So, deadra posted this (taken from here) and I thought I’d do my own take on it.

But since I’ve broken every record I ever had and have seen 148 movies in the cinema this year (and I will try to make it a full 150 till the end of the year) [obsessive? Who, me?], I find myself unable to answer with only one film each. So, you’ll get a few best of lists instead. (I’ll limit myself to ten, though. That’s pretty heroic in my book.)

Answers are in no particular order, but after the jump.

Best film

Inception, Bright Star, Hunger, Troubled Water, Valhalla Rising, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, The Social Network, Exit through the Gift Shop, Blue Valentine, Eyes Wide Open

Best director

Christopher Nolan (Inception), Martin Scorsese (Shutter Island), David Fincher (The Social Network), Tom Ford (A Single Man), Jane Campion (Bright Star), Nicolas Winding Refn (Valhalla Rising), Mike Leigh (Another Year), Rodrigo Cortés (Buried), Thomas Cappelen Malling (Norwegian Ninja), Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass)

Best screenplay

Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network), Christopher Nolan (Inception), Gregg Araki (Kaboom), Derek Cianfrance and Joey Curtis and Cami Delavigne (Blue Valentine), Jane Campion (Bright Star), Christopher Hampton (Chéri), Michael Hoffman (The Last Station), Reginald Harkema (Leslie, My Name Is Evil), Morgan Jurgenson and Eli Craig (Tucker & Dale vs Evil), Stephan Elliott and Sheridan Jobbins (Easy Virtue)

Best actor

Leonardo DiCaprio (Inception or Shutter Island), Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network), Ryan Gosling (Blue Valentine), Mads Mikkelsen (Valhalla Rising), Philipp Seymour Hofmann (Synecdoche, New York), Colin Firth (A Single Man), Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen (Troubled Water), Zohar Strauss (Eyes Wide Open), Viggo Mortensen (The Road), Michael Fassbender (Hunger)

Best actress

Helen Mirren (The Last Station), Rachel Weisz (Agora), Michelle Pfeiffer (Chéri), Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine), Abbie Cornish (Bright Star), Lesley Manville (Another Year), Emily Blunt (The Young Victoria), Trine Dyrholm (Troubled Water), Yolande Moreau (Séraphine), Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland)

Best actor in a supporting role

Christopher Plummer (The Last Station), Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones), Mark Ruffalo (Shutter Island), Peter Sarsgaard (An Education), Jopseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception), Liev Schreiber (Salt), Adrien Brody (High School), Oscar Isaac (Agora), Ran Danker (Eyes Wide Open), Eric Cantona (Looking for Eric)

Best actress in a supporting role

Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right), Julianne Moore (A Single Man), Claire Danes (Me & Orson Welles), Kristin Scott Thomas (Easy Virtue or Nowhere Boy), Anne-Marie Duff (Nowhere Boy), Juno Temple (Kaboom), Chloe Moretz (Kick-Ass), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart), Ruth Sheen (Another Year), Samantha Morton (Synecdoche, New York)

Best technical achievement I’m changing this category to Best visuals

The Lovely Bones, The Secret of Kells, The Road, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Séraphine, Valhalla Rising, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, Buried, Eyes Wide Open, Inception

Best soundtrack [or score] (I’ll limit myself to five films here. Because I can)

Chéri, Kick-Ass, Nowhere Boy, Easy Virtue, A Single Man

Things I can answer with one movie

Most overrated film

I can only agree with deadra: The Kids Are All Right. It’s nice and well-acted but it just isn’t that good.

More embarrassing performance

Paul Bettany in Legion. Because he sullied himself so much with this film – and he seemed to actually be serious…

Best animal performance

Again, deadra nailed it: The badger in Unstoppable. Though Maximus in Tangled was awesome, too.

Best joke

That one’s more difficult. Either “Officer, I’ve had a doozy of a day” (Tucker & Dale vs. Evil) or the Sherlock Holmes scene with naked Robert Downey Jr and the handcuff keys (I’ve seen this scene a billion times, it’s still funny)

Most exciting moment

The weightless fight in Inception

Most terrifying moment

The moment I realised that I spent good money on Due Date.

Most glaring product placement

Technotise – Edit i Ja

Most alarming film news story / Most cheering film news story [There’s too many.]

Film you meant to see but didn’t

Oh boy, the list is still long, even though I work so hard on my cinema stats. For example, Tropa de Elite and Tetro I haven’t seen at all. And I missed The Book of Eli in the cinema, had to watch it at home. And a few things were never released in Austria.

Film you thought you’d hate but actually rather liked

I tend not to watch movies I think I’ll hate. Except Due Date, but I still hated that… Though I was surprised by the fervor with which I hated it.
I didn’t expect to like Clash of the Titans as much as I liked it, even though it’s one hot mess of a film.
And I didn’t expect to love Tangled as much as I did, either.