Shades of Caruso

Listmania ’11: Crew Contributions Of The Year

Ever more aware that this is taking way too long, I shall keep this short but sweet, and note that yes, I am indeed posting something while websites with far fewer hits than me (such as Wikipedia and Google) are protesting the evils of SOPA/PIPA with a blackout. Part of me feels like a scab crossing a picket line but then I think to myself no, I have to do this. I have to tell the world just how much I loved the costume design on Conan the Barbarian. The world needs this information. Without it, however would our civilisation cope? This is the kind of thing that the internet was invented for. Seriously! Tim Berners-Lee was just saying the other day how glad he was that he had the chance to read what I said about Green Lantern, though he seemed disappointed that I wasn’t as enthusiastic as he  was about Mark Strong’s interpretation of Sinestro.*

Besides, if Congress goes ahead with its plan to give itself the power to censor great swathes of the internet in order to prevent citizen activism during times of social strife which are probably around the corner… erm, I mean, combat the ev0l of piracy, obvs… then I’d better get this shit up now because most of this post is made up of publicity photos and clips from YouTube and I’ll have to “police” myself in future to make sure none of this stuff ever appears again. Thanks for ruining the best thing in the world, Overlords. Like you haven’t done enough damage already.

DOWN WITH SOPA! DOWN WITH PIPA!

* This is a lie. He wasn’t crazy about Strong really.

Best Director: David Cronenberg – A Dangerous Method

Honorable Mentions:

Andrea Arnold – Wuthering Heights

Steve McQueen – Shame

Lars Von Trier – Melancholia

Jeff Nichols – Take Shelter

Asghar Farhadi - A Separation

Best Directorial Debut: Joe Cornish – Attack The Block

Honorable Mention: Sean Durkin – Martha Marcy May Marlene

Best Screenplay: Asghar Farhadi – A Separation

Honorable Mentions:

Kenneth Lonergan – Margaret

Christopher Hampton – A Dangerous Method

Scott Z. Burns – Contagion

Bridget O’Connor / Peter Straughan - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

John Logan / Gore Verbinski / James Ward Byrkit – Rango

Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki – The Tree of Life

Honorable Mentions:

Robbie Ryan – Wuthering Heights

Anthony Dod Mantle - The Eagle

Sean Bobbitt – Shame

Amelia Vincent – Footloose

Rodrigo Prieto – Water For Elephants

Best Digital Photography: Roger Deakins – Rango

Best 3D Photography: Robert Richardson – Hugo

Best Editing: Paul Hirsch – Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

Best Soundtrack: Cécile Corbel – Arrietty

Honorable Mentions:

Hans Zimmer - Rango

Harry Escott – Shame

John Powell / Hans Zimmer – Kung Fu Panda 2

Cliff Martinez – Drive

Michael Giacchino – Super 8

Best Original Song: Star Spangled Man (Alan Menken / David Zippel) – Captain America: The First Avenger

Best Costume Design: Eiko Ishioka – Immortals

Honorable Mentions:

Alexandra Byrne – Thor

Wendy Partridge - Conan The Barbarian

Anna B. Sheppard - Captain America: The First Avenger

Paco Delgado / Jean Paul Gaultier – The Skin I Live In

Trish Summerville – The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Best Visual Effects: Digital Domain, ILM, Legend 3D and many many more - Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Honorable Mentions:

Modus FX, Tippett Studio, Scanline VFX and again, many more – Immortals

Prime Focus, Animal Logic, Pixomondo and… you know what I’m going to say – Sucker Punch

ILM, Hammerhead, Entity FX, and dear God, how many FX houses are there in the world? - I Am Number Four

Digital Domain, Buf Studios, Stereo D, etc. etc. etc. sorry guys – Thor

Douglas Trumbull, Prime Focus, Double Negative, but mostly hey check it out, it’s Doug Trumbull! – The Tree of Life

Best Sound Design: Nicolas Becker – Wuthering Heights

Honorable Mentions:

Erik Aahdahl / Ethan Van der Ryn – Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Koji Kasamatsu – Arrietty

Oliver Tarney / Mark Taylor – Sherlock Homes: A Game of Shadows

Ren Klyce - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Peter Miller / Adam Kopald – J.R. Grubbs / Addison Teague – Rango

Best Production Design / Art Direction: Dante Ferretti – Hugo

Honorable Mentions:

Mark “Crash” McCreery – Rango

Bo Welch / Maya Shimoguchi – Thor

Chris August – Conan The Barbarian

Scott Chambliss / Christopher Burian-Mohr / Daniel T. Dorrance - Cowboys and Aliens

Tom Foden / Michele Laliberte - Immortals

Worst Director: Paul Johansson - Atlas Shrugged: Part I

Dishonorable Mentions:

Madonna – W.E.

Rob Marshall – Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Lone Scherfig - One Day

Paul W.S. Anderson – The Three Musketeers

Ivan Reitman – No Strings Attached

Worst Screenplay: Madonna and Alex Keshishian – W.E.

Dishonorable Mentions:

John Aglioloro / Brian Patrick O’Toole – Atlas Shrugged Part I

David Nicholls – One Day

Elizabeth Meriweather / Michael Samonek - No Strings Attached

Jason Lew - Restless

Tom Hanks / Nia Vardalos – Larry Crowne

Worst Cinematography: Dion Beebe – Green Lantern

Dishonorable Mentions:

Hagen Bogdanski – W.E.

John Mathieson – X-Men: First Class

Masanobu Takayanagi – Warrior

Adriano Goldman – 360

Ross Berryman – Atlas Shrugged Part 1

Worst Editing: Danny Tull – W.E.

Still more to come even after all of this excessive listmaking. Hey, I can’t help it if I don’t get a chance to write for the rest of the year. There was a huge build-up of opinion inside me and this is the slow release, like air leaking out of a zeppelin.

January 18, 2012 - Posted by admiralneck | 2011 lists, 360, A Dangerous Method, A Separation, Alan Menken, Amelia Vincent, Andrea Arnold, Anthony Dod Mantle, Arrietty, Asghar Farhadi, Atlas Shrugged, Buf, Captain America: The First Avenger, Cécile Corbel, Cliff Martinez, Conan the Barbarian, Contagion, Cowboys and Aliens, Crash McCreery, Dante Ferretti, David Cronenberg, Digital Domain, Douglas Trumbull, Eiko Ishioka, Footloose, Hans Zimmer, Harry Escott, I Am Number Four, ILM, Immortals, Ivan Reitman, Jeff Nichols, Joe Cornish, John Powell, Kenneth Lonergan, Koji Kasamatsu, Larry Crowne, Lars Von Trier, Lone Scherfig, Madonna, Margaret, Mark Strong, Michael Giacchino, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, One Day, Paul W.S. Anderson, Phil Tippett, Rango, Ren Klyce, Rob Marshall, Robbie Ryan, Robert Richardson, Roger Deakins, Sean Bobbitt, Sucker Punch, The Skin I Live In, Thor, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Transformers, W.E., Warrior, X-Men: First Class