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Well, I finally feel comfortable putting this down in stone. A few titles I still need to see, but nothing that I feel has a legit chance of cracking this roster:
1. A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
2. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, Germany/Austria)
3. Tetro (Francis Ford Coppola, USA/Argentina)
4. Bright Star (Jane Campion, Australia/UK)
5. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
6. Thirst (Chan-wook Park, South Korea)
7. Still Walking (Hirokazu Koreeda, Japan)
8. Funny People (Judd Apatow, USA)
9. Avatar (James Cameron, USA)
10. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, USA)
Honorable mention:
Two Lovers (James Gray, USA), The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Niels Arden Oplev, Sweden), Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodovar, Spain), The Princess and The Frog (Ron Clements & John Musker, USA), Adventureland (Greg Mottola, USA), The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (Terry Gilliam, UK), The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, USA), Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosowa, Japan), Ponyo on a Cliff by the Sea (Hiyao Miyazaki, Japan), Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani, USA)
Acting Citations:
Vera Farmiga (Orphan), Abbie Cornish and Paul Schneider (Bright Star), Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen), Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Vinessa Shaw (Two Lovers), Michael Stuhlbarg and Fred Melamed (A Serious Man), Ok-bin Kim (Thirst), Kirin Kiki (Still Walking), Penelope Cruz (Broken Embraces), Noomi Rapace (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo), Christopher Plummer (The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus), Melanie Laurent, Diane Kruger, Christoph Waltz, and Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds), Zoe Saldana (Avatar), Charlotte Gainsbourg (Antichrist), Souleymane Sy Savane (Goodbye Solo)
1. A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
2. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, Germany/Austria)
3. Tetro (Francis Ford Coppola, USA/Argentina)
4. Bright Star (Jane Campion, Australia/UK)
5. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
6. Thirst (Chan-wook Park, South Korea)
7. Still Walking (Hirokazu Koreeda, Japan)
8. Funny People (Judd Apatow, USA)
9. Avatar (James Cameron, USA)
10. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, USA)
Honorable mention:
Two Lovers (James Gray, USA), The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Niels Arden Oplev, Sweden), Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodovar, Spain), The Princess and The Frog (Ron Clements & John Musker, USA), Adventureland (Greg Mottola, USA), The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (Terry Gilliam, UK), The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, USA), Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosowa, Japan), Ponyo on a Cliff by the Sea (Hiyao Miyazaki, Japan), Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani, USA)
Acting Citations:
Vera Farmiga (Orphan), Abbie Cornish and Paul Schneider (Bright Star), Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen), Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Vinessa Shaw (Two Lovers), Michael Stuhlbarg and Fred Melamed (A Serious Man), Ok-bin Kim (Thirst), Kirin Kiki (Still Walking), Penelope Cruz (Broken Embraces), Noomi Rapace (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo), Christopher Plummer (The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus), Melanie Laurent, Diane Kruger, Christoph Waltz, and Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds), Zoe Saldana (Avatar), Charlotte Gainsbourg (Antichrist), Souleymane Sy Savane (Goodbye Solo)