DK's Best Achievements in Cinema - 2010


Best Director
Also worth mentioning
Pierre Coffin,
Chris Renaud
   Despicable Me
Danny Boyle    127 Hours
Christopher Nolan    Inception
Srdjan Spasojevic    A Serbian Film
Joseph Kosinski    Tron: Legacy

Best Actor
Paul Giamatti    Barney's Version
Also worth mentioning
Christopher Plummer    Beginners
Ewan McGregor    Beginners
Ryan Reynolds    Buried
Michael Sheen    Tron: Legacy
Ralph Fiennes    Clash of the Titans

Best Cinematography
Also worth mentioning
Matthew Libatique    Black Swan
Nemanja Jovanov    A Serbian Film
Eduard Grau    Buried

Best Score
Hans Zimmer    Inception
Clint Mansell    Black Swan
Also worth mentioning
Sky Wikluh    A Serbian Film
Heitor Pereira,
Pharrell Williams
   Despicable Me
Daft Punk    Tron: Legacy
Victor Reyes    Buried
A.R. Rahman    127 Hours
Trevor Rabin    The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Burkhard von Dallwitz    The Way Back

Best Writing

Best Editing

Best Production Design
?    Tron: Legacy
?    Bunraku
Best Picture

Best Actress
Also worth mentioning
Natalie Portman    Black Swan
Claire Danes    Temple Grandin
Emily Meade    Burning Palms

Best Makeup
Rick Baker    The Wolfman
Also worth mentioning
Adrien Morot    Barney's Version
Edouard F. Henriques,
Greg Funk,
Yolanda Toussieng
   The Way Back
?    Tron: Legacy

Best Visual Effects
?    Alice in Wonderland
?    Tron: Legacy
Also worth mentioning
?    Black Swan
?    The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Best Animation
Illumination Entertainment    Despicable Me
Also worth mentioning
?    How to Train Your Dragon

Best Sound Editing
?    Tron: Legacy

Best Steadicam
Movies that were considered (143):
The Good (DK's rating 5.5/10 and above): 127 Hours | A Serbian Film | Attack of the Clones Review | Beginners | Black Swan | Buried | Despicable Me | Due Date | Every Day | Inception | Jackass 3D | Kevorkian | Machete | Sarah's Key | The Town | Unthinkable | You Don't Know Jack
The Bad (DK's rating 4.5-5/10): All Good Things | Barney's Version | Biutiful | Burning Palms | Clash of the Titans | Cold Weather | Conviction | Dear Mr. Gacy | Four Lions | Going the Distance | Gulliver's Travels | In a Better World | Lucky | Morning Glory | Piranha | Predators | Restrepo | Salt | Saw 3D | She's Out of My League | Shutter Island | Stone | Super | Temple Grandin | The Experiment | The Fighter | The Infidel | The Kids Are All Right | The Next Three Days | The People vs. George Lucas | The Perfect Host | The Social Network | The Way Back | The Way | TRON: Legacy | Tucker and Dale vs Evil | Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps
The Ugly (DK's rating 4/10 and below): 4.3.2.1 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | Alice in Wonderland | Animal Kingdom | Black Death | Blue Valentine | Bruce Lee, My Brother | Bunraku | Burke and Hare | Carancho | Casino Jack | Centurion | Cold Fish | Cold Weather | Cop Out | Date Night | Death Race 2 | Edge of Darkness | Everything Must Go | Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap | Father of Invention | Flipped | Freakonomics | From Paris with Love | Get Him to the Greek | Greenberg | Griff the Invisible | Group Sex | Grown Ups | H.R. Giger Revealed | Hereafter | Hot Tub Time Machine | How do you Know | How to Train Your Dragon | I Spit on Your Grave | I Saw the Devil | Incendies | Insidious | Iron Man 2 | It's Kind of a Funny Story | Kaboom | Kick-Ass | Klovn: The Movie | Knight and Day | Legion | Little Fockers | Love and Other Drugs | Mega Piranha | Megamind | Monsters | My Bloody Wedding | Never Let me go | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | Repo Men | Resident Evil: Afterlife | Robin Hood | Shrek 4 | Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball | Somewhere | Tangled | The A-Team | The Book of Eli | The Conspirator | The Crazies | The Debt | The Expendables | The Extra Man | The Ghost Writer | The Kids Are All Right | The King's Speech | The Last Exorcism | The Losers | The Man from Nowhere | The Other Guys | The Runaways | The Sorcerer's Apprentice | The Switch | The Tourist | The Wolfman | Toy Story 3 | True Grit | Twelve | Unstoppable | Vampires Suck | Vanishing on 7th Street | Waiting for Forever | Waiting for Superman | Winter's Bone | You Again


Special Awards

The "Roland Emmerich" Award for Gluing Pointless Crowd Reactions: Tony Scott for Unstoppable.
The "Shyamalan" Award for Moronic Plot-Twists: The Book of Eli.
The "Cronenberg" Award for Wasted Talent: Brad Anderson for Vanishing on 7th Street.

Worst Cinematography: Ben Seresin for Unstoppable.
Worst Editing: Robert Duffy and Chris Lebenzon for Unstoppable.

Worst Parody: Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap.
Worst Documentary: H.R. Giger Revealed.