Empire: Top 20 Films of 2011 [by UK release date]
[see also 2012]
- Drive — Nicolas Winding Refn
- Senna — Asif Kapadia
- The King’s Speech — Tom Hooper
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 — David Yates
- The Artist — Michel Hazanavicius
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy — Tomas Alfredson
- True Grit — Joel & Ethan Coen
- Bridesmaids — Paul Feig
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes — Rupert Wyatt
- Black Swan — Darren Aronofsky
- Blue Valentine — Derek Cianfrance
- The Fighter — David O. Russell
- Hanna — Joe Wright
- We Need to Talk About Kevin — Lynne Ramsay
- The Inbetweeners Movie — Ben Palmer
- Super 8 — JJ Abrams
- Incendies — Denis Villeneuve
- The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick
- The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn — Steven Spielberg
- Fast Five — Paul Lim