The Juan-And-Only Award Nominations – 2011 Edition!

Best Original Screenplay:

• The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius)
• Beginners (Mike Mills)
• Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
• The Muppets (Jason Segel & Nicholas Stoller)
• Weekend (Andrew Haigh)
• Young Adult (Diablo Cody)

Best Adapted Screenplay:

• Carnage (Roman Polanski & Yasmina Reza)
• Drive (Hossein Amini)
• The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Steve Zaillian)
• Hugo (John Logan)
• War Horse (Lee Hall & Richard Curtis)
• We Need To Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay & Rory Kinnear)

Best Directorial Debut:

• Joe Cornish (Attack the Block)
• John Michael McDonagh (The Guard)
• Mike Cahill (Another Earth)
• Paddy Considine (Tyrannosaur)
• Richard Ayoade (Submarine)
• Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene)

Best Animated Feature:

• The Adventures of Tintin (Steven Spielberg)
• Rango (Gore Verbinski)
• Winnie the Pooh (Stephen J Anderson & Don Hall)

Best Foreign Film:

• A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
• I Saw The Devil (Jee-woon Kim)
• The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar)
• Le Havre (Aki Kaurismäki)
• Pina (Wim Wenders)
• Turn Me On, Goddammit (Jannicke Systad Jacobsen)

Best Documentary:

• Being Elmo: A Puppeteers Journey (Constance Marks & Philip Shane)
• The Interrupters (Steve James)
• Into The Abyss (Werner Herzog)
• Pina (Wim Wenders)
• Senna (Asif Kapadia)
• We Were Here (David Weissman & Bill Weber)

Best Original Song:

• Gathering Stories (We Bought A Zoo, Jónsi)
• Life’s A Happy Song (The Muppets, Bret McKenzie)
• Man or Muppet (The Muppets, Bret McKenzie)
• Masterpiece (W.E., Madonna)
• Shelter (Take Shelter, Ben Nichols)
• Star Spangled Man (Captain America: The First Avenger, Alan Menken)

Best Original Score:

• Alberto Iglesias (The Skin I Live In/Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)
• Cliff Martinez (Contagion/Drive)
• Howard Shore (A Dangerous Method/Hugo)
• John Williams (The Adventures of Tintin/War Horse)
• Ludovic Bource (The Artist)
• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo)

Best Soundtrack Compilation:

• Beginners
• Drive
• Midnight in Paris
• The Muppets
• Shame
• Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn

Seeing as I’m posting these awards here at YAM Magazine, I’d love it if you all went ahead and checked out all of the reviews that we’ve written so far on the nominees.

Here’s a list, in alphabetical order, of each film we’ve got:

• Attack the Block
• Beginners
• Bridesmaids
• Captain America: The First Avenger
• Carnage
• Contagion
• Drive
• The Help
• The Ides of March
• I Saw the Devil
• La Piel Que Habito
• Martha Marcy May Marlene
• Meek’s Cutoff
• Midnight in Paris
• Rango
• Senna
• Shame
• Submarine
• Take Shelter
• The Tree of Life
• Weekend
• Winnie the Pooh

I’d also like to go ahead and include some extra off-site links to other reviews that I’ve written for this year’s nominees:

• The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
• The Muppets
• My Week With Marilyn
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• Young Adult

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So that’s all the nominations we’ve got this year everybody! Hopefully your favorites made it into the race at some point or another, and if they didn’t — better luck next year!

Even some of my absolute favorites got snubbed this year, but there are only so many nominees per category and it’s hard to place them sometimes. Feel free to tell us what some of your favorites are in the comments section, or tell us who you think should have been nominated for a certain category instead of my choices.

Don’t forget to stay tuned for when we reveal the winners of the Juan-And-Only Awards in just a few weeks!