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In 2010, there was a dramatic increase and prominence in the use of 3D-technology in filmmaking after the success of Avatar in the format, with releases such as Alice in Wonderland, Clash of the Titans, My Name is Khan, Jackass 3D, and numerous other titles being released in 3D formats. Republic Pictures and 20th Century Fox celebrated their 75th anniversaries; Spartacus and Psycho celebrated their 50th anniversaries.

Evaluation of the year

In his article highlighting the best movies of 2010, Richard Brody of The New Yorker said:

"At times it feels as if we’re living in something of a cinematic golden age, but one that’s altogether different from earlier halcyon days. Where some celebrate the former genius of the system to explain an earlier day’s proliferation of fine movies, now the system is something of a blunderer that often flings itself into follies or even crushes inspiration under its weight, but sometimes gets carried away, for reasons good or bad, and hands surprising control of vast resources over to artists who make stunningly audacious and personal use of them. The best filmmakers working in Hollywood have a passionate grasp of the cinematic past, but they don’t swoon over its polish or emulate its styles, they excavate it for its raw materials. There’s also a ferment here of independent filmmaking that liberates young people who, in earlier times, might have had to scuffle or supplicate for years while angling for a practical chance that now, with video, and with adequate effort, they can seize for themselves. Some of these independents have developed distinctive methods as well as aesthetics—regarding subject matter, picture, and performance—that are apt for the means of production. They make their lives, their homes, their families, their problems, and even their art the focus of their movies, and because, in their individuality, they share much with others in their generation, their stories, at their best—reflecting the age-old clashes and strivings of talented and ambitious youths in life, love, and art—reverberate deeply and widely. Meanwhile, the proliferation of arthouse cinemas and the sudden availability of classics on DVD and via Netflix go hand in hand with the rise of their art: their fierce focus on the immediate and the intimate includes the intensely personal experience of movies—whether treasures from the history of cinema or instant classics newly arrived from around the world. And, thanks to the Internet’s rapidity of ripple-effects that carry word from bloggers and enthusiasts to the world at large, the independent aesthetic and its artists have quickly had an impact on the Hollywood mainstream, in salutary ways."^[1]

Highest-grossing films

The top 10 films released in 2010 by worldwide gross are as follows:^[2]

Highest-grossing films of 2010
Rank	Title	Distributor	Worldwide gross
1	Toy Story 3	Disney	$1,066,969,703
2	Alice in Wonderland	Disney	$1,025,467,110
3	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1	Warner Bros.	$960,897,696
4	Inception	Warner Bros.	$828,258,695^{[nb 1]}
5	Shrek Forever After	Paramount	$752,600,867
6	The Twilight Saga: Eclipse	Summit	$698,491,347
7	Iron Man 2	Paramount	$623,933,331
8	Tangled	Disney	$592,461,732
9	Despicable Me	Universal	$543,113,985
10	How to Train Your Dragon	Paramount	$494,878,759

^ Excludes grosses from subsequent re-releases.

Box office records

2010 was the first year to have two films cross the billion-dollar milestone.^[3]
- Toy Story 3 was the first animated film to gross $1 billion,^[3] and is currently the ninth highest-grossing animated film ever worldwide. This is also the first time that five animated films have been present in the Top 10 highest-grossing films of the year; two of them are in the Top 5.
- Toy Story 3 surpassed Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) as the highest-grossing film ever distributed by Disney.^[3] It later surpassed by The Avengers in 2012.
The year saw four films debut with more than $100 million, breaking the opening record of 2007 with three releases, and 2004 with two.

Events

January: 17 – The 67th Golden Globe Awards winners were announced.; 21 – The nominations of the 63rd BAFTA Awards were announced.; 23 – The 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards winners were announced.

February: 1 – The nominations of the 30th Golden Raspberry Awards were announced.; 2 – The nominations of the 82nd Academy Awards were announced.; 11 to 21 – The 60th Berlin International Film Festival was held.; 21 – The 64th BAFTA Awards winners were announced

March: 6 – The 30th Golden Raspberry Awards winners were announced.; 7 – The 82nd Academy Awards winners were announced.; 28 – The 15th Empire Awards winners were announced.

May: 12 to 23 – The 63rd annual Cannes Film Festival was held.^[4]

June: 6 – The 2010 MTV Movie Awards winners were announced.

July: 22 to August 1 – The 10th Era New Horizons Film Festival was held.

September: 1 to 11 – The 67th annual Venice Film Festival was held.; 9 to 19 – The 35th annual Toronto Film Festival was held.

October: 8 to 17 – The 26th Warsaw International Film Festival was held.; 20 to 24 – The 1st American Film Festival was held in Wrocław.

November: 26 to 28 – The 4th Dawn Breakers International Film Festival was held.; 26 to December 5 – The 12th Jakarta International Film Festival was held.

December: 4 – The 23rd European Film Awards was held.; 11 – The 52nd Australian Film Institute Awards winners were announced.

Awards

Category/Organization	16th Critics' Choice Awards January 14, 2011	68th Golden Globe Awards January 16, 2011		Producers, Directors, Screen Actors, and Writers Guild Awards	64th BAFTA Awards February 13, 2011	83rd Academy Awards February 27, 2011
Category/Organization	16th Critics' Choice Awards January 14, 2011	Drama	Musical or Comedy		64th BAFTA Awards February 13, 2011	83rd Academy Awards February 27, 2011
Best Film	The Social Network		The Kids Are All Right	The King's Speech
Best Director	David Fincher The Social Network			Tom Hooper The King's Speech	David Fincher The Social Network	Tom Hooper The King's Speech
Best Actor	Colin Firth The King's Speech		Paul Giamatti Barney's Version	Colin Firth The King's Speech
Best Actress	Natalie Portman Black Swan		Annette Bening The Kids Are All Right	Natalie Portman Black Swan
Best Supporting Actor	Christian Bale The Fighter				Geoffrey Rush The King's Speech	Christian Bale The Fighter
Best Supporting Actress	Melissa Leo The Fighter				Helena Bonham Carter The King's Speech	Melissa Leo The Fighter
Best Screenplay, Adapted	Aaron Sorkin The Social Network	Aaron Sorkin The Social Network		Aaron Sorkin The Social Network
Best Screenplay, Original	David Seidler The King's Speech	Aaron Sorkin The Social Network		Christopher Nolan Inception	David Seidler The King's Speech
Best Animated Film	Toy Story 3
Best Original Score	The Social Network Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross			N/A	The King's Speech Alexandre Desplat	The Social Network Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Best Original Song	"If I Rise" 127 Hours	"You Haven't Seen the Last of Me" Burlesque		N/A	N/A	"We Belong Together" Toy Story 3
Best Foreign Language Film	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	In a Better World		N/A	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	In a Better World
Best Documentary	Waiting for "Superman"	—	—	Waiting for "Superman"	—	Inside Job

2010 films

By country/region

By genre/medium

Births

March 10 - Ryan Kiera Armstrong, American actress
May 4 - Brooklynn Prince, American actress and director
25 June - Shrinivas Pokale, Indian actor
July 12 - Federico Ielapi, Italian actor
August 1 - Jude Hill, Northern Irish actor
October 18 - Andrey Andreev, Russian actor

Deaths

Month	Date	Name	Age	Country	Profession	Notable films
January	4	Donal Donnelly	78	Ireland	Actor	The Godfather: Part III Waterloo
	8	Piero De Bernardi	83	Italy	Screenwriter	Once Upon a Time in America Alfredo, Alfredo
	11	Éric Rohmer	89	France	Director	La Collectionneuse My Night at Maud's
	14	Mark Jones	70	UK	Actor	Under Milk Wood The Empire Strikes Back
	17	Erich Segal	72	US	Screenwriter	Love Story Yellow Submarine
	21	L.A. Johnson	62	US	Producer, Sound Engineer	CSNY/Déjà Vu Woodstock
	22	James Mitchell	82	US	Actor	Colorado Territory The Band Wagon
	22	Johnny Seven	83	US	Actor	The Apartment The Love God?
	22	Jean Simmons	80	UK	Actress	Spartacus Elmer Gantry
	24	Pernell Roberts	81	US	Actor	The Magic of Lassie Ride Lonesome
	26	Anne Froelick	96	US	Screenwriter	Harriet Craig Easy Come, Easy Go
	27	Betty Lou Keim	71	US	Actress	These Wilder Years Some Came Running
	27	Zelda Rubinstein	76	US	Actress	Poltergeist Sixteen Candles
	31	Giulio Petroni	92	Italy	Director	Death Rides a Horse Tepepa
February	1	David Brown	93	US	Producer	Jaws The Sting
	1	Justin Mentell	27	US	Actor	G-Force Palo Alto
	3	John McCallum	91	Australia	Producer, Actor, Screenwriter	The Magic Box It Always Rains on Sunday
	3	Frances Reid	95	US	Actress	The Andromeda Strain The Wrong Man
	3	Georges Wilson	88	France	Actor	Les Hussards The Long Absence
	5	Ian Carmichael	89	UK	Actor	I'm All Right Jack Private's Progress
	13	Max Faulkner	78-79	UK	Stuntman, Actor	Willow Nightbreed
	13	Gareth Wigan	78	UK	Producer, Executive	American Flyers Running Scared
	16	John Davis Chandler	75	US	Actor	The Outlaw Josey Wales Adventures in Babysitting
	17	Kathryn Grayson	88	US	Actress	Show Boat Anchors Aweigh
	19	Lionel Jeffries	83	UK	Actor, Director	Camelot The Wrong Arm of the Law
	22	Robin Davies	56	UK	Actor	Shakespeare in Love The Blood on Satan's Claw
	23	Derek Vanlint	77	Canada	Cinematographer	Alien Dragonslayer
	26	Richard Devon	84	US	Actor	Magnum Force The Seventh Sign
	28	Martin Benson	91	UK	Actor	The Omen Cleopatra
March	4	Nan Martin	82	US	Actress	Goodbye, Columbus The Other Side of the Mountain
	5	Charles B. Pierce	71	US	Director, Screenwriter	Sudden Impact The Legend of Boggy Creek
	6	Carol Marsh	83	UK	Actress	Brighton Rock Helter Skelter
	8	Tony Imi	72	UK	Cinematographer	Enemy Mine Night Crossing
	10	Corey Haim	38	Canada	Actor	License to Drive The Lost Boys
	11	Don Guidice	77	US	Film Editor	Three Days of the Condor The Yakuza
	11	Merlin Olsen	69	US	Actor	The Undefeated Mitchell
	14	Peter Graves	83	US	Actor	Airplane! Stalag 17
	15	David J. Steinberg	45	US	Actor	Willow Epic Movie
	18	Fess Parker	85	US	Actor	Old Yeller The Great Locomotive Chase
	24	Robert Culp	79	US	Actor	Sunday in New York Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
	28	June Havoc	97	US	Actress	Gentleman's Agreement Hello, Frisco, Hello
	30	Mario Garbuglia	82	Italy	Production Designer	Barbarella Waterloo
	31	Shirley Mills	83	US	Actress	Child Bride The Under-Pup
April	1	John Forsythe	92	US	Actor	In Cold Blood The Trouble with Harry
	4	Lori Martin	62	US	Actress	Cape Fear The Chase
	6	Sam Menning	85	US	Actor	The Prestige The Butcher's Wife
	6	Corin Redgrave	70	UK	Actor	In the Name of the Father Four Weddings and a Funeral
	8	James Aubrey	62	Austria	Actor	Lord of the Flies Spy Game
	8	Christopher Cazenove	65	UK	Actor	Three Men and a Little Lady Zulu Dawn
	10	Dixie Carter	70	US	Actress	That Evening Sun Going Berserk
	16	Sid Conrad	86	US	Actor	The Glimmer Man Caddyshack II
	17	Dede Allen	86	US	Film Editor	Dog Day Afternoon Bonnie and Clyde
	18	Michael Adams	60	US	Stuntman, Actor	Commando Under Siege
	23	Shay Duffin	79	Ireland	Actor	Seabiscuit The Departed
	25	Dorothy Provine	75	US	Actress	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World That Darn Cat!
	28	Furio Scarpelli	90	Italy	Screenwriter	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Il postino
May	1	Danny Aiello III	53	US	Stuntman	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Catch Me If You Can
	2	Lynn Redgrave	67	UK	Actress	Georgy Girl Gods and Monsters
	7	Adele Mara	87	US	Actress	You Were Never Lovelier Sands of Iwo Jima
	9	Lena Horne	92	US	Actress, Singer	The Wiz Cabin in the Sky
	11	Doris Eaton	106	US	Actress	Tell Your Children The Very Idea
	26	Art Linkletter	97	Canada	Actor	Champagne for Caesar People Are Funny
	28	Eddie Barth	78	US	Actor	Fame The Amityville Horror
	28	Gary Coleman	42	US	Actor	On the Right Track Jimmy the Kid
	29	Dennis Hopper	74	US	Actor, Director, Screenwriter	Easy Rider Speed
	30	Joan Rhodes	90	UK	Actress, Stuntwoman	The Elephant Man The Pink Panther Strikes Again
	31	William A. Fraker	86	US	Cinematographer, Director	Bullitt Rosemary's Baby
June	1	George Martin	80	US	Actor	Dead Poets Society One Fine Day
	1	Joseph Strick	86	US	Director, Screenwriter, Producer	Ulysses Interviews with My Lai Veterans
	3	Rue McClanahan	76	US	Actress	They Might Be Giants Out to Sea
	5	Steven Reuther	58	US	Producer	Pretty Woman Face/Off
	6	Robert B. Radnitz	85	US	Producer	My Side of the Mountain Sounder
	7	Eric Mason	83	UK	Actor	North Sea Hijack The Calcium Kid
	8	Andreas Voutsinas	79	Sudan	Actor	The Producers The Twelve Chairs
	13	Jimmy Dean	81	US	Singer, Actor	Diamonds Are Forever Big Bad John
	15	Bekim Fehmiu	74	Yugoslavia	Actor	The Adventurers Black Sunday
	16	Ronald Neame	99	UK	Director, Cinematographer	Scrooge The Poseidon Adventure
	17	Elżbieta Czyżewska	72	Poland	Actress	The Saragossa Manuscript Music Box
	19	Vince O'Brien	90	US	Actor	Annie Hall Quiz Show
	19	Ursula Thiess	86	Germany	Actress	The Americano Monsoon
	22	Tracy Wright	50	Canada	Actress	Monkey Warfare Superstar
	23	Allyn Ferguson	85	US	Composer	Back to the Secret Garden Little Lord Fauntleroy
	23	Frank Giering	38	Germany	Actor	Funny Games Baader
	27	Corey Allen	75	US	Actor, Director	Rebel Without a Cause Sweet Bird of Youth
	27	Aldo Giuffrè	86	Italy	Actor	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
	30	Elliott Kastner	80	US	Producer	Where Eagles Dare The Long Goodbye
July	1	Geoffrey Hutchings	71	UK	Actor	You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger Henry V
	1	Ilene Woods	81	US	Actress, Singer	Cinderella On Stage Everybody
	2	Laurent Terzieff	75	France	Actor	The Milky Way Kapò
	8	David Blewitt	81	US	Film Editor	Ghostbusters That's Entertainment!
	9	Vonetta McGee	65	US	Actress	Blacula The Eiger Sanction
	10	Aldo Sambrell	79	Spain	Actor	For a Few Dollars More 100 Rifles
	12	Luigi Scattini	83	Italy	Director	War Italian Style Primitive Love
	13	Alan Hume	85	UK	Cinematographer	Return of the Jedi A Fish Called Wanda
	15	Kip King	72	US	Actor	A Night at the Roxbury Westworld
	16	James Gammon	70	US	Actor	Urban Cowboy Major League
	26	Antonio Gamero^[5]	76	Spain	Actor	Poachers The Enchanted Forest
	27	Maury Chaykin	61	US	Actor	Entrapment Cutthroat Island
	31	Suso Cecchi d'Amico	96	Italy	Screenwriter	Casanova 70 The Leopard
	31	Tom Mankiewicz	69	US	Screenwriter, Director	Diamonds Are Forever Superman
August	1	Robert F. Boyle	100	US	Art Director, Production Designer	Saboteur North by Northwest
	7	Bruno Cremer	75	France	Actor	Is Paris Burning? Sorcerer
	8	Patricia Neal	84	US	Actress	The Fountainhead Hud
	9	George DiCenzo	70	US	Actor	Back to the Future Close Encounters of the Third Kind
	10	David L. Wolper	82	US	Documentarian, Producer	The Race for Space L.A. Confidential
	11	Bruno Schleinstein	78	Germany	Actor	The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser Stroszek
	14	Abbey Lincoln	80	US	Actress, Singer	For Love of Ivy Nothing But a Man
	20	Tiberio Murgia	81	Italy	Actor	Big Deal on Madonna Street Three Nights of Love
	24	Satoshi Kon	46	Japan	Director	Perfect Blue Millennium Actress
	29	James Deuter	71	US	Actor	Payback The Hudsucker Proxy
	30	Alain Corneau	67	France	Director, Screenwriter	Tous les Matins du Monde Le cousin
September	1	Cammie King	76	US	Actress	Gone with the Wind Bambi
	2	Michael Dennison	58	US	Costume Designer	The Chronicles of Riddick Eat Pray Love
	3	Robert Schimmel	60	US	Actor, Comedian	Blankman A Low Down Dirty Shame
	7	Clive Donner	84	UK	Director, Film Editor	What's New Pussycat? Nothing But the Best
	7	Glenn Shadix	58	US	Actor	Beetlejuice Planet of the Apes
	9	Geoffrey Foot	95	UK	Film Editor	The Legend of Hell House The Watcher in the Woods
	11	Harold Gould	86	US	Actor	The Sting Patch Adams
	11	Kevin McCarthy	96	US	Actor	Invasion of the Body Snatchers Twilight Zone: The Movie
	12	Claude Chabrol	80	France	Director	Madame Bovary Story of Women
	14	Caterina Boratto	95	Italy	Actress	Juliet of the Spirits The Peddler and the Lady
	14	Nicholas Selby	85	UK	Actor	The Madness of King George Macbeth
	15	Frank Jarvis	69	UK	Actor	The Italian Job A Bridge Too Far
	19	Irving Ravetch	89	US	Screenwriter	The Long, Hot Summer Norma Rae
	21	Grace Bradley	97	US	Actress	Anything Goes F-Man
	21	John Crawford	90	US	Actor	Night Moves The Enforcer
	22	Jackie Burroughs	71	Canada	Actress	The Grey Fox A Winter Tan
	22	Eddie Fisher	82	US	Actor, Singer	Bundle of Joy BUtterfield 8
	22	Bridget O'Connor	49	UK	Screenwriter	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Sixty Six
	26	Gloria Stuart	100	US	Actress	Titanic The Invisible Man
	27	Pierre Guffroy	84	France	Production Designer	Tess Is Paris Burning?
	28	Sally Menke	56	US	Film Editor	Pulp Fiction Kill Bill
	28	Arthur Penn	88	US	Director, Producer	Bonnie and Clyde The Miracle Worker
	29	Andy Albeck	89	US	Studio Executive
	29	Tony Curtis	85	US	Actor	Sweet Smell of Success Some Like It Hot
	29	Joe Mantell	94	US	Actor	Marty Chinatown
October	1	Marshall Flaum	85	US	Documentarian	The Yanks Are Coming Let My People Go: The Story of Israel
	4	Norman Wisdom	95	UK	Actor, Comedian	Trouble in Store The Square Peg
	5	Roy Ward Baker	93	UK	Director	A Night to Remember Quatermass and the Pit
	10	John Graysmark	75	UK	Production Designer	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Courage Under Fire
	12	Angelo Infanti	71	Italy	Actor	The Godfather Letters to Juliet
	14	Simon MacCorkindale	58	UK	Actor	Death on the Nile The Riddle of the Sands
	14	James Mitchell	80	US	Film Editor	2010: The Year We Make Contact Capricorn One
	15	Dorothy Ford	88	US	Actress	3 Godfathers Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
	15	Johnny Sheffield	79	US	Actor	Tarzan Finds a Son! Bomba, the Jungle Boy
	16	Barbara Billingsley	94	US	Actress	The Bad and the Beautiful Airplane!
	16	Chao-Li Chi	83	China	Actor	Big Trouble in Little China Wedding Crashers
	19	Tom Bosley	83	US	Actor	Love with the Proper Stranger The World of Henry Orient
	19	Graham Crowden	87	UK	Actor	Out of Africa For Your Eyes Only
	20	Robert Paynter	82	UK	Cinematographer	Trading Places Superman II
	24	Lamont Johnson	88	US	Director	The Last American Hero One on One
	25	Lisa Blount	53	US	Actress, Producer	An Officer and a Gentleman The Accountant
	28	Robert Ellenstein	87	US	Actor	North by Northwest Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
	28	James MacArthur	72	US	Actor	The Young Stranger Swiss Family Robinson
	29	Mervyn Haisman	82	UK	Screenwriter	Curse of the Crimson Altar Jane and the Lost City
	29	George Hickenlooper	47	US	Director, Producer	Casino Jack Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
November	1	Monica Johnson	64	US	Screenwriter	Modern Romance Lost in America
	4	Michelle Nicastro	50	US	Singer, Actress	The Swan Princess When Harry Met Sally...
	5	Jill Clayburgh	66	US	Actress	An Unmarried Woman Silver Streak
	8	Addison Powell	89	US	Actor	Three Days of the Condor The Thomas Crown Affair
	10	Dino De Laurentiis	91	Italy	Producer	Bitter Rice La Strada
	11	Marie Osborne	99	US	Costumer, Actress	The Godfather Part II Around the World in 80 Days
	11	Simone Valère	87	France	Actress	Beauty and the Devil The Assassination of Trotsky
	13	Luis García Berlanga	89	Spain	Director	Welcome Mr. Marshall! The Executioners
	13	Simon Holland	70	UK	Production Designer	The Emerald Forest Nuns on the Run
	15	Moira Deady	88	Ireland	Actress	This Is My Father Angela's Ashes
	20	Heinz Weiss	89	Germany	Actor	The Great Escape Tread Softly
	23	Joyce Howard	88	UK	Actress	They Met in the Dark The Night Has Eyes
	23	Ingrid Pitt	73	Poland	Actress	The Vampire Lovers Where Eagles Dare
	27	Irvin Kershner	87	US	Director	The Empire Strikes Back RoboCop 2
	28	Giorgos Fountas	86	Greece	Actor	Stella Never on Sunday
	28	Leslie Nielsen	84	Canada	Actor	The Naked Gun Forbidden Planet
	28	Gene Polito	92	US	Cinematographer	Westworld Up in Smoke
	29	Kamala Devi	77	India	Actress	Geronimo The Brass Bottle
	29	Mario Monicelli	95	Italy	Director, Screenwriter	Big Deal on Madonna Street The Great War
	30	Ted Sorel	74	US	Actor	Network Lenny
December	4	Neva Patterson	90	US	Actress	An Affair to Remember Desk Set
	15	Blake Edwards	88	US	Director, Screenwriter	The Pink Panther Breakfast at Tiffany's
	15	Jean Rollin	72	France	Director, Producer	Le Viol du Vampire Les Raisins de la Mort
	17	Lina Romay	91	Spain	Singer, Actress	Bathing Beauty Honeymoon
	20	Steve Landesberg	74	US	Actor	Forgetting Sarah Marshall Wild Hogs
	27	Grant McCune	67	US	Visual Effects Artist	Star Wars Ghostbusters II
	29	Bill Erwin	96	US	Actor	Home Alone Planes, Trains and Automobiles