2011 in film

The following is an overview of the events of 2011 in film, including the highest-grossing films, film festivals, award ceremonies and a list of films released and notable deaths.

More film sequels were released in 2011 than any other year before it, with 28 sequels released.

Highest-grossing films
These are the top grossing films that were released in 2011.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides grossed $1,045,713,802, becoming the eighth film to have surpassed the billion dollar mark, the second in the series to have done so, and the 13th highest-grossing film of all time. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 grossed $1,341,511,219, becoming the ninth film to have surpassed the billion dollar mark, the 4th highest-grossing film of all time, the highest-grossing film in the Harry Potter franchise, and the highest of 2011 as a whole. In the USA and Canada, it set a single-day and opening-weekend record, with $91,071,119 and $169,189,427 respectively. In addition, the film set a worldwide opening-weekend record with $483,189,427. Transformers: Dark of the Moon grossed $1,123,794,079 and is the 7th highest-grossing film of all time, the tenth film to have surpassed the billion dollar mark, and the highest-grossing in the series. This was the first year when three films grossed more than $1 billion worldwide and also the first time when at least ten films grossed more than $500 million worldwide (in eleventh and twelfth place, Puss in Boots and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows also earned over $500 million making it twelve films to do so).

Events

 * 16th Empire Awards
 * 17th Screen Actors Guild Awards
 * 24th European Film Awards
 * 31st Golden Raspberry Awards
 * 68th Golden Globe Awards
 * 64th British Academy Film Awards
 * 68th Venice International Film Festival
 * 83rd Academy Awards
 * 2011 MTV Movie Awards
 * 2011 Sundance Film Festival

Film festival premieres
The following is a list of films that had their world premiere in 2011 in a film festival.


 * 61st Berlin International Film Festival
 * Come Rain, Come Shine (사랑한다, 사랑하지 않는다)
 * Coriolanus
 * The Forgiveness of Blood
 * Tales of the Night
 * If Not Us, Who?
 * Lipstikka
 * Our Grand Despair
 * Pina
 * The Turin Horse
 * Yelling to the Sky
 * 2011 Fantasia International Film Festival
 * Marianne


 * 2011 Palm Springs International Film Festival
 * The Last Lions
 * Little Murder
 * Thanks
 * 27th Sundance Film Festival
 * Cedar Rapids
 * Crime After Crime
 * The Future
 * The Art of Getting By
 * The Off Hours
 * Win Win
 * 2011 Cannes Film Festival
 * The Tree of Life
 * Midnight in Paris