The RyMickey Awards 2010 - Best Ensemble

Best Ensemble 2010

Runners-up

10. Please Give

(Catherine Keener, Rebecca Hall, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Sarah Steele, and Ann Morgan Guilbert)

9. Animal Kingdom

(James Frecheville, Jacki Weaver, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, Luke Ford, Sullivan Stapleton, and Ben Mendelsohn)

8. True Grit

(Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, and Barry Pepper)

7. The King's Speech

(Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, and Guy Pearce)

Note:  Would have been number one, but it felt like the first three people listed above were really the only people that mattered.  Don't get me wrong, they were great and will appear in later lists for sure, but as an "ensemble" it doesn't quite fit the bill.

6. The Town

(Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, Pete Postlethwaite, and Chris Cooper)

5. The Kids Are All Right

(Julianne Moore, Annette Bening, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska, Josh Hutcherson, Yaya DaCosta, and Joaquín Garrido)

Nice solid performances all around (even if the script lacked a little purpose for some of the cast [ie. Mia Wasikowska's character]).  You'll see a few of these names pop up later.

4. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

(Michael Cera, Alison Pill, Ellen Wong, Kieran Culkin, Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Chris Evans, Mae Whitman, Brandon Routh, and Jason Schwartzman)

For sure, the youngest overall cast on this list.  I genuinely cannot believe that Michael Cera is winning any type of award from me, but it is what it is.  Wry, witty, and the whole cast was game for the humor.

3. Nowhere Boy

(Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, David Threlfall, Anne-Marie Duff, and Thomas Brodie-Sangster)

Considering that I hadn't seen some of these actors in much else, this was a pleasant surprise.  Aaron Johnson pulls off a nice John Lennon, and Kristin Scott Thomas and Anne-Marie Duff are terrific emotional centers to the rest of the cast.

2. The Fighter

(Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo, Jack McGee, and Mickey O'Keefe)

Top notch.  Not much else to say.  It misses the number one slot simply because my number one choice is a more well-rounded (read: larger) ensemble.

1. The Social Network

(Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer, Max Minghella, Brenda Song, Rashida Jones, Rooney Mara, Denise Grayson, and John Getz)

From the younger members of the cast to the older, every scene was filled with great acting.  Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield, Armie Hammer, and Brenda Song are relative newcomers to the movie scene who all made great cinematic first (or close to first time) impressions to me in this film.