Note: Due to work, time and monetary considerations I haven't seen as many movies as I usually do. I haven't seen such critically acclaimed movies as "The Help" and probably several others that have been nominated for acting or film awards.
In my opinion, the Best Picture ought to be: "The Artist". "The Artist" is a 99% Silent Film with mostly unknown performers as stars. It is about an acclaimed silent movie star whose fortunes start to decline when Talkies start to become popular. Meanwhile, a beautiful young actress's popularity quickly soars as she becomes the star of a string of movies with talk instead of silence. Somehow their lives become intertwined. I didn't have high expectations when I saw this film, but I was quickly wowed.
If "The Artist" fails to win Best Picture, another contender is "The Descendants" starring George Clooney as a lawyer with both Hawaiian and European lineage who is in charge of the fate of a valuable swath of real estate in Hawaii. As he is about ready to decide whether part of Hawaii will remain unspoiled or be subject to development, he finds out that his comatose wife was having an affair behind his back. Also, he must cope with a troubled teenage daughter and a foul-mouthed younger child. Clooney's character decides to track down his wife's paramour, who has some connection to the real estate that he must decide the fate of. The actresses who played his daughters also gave excellent performances, particularly the television star who plays his older daughter.
Best Action Film: While this won't likely win or be nominated for an acting of major film award, "Mission Impossible 4" is the best action film I have seen in 2011. In case you haven't seen it, in this movie Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his cohorts (including Simon Pegg from "Sean of the Dead" ) break into the Kremlin and mayhem ensues. Their mission is to stop a madman from deliberately starting World Was 3.
The worst movie I saw was "The Devil Inside". In this ripoff of "The Exorcist" a middle-aged woman murders several people while supposedly possessed by demons. After her daughter and a couple priests take part in an unauthorized exorcism, the daughter also ends up being possessed. This could have been a good movie. Instead, at the end the screen flashed a website purporting to be a true story about an actual exorcism. I fell asleep part way through this, and when I woke up the movie was over.
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