What Was Your Favorite Movie of 2011?

With talks about Oscar nominations in full swing, it’s time to look back at standout films of 2011.

professors complied a list of their favorites from 2011, but we want to know: What was your favorite film from 2011? Share your opinions in the comments.

Here's what the Emory professors had to say:

“The Descendants”: “Alexander Payne returns (seven years after “Sideways”) with another compelling and compassionate dismantling of the overconfident American middle-aged male.” (Matthew H. Bernstein)

“Drive”: “Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn’s crime-centered plot about an unnamed “wheel man”could have easily relied just on action, suspense and violence. While all those elements are there in spades, the film also carefully builds a strangely romantic mood of longing amidst obstacles.” (Kevin Cryderman)

“Hugo”: “Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of Brian Selznick’s astounding young adult novel "The Adventures of Hugo Cabret” pays homage to two of the director’s greatest passions, film history and film preservation.” (Matthew H. Bernstein)

“The Ides of March” and “Moneyball”: “Both films are worthy of Top Ten status not just because they are well made, and offer fascinating and true-to-life portraits of their respective institutional arenas, but because more than any other films made this past year, they tell us about where our country is in 2011.” (Michele Schreiber)

“Like Crazy”: “Anna (Felicity Jones) and Jacob (Anton Yelchin) fall wildly in love as college seniors in Los Angeles. He’s a local. She’s a British exchange student. Anna’s visa complications lead to a painful intercontinental relationship and like in life, reality intervenes.” (Amy Aidman)

“Martha Marcy May Marlene”: “Sean Durkin’s first feature... follows Martha (Elizabeth Olsen), a troubled teenager, as she attempts to re-adjust after two years in a cult.” (William Brown)

“Melancholia”: “'Melancholia' opens with slow motion images of a world where gravity is reversed and electricity flows out of power lines. It’s pure visual poetry. Lars von Trier, who suffers from depression, spins a tale about a rogue asteroid named Melancholia on a collision course with earth.” (William Brown)

“The Muppets”: “Even Statler and Waldorf, those famously finicky cranks that ruthlessly heckled every act trotted out on “The Muppet Show,” would have a hard time finding fault with the latest – and since the very first Muppet movie in 1979 – the best feature film starring Jim Henson’s menagerie.” (Eddy von Mueller)

“The Tree of Life”: “Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” aims to hold eternity, not in William Blake’s famous hour, but in 139 minutes. Intensely autobiographical, it tells the story of Jack O’Brien (played as an adult by Sean Penn and as a child by Hunter McCracken), torn between the grace of his mother (Jessica Chastain) and the aggressiveness of his father (Brad Pitt).” (Karla Oeler)

For more comments about each film, visit the Emory website.