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With all the 2012 blockbuster trailers coming out this past week, (if you haven’t yet seen the Prometheus trailer, what have you been waiting for?!) it’s not difficult to get excited about next year’s film slate but at DCM we’ve paused for a minute to reflect on the last twelve months.
There’s been some spectacular cinematic highlights over the past year (has it really been twelve months since The King’s Speech made waves at the UK box office?), so we asked DCM staff to name their top three films of the year. The results have been processed through an extremely complex spread-sheet and collated into an exhaustive list for your reading pleasure.
Over forty films were voted for, with a few surprise entrants (Just Go With It – anyone?) but as expected there were a handful of titles that kept popping up again and again.
The clear winner with thirty two points was Nicolas Winding Refn’s hugely stylish Drive, with Asif Kapadia’s thrilling documentary about Ayrton Senna just pinching second place from The King’s Speech. One other particularly notable performer was David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Considering it isn’t on general release until Boxing Day and most staff haven’t seen it, it did incredibly well to make the top ten.
The rest of the results are as follows:
| 1. Drive | 32 |
| 2. Senna | 27 |
| 3. The King's Speech | 24 |
| 4. Black Swan | 20 |
| 5. Bridesmaids | 17 |
| 6. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2 | 13 |
| 7. The Inbetweeners Movie | 11 |
| 8. Warrior | 10 |
| 9. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo | 7 |
| =10. The Help | 6 |
| =10. Friends With Benefits | 6 |
Let us know what your favourite film of 2011 on our Facebook page.
Whatever your thoughts on the eventual winner, 2011 has been a fantastic year for cinema and 2012 is shaping up to be even better.