1.Martha Marcy May Marlene
2.Drive
3.Beginners
4. Meek's Cutoff
5. A Separation
Drive was cutting razor sharp and kept the audience off balance with its unexpected rhythms. Beginners built a built a wistful collage of snippets plucked out of time. The desperation of Meek's Cutoff's story seeps out of its unhurried cutting. A Separation never lacked clarity and sustained its gradually accumulating power, but I have to give the top slot to Martha Marcy May Marlene for the way it effectively blurred the boundaries between dream and reality, past and present.
More Worthy Choices: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Weekend, Moneyball, Submarine, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Hanna
Sound Mixing
1. Drive
2. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
3. Hanna
4. Moneyball
5. Tree of Life
The top two contenders here are way out in front of the pack but I'll give the edge to Drive for the sheer originality of layering that eerie, ethereal sound mix on top of a brutal crime story. Plus the sound work absolutely kills during the big driving scenes.
More Worthy Choices: Submarine, Rango, Hugo, Melancholia
Sound Effects Editing
1. Drive
2. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
3. Rango
4. Hanna
5. Hugo
Again Drive and Dragon Tattoo's aural landscapes stand out strongest in the memory but I'm giving the top sound effects spot to Drive for somehow giving violence and car chases an impact that haven't had in ages.
More Worthy Choices: Mission Impossible, Attack the Block, Tree of Life, Warrior, Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Makeup
1. The Iron Lady
2. Hugo
3. A Dangerous Method
No contest. Iron Lady's makeup job on present-day Thatcher is one of the most convincing old age transformations in film history.
More Worthy Choices: The Artist and My Week with Marilyn did good work with old Hollywood style and Coriolanus had some memorably stylized filth and blood.
Visual Effects
1. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2. Hugo
3. Captain America
4. Mission Impossible
5. Attack the Block
Again, like Makeup, this is an easy choice. The realistic rendering of the Apes in Rise of the Planet of the Apes is the visual effects achievement of the year. Bonus points for the subtle differentiations between the apes before and after they gain intelligence (bonus points to Serkis too, off course. Already tipped the hat to him in his category)
More 2011 Ballots
I am going to stand mute on the Documentary, Animation, and Short Film categories because I haven't seen enough of the nominees
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