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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides grossed $1,043,871,802 becoming the eighth film to have surpassed the billion dollar mark, the second in the Pirates of the Caribbean series to have done so, earning it the spot as the 8th highest-grossing film of all time.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 grossed $1,328,111,219, becoming the ninth film to have surpassed the billion dollar mark, the 3rd highest-grossing film of all time, the highest-grossing film in the Harry Potter

franchise and the highest of 2011 as a whole. It grossed $91,071,119 on its first day of release, achieving the biggest single-day gross of all time, also breaking The Dark Knight’s 2008 record for the highest weekend opening in the United States and Canada ($158,411,483), with $169,189,427. In addition, the film made $483,189,427 worldwide on opening weekend, beating Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’s record of $394,000,000 for highest weekend opening worldwide.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon grossed $1,123,746,996 and is the 4th highest-grossing film of all time, the tenth film to have surpassed the billion dollar mark and the highest grossing of the series.

This is the first year when three films grossed more than $1 billion worldwide: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

The year 2011 was notable for three films grossing more than $1 billion worldwide.

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Golden Globes

The 68th Golden Globe Awards were broadcast live on January 16, 2011, by NBC. The host was Ricky Gervais. Robert De Niro was presented with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. The Social Network won four awards, the most of any film, including best drama. It beat British historical tale The King’s Speech, which had entered the awards ceremony with the most nominations but collected just one award.

BAFTAs

The 64th British Academy Film Awards were held on 13 February 2011 honouring the best national and foreign films of 2010. The King’s Speech earned the most nominations with fourteen. At the ceremony, it came away with seven awards, including Best Film, Outstanding British Film and Best Actor for Colin Firth. Natalie Portman won the Best Actress award and David Fincher was named Best Director for The Social Network.

Academy Awards

The 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2010 and took place February 27, 2011. During the ceremony, Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) were awarded in 24 competitive categories. Actors James Franco and Anne Hathaway co-hosted the ceremony, marking the first time for each.

The following films, actors. actresses and directors won major awards in 2011 (though the majority of these were released in 2010 oveseas).

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The Oscars83rd Academy Awards

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Golden Globes68th Golden Globe Awards

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BAFTAs64th British Academy Film Awards

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The Film ProgrammeFIlm 2011 with Claudia Winkleman and Danny Leigh

About

The Film programme is a British film review television programme, broadcast weekly on BBC One, presented by Claudia Winkleman and Danny Leigh. The title of the show changes each year to incorporate the year of broadcast, with the current series being Film 2011, but when referring to successive series, the BBC calls it “the Film programme”. The show was previously presented by Barry Norman between 1972 and 1998, and by Jonathan Ross from 1999

to 2010, before receiving a format revamp with the introduction of Claudia Winkleman as host from 2010. This saw the adoption of a live studio format and the introduction of a co-presenter, film journalist Danny Leigh.

Claudia Winkleman

Claudia Winkleman was announced as a surprise choice for the presenter’s role. Damon Wise of Empire feared that Winkleman’s appointment

represented a rejection of film knowledge as a requirement for a host of the show The Guardian stated, through her recent hosting of Sky Television’s coverage of The Oscars, Winkleman had “proved both a passionate and engaging advocate of cinema”, while her husband Kris Thykier is a film producer with credits on several mainstream releases. She also presents a weekly arts show on BBC Radio 2 on Friday nights, which covers film.

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Danny Leigh

Danny Leigh is a film critic, journalist and novelist. His first review was printed in the late, lamented Neon magazine in 1997. Since 1999 he has written most regularly for The Guardian, for which he now produces a weekly online film column. He is the author of two novels, and is working on a third.

His favourite film would be a toss-up between Mulholland Drive and Night of the Hunter. Or Stalker. Or The Shining.

Special guests

Antonia Quirke is part of the team on Film 2011 and has been a film critic for 15 years. Starting as a trainee reporter at the radical London freesheet The Camden New Journal she went on to write about film for the Independent on Sunday and the Evening Standard.

She’s presented movie reviews for ITV and introduced film seasons - anything from the Surrealists to Alien flicks - on BBC Four.

Her book about the film JAWS was one of the BFI’s biggest-selling titles, and her comic memoir about life as a film critic suffering from an overwhelming obsession with various male movie stars - Madame Depardieu And The Beautiful Strangers - is being developed into a film by the team behind the Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning An Education.

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Catherine Bray has been working as a journalist since getting her first job aged 21 as staff writer on cult film magazine Hotdog.

She has since worked for Channel 4 and Channel 5, written for The Telegraph and Heat magazine, and published a paper on the early work of John Milton, in the Milton Quarterly last year.

Catherine is a huge fan of the work of David

Cronenberg, Lynch and Fincher, and some other directors who aren’t called David as well, like John Carpenter. She will watch any movie where a 50 foot woman, monster or whatever attacks something.

Chris Hewitt is part of the team on Film 2011 and he is the News Editor at EMPIRE magazine.

During his time at Empire, he’s held a variety of posts, including a stint as

West Coast Editor which brought the Northern Ireland native to Los Angeles, and Co-Editor of the award-winning Empire Online.He also writes and presents award-losing video diaries from the Cannes Film Festival, Comic-Con and the London Film Festival, with various on-set specials along the way. Chris calls these video diaries ‘videblogisodes’, although no-one else does.

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Rotten TomatoesReview aggregator

Rotten Tomatoes is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films—widely known as a film review aggregator. Its name derives from the cliché of audiences throwing tomatoes and other vegetables at a poor stage performance. The company is currently owned by Flixster, itself owned by Warner Bros since May 2011.

Rotten Tomatoes staff first collect online reviews from authors that are certified members of various writing guilds or film critic

associations. To become a critic at the site, a critic’s original reviews as an must to garner a specific amount of “likes”. Top Critics are generally ones that write for a notable newspaper. The staff then determine for each review whether it is positive (“fresh”, marked by a small icon of a red tomato) or negative (“rotten”, marked by a small icon of a green splattered tomato). At the end of the year one film will receive the “Golden Tomato”, meaning it is the highest rated film that year.

The website keeps track of all of the reviews counted (which can approach 270 for major, recently released films) and the percentage of positive reviews is tabulated. If the positive reviews make up 60% or more, the film is considered “fresh” in that a substantial majority of the reviewers approve of the film. If the positive reviews are less than 60%, then the film is considered “rotten”.

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LoveFilmProvider of rental DVDs

LoveFilm (official typeset LOVEFiLM) is a UK-based provider of home video and video game rental through DVD-by-mail and streaming video on demand in the UK, Germany and Scandinavia. It is currently an Amazon.com subsidiary, and operates the LoveFilm website, as well as providing outsourced website and delivery infrastructure for other British companies.

At the end of 2011, LoveFilm claimed to have over 1,500,000 members, over 70,000

titles, and over 4 million rentals per month across five countries. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions, LoveFilm has, in a few years, become the leading online DVD rental outlet in the UK and across Europe.

The company previously offered a download service alongside postal delivery, but this ceased (at least temporarily) on 23 February 2009. Instead, the company has started a “watch online” service which offers over 4,700 films available to watch as part of subscription. This

online viewing is available free for subscribers who have opted for one of their unlimited monthly rental plans; there is also some pay-per-view content available to all.