Top film lists for 2010

With a new year beginning soon, a number of year-end movie lists have been published.

The film festival's annual "Canada's top ten" list for 2010:

• Les Amours Imaginaires
• Barney's Version
• Curling
• The High Cost of Living
• Incendies
• Last Train Home
• Modra
• Splice
• Trigger
• Trois temps après la mort d'Anna

Local writers at the Toronto Film Critics Association announced their 2010 awards list:

• The Social Network — Best picture, best director, best actor, best supporting actor, best screenplay
• Winter’s Bone — Best Actress
• True Grit — Best Supporting Actress
• Uncle Boonmee — Best foreign-language film
• Exit Through the Gift Shop — Best first feature, Documentary award
• How to Train Your Dragon — Best animated feature
• You Are Here — Emerging talent award (Daniel Cockburn)
• Runners-up/Mentions — 127 Hours, Black Swan, Blue Valentine, Despicable Me, The Fighter, Get Low, Inception, Inside Job, The King’s Speech, Marwencol, Monsters, Mother, Of Gods and Men, Toy Story 3

Also, the inaug­ural CAST awards ('Cinema Appreciation Society of Toronto' – an initiative by local blogger Toronto Screen Shots) were announced today; here's their top ten:

1. Inception
2. Toy Story 3
3. Black Swan
4. Shutter Island
5. The Social Network
6. Scott Pilgrim
7. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
8. Winter’s Bone
9. I Am Love
10. The King’s Speech

(We were fortunate to be asked to contribute our picks for the first annual CAST awards — although none of our top-ten picks made it into the final list... chacun son cinéma! ;-)

See you at the next fest!
#TOfilmfest

PS.
See also Peter Howell's 2010 'Chasing the Buzz' and our top-ten from the 2010 film fest.