As I supposed it might, it seems that the slight delay in shooting Django Unchained has given Quentin Tarantino time to file his Films of the Year list. He’s gone for a top 11, but thanks to a tie, there’s actually12.

He’s also gone ahead and added some “nice try” and “worst film” selections as well as suggestions for best director and screenplay. From my point of view there’s only one big surprise – you’ll probably know it the second you see it.

Top 11 of 2011

Midnight In Paris Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes Moneyball The Skin I Live In X-Men: First Class Young Adult Attack The Block Red State Warrior The Artist / Our Idiot Brother (tie) The Three Musketeers

Nice Try Award



Drive

Hannah

Drive Angry

Real Steel

Best Director

Pedro Almodovar

Bennett Miller

Woody Allen

Jason Reitman

Michel Hazanavicius

Best Original Screenplay

Midnight In Paris

Young Adult

Red State

Attack The Block

Our Idiot Brother

Beginners

Best Adapted Screenplay

Moneyball

The Skin I live In

Carnage

Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes

Hugo

X-Men: First Class

Worst Films

Sucker Punch

Potiche (Trophy Wife)

Miral

Insidious

Rampart

Straw Dogs

Paranormal Activity 3

Meek’s Cutoff

And there was me thinking – genuinely – that he’d have been on Team Sucker Punch.

I can fully understand why the rest of his “worst list” has shaken out how it has: despite there being some utterly, loopy fun bits in Insidious, there’s a lot of rubbish too, and the other films really are bad.

All of these lists were submitted by Tarantino to the fansite Tarantino Archives, through whom he has published a few lists in the past.

Perhaps allowing for Tarantino to name and fame a few more Weinstein pictures, there’s also a list of other films he “considered”:

50/50

Beginners

Hugo

The Iron Lady

Carnage

Green Hornet

Green Lantern

Captain America

The Descendants

My Week With Marilyn

Fast Five

Tree Of Life

The Hangover Part II

Mission Impossible 4

The Beaver

Contagion

The Sitter

War Horse

I don’t think the implication is necessarily that Tarantino considers these “runners up” – surely that’s what Nice Try was about – but that he wants to name them as other films he chewed over, for whatever reason.

One of those reasons being that a couple are Oscar contenders for his chums Bob and Harvey, right? The Iron Lady and My Week With Marilyn certainly do seem conspicuous.

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