Flawed or not, these are the ones that left the best impression on me so far in this lackluster year. The academy started nominating 10 last year and these would be my ten if the year was already over. There will likey be some changes in the next few months but I just thought I'd throw these out- since some of these are already out on DVD. There's still 4 months left to the year, so this isn't even close to final. In alphabetical order & not from first to last.
Cyrus
Fish Tank
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
The Ghost Writer
The Kids Are Alright
Inception
Un Prophete
Shutter Island
Toy Story 3
Winter's Bone
Runners Up;
Salt/Restrepo/Girl Who Played With Fire/MacGruber/Farewell/Piranha 3d/How To Train Your Dragon/Kick-Ass