Saturday, June 21, 2025

2010 Tyler's Choice Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Best Picture
  • 127 Hours (Christian Colson, John Smithson & Danny Boyle)
  • Inception (Christopher Nolan & Emma Thomas)
  • The King's Speech (Iain Canning, Emile Sherman & Gareth Unwin)
  • The Social Network (Dana Brunetti, Ceán Chaffin, Michael De Luca & Scott Rudin)
  • Toy Story 3 (Darla K. Anderson)
    (Honourable Mentions: Black Swan, The Fighter, How To Train Your Dragon, The Kids Are All Right, True Grit)
Best Director
  • Darren Aronofsky - Black Swan
  • Danny Boyle - 127 Hours
  • David Fincher - The Social Network
  • Christopher Nolan - Inception
  • Lee Unkrich - Toy Story 3
    (Honourable Mentions: Ben Affleck - The Town, Lisa Cholodenko - The Kids Are All Right, Joel & Ethan Coen - True Grit, Debra Granik - Winter's Bone, David O. Russell - The Fighter)
Best Lead Actor
  • Robert Duvall - Get Low
  • Jesse Eisenberg - The Social Network
  • Colin Firth - The King's Speech
  • James Franco - 127 Hours
  • Mark Wahlberg - The Fighter
    (Honourable Mentions: Javier Bardem - Biutiful, George Clooney - The American, Johnny Depp - Alice in Wonderland, Leonardo DiCaprio - Inception, Paul Giamatti - Barney's Version)
Best Lead Actress
  • Annette Bening - The Kids Are All Right
  • Nicole Kidman - Rabbit Hole
  • Jennifer Lawrence - Winter's Bone
  • Natalie Portman - Black Swan
  • Michelle Williams - Blue Valentine
    (Honourable Mentions: Anne Hathaway - Love and Other Drugs, Helen Mirren - The Tempest, Julianne Moore - The Kids Are All Right, Noomi Rapace - The Girl with the Dragon, Emma Stone - Easy A)
Best Supporting Actor
  • Christian Bale - The Fighter
  • Jackie Chan - The Karate Kid
  • Andrew Garfield - The Social Network
  • Sam Rockwell - Conviction
  • Geoffrey Rush - The King's Speech
    (Honourable Mentions: Gerard Butler - How To Train Your Dragon, John Malkovich - Red, Bill Murray - Get Low, Jeremy Renner - The Town, Mark Ruffalo - The Kids Are All Right)
Best Supporting Actress
  • Amy Adams - The Fighter
  • Helena Bonham Carter - The King's Speech
  • Mila Kunis - Black Swan
  • Lesley Manville - Another Year
  • Hailee Steinfeld - True Grit
    (Honourable Mentions: Dale Dickey - Winter's Bone, Melissa Leo - The Fighter, Elliott Page - Inception, Sissy Spacek - Get Low, Olivia Williams - The Ghost Writer)
Best Original Screenplay
  • Another Year (Mike Leigh)
  • The Fighter (Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson & Keith Dorrington)
  • Inception (Christopher Nolan)
  • The Kids Are All Right (Stuart Blumberg & Lisa Cholodenko)
  • The King's Speech (David Seidler)
    (Honourable Mentions: Biutiful, Black Swan, Easy A, Four Lions, Please Give)
Best Adapted Screenplay
  • 127 Hours (Simon Beaufoy & Danny Boyle; based on the memoir Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston)
  • Rabbit Hole (David Lindsay-Abaire; based on the play by David Lindsay-Abaire)
  • The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin; based on the book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich)
  • Toy Story 3 (Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich; based on the characters created by John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton & Joe Ranft)
  • True Grit (Joel & Ethan Coen; based on the novel by Charles Portis)
    (Honourable Mentions: How To Train Your Dragon, Never Let Me Go, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, The Town, Winter's Bone)
Best Cast Ensemble
  • The Fighter [Sheila Jaffe, casting director] (Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams & Melissa Leo, et. al.)
  • Inception [John Papsidera, casting director] (Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe, Dileep Rao, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Marion Cotillard & Michael Caine, et. al.)
  • The King's Speech [Nina Gold, casting director] (Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall, Derek Jacobi, Jennifer Ehle & Michael Gambon, et. al.)
  • The Social Network [Laray Mayfield, casting director] (Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer, Max Minghella, Rashida Jones, Brenda Song, Josh Pence, Douglas Urbanski & Rooney Mara, et. al.)
  • The Town [Lora Kennedy, casting director] (Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, Chris Cooper, Slaine, Titus Welliver & Pete Postlethwaite, et. al.)
  • Toy Story 3 [Natalie Lyon & Kevin Reher, casting directors] (Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Ned Beatty, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, Blake Clark, John Ratzenberger, Estelle Harris, Jodi Benson & Michael Keaton, et. al.)
    (Honourable Mentions: Another Year, Get Low, How To Train Your Dragon, The Kids Are All Right, Winter's Bone)
Best Young Actor (18 or Under)
  • Elle Fanning - Somewhere
  • Zachary Gordon - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
  • Chloë Moretz - Kick-Ass
  • Jaden Smith - The Karate Kid
  • Hailee Steinfeld - True Grit
    (Honourable Mentions: Dakota Fanning - The Runaways, Josh Hutcherson - The Kids Are All Right, Logan Lerman - Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Chloë Moretz - Let Me In, Kodi Smit-McPhee - Let Me In)
Best Foreign Language Film
  • Biutiful [Mexico] (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  • Dogtooth [Greece] (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  • The Illusionist [France] (Sylvain Chomet)
  • In a Better World [Denmark] (Susanne Bier)
  • Incendies [Canada] (Denis Villeneuve)
    (Honourable Mentions: Carlos, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, I Am Love, Outside the Law, White Material)
Best Documentary Feature
  • Catfish (Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman, Marc Smerling & Andrew Jarecki)
  • Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy & Jaimie D'Cruz)
  • Inside Job (Charles Ferguson & Audrey Marrs)
  • Restrepo (Tim Hetherington & Sebastian Junger)
  • Waiting for 'Superman' (Davis Guggenheim & Lesley Chilcott)
    (Honourable Mentions: A Film Unfinished, Gasland, Marwencol, Waking Sleeping Beauty, Waste Land)
Best Original Score
  • How To Train Your Dragon (John Powell)
  • Inception (Hans Zimmer)
  • The King's Speech (Alexandre Desplat)
  • The Social Network (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross)
  • TRON: Legacy (Daft Punk)
    (Honourable Mentions: 127 Hours (A.R. Rahman), Alice in Wonderland (Danny Elfman), Never Let Me Go (Rachel Portman), Tangled (Alan Menken), True Grit (Carter Burwell))
Best Original Song
  • "Alice" - Alice in Wonderland (Avril Lavigne)
  • "If I Rise" - 127 Hours (A.R. Rahman, Dido & Rollo Armstrong)
  • "I See the Light" - Tangled (Alan Menken & Glenn Slater)
  • "Shine" - Waiting for 'Superman' (John Legend)
  • "We Belong Together" - Toy Story 3 (Randy Newman)
    (Honourable Mentions: "I've Got a Dream" - Tangled, "Mother Knows Best" - Tangled, "Never Say Never" - The Karate Kid, "We Are Sex Bob-omb" - Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, "You Haven't Seen the Last of Me" - Burlesque)
Best Sound Editing
  • How To Train Your Dragon (Randy Thom, Jonathan Null & Al Nelson)
  • Inception (Richard King)
  • Robin Hood (Wylie Stateman & Mark Stoeckinger)
  • Toy Story 3 (Tom Myers & Michael Silvers)
  • True Grit (Skip Lievsay & Craig Berkey)
    (Honourable Mentions: Black Swan, Iron Man 2, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, TRON: Legacy, Unstoppable)
Best Sound Mixing
  • 127 Hours (Niv Adiri, Douglas Cameron, Richard Pryke & Ian Tapp)
  • Black Swan (Craig Henighan, Ken Ishii & Dominick Tavella)
  • Inception (Gary Rizzo, Lora Hirschberg & Ed Novick)
  • The Social Network (David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce & Mark Weingarten)
  • True Grit (Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff & Peter Kurland)
    (Honourable Mentions: How To Train Your Dragon, Iron Man 2, The King's Speech, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Shutter Island)
Best Animated Feature
  • How To Train Your Dragon (Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois & Bonnie Arnold)
  • The Illusionist (Sylvain Chomet, Sally Chomet & Bob Last)
  • Megamind (Tom McGrath, Lara Breay & Denise Nolan Cascino)
  • Tangled (Nathan Greno, Byron Howard & Roy Conli)
  • Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)
    (Honourable Mentions: Despicable Me, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, My Dog Tulip, Shrek Forever After, Summer Wars)
Best Voice-Over Performance
  • Jay Baruchel - How To Train Your Dragon for voicing Hiccup
  • Ned Beatty - Toy Story 3 for voicing Lotso
  • Gerard Butler - How To Train Your Dragon for voicing Stoick
  • Will Ferrell - Megamind for voicing Megamind
  • Michael Keaton - Toy Story 3 for voicing Ken
    (Honourable Mentions: Steve Carell - Despicable Me, Cameron Diaz - Shrek Forever After, America Ferrera - How To Train Your Dragon, Tom Hanks - Toy Story 3, Geoffrey Rush - Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole)
Best Cinematography
  • 127 Hours (Anthony Dod Mantle & Enrique Chediak)
  • Black Swan (Matthew Libatique)
  • Inception (Wally Pfister)
  • Shutter Island (Robert Richardson)
  • True Grit (Roger Deakins)
    (Honourable Mentions: Biutiful (Rodrigo Prieto), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Eduardo Serra), The King's Speech (Danny Cohen), The Social Network (Jeff Cronenweth), Unstoppable (Ben Seresin))
Best Film Editing
  • 127 Hours (Jon Harris)
  • The Fighter (Pamela Martin)
  • Inception (Lee Smith)
  • The King's Speech (Tariq Anwar)
  • The Social Network (Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall)
    (Honourable Mentions: Black Swan (Andrew Weisblum), Exit Through the Gift Shop (Chris King & Tom Fulford), How To Train Your Dragon (Darren T. Holmes & Maryann Brandon), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Jonathan Amos & Paul Machliss), Toy Story 3 (Ken Schretzmann & Lee Unrkich))
Best Art Direction
  • Alice in Wonderland (Robert Stromberg & Karen O'Hara)
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Stuart Craig & Stephenie McMillan)
  • Inception (Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias & Doug Mowat)
  • The King's Speech (Eve Stewart & Judy Farr)
  • True Grit (Jess Gonchor & Nancy Haigh)
    (Honourable Mentions: Black Swan, How To Train Your Dragon, Robin Hood, Shutter Island, TRON: Legacy)
Best Costume Design
  • Alice in Wonderland (Colleen Atwood)
  • Get Low (Julie Weiss)
  • The King's Speech (Jenny Beavan)
  • The Tempest (Sandy Powell)
  • True Grit (Mary Zophres)
    (Honourable Mentions: Black Swan, Eat Pray Love, Made in Dagenham, Robin Hood, TRON: Legacy)
Best Makeup
  • Alice in Wonderland (Valli O'Reilly & Paul Gooch)
  • The Way Back (Gregory Funk, Edouard F. Henriques & Yolanda Toussieng)
  • The Wolfman (Rick Baker & Dave Elsey)
    (Honourable Mentions: Black Swan, The Fighter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Shutter Island, True Grit)
Best Visual Effects
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz & Nicolas Ait'Hadi)
  • Inception (Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley & Peter Bebb)
  • Iron Man 2 (Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright & Dan Sudick)
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Arthur Langevin, Frazer Churchill, Dennis Berardi & Aaron Weintraub)
  • TRON: Legacy (Eric Barba, Alex Burdett, Steve Preeg & Michael L. Fink)
    (Honourable Mentions: Alice in Wonderland, Black Swan, Hereafter, Robin Hood, Unstoppable) 

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