Story of movie 2011 In Film :
The following is an overview of the events of 2011 in film, including the highest-grossing films, film festivals, award ceremonies and a list of films released and notable deaths.
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More film sequels were released in 2011 than any other year before it, with 28 sequels released. Film critic Scout Tafoya considers 2011 as the best year for cinema, countering the notion of 1939 being film's best year overall and citing important developments in cinematic expression during 2011.
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Richard Brody of The New Yorker observed that the best films of 2011 "exalt the metaphysical, the fantastical, the transformative, the fourth-wall-breaking, or simply the impossible, and—remarkably—do so .... These films depart from 'reality' ... not in order to forget the irrefutable but in order to face it, to think about it, to act on it more freely". Film critic and filmmaker Scout Tafoya of RogerEbert.com considers the year of 2011 as the best year for cinema, countering the notion of 1939 being film's best year overall, citing examples such as Drive, The Tree of Life, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Keyhole, Contagion, The Adventures of Tintin, and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. He stated that "2011 housed not just some of the greatest art films of our age, but a revolution in the language of blockbuster filmmaking. One big-budget action film after another used digital cameras to show the world behind explosions in starker, stranger light, while constructing a backbone of classical ideas and images."
These are the top-grossing films that were released in 2011.
| Rank | Title | Distributor | Worldwide gross |
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| 1 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 | Warner Bros. | $1,341,511,219 |
| 2 | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Paramount | $1,123,794,079 |
| 3 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | Disney | $1,045,713,802 |
| 4 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 | Lionsgate | $712,205,856 |
| 5 | Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol | Paramount | $694,713,380 |
| 6 | Kung Fu Panda 2 | $665,692,281 | |
| 7 | Fast Five | Universal | $626,137,675 |
| 8 | The Hangover Part II | Warner Bros. | $586,764,305 |
| 9 | The Smurfs | Columbia | $563,749,323 |
| 10 | Cars 2 | Disney | $562,110,557 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides grossed $1,045,713,802, becoming the second film in the series to have grossed over $1 billion, and the 13th highest-grossing film of all time. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 grossed $1,341,511,219, becoming the third highest-grossing film of all time, the highest-grossing film in the Harry Potter franchise, and the highest of 2011 as a whole. In the US and Canada, it set single-day and opening-weekend records, with $91,071,119 and $169,189,427 respectively. In addition, the film set a worldwide opening-weekend record with $483,189,427. Transformers: Dark of the Moon grossed $1,123,794,079 and is currently the eighteenth highest-grossing film of all time and the highest-grossing in the series.
2011 was the first year when three films grossed more than $1 billion worldwide, surpassing the previous year's record of two billion-dollar films, and also the first time when at least 10 films grossed more than $500 million worldwide (in 11th and 12th place, Puss in Boots and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows also earned over $500 million making it twelve films to do so).
Pirates of the Caribbean became the first franchise to have more than one film gross over $1 billion, with On Stranger Tides joining 2006's Dead Man's Chest. On Stranger Tides also became the fifth film of the decade to surpass the billion-dollar milestone, breaking the previous record of four films (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest in 2006, The Dark Knight in 2008, and Avatar in 2009) during the 2000s.
- The Shrek franchise became the first animated film series to gross more than $3 billion with the release of Puss in Boots.
- 16th Empire Awards
- 17th Screen Actors Guild Awards
- 24th European Film Awards
- 31st Golden Raspberry Awards
- 68th Golden Globe Awards
- 64th British Academy Film Awards
- 68th Venice International Film Festival
- 83rd Academy Awards
- 57th Filmfare Awards
- 2011 MTV Movie Awards
- 2011 Sundance Film Festival
The following is a list of films that had their world premiere in 2011 in a film festival.
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| Category/Organization | 17th Critics' Choice Awards January 12, 2012 |
69th Golden Globe Awards January 15, 2012 |
18th Screen Actors Guild Awards January 29, 2012 |
65th BAFTA Awards February 12, 2012 |
84th Academy Awards February 26, 2012 | |
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| Best Film | The Artist | The Descendants | The Artist | N/A | The Artist | |
| Best Director | Michel Hazanavicius The Artist |
Martin Scorsese Hugo |
N/A | Michel Hazanavicius The Artist | ||
| Best Actor | George Clooney The Descendants |
Jean Dujardin The Artist | ||||
| Best Actress | Viola Davis The Help |
Meryl Streep The Iron Lady |
Michelle Williams My Week with Marilyn |
Viola Davis The Help |
Meryl Streep The Iron Lady | |
| Best Supporting Actor | Christopher Plummer Beginners | |||||
| Best Supporting Actress | Octavia Spencer The Help | |||||
| Best Screenplay, Adapted | Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin Moneyball |
Woody Allen Midnight in Paris |
N/A | Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy |
Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash The Descendants | |
| Best Screenplay, Original | Woody Allen Midnight in Paris |
N/A | Michel Hazanavicius The Artist |
Woody Allen Midnight in Paris | ||
| Best Animated Film | Rango | The Adventures of Tintin | N/A | Rango | ||
| Best Original Score | The Artist Ludovic Bource |
N/A | The Artist Ludovic Bource | |||
| Best Original Song | "Life's a Happy Song" The Muppets |
"Masterpiece" W.E. |
N/A | N/A | "Man or Muppet" The Muppets | |
| Best Foreign Language Film | A Separation | N/A | The Skin I Live In | A Separation | ||
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