midnight in Paris
5  Roman Polanski,  Carnage

Actors

1  George Clooney,  The Descendants
2  Christoph Waltz,  Carnage
3  Woody Harrelson,  Rampart
4  Brad Pitt,  Moneyball
5  Gary Oldman,  Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Actresses

1  Kirsten Dunst,  Melancholia
2  Viola Davis,  The Help
3  Jodie Foster,  Carnage
4  Charlize Theron,  Young Adult
5  Rooney Mara,  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Supporting Actors

1  Christopher Plummer,  Beginners
2  Jonah Hill,  Moneyball
3  Patton Oswalt,  Young Adult
4  Kenneth Branagh,  My Week with Marilyn
5  Nick Nolte,  Warrior

Supporting Actresses

1  Octavia Spencer,  The Help
2  Jennifer Ehle,  Contagion
3  Jessica Chastain,  The Tree of Life
4  Shailene Woodley,  The Descendants
5  Melissa McCarthy,  Bridesmaids

Screenwriters

1  Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash,
    The Descendants
2  Woody Allen,  Midnight in Paris
3  Yasmina Reza and Roman Polanski,  Carnage
4  Thomas McCarthy and Joe Tiboni,  Win Win
5  Scott Z. Burns,  Contagion

Cinematography

1  Emmanuel Lubezki,  The Tree of Life
2  Jeff Cronenweth,  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
3  Robert Richardson,  Hugo
4  Guilllaume Schiffman,  The Artist
5  Yu Cao,  City of Life and Death

Foreign-Language Films

1  A Separation  (Iran)
2  City of Life and Death  (China)
3  Certified Copy  (France)
4  In a Better World  (Denmark)
5  Point Blank  (France)