2010
Legion
(2010)
Peter Schink, Scott Stewart
N/A
A group of strangers fight for the welfare of humanity.
Let Me In
(2010)
Matt Reeves (screenplay), John Ajvide Lindqvist (screenplay), John Ajvide Lindqvist (novel)
14 wins & 28 nominations.
A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian.
London Boulevard
(2010)
William Monahan (screenplay), Ken Bruen (novel)
1 nomination.
An ex-con with a reputation tries to go straight by working as a handy man for a reclusive actress but this is unfortunately not the wish of London's underground crime lord.
Paranormal Activity 2
(2010)
Michael R. Perry (screenplay), Christopher Landon (screenplay), Tom Pabst (screenplay), Michael R. Perry (story), Oren Peli (film "Paranormal Activity")
1 win & 2 nominations.
After experiencing what they think are a series of "break-ins", a family sets up security cameras around their home, only to realize that the events unfolding before them are more sinister than they seem.
Predators
(2010)
Alex Litvak, Michael Finch, Jim Thomas (characters), John Thomas (characters)
2 wins & 4 nominations.
A group of elite warriors are hunted by members of a merciless alien race known as Predators.
Resident Evil: Afterlife
(2010)
Paul W.S. Anderson
2 wins & 8 nominations.
In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice (Jovovich), continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend. A new lead that promises a safe haven from the Undead takes them to Los Angeles, but when they arrive the city is overrun by thousands of Undead - and Alice and her comrades are about to step into a deadly trap.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
(2010)
Michael Bacall (screenplay), Edgar Wright (screenplay), Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni Press graphic novels)
16 wins & 56 nominations.
Scott Pilgrim must defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil exes in order to win her heart.
Senna
(2010)
Manish Pandey
Won 2 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 14 wins & 17 nominations.
The story of the monumental life and tragic death of legendary Brazilian motor-racing Champion, Ayrton Senna. Spanning the decade from his arrival in Formula One in the mid 80's, the film follows Senna's struggles both on track against his nemesis, French World Champion Alain Prost, and off it, against the politics which infest the sport. Sublime, spiritual yet, on occasion, ruthless - Senna conquers and transcends Formula One to become a global superstar. Privately, he is humble, almost shy, and fiercely patriotic, donating millions to his native Brasil and contemplating a life beyond motor-racing. Yet he is struck down in his prime on the blackest weekend in the history of the sport, watched live on television by 300 million people. Years on he is revered in Formula One as the greatest motor racing driver of all time - and in Brasil as a Saint.
Shutter Island
(2010)
Laeta Kalogridis (screenplay), Dennis Lehane (novel)
7 wins & 53 nominations.
It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn't been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddy's shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything - his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.
Skyline
(2010)
Joshua Cordes, Liam O'Donnell
N/A
Strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, drawing people outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth.
Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball
(2010)
Olatunde Osunsanmi (screenplay), Olumide Odebunmi (screenplay), Tom Abrams (screenplay), P.J. Pesce (screenplay), Olatunde Osunsanmi (story), Olumide Odebunmi (story), Joe Carnahan (story), Joe Carnahan (characters)
N/A
Walter Weed is an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI when the Bureau uncovers a plot to assassinate him. A team of degenerate, psychotic assassins dispatched by mystery man Hal Leuco to win a huge bounty includes a resourceful beauty who has a unique method of killing her prey, a power-tool wielding psychopath and a deadly master of disguise.
Stake Land
(2010)
Nick Damici, Jim Mickle
3 wins & 11 nominations
Martin was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation's abandoned towns and cities, and it's up to Mister, a death dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to get Martin safely north to Canada, the continent's New Eden.
Submarine
(2010)
Richard Ayoade, Joe Dunthorne (novel)
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 6 wins & 13 nominations.
15-year-old Oliver Tate has two objectives: To lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to extinguish the flame between his mother and an ex-lover who has resurfaced in her life.
The Crazies
(2010)
Scott Kosar (screenplay), Ray Wright (screenplay), George A. Romero
11 nominations.
As a toxin begins to turn the residents of Ogden Marsh, Iowa into violent psychopaths, sheriff David Dutton tries to make sense of the situation while he, his wife, and two other unaffected townspeople band together in a fight for survival.
The Fighter
(2010)
Scott Silver (screenplay), Paul Tamasy (screenplay), Eric Johnson (screenplay), Paul Tamasy (story), Eric Johnson (story), Keith Dorrington (story)
Won 2 Oscars. Another 65 wins & 110 nominations.
The Fighter is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer on the verge of being KO'd by drugs and crime.
The Ghost
(2010)
Robert Harris (screenplay), Roman Polanski (screenplay), Robert Harris (novel)
34 wins & 54 nominations.
An unremarkable ghost-writer has landed a lucrative contract to redact the memoirs of Adam Lang, the former UK Prime Minister. After dominating British politics for years, Lang has retired with his wife to the USA. He lives on an island, in luxurious, isolated premises complete with a security detail and a secretarial staff. Soon, Adam Lang gets embroiled in a major scandal with international ramifications that reveals how far he was ready to go in order to nurture UK's "special relationship" with the USA. But before this controversy has started, before even he has closed the deal with the publisher, the ghost-writer gets unmistakable signs that the turgid draft he is tasked to put into shape inexplicably constitutes highly sensitive material.
The Killer Inside Me
(2010)
John Curran, Jim Thompson (novel)
2 wins & 5 nominations.
Sadism and masochism beneath a veneer of revenge. Lou Ford is a mild-mannered sheriff's deputy in a Texas oil town in the mid 1950's. His boss sends him to roust a prostitute living in a rural house. She slaps him; he hits her, then, after daily sex for the next few weeks, he decides it's love. She's devoted to him and becomes his pawn in a revenge plot she thinks is to shakedown the son of Chester Conway, the town's wealthy king of construction. Lou has a different plan, and bodies pile up as murder leads to murder. The district attorney suspects Lou, and Conway may have an inkling, but Lou stays cool. Is love, or at least peace, in the cards?
The Runaways
(2010)
Floria Sigismondi (screenplay), Cherie Currie (book)
5 nominations.
A coming-of-age biographical film about the 1970s teenage all-girl rock band The Runaways. This film also explores the relationship between band members Joan Jett and Cherie Currie.
The Social Network
(2010)
Aaron Sorkin (screenplay), Ben Mezrich (book)
Won 3 Oscars. Another 157 wins & 153 nominations.
Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, but is later sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, and the cofounder who was later squeezed out of the business.
The Specials: 30th Anniversary Tour
(2010)
N/A
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The Specials reunited for a 30th anniversary tour. Filmed at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall.