Cinema 2010: You Must Remember This–Movies, Events, Stars, Box-Office, Hollywood

Cineliteracy: What You Want and Need to Know about 2010 as Movie Year

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In his article about movies of 2010, Richard Brody of The New Yorker said:

“At times it feels as if we’re living in something of a cinematic golden age, but one that’s altogether different from earlier halcyon days. Where some celebrate the former genius of the system to explain the proliferation of fine movies, now the system is something of a blunderer that often flings itself into follies or  crushes inspiration under its weight, but sometimes gets carried away, for reasons good or bad, and hands surprising control of vast resources over to artists who make stunningly audacious and personal use of them. The best filmmakers working in Hollywood have a passionate grasp of the cinematic past, but they don’t swoon over its polish or emulate its styles, they excavate it for its raw materials. There’s also a ferment here of independent filmmaking that liberates young people who, in earlier times, might have had to scuffle or supplicate for years while angling for a practical chance that now, with video, and with adequate effort, they can seize for themselves. Some of these independents have developed distinctive methods as well as aesthetics—regarding subject matter, picture, and performance—that are apt for the means of production. They make their lives, their homes, their families, their problems, and even their art the focus of their movies, and because, in their individuality, they share much with others in their generation, their stories, at their best—reflecting the age-old clashes and strivings of talented and ambitious youths in life, love, and art—reverberate deeply and widely.

The proliferation of arthouse cinemas and the sudden availability of classics on DVD and via Netflix go hand in hand with the rise of their art: their fierce focus on the immediate and the intimate includes the intensely personal experience of movies—whether treasures from the history of cinema or instant classics from around the world.

Due to the Internet’s rapidity of ripple-effects from bloggers, the independent aesthetic and its artists have had impact on mainstream Hollywood in salutary ways.

Top-Grossing Films of 2010

Rank Title Distributor Worldwide gross

1 Toy Story 3 Disney $1,066,969,703

2 Alice in Wonderland $1,025,467,110

3 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 Warner Bros. $960,897,696

4 Inception $828,258,695

5 Shrek Forever After Paramount $752,600,867

6 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Summit $698,491,347

7 Iron Man 2 Paramount $623,933,331

8 Tangled Disney $592,461,732

9 Despicable Me Universal $543,113,985

10 How to Train Your Dragon Paramount $494,878,759

Box office records
2010 was the first year to have two films cross the billion-dollar milestone.
Toy Story 3 was the first animated film to gross $1 billion, and is currently the tenth highest-grossing animated film. This is also the first time that five animated films have been present in the Top 10 highest-grossing films of the year; two of them are in the Top 5.

Toy Story 3 surpassed Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006) as the highest-grossing Disney film. It was surpassed by The Avengers in 2012.

The year saw 4 films debut with more than $100 million, breaking the record of 2007 with 3 releases, and 2004 with two.

Events
January

23 – The 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards winners were announced.

February
1 – The nominations of the 30th Golden Raspberry Awards were announced.
2 – The nominations of the 82nd Academy Awards were announced.
11 to 21 – The 60th Berlin International Film Festival was held.
21 – The 64th BAFTA Awards winners were announced

March
6 – The 30th Golden Raspberry Awards winners were announced.
7 – The 82nd Academy Awards winners were announced.
28 – The 15th Empire Awards winners were announced.

May
12 to 23 – The 63rd annual Cannes Film Festival was held.[4]
June
6 – The 2010 MTV Movie Awards winners were announced.

September
1 to 11 – The 67th annual Venice Film Fest was held.

Awards
Category/Organization

16th Critics’ Choice Awards

Producers, Directors, Screen Actors, and Writers Guild Awards

Oscars: 83rd Academy Awards, February 27, 2011
Drama Musical or Comedy
Best Film: The King’s Speech
Best Director: Tom Hooper, The King’s Speech
Best Actor Colin Firth: The King’s Speech
Best Actress Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Best Supporting Actor Christian Bale,m The Fighter

Best Supporting Actress Melissa Leo, The Fighter
Best Screenplay, Adapted, The Social Network Aaron Sorkin
Best Screenplay, Original David Seidler, The King’s Speech
Best Animated Film Toy Story 3
Best Original Score The Social Network
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross N/A The King’s Speech
Alexandre Desplat The Social Network
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Best Original Song “If I Rise”
127 Hours “You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me”
Burlesque N/A N/A “We Belong Together”
Toy Story 3
Best Foreign Language Film: In a Better World
Best Documentary: Inside Job

Festival Awards:

Palme d’Or (63rd Cannes Film Fest): Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand
Golden Lion (67th Venice Film Fest): Somewhere, Sofia Coppola, US
Golden Bear (60th Berlin Film Fest): Honey (Bal), Semih Kaplanoğlu, Turkey

Deaths

January

Jan 11 Éric Rohmer 89 France Director, La Collectionneuse, My Night at Maud’s

17 Erich Segal 72 US Screenwriter
Love StoryYellow Submarine

Jan 22

Jean Simmons 80 UK Actress, Spartacus, Elmer Gantry

February

Feb 1

David Brown 93 US Producer, Jaws, The Sting

Feb 17

Kathryn Grayson 88 US Actress, Show Boat, Anchors Aweigh

March

March 10

March 28

June Havoc 97 US Actress, Gentleman’s Agreement, Hello, Frisco, Hello

April 1

John Forsythe 92 US Actor, In Cold Blood, The Trouble with Harry (Hitchcock)

April 6

Corin Redgrave 70 UK Actor, In the Name of the Father, Four Weddings and Funeral

April 17

Dede Allen 86 US Film Editor, Dog Day Afternoon, Bonnie and Clyde

May

May 2

Lynn Redgrave 67 UK Actress, Georgy Girl, Gods and Monsters

May 9 Lena Horne 92 US Actress, Singer, The Wiz, Cabin in the Sky

May 28

Gary Coleman 42 US Actor,. On the Right Track, Jimmy the Kid
29 Dennis Hopper 74 US Actor, Director, Screenwriter
Easy RiderSpeed
30 Joan Rhodes 90 UK Actress, Stuntwoman
The Elephant ManThe Pink Panther Strikes Again

31 William A. Fraker 86 US Cinematographer, Director
Bullitt, Rosemary’s Baby

June

June 1 George Martin 80 US Actor
Dead Poets SocietyOne Fine Day
1 Joseph Strick 86 US Director, Screenwriter, Producer
UlyssesInterviews with My Lai Veterans
3 Rue McClanahan 76 US Actress
They Might Be GiantsOut to Sea
5 Steven Reuther 58 US Producer
Pretty WomanFace/Off
6 Robert B. Radnitz 85 US Producer
My Side of the MountainSounder
7 Eric Mason 83 UK Actor
North Sea HijackThe Calcium Kid
8 Andreas Voutsinas 79 Sudan Actor
The ProducersThe Twelve Chairs
13 Jimmy Dean 81 US Singer, Actor
Diamonds Are ForeverBig Bad John
15 Bekim Fehmiu 74 Yugoslavia Actor
The AdventurersBlack Sunday
16 Ronald Neame 99 UK Director, Cinematographer
ScroogeThe Poseidon Adventure
17 Elżbieta Czyżewska 72 Poland Actress
The Saragossa ManuscriptMusic Box
19 Vince O’Brien 90 US Actor
Annie HallQuiz Show
19 Ursula Thiess 86 Germany Actress
The AmericanoMonsoon
22 Tracy Wright 50 Canada Actress
Monkey WarfareSuperstar
23 Allyn Ferguson 85 US Composer
Back to the Secret GardenLittle Lord Fauntleroy
23 Frank Giering 38 Germany Actor
Funny GamesBaader
27 Corey Allen 75 US Actor, Director
Rebel Without a CauseSweet Bird of Youth
27 Aldo Giuffrè 86 Italy Actor
The Good, the Bad and the UglyYesterday, Today and Tomorrow
30 Elliott Kastner 80 US Producer
Where Eagles DareThe Long Goodbye

July

July 1 Geoffrey Hutchings 71 UK Actor
You Will Meet a Tall Dark StrangerHenry V
1 Ilene Woods 81 US Actress, Singer
CinderellaOn Stage Everybody
2 Laurent Terzieff 75 France Actor
The Milky WayKapò
8 David Blewitt 81 US Film Editor
GhostbustersThat’s Entertainment!
9 Vonetta McGee 65 US Actress
BlaculaThe Eiger Sanction
10 Aldo Sambrell 79 Spain Actor
For a Few Dollars More100 Rifles
12 Luigi Scattini 83 Italy Director
War Italian StylePrimitive Love
13 Alan Hume 85 UK Cinematographer
Return of the JediA Fish Called Wanda
15 Kip King 72 US Actor
A Night at the RoxburyWestworld
16 James Gammon 70 US Actor
Urban CowboyMajor League
26 Antonio Gamero[5] 76 Spain Actor
PoachersThe Enchanted Forest
27 Maury Chaykin 61 US Actor
EntrapmentCutthroat Island
31 Suso Cecchi d’Amico 96 Italy Screenwriter
Casanova 70The Leopard
31 Tom Mankiewicz 69 US Screenwriter, Director
Diamonds Are ForeverSuperman

August

August 1

Robert F. Boyle 100 US Art Director, Production Designer
SaboteurNorth by Northwest
7 Bruno Cremer 75 France Actor
Is Paris Burning?Sorcerer
8 Patricia Neal 84 US Actress
The FountainheadHud
9 George DiCenzo 70 US Actor
Back to the FutureClose Encounters of the Third Kind
10 David L. Wolper 82 US Documentarian, Producer
The Race for SpaceL.A. Confidential
11 Bruno Schleinstein 78 Germany Actor
The Enigma of Kaspar HauserStroszek
14 Abbey Lincoln 80 US Actress, Singer
For Love of IvyNothing But a Man
20 Tiberio Murgia 81 Italy Actor
Big Deal on Madonna StreetThree Nights of Love
24 Satoshi Kon 46 Japan Director
Perfect BlueMillennium Actress
29 James Deuter 71 US Actor
PaybackThe Hudsucker Proxy
30 Alain Corneau 67 France Director, Screenwriter
Tous les Matins du MondeLe cousin

September

Sep 1 Cammie King 76 US Actress
Gone with the WindBambi
2 Michael Dennison 58 US Costume Designer
The Chronicles of RiddickEat Pray Love
3 Robert Schimmel 60 US Actor, Comedian
BlankmanA Low Down Dirty Shame
7 Clive Donner 84 UK Director, Film Editor
What’s New Pussycat?Nothing But the Best
7 Glenn Shadix 58 US Actor
BeetlejuicePlanet of the Apes
9 Geoffrey Foot 95 UK Film Editor
The Legend of Hell HouseThe Watcher in the Woods
11 Harold Gould 86 US Actor
The StingPatch Adams
11 Kevin McCarthy 96 US Actor
Invasion of the Body SnatchersTwilight Zone: The Movie
12 Claude Chabrol 80 France Director
Madame BovaryStory of Women
14 Caterina Boratto 95 Italy Actress
Juliet of the SpiritsThe Peddler and the Lady
14 Nicholas Selby 85 UK Actor
The Madness of King GeorgeMacbeth
15 Frank Jarvis 69 UK Actor
The Italian JobA Bridge Too Far
19 Irving Ravetch 89 US Screenwriter
The Long, Hot SummerNorma Rae
21 Grace Bradley 97 US Actress
Anything GoesF-Man
21 John Crawford 90 US Actor
Night MovesThe Enforcer
22 Jackie Burroughs 71 Canada Actress
The Grey FoxA Winter Tan
22 Eddie Fisher 82 US Actor, Singer
Bundle of JoyBUtterfield 8
22 Bridget O’Connor 49 UK Screenwriter
Tinker Tailor Soldier SpySixty Six
26 Gloria Stuart 100 US Actress
TitanicThe Invisible Man
27 Pierre Guffroy 84 France Production Designer
TessIs Paris Burning?
28 Sally Menke 56 US Film Editor
Pulp FictionKill Bill
28 Arthur Penn 88 US Director, Producer
Bonnie and ClydeThe Miracle Worker
29 Andy Albeck 89 US Studio Executive
29 Tony Curtis 85 US Actor
Sweet Smell of SuccessSome Like It Hot
29 Joe Mantell 94 US Actor
MartyChinatown
October 1 Marshall Flaum 85 US Documentarian
The Yanks Are ComingLet My People Go: The Story of Israel
4 Norman Wisdom 95 UK Actor, Comedian
Trouble in StoreThe Square Peg
5 Roy Ward Baker 93 UK Director
A Night to RememberQuatermass and the Pit
10 John Graysmark 75 UK Production Designer
Robin Hood: Prince of ThievesCourage Under Fire
12 Angelo Infanti 71 Italy Actor
The GodfatherLetters to Juliet
14 Simon MacCorkindale 58 UK Actor
Death on the NileThe Riddle of the Sands
14 James Mitchell 80 US Film Editor
2010: The Year We Make ContactCapricorn One
15 Dorothy Ford 88 US Actress
3 GodfathersLove Laughs at Andy Hardy
15 Johnny Sheffield 79 US Actor
Tarzan Finds a Son!Bomba, the Jungle Boy
16 Barbara Billingsley 94 US Actress
The Bad and the BeautifulAirplane!
16 Chao-Li Chi 83 China Actor
Big Trouble in Little ChinaWedding Crashers
19 Tom Bosley 83 US Actor
Love with the Proper StrangerThe World of Henry Orient
19 Graham Crowden 87 UK Actor
Out of AfricaFor Your Eyes Only
20 Robert Paynter 82 UK Cinematographer
Trading PlacesSuperman II
24 Lamont Johnson 88 US Director
The Last American HeroOne on One
25 Lisa Blount 53 US Actress, Producer
An Officer and a GentlemanThe Accountant
28 Robert Ellenstein 87 US Actor
North by NorthwestStar Trek IV: The Voyage Home
28 James MacArthur 72 US Actor
The Young StrangerSwiss Family Robinson
29 Mervyn Haisman 82 UK Screenwriter
Curse of the Crimson AltarJane and the Lost City
29

George Hickenlooper 47 US Director, Producer Casino Jack, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse

November

Nov 1 Monica Johnson 64 US Screenwriter
Modern RomanceLost in America
4 Michelle Nicastro 50 US Singer, Actress
The Swan PrincessWhen Harry Met Sally…
5 Jill Clayburgh 66 US Actress
An Unmarried WomanSilver Streak
8 Addison Powell 89 US Actor
Three Days of the CondorThe Thomas Crown Affair
10 Dino De Laurentiis 91 Italy Producer
Bitter RiceLa Strada
11 Marie Osborne 99 US Costumer, Actress
The Godfather Part IIAround the World in 80 Days
11 Simone Valère 87 France Actress
Beauty and the DevilThe Assassination of Trotsky
13 Luis García Berlanga 89 Spain Director
Welcome Mr. Marshall!The Executioners
13 Simon Holland 70 UK Production Designer
The Emerald ForestNuns on the Run
15 Moira Deady 88 Ireland Actress
This Is My FatherAngela’s Ashes
20 Heinz Weiss 89 Germany Actor
The Great EscapeTread Softly
23 Joyce Howard 88 UK Actress
They Met in the DarkThe Night Has Eyes
23 Ingrid Pitt 73 Poland Actress
The Vampire LoversWhere Eagles Dare
27 Irvin Kershner 87 US Director
The Empire Strikes BackRoboCop 2
28 Giorgos Fountas 86 Greece Actor
StellaNever on Sunday
28 Leslie Nielsen 84 Canada Actor
The Naked GunForbidden Planet
28 Gene Polito 92 US Cinematographer
WestworldUp in Smoke
29 Kamala Devi 77 India Actress
GeronimoThe Brass Bottle
29 Mario Monicelli 95 Italy Director, Screenwriter
Big Deal on Madonna StreetThe Great War
30 Ted Sorel 74 US Actor
NetworkLenny

December

Dec 4

Neva Patterson 90 US Actress
An Affair to Remember, Desk Set
15

Blake Edwards 88 US Director, The Pink Panther, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Film Debuts

Karan Brar – Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Israel Broussard – Flipped
Caitlin Carmichael – Backlight
Anna Castillo − Blog
Eugene Cordero – When in Rome
Rana Daggubati – Leader
Dane DeHaan – Amigo
Andrea Duro − Three Steps Above Heaven
Philip Ettinger – Twelve
Luke Evans – Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Elsie Fisher – Dirty Girl
Ruby O. Fee – Womb
Aura Garrido − Plans for Tomorrow
Greer Grammer – Almost Kings
Meredith Hagner – Going the Distance
Paul Walter Hauser – Virginia
James Landry Hébert – Skateland
Lisa Henni – Easy Money
Cody Horn – Twelve
Tom Hughes – Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Theo James – You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Avan Jogia – Triple Dog
Jet Jurgensmeyer – Redemption Road
Shraddha Kapoor – Teen Patti
Riley Keough – The Runaways
Vanessa Kirby – Love/Loss
Ariane Labed – Attenberg
Jacob Latimore – Vanishing on 7th Street
Callan McAuliffe – Flipped
Merrick McCartha – King Breaker
Kumail Nanjiani – Life as We Know It
Jordan Peele – Little Fockers
Ella Purnell – Never Let Me Go
Andrew Rannells – Sex and the City 2
Craig Roberts – Submarine
Laura Ashley Samuels – The Final
Saxon Sharbino – Red White & Blue
Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit
Tika Sumpter – Stomp the Yard: Homecoming
Teyana Taylor – Stomp the Yard: Homecoming
Miles Teller – Rabbit Hole
Jessie T. Usher – Beautiful Boy
Alicia Vikander – Pure

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