2011 in film
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The following is an overview of the events of 2011 in film, including the highest-grossing films, film festivals, award ceremonies and a list of films released and notable deaths.
More film sequels were released in 2011 than any other year before it, with 28 sequels released. Film critic Scout Tafoya considers 2011 as the best year for cinema, countering the notion of 1939 being film's best year overall and citing important developments in cinematic expression during 2011.
Richard Brody of The New Yorker observed that the best films of 2011 "exalt the metaphysical, the fantastical, the transformative, the fourth-wall-breaking, or simply the impossible, and—remarkably—do so .... These films depart from 'reality' ... not in order to forget the irrefutable but in order to face it, to think about it, to act on it more freely". Film critic and filmmaker Scout Tafoya of RogerEbert.com considers the year of 2011 as the best year for cinema, countering the notion of 1939 being film's best year overall, citing examples such as Drive, The Tree of Life, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Keyhole, Contagion, The Adventures of Tintin, and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. He stated that "2011 housed not just some of the greatest art films of our age, but a revolution in the language of blockbuster filmmaking. One big-budget action film after another used digital cameras to show the world behind explosions in starker, stranger light, while constructing a backbone of classical ideas and images."
These are the top-grossing films that were released in 2011.
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides grossed $1,045,713,802, becoming the eighth film to have surpassed the billion dollar mark, the second in the series to have done so, and the 13th highest-grossing film of all time. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 grossed $1,341,511,219, becoming the ninth film to have surpassed the billion dollar mark, the third highest-grossing film of all time, the highest-grossing film in the Harry Potter franchise, and the highest of 2011 as a whole. In the USA and Canada, it set a single-day and opening-weekend record, with $91,071,119 and $169,189,427 respectively. In addition, the film set a worldwide opening-weekend record with $483,189,427. Transformers: Dark of the Moon grossed $1,123,794,079 and is currently the seventh highest-grossing film of all time, the 10th film to have surpassed the billion dollar mark, and the highest-grossing in the series.
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