Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin shekarun 2010, Foster ya mai da hankali kan jagorantar kuma ya ɗauki ƙananan rawar gani. A watan Fabrairun 2011, ta karbi bakuncin lambar yabo ta César karo na 36
a Faransa, kuma a watan da ya biyo baya ta fito da fim dinta na uku, "The Beaver" (2011), game da wani mutum mai baƙin ciki wanda ya haɓaka wani nau'i na mutum dangane da ɗan tsana na hannun beaver. Tauraruwar tauraruwar "Maverick" Mel Gibson kuma ta nuna kanta, Anton Yelchin da Jennifer Lawrence a cikin goyon baya a matsayin danginsa. Foster ya kira samar da shi "mai yiwuwa shine gwagwarmayar gwagwarmaya mafi girma a cikin sana'a na", a wani ɓangare saboda nauyin fim din, amma kuma saboda rikice-rikicen da Gibson ya haifar lokacin da aka zarge shi da cin zarafin gida da kuma yin maganganun anti-Semitic, wariyar launin fata, da kuma jima'i. Fim din ya sami bita iri-iri, kuma ya gaza a ofishin akwatin, galibi saboda wannan rikici. A shekara ta 2011, Foster ya kuma bayyana a matsayin wani ɓangare na 'yan wasan kwaikwayo tare da John C. Reilly, Kate Winslet da Christoph Waltz a cikin wasan kwaikwayo na Roman Polanski "Carnage", wanda ƙoƙarin iyaye na tsakiya don magance wani abin da ya faru tsakanin' ya'yansu ya shiga cikin rikici. An fara shi ne da sake dubawa mai kyau kuma ya sami Foster lambar yabo ta Golden Globe a matsayin Mafi kyawun 'Yar wasan kwaikwayo.