Highest grossing movies of 2011 that are oscar winners or nominees

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close(2011)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A nine-year-old amateur inventor, Francophile, and pacifist searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.



The Iron Lady(2011)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 71

An elderly Margaret Thatcher talks to the imagined presence of her recently deceased husband as she struggles to come to terms with his death while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister, intervene.



Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy(2011)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 87

In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet Agent within MI6.



My Week with Marilyn(2011)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during the production of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957).



Warrior(2011)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 36

The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament - a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother.



The Tree of Life(2011)

Combined Rating:
91
Combined Critics Rating: 88

The story of a family in Waco, Texas in 1956. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents' conflicting teachings.



Jane Eyre(2011)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A mousy governess who softens the heart of her employer soon discovers that he's hiding a terrible secret.



Margin Call(2011)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 79

Follows the key people at an investment bank, over a 24-hour period, during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.



Anonymous(2011)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 67

The theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays. Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I and the Essex rebellion against her.



Albert Nobbs(2011)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th-century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most elegant hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living.



Monsieur Lazhar(2011)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 78

At a Montréal public grade school, an Algerian immigrant is hired to replace a popular teacher who committed suicide in her classroom. While helping his students deal with their grief, his own recent loss is revealed.



In Darkness(2011)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the German-occupied Polish city of Lvov.



W.E.(2011)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 55

The affair between King Edward VIII and American divorcée Wallis Simpson, and a contemporary romance between a married woman and a Russian security guard.




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