With the year drawing to a close, In Contention kicks off its eighth annual, two-part “Top 10 Shots of the Year” feature with a look at five of the most dynamic single film frames of the year.

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If you look here and there on the web these days, you might notice that more than a few outlets are now cooking up their own “top 10 shots of the year” pieces. Here we are in our seventh year of producing such a collective, and it’s nice to see others catch on to the idea: singular images and the thematic impact they make are as subjective as anything else we end up praising at the end of a given year.

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Wrapping up the year in individual film images.

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I decided to do something a little different with the shots column this year. I thought I’d go with a metric of instinct rather than analysis.

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As we inch closer to the Oscar ceremony that will signal the true end of the 2011 film year, we reflect on the best single images captured on film (or digital drive, if you will). Today we wrap things up in the second part of this annual piece, offering up the five best shots of the year.

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They’re heeeeeeerrrrreeeeee. That’s right, the images have been assembled, the conversations have been had and the top 10 shots of 2011 are ready for their close-up (or over the shoulder, or two-shot, or insert, etc.).

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