Quentin Tarantino Chooses His 2011 Top 11 (11 So As To Make Room for 'Three Musketeers', Duh)

Well, last night the Hollywood Foreign Press had their shot at naming the top films of 2011, and now it's Quentin Tarantino's turn to say, "Hold on, guys, you forgot The Three Musketeers!" Through fan site The Quentin Tarantino Archives, the director has posted his top 11 (or 12, technically) films of the last year, and while he hits such critically-praised picks as The Artist and Midnight in Paris, he also made room for such contrarian fare as Paul W.S. Anderson's Three Musketeers and Kevin Smith's Red State. He even added on an unordered "other films he liked" section just to make sure Green Lantern would at last be regarded alongside War Horse and above Drive, which Tarantino placed with Drive Angry on a lower-tier list labeled "nice try awards." Sorry, kitschy, driving-based genre films, but you'll have to add some intentional film scratches if you want Q.T.'s affections.

Here are the complete lists:

Quentin Tarantino's official Top Eleven of 2011

1. 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

No Happy Feet Two?

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