Runner-up: Ryan Gosling in Drive, The Ides of March, and Crazy, Stupid, Love and Jean Dujardin in The Artist
Thoughts: As much as I loved Ryan Gosling in all three of his films this year, Michael Shannon's single performance in Take Shelter was the most amazing to me. I haven't watched Boardwalk Empire (yet) and have only seen Shannon in smaller supporting roles, so this is kind of the breakout actor for me, personally. The fact that Shannon did not get nominated for an Oscar is a true shame.
Runner-up: Viola Davis in The Help
Thoughts: I only saw three of the six films Jessica Chastain acted in and what I saw was a fast-rising star. She's pretty, a great performer, and has a bright future ahead of her. Viola Davis is just on top of her game right now, as well.
Runners-up: Felicity Jones in Like Crazy and Shailene Woodley in The Descendants
Thoughts: All three of my favorite breakthrough performances came from young ladies this year. My favorite was definitely Elizabeth Olsen's in Martha Marcy May Marlene. Considering that she's coming up in five new films already, I would say that she will have success. Oh yeah, and I got to meet her.
Runner-up: Attack the Block and Hanna
Thoughts: I listened to the Drive soundtrack more than any other soundtrack this year and I still love it.
Runner-up: Ludovic Bource for The Artist and Cliff Martinez for Drive
Thoughts: John Williams is still my favorite film composer. War Horse's score was a wonderful return to his older material. Great stuff.
Runner-up: Gnomeo & Juliet, Life in a Day
Thoughts: I only went to see The Smurfs because my daughter wanted to see it and it was free. I don't think anyone could pay me to see this movie again.
Runner-up: Super 8
Thoughts: Not an extremely high amount of sci-fi films this year, but Attack the Block is definitely one of my favorites of all-time now. Huge surprise. One of the most enjoyable experience I had in a movie theatre last year.
Runner-up: Bridesmaids
Thoughts: I probably laughed at Bridesmaids overall more than any other film, but Crazy, Stupid, Love was a lot more intelligent to me. Every time I see Steve Carell pull out his velcro wallet for Ryan Gosling, I crack up.
Runner-up: Train fight in Sucker Punch, boat dock shootout scene in The Guard, and Berlin U-Bahn fight in Hanna
Thoughts: There were some great action sequences last year, but the best of all came from Tintin in what looks like one long take with the virtual camera through the fictional city of Bagghar. I am still in complete awe when I watch that scene. Should have been nominated for an animation Oscar.
Runners-up: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Emily Browning, Felicity Jones
Thoughts: This is other than my wife, of course. I've never really spoken about which girls I have crushes on because I've always felt ashamed, but now I don't care. I think Alison Brie has a very striking look and is a fun actress to watch grow with her experience.
Runner-up: Portlandia, Revenge
Thoughts: I don't really talk about TV as much as I used to on here, but we did a top five TV shows episode of Cam-Fu and Friends earlier this year where I announced that Downton Abbey was my favorite new TV series. I often make comparisons to Mad Men, but that's probably only because Mad Men was on last season (March 25th baby!). Bethany and I are completely caught up on Downton and cannot wait for season 3.
Runner-up: Portal 2
Thoughts: This is a close call because Portal 2 was also so very good, but I gotta give the edge to Uncharted 3. Oddly enough, I don't think I liked it as much as Uncharted 2, but it's still a fine piece of gaming. Anyone who likes video games and adventure movies would love this game. It's like playing a movie.
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