QT's Top Ten of '10Links go to blogposts about those films.
- Toy Story 3
- The Social Network
- Animal Kingdom
- I Am Love
- Tangled
- True Grit
- The Town
- Greenberg
- Cyrus
- Enter the Void
It's an eclectic mix (toons, gleeful violence, melodrama, indie comedies, Hollywood hits) as one should expect from a filmmaker who is a total original despite also being one of the Great Appropriators of modern pop culture. How close will that top ten list above be to his Oscar ballot? I always wonder if AMPAS members actually put their ten favs on their ballots, or if they just vote for their favorites among those they think have a shot?
Hitfix notes that Sofia Coppola's Somewhere, which took the Venice prize that Tarantino juried, does not appear in his top 20. Having served on a few juries myself, I can assure you this isn't odd. You always have a very limited pool to vote on at festivals. Maybe Somewhere is his 21st favorite of the year, you know?
But what I REALLY want to know, and I'm sure you do too, is who goes on his director's ballot? Looking at the list above can we guess it's something like- Lee Unkrich (or does he share the reservations about animation directors competing with live action directors that many voters must feel given that no animation director has ever been nominated?)
- David Fincher
- The Coen Bros or Ben Affleck?
- Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love) or David Michôd (Animal Kingdom) for overseas breakthroughs?
