THE BEST OF 2011: Ed's choices

• TOP 10 FILMS

1. Drive
2. The Artist
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
4. A Separation
5. Pariah
6. Hugo
7. We Bought a Zoo
8. 50/50
9. Super 8
10. Mysteries of Lisbon

• TOP 7 BEST MALE ACTING PERFORMANCES (LEADING . SUPPORTING)

1. Michael Fassbender in Shame
2. Jean Dujardin in The Artist
3. George Clooney in The Descendants
4. Albert Brooks in Drive
5. Michael Shannon in Take Shelter
6. Joseph Gordon-Levitt in 50/50
7. Christopher Plummer in Beginners

• TOP 7 BEST FEMALE ACTING PERFORMANCES (LEADING . SUPPORTING)

1. Vanessa Redgrave in Coriolanus
2. Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady
3. Rooney Mara in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
4. Adepero Oduye in Pariah
5. Michelle Williams in My Week With Marilyn
6. Kirsten Dunst in Melancholia
7. Mia Wasikowska in Jane Eyre

• BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ENSEMBLE CAST

The Help - Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jessica Chastain, Allison Janney and Sissy Spacek

• TOP 5 BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMERS

1. Rooney Mara for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
2. Adepero Oduye for Pariah
3. Elizabeth Olsen for Martha Marcy May Marlene
4. Thomas Horn for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
5. Felicity Jones for Like Crazy

• BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR OR ACTRESS UNDER 20 YEARS OLD

Elle Fanning in Super 8

• MOST VISUALLY STUNNINg MOVIE OF THE YEAR

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (tied)
The Tree of Life (tied)

• TOP 5 BEST MOVIE SCORES

1. Drive
2. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
3. We Bought a Zoo
4. Jane Eyre
5. The Artist

• TOP 3 BEST DOCUMENTARIES

1. Into the Abyss
2. José & Pilar
3. The Interrupters