Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2011

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7th AFCA Awards

Best Film:
Hugo

The 7th Austin Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking for 2011, were announced on December 28, 2011. [1] [2]

Filmmaking is the process of making a film, generally in the sense of films intended for extensive theatrical exhibition. Filmmaking involves a number of discrete stages including an initial story, idea, or commission, through screenwriting, casting, shooting, sound recording and reproduction, editing, and screening the finished product before an audience that may result in a film release and exhibition. Filmmaking takes place in many places around the world in a range of economic, social, and political contexts, and using a variety of technologies and cinematic techniques. Typically, it involves a large number of people, and can take from a few months to several years to complete.

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.

Contents

Top 10 Films

  1. Hugo
  2. Drive
  3. Take Shelter
  4. Midnight in Paris
  5. Attack the Block
  6. The Artist
  7. Martha Marcy May Marlene
  8. I Saw the Devil (Akmareul boatda)
  9. 13 Assassins
  10. Melancholia

Winners

<i>Hugo</i> (film) 2011 historical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese

Hugo is a 2011 historical adventure drama film directed and produced by Martin Scorsese and adapted for the screen by John Logan. Based on Brian Selznick's book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, it tells the story of a boy who lives alone in the Gare Montparnasse railway station in Paris in the 1930s.

Nicolas Winding Refn Danish film director and screenweriter

Nicolas Winding Refn is a Danish film director, screenwriter and producer. He is known for directing the crime dramas Bleeder (1999) and the Pusher films (1996–2005), the fictionalised biographical film Bronson (2008), the dramatic adventure film Valhalla Rising (2009), the neo-noir crime film Drive (2011), the thriller Only God Forgives (2013), and the psychological horror film The Neon Demon (2016). In 2008, Refn co-founded the Copenhagen-based production company Space Rocket Nation.

<i>Drive</i> (2011 film) 2011 American film by Nicolas Winding Refn

Drive is a 2011 American action drama film directed by Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn. The screenplay, written by Hossein Amini, is based on James Sallis' 2005 novel Drive. The film stars Ryan Gosling as an unnamed Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver. He quickly grows fond of his neighbor, Irene, and her young son, Benicio. When her debt-ridden husband, Standard, is released from prison, the two men take part in what turns out to be a botched million-dollar heist that endangers the lives of everyone involved. Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman, and Albert Brooks play supporting roles.

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References

  1. ↑ "Austin Film Critics Association Announces Awards". The Austin Chronicle. 2011-12-30. Retrieved 2012-09-11.
  2. ↑ "Austin Critics Go For 'Hugo,' Shannon, Swinton". indieWire. 2010-12-28. Retrieved 2012-09-11.
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