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2011 in film

2011 in film

Overview of the events of 2011 in film

The following is an overview of the events of 2011 in film, including the highest-grossing films, film festivals, award ceremonies and a list of films released and notable deaths. More film sequels were released in 2011 than any other year before it, with 27 sequels released.[1]

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Evaluation of the year

Richard Brody of The New Yorker observed that the best films of 2011 "exalt the metaphysical, the fantastical, the transformative, the fourth-wall-breaking, or simply the impossible, and—remarkably—do so ... These films depart from 'reality' ... not in order to forget the irrefutable but in order to face it, to think about it, to act on it more freely".[2] Film critic and filmmaker Scout Tafoya of RogerEbert.com considers the year of 2011 as the best year for cinema, countering the notion of 1939 being film's best year overall, citing examples such as Drive, The Tree of Life, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Keyhole, Contagion, The Adventures of Tintin, and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. He stated that "2011 housed not just some of the greatest art films of our age, but a revolution in the language of blockbuster filmmaking. One big-budget action film after another used digital cameras to show the world behind explosions in starker, stranger light, while constructing a backbone of classical ideas and images."[3]

Highest-grossing films

See also: Lists of box office number-one films § 2011

The top 10 films released in 2011 by worldwide gross are as follows:[4]

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Box office records

2011 was the first year to have three films cross the billion-dollar milestone,[5] surpassing the previous year's record of two films[6] and also the first time when at least 10 films grossed more than $500 million worldwide (in 11th and 12th place, Puss in Boots and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows also earned over $500 million making it twelve films to do so)

Events

Awards

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2011 films

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Births

Deaths

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Film debuts

References

  1. [1]
    "2011 Preview: Sequels – Now, More Than Ever". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 20, 2011.
  2. [2]
    Adams, Ryan (7 December 2011). "Richard Brody names "The 26 Best Films of 2011"". Awards Daily. Sasha Stone. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  3. [3]
    Tafoya, Scout (1 December 2015). "The Unloved, Part 24: "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows"". RogerEbert.com. Ebert Digital LLC. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
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    "2011 Worldwide Box Office". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on July 16, 2020. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
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    Stewart, Andrew (December 28, 2011). "Domestic B.O. falls 3% in 2011". Variety. Archived from the original on January 21, 2021. Retrieved January 21, 2024.
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    Finke, Nikki (August 27, 2010). "Disney Smashes Box Office Records: Toy Story 3 Crossing $1B, Studio First To Release 2 Billion-Dollar Pics In Single Year". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on March 13, 2016. Retrieved January 21, 2024.
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