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Our Leading Men of 2010

Listed below – because, hey, feminism is all about equality, right? – are my choices in the other major awards categories. Yes, there is even room for the men of the Best Actor and Supporting Actor categories here at Suffragette City!


Best Director


1. Darren Aronofsky .. Black Swan
2. Derek Cianfrance … Blue Valentine
3. Claire Denis … White Material
4. Mike Leigh … Another Year
5. Olivier Assayas … Carlos
6. Debra Granik … Winter’s Bone
7. David O. Russell … The Fighter
8. Alejandro González Iñárritu … Biutiful
9. Rodrigo Garcia … Mother and Child
10. Jacques Audiard … A Prophet
11. Luca Guadagnino … I Am Love
12. Andrea Arnold … Fish Tank
13. Bong Joon-ho ,,, Mother
14. Roman Polanski … The Ghost Writer
15. David Fincher … The Social Network
16. Martin Scorsese … Shutter Island
17. Christopher Nolan … Inception
18 Nicole Holofcener … Please Give
19. Sofia Coppola … Somewhere
20. Ben Affleck … The Town


Best Screenplay


1. Blue Valentine
2. White Material
3. Please Give
4. Mother and Child
5. Another Year
6. The Fighter
7. A Prophet
8. Winter’s Bone
9. The Social Network
10. Black Swan


Best Ensemble Cast


1. The Fighter
2. Mother and Child
3. Another Year
4. Please Give
5. Black Swan
6. Winter’s Bone
7. For Colored Girls
8. Shutter Island
9. Biutiful
10.You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger


Best Supporting Actor


1. Christian Bale … The Fighter
2. Jeremy Renner … The Town
3. Michael Fassbender … Fish Tank
4. Niels Arestrup … A Prophet
5. John Hawkes … Winter’s Bone
6. Jim Broadbent … Another Year
7. Matt Damon … True Grit
8. Pierce Brosnan … The Ghost Writer
9. Armie Hammer … The Social Network
10. Mark Ruffalo … The Kids Are All Right & Shutter Island


Best Actor


1. Ryan Gosling … Blue Valentine
2. Javier Bardem … Biutiful
3. Jesse Eisenberg … The Social Network
4. Tahar Rahim … A Prophet
5. Edgar Ramirez … Carlos
6. Mark Wahlberg … The Fighter
7. Stephen Dorff … Somwhere
8. Ben Stiller … Greenberg
9. Leonardo DiCaprio … Inception & Shutter Island
10. Ben Affleck … The Town


Matt Mazur is a New York-based film publicist and strategist who works on campaigns for independent, foreign language, and documentary films, as well as awards. A die-hard cinephile and lover of pop culture, he spends his free time writing about what he is not working on. Follow him on Twitter @Matt_Mazur


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