1. Tangled – £4,569,135
2. The King’s Speech – £2,739,204
3. The Fighter – £2,118,140
4. Black Swan – £1,725,630
5. Sanctum – £859,064
6. The Mechanic – £532,839
7. A Little Bit Of Heaven – £443,156
8. Gulliver’s Travels – £396,804
9. Brighton Rock – £352,815
10. The Green Hornet – £302,240
1. The Roommate – $15,600,000
2. Sanctum – $9,200,000
3. No Strings Attached – $8,400,000
4. The King’s Speech – $8,310,000
5. The Green Hornet – $6,100,000
6. The Rite – $5,565,000
7. The Mechanic – $5,370,000
8. True Grit – $4,750,000
9. The Dilemma – $3,448,000
10. Black Swan – $3,400,000
1. Tangled – £5,106,612
2. The King’s Speech – £3,634,265
3. Black Swan – £2,566,346
4. The Mechanic – £921,554
5. The Dilemma – £669,368
6. The Green Hornet – £655,797
7. Hereafter – £601,728
8. Gulliver’s Travels – £585,250
9. 127 Hours – £409,363
10. How Do You Know? – £374,933
1. The Rite – $15,005,000
2. No Strings Attached – $13,650,000
3. The Mechanic – $11,500,000
4. The Green Hornet – $11,500,000
5. The King’s Speech – $11,102,000
6. True Grit – $7,600,000
7. The Dilemma – $5,476,000
8. Black Swan – $5,100,000
9. The Fighter – $4,055,000
10. Yogi Bear – $3,165,000
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Animated Film
Best Foreign Language Film
Best Documentary
Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography
Best Costume Design
Best Editing
Best Short Film (Live Action)
Best Short Film (Animated)
Best Makeup
Best Original Score
Best Original Song
Best Sound Mixing
Best Sound Editing
Best Visual Effects
1. The King’s Speech – £4,226,074
2. Black Swan – £2,762,429
3. The Green Hornet – £1,187,652
4. The Dilemma – £1,102,798
5. Gulliver’s Travels – £992,382
6. 127 Hours – £805,418
7. Little Fockers – £685,046
8. Morning Glory – £524,356
9. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 – £346,787
10. NEDS – £283,210
1. No Strings Attached – $20,300,000
2. The Green Hornet – $18,100,000
3. The Dilemma – $9,727,000
4. The King’s Speech – $9,164,000
5. True Grit – $8,000,000
6. Black Swan – $6,200,000
7. The Fighter – $4,515,000
8. Little Fockers – $4,394,000
9. Yogi Bear – $4,060,000
10. Tron: Legacy – $3,708,000
Darren Aronofsky’s psychological thriller is a twisted adaptation of the famous ballet Swan Lake that blurs the boundaries between high art and exploitation film.
Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) is consumed by her obsession of being the perfect ballerina. When Nina learns that the principal ballerina, Beth (Winona Ryder), is being let go at the end of the season, she sees an open door that could lead to hear dreams coming true. But the arrival of Lily (Mila Kunis), a naturally talented and laid-back ballerina, brings her self-esteem issues to the forefront.
Nina wins the role of the Swan Queen in the company’s production of Swan Lake, and it soon begins to take its toll on Nina as practices become more grueling and the company’s director, Thomas (Vincent Cassel), plays mind games with her.As her life is ever more consumed by ballet, she begins to get more in touch with her dark side – a recklessness that threatens to destroy her.
Black Swan highlights the savageness of performance and the innumerable issues that come from an aspiration for perfection. Nina is a newcomer, her problems are all related to the inherent worry of making an affecting first impression and bettering her counterparts. The thematic elements used work together to make Black Swan feel like vital, candid and ultimately contemporary tale; almost like a culmination of the director’s masterfully distinctive filmmaking style that’s developed over the past twelve years.
Matthew Libatique’s evasive and intense cinematography beautifully captures Nina’s fracturing mental state, her delusions and perpetual anxieties, masterfully blending reality and illusion. The claustrophobia of Nina’s shattered mind is superbly transposed to the sheer, heart-pounding ebullience of the stage, capturing in detail every affliction Nina suffers in her bid for perfection, while equivalently showcasing ballet as a undeniably majestic art form.
Clint Mansell’s take on Tchaikovsky’s famous score is tremendous. Not only does the music stay true to the heart of Swan Lake, but it and adds new themes, motifs and emotions; complimenting, and enhancing, the film’s sinister nature magnificently.
Portman is truly exquisite as Nina, embodying the character of a young woman paralysed by her torturous desire for perfection desperately trying maintain a grip on her sanity faultlessly. We witness Nina simultaneously at her most exposed and her most barbaric, reaching her zenith with a sharp, enticing career-defining dance, much like Portman’s career-best performance.
The supporting performances are equally strong: Cassel wonderfully sordid as the company’s director; Kunis remarkably piercing and intoxicating as Lily; Hershey as Nina’s overpowering mother, Erica; and Ryder making the most of her limited screen-time as Beth, embracing the film’s demented nature and enveloping the mania of her cutthroat character.
Black Swan is thoroughly captivating, wonderfully shredding the human soul down to the bone and forces the audience into Nina’s disintegrating mind. The depth of the film builds up to a compelling, fantastical and veracious crescendo, the final performance, which works equally as a fitting conclusion, and as an astonishing validation of the ruthless art of perfection.
In simple terms, it’s an utterly tremendous cinematic masterpiece.
The Dilemma
Director – Ron Howard
Starring – Vince Vaughn, Kevin James and Jennifer Connelly
Morning Glory
Director – Roger Michell
Starring – Harrison Ford, Rachel McAdams and Diane Keaton
Black Swan
Director – Darren Aronofsky
Starring – Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis and Winona Ryder
Get Low
Director: Aaron Schneider
Starring: Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek and Bill Murray
Neds
Director – Peter Mullan
Starring – Conor McCarron, Martin Bell and Linda Cuthbert
My Soul To Take
Director – Wes Craven
Starring – Max Thieriot, John Magaro and Denzel Whitaker
I Spit On Your Grave
Director – Steven R. Monroe
Starring – Chad Lindberg, Daniel Franzese and Sarah Butler
James Carpenter’s The Ward
Director – John Carpenter
Starring – Amber Heard, Lyndsy Fonseca and Danielle Panabaker
The Portuguese Nun
Director: Eugène Green
Starring: Leonor Baldaque, Francisco Mozos and Diogo Dória
GasLand
Director – Josh Fox
Starring – Josh Fox, Dick Cheney and Pete Seeger
Best Film
Outstanding British Film
Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer
Director
Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay
Foreign Film
Animated Film
Leading Actor
Leading Actress
Supporting Actor
Supporting Actress
Original Music
Cinematography
Editing
Production Design
Costume Design
Special Visual Effects
Sound
Make Up & Hair
Short Animation
Short Film
Orange Wednesday Rising Star
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