The results of our second annual user poll are in ...

For the second consecutive year, we asked our users to vote for their favorite movies, videogames, TV shows, albums, and songs of the year. And, over the past month, 1,879 of you did just that. We asked users to list their five favorites of 2011 in each category, and then assigned a value of 5 points to each first-place vote, 4 points for second place, and so on down to 1 point for each fifth-place vote. The leading point-getters in each category are listed below.

For the first time, we also asked users to name the "most overrated" release of the year in each category, and those "winners" are also listed below.

Movies

It remains to be seen whether Nicholas Winding Refn's Drive will get any love from Academy voters, though the violent drama is doing fairly well on the awards circuit, and has appeared with regularity on critic top 10 lists. Metacritic users, however, see it as the clear #1 film of the year. Drive was named on 41% of all user ballots cast, and earned over 900 points more than the year's runner-up movie, critic favorite The Tree of Life.

Metacritic users actually agreed with professional critics on many of the year's best films; each group's consensus list of their 10 highest-ranked films shared six titles. Users preferred crowd pleases like the final Harry Potter installment, Midnight in Paris, Bridesmaids, and 50/50 more than critics did, while the professionals showed a greater preference for artier fare like Certified Copy, Take Shelter, The Artist, and the year's best-reviewed film, A Separation. (Admittedly, most of our users probably have not had a chance to even see the latter film; it opened just over a week ago and has yet to reach most cities.) The only two films in the users' consensus top 20 that rarely showed up on critic top 10 lists this year were X-Men: First Class and Source Code.

Games

There were far fewer votes cast for the "most overrated" film of the year then there were for the year's best films, but two films appear in the top five in both lists (with the divisive Tree of Life unsurprisingly at the top). Note that for this and the other "overrated" categories, we asked users to list one title (rather than rank five titles in order), so the tallies below are simply the number of times each film was named by users.

While Batman: Arkham City narrowly edged out The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim by a fraction of a point to take the official title of Metacritic's Game of the Year for 2011, our users preferred Skyrim, and by a wide margin. The latter was named on just over half of the ballots cast for games, while 43% of users listed Arkham City as one of their five favorites.

The latest installment in the Call of Duty franchise, meanwhile, fared relatively poorly with our users, barely cracking the top 10 in the best games list and scoring the most votes for the year's most overrated game.

Best Videogame of 2011 as Voted by Metacritic Users Game * Platforms Points 1 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 94 360 PC PS3 2,143 2 Batman: Arkham City 94 360 PC PS3 1,588 3 Portal 2 95 360 PC PS3 1,351 4 Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception 92 PS3 1,095 5 Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword 93 Wii 782 6 Battlefield 3 86 360 PC PS3 426 7 Deus Ex: Human Revolution 89 360 PC PS3 332 8 Dark Souls 89 360 PS3 301 9 L.A. Noire 87 360 PC PS3 290 10 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 82 360 PC PS3 Wii 280 11 Gears of War 3 91 360 277 12 FIFA Soccer 12 85 360 PC PS3 Wii 191 13 Minecraft 94 PC 182 14 Saints Row: The Third 84 360 PC PS3 181 15 Dead Space 2 89 360 PC PS3 156 16 Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings 88 PC 154 17 Assassin's Creed: Revelations 81 360 PC PS3 149 18 Bastion 87 360 PC 139 19 Super Mario 3D Land 90 3DS 131 20 Rayman Origins 89 360 PS3 Wii 102

Most Overrated Game of 2011 as Voted by Metacritic Users Game Mentions 1 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 300 2 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 144 3 Battlefield 3 50 4 The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword 24 5 Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception 23

TV shows

The Metacritic community has spoken, and 2011's top television show was ... Community, though by the tiniest of margins. The NBC comedy—currently on hiatus, though it will return at some point this season—edged out critical favorite Breaking Bad by just two points even though each collected over 3,400 total points. Community, however, appeared on 859 (46%) of all ballots cast in the TV category, while Breaking Bad was named on 822 (44%) of the ballots submitted.

How did the users' overall list compare to the preferences of professional TV critics in their year-end top 10 lists? Critics rated the PBS period drama Downton Abbey, CBS' The Good Wife, and the departed Friday Night Lights more more highly than our users did. Metacritic users, meanwhile, seemed to like Showtime's Dexter and AMC's The Walking Dead more than the professionals. As a group, however, users seemed to share many favorite programs with the critics.

Best Television Show of 2011 as Voted by Metacritic Users Show Points 1 Community (NBC) 3,478 2 Breaking Bad (AMC) 3,476 3 Parks and Recreation (NBC) 1,816 4 Game of Thrones (HBO) 1,529 5 Homeland (Showtime) 1,186 6 The Walking Dead (AMC) 1,018 7 Louie (FX) 898 8 Boardwalk Empire (HBO) 799 9 Modern Family (ABC) 774 10 Dexter (Showtime) 518 11 Justified (FX) 440 12 American Horror Story (FX) 394 13 Fringe (Fox) 322 14 How I Met Your Mother (CBS) 313 15 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (FX) 300 16 30 Rock (NBC) 293 17 The Big Bang Theory (CBS) 275 18 Downton Abbey (PBS) 248 19 Sons of Anarchy (FX) 223 20 New Girl (Fox) 215

Most Overrated TV Show of 2011 as Voted by Metacritic Users Show Mentions 1 Glee (Fox) 113 2 The Big Bang Theory (CBS) 102 3 Modern Family (ABC) 65 4 The Walking Dead (AMC) 62 5 Breaking Bad (AMC) 42

Music

While Metacritic users are certainly not alone among TV viewers in feeling disappointed by the past season of Glee, we suspect that the same fans who elevated Community to #1 above were at least partially responsible for The Big Bang Theory's #2 finish among the year's most overrated programs (the two shows shared a timeslot last year).

This year, PJ Harvey's Let England Shake has dominated the music critics' top 10 lists for album of the year, while Tom Waits finished 2011 with the highest-scoring album of the year, Bad As Me. The latter album, however, failed to crack our users' consensus top 20, while PJ Harvey's disc finished third in voting. Metacritic users, it seems, preferred Bon Iver's self-titled release, by an almost two-to-one margin over the next leading point-earner, Adele's massive hit 21.

In addition to the Tom Waits album, other critic favorites that were absent from the users' top 20 included Black Up by Shabazz Palaces, David Comes to Life by Fucked Up, and Smoke Ring for My Halo by Kurt Vile. Metacritic users, meanwhile, seemed to like Radiohead's The King of Limbs and The Black Keys' El Camino more than critics did. However, seven of the users' top 10 picks were also in the critics' consensus top 10.

Fans of NBC's Community made themselves felt in our album voting as well, nearly pushing Camp by Childish Gambino (the recording name of Community star Donald Glover) into the top 20; with 262 points, it just missed, finishing at #21.

Most Overrated Album of 2011 as Voted by Metacritic Users Album/Artist Mentions 1 21 76 by Adele 124 2 Bon Iver 86 by Bon Iver 84 3 Born This Way 71 by Lady Gaga 70 4 Watch the Throne 76 by Jay-Z and Kanye West 61 5 Let England Shake 86 by PJ Harvey 43

Yes, despite finishing #2 in points for the best album of 2011, Adele's 21 also topped the list of the year's most overrated albums. Adele is laughing all the way to the bank, though; 21 was the year's best-selling album by a huge margin. She's also the only artist to place two separate songs in our list of the 10 best tracks of 2011, as voted by Metacritic users. One of those songs, "Rolling in the Deep," actually predates 2011 by a month, but since it also appears on her 2011 album, we'll allow it.

Lana Del Rey's "Video Games" (certainly an appropriate enough song to appear on a Metacritic chart) isn't on any album, yet—it comes from her major label debut Born to Die, out later this month—making it the only non-album track to crack our top 10. And the overall #1 song among Metacritic users may seem like a bit of a surprise, since the French electronica outfit M83 is probably the most obscure band to place a song in our top 10. But "Midnight City" has already drawn acclaim around the web, topping lists of the year's best songs at several leading music publications (including Pitchfork and PopMatters).

Best Song of 2011 as Voted by Metacritic Users Song/Artist Listen Watch Points 1 "Midnight City" by M83

from the album Hurry Up, We're Dreaming Spotify Video 572 2 "Rolling in the Deep" by Adele

from the album 21 Spotify Video 540 3 "Holocene" by Bon Iver

from the album Bon Iver Spotify 362 4 "Someone Like You" by Adele

from the album 21 Video 315 5 "Video Games" by Lana Del Rey

from the single "Video Games" Spotify Video 206 6 "Ni**as in Paris" by Jay-Z and Kanye West

from the album Watch the Throne Spotify 199 7 "Lonely Boy" by The Black Keys

from the album El Camino Video 181 8 "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster the People

from the album Torches Spotify 169 9 "Lotus Flower" by Radiohead

from the album The King of Limbs Video 159 10 "Helplessness Blues" by Fleet Foxes

from the album Helplessness Blues Spotify 157

How did you do?

What do you think of the consensus picks of your fellow users? Let us know in the discussion section below, and don't forget to visit our Best of 2011 section for all of our year-end coverage.