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Exclusive: Quentin Tarantino’s favorite films of 2011

Posted on 14 January 2012 in Exclusives, Featured, Frontpage news by Sebastian 275 Comments
Midnight in Paris

Last year we posted something that almost crashed our servers and caused huge ripples around the internet: Quentin Tarantino‘s list of his favorite films of 2010 (click here to read). There were some controversial choices and some omissions in the opinions of a lot of commenters, and the discussions were very active. Even earlier, during his filming of Inglourious Basterds he let us have lists of his top 20 favorite Spaghetti Westerns (click here to read) and exploitation films (click here to read), and now that the new year is upon us, we have been receiving some emails whether Q will once more come down from the mountain he is currently climbing like Moses and bestow his judgement upon last years cinematic works. He is currently out and about filming his new movie Django Unchained, with Jamie Foxx, Leo DiCaprio and a whole ensemble cast of amazing actors, to bring it to theaters before the end of the year, just in time for christmas. And you know what… here it is, Quentin Tarantino’s list of favorite movies last year, just in time for the awards season.

But hold! This time it is an official Top 11 (12 to be exact, it includes one tie), and there are some goodies attached below! This is now a full awards show ladies and gents, there are some other categories, some best director and writer awards in there as well. Santa brought a whole bag! Special Thanks to Quentin for taking some time off and compiling this list!

The Quentin Tarantino Archives is proud to present….

Quentin Tarantino’s official Top Eleven of 2011

Red State1. Midnight In Paris
2. Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
3. Moneyball
4. The Skin I Live In
5. X-Men: First Class
6. Young Adult
7. Attack The Block
8. Red State
9. Warrior
10. The Artist / Our Idiot Brother (tie)
11. The Three Musketeers

Others he liked (no particular order)

50/50
Beginners
Hugo
The Iron Lady
Carnage
Green Hornet
Green Lantern
Captain America
The Descendants
My Week With Marilyn
Fast Five
Tree Of Life
The Hangover Part II
Mission Impossible 4
The Beaver
Contagion
The Sitter
War Horse

Nice Try Award

Drive
Hannah
Drive Angry
Real Steel

Best Director

Pedro Almodovar
Bennett Miller
Woody Allen
Jason Reitman
Michel Hazanavicius

Best Original Screenplay

Midnight In Paris
Young Adult
Red State
Attack The Block
Our Idiot Brother
Beginners

Best Adapted Screenplay

Moneyball
The Skin I live In
Carnage
Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
Hugo
X-Men: First Class

That concludes this year’s Tarantino awards! Fire away in the comments below, does Quentin’s list match your own? Personally, I loved Midnight in Paris, I left the theater totally dazzled, what an amazing movie, I am happy he thinks the same way. Make sure you also follow us on our social media channels, and dive into the Community to exchange with other fans. We’ll be back with more Django news shortly (some also posted on Facebook and the likes). Happy New Year you Basterds!

PS: Have you checked out Furious Cinema yet? You should!

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  • http://ARMdevices.net/ Charbax

    The Help is OK
    Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is pretty bad, I hate hearing them speak English with Sweedish accents, go watch the original Sweedish film, it’s better.Thor, I skipped watching half way, but maybe I’ll retry

  • Cunt

    You’re fucking stupid

  • Fuck

    Yeah but no one likes you

  • Benjamin S Pond

    All of our likes now are published. What I love about Tarentino publishing his likes is that, I have watched films that I wouldn’t have otherwise. “Carnage,” fantastic, and completely opposite to “Green Hornet,” which shit, I also loved. Two films both with Christophe Walz (hmmmmm) that frankly are fantastic. The point Tarentino is making is for people to wake up and realize that studio films, can be incredibly fun, which is although shrouded by pretention the point of entertainment.

  • Benjamin S Pond

    These are movies. An escape, entertainment. If my cat dies I’m not going to watch Melancholia, I’m going to watch Attack the Block. People love to hate, and I love the movies you chose, and I love the movies Big T chose. I do not love Twilight Breaking Dawn part 1. I do not love Tree of Life. But I watched the latter five times and wrote a lot about it, I enjoyed the process and challenge of watching it. My sister who is much younger wrote a bunch of fan fiction about Twilight. Who cares? They are movies, there is no competition for the viewer there is no prize. I’m just lucky to have found Tarentinos list this year.

  • Fedeslash

    1 midnight in paris
    2 hugo
    3 rango
    4 source code
    5 millennium

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  • Raul0109

    and photography has very little to do with the quality of a film

  • http://twitter.com/Tyler_Wildman Tyler Wildman

     Sarzy, you seem like a fucking retard. He didn’t say he doesn’t like Tarantino anymore, he just said the list is awful (and I agree). It’s better than him saying “OMG I DIDN’T LIKE THESE MOVIES BUT TARANTINO DOES SO NOW I DO!!!!1!!!1!”

  • Tarintinofan4life

    He liked hangover,apes & x-men that’s a crying shame
    WTF last year was the worst year in movies so far

  • Teresa

    eu adoro quando chega o momento de ver publicada a lista desse irreverente Diretor que eu amo de paixão……bjs Teresa -SP/Brasil

  • Roco

    Obviously, Quentins taste in movies is COMPLETELY random :D
    But maybe that’s why the style of his own films is quite special…!?

  • Movie manic mc

    This list isn’t what I would have expected, it has some obvious choices, some less obvious, and some truely seemingly random ones. Which is what I like About QT’s style, its very unpredictable and random. Seriously who cares if his taste isnt the same as ours, or even suting our idea of Quentin

  • guest

    You, sir, are the ignorant clown. “2011 releases in the US… not sure what country or planet you live on”.
    As if living outside of America is some kind of disability? You lot can be so painfully small-minded, I’m surprised it’s taken you this long to fall apart politically and economically. You haven’t advanced socially since the sixties. Believe it or not, what happens in America isn’t the standard set for the rest of the world. Some other countries will get films before or after America. A film’s release date is not always determined by it’s release in America. 

  • Boon Banana

    Are you serious? An adapted screenplay is a screenplay that interprets another source. And as you should know, all the ‘Planet’ movies (and TV series) are originally sourced from ‘La Planete des Singes’. It’s also blindingly obvious this is a reboot of the original ‘Apes’ series and is loosely based on ‘Conquest’, as well as quoting from the originals. 

  • Adam Quinn

    When he says Nice Try he means they used things that he does in his films. They were influenced by him and somewhat “bit his style” (copied him) That was easy to see from just watching five minutes of Hannah.

    Nice try means “Nice try but you’re still not me!” 

    inspiredbydopeness

  • BrianMcInnis

    Precisely who does this article exclude?

  • Guest

    He has such ambiguous taste in films. I mean he likes Battle Royale and dislikes Drive. He likes The Three Musketeers, Fast Five and The Beaver and Dislikes Drive. He dislikes Drive and dislikes Drive. WTF man.

  • enterthedragonmaster

    I think he didnt watch Shame….

  • Gnrutd7

    DRIVE is the best movie of 2011 hands down.  I thought Quentin knew his shit better than anyone.  pull your shit together man

  • Fred

    Many
    much, much better, fresher, more vital international films seem to be
    missing from this list. Tarantino used to push people to see films they
    might not otherwise see, stuff that really went for it. Oh well. He’s way too establishment now. Too bad. Look
    to Cahiers du Cinema top ten if u still care about film as an art.

  • Gil

    Do not lump in Attack the Block with that crap.

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  • Saad

    Drive was alright, Green Hornet was highly unwatchable, and Green Lantern was pretty good but flawed. All imo.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1083048942 Erik Archer

    I enjoyed Drive very much and never once thought of Tarantino while taking it in. His list overall is very disappointing. Warrior? Is Quentin a bro now? The same guy who loved Battle Royale didn’t enjoy Kill List or Blackthorn?

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