The Year in Film: 2012

Best Picture
#1: The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr)
#2: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
#3: Holy Motors (Léos Carax)
#4: This Is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
#5: Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present (Matthew Akers)
#6: Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow)
#7: Two Years at Sea (Ben Rivers)
#8: The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies)
#9: The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
#10: Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)

Honorable Mentions: The Cabin in the Woods (Drew Goddard), Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari), Post Mortem (Pablo Larraín), Crazy Horse (Frederick Wiseman), Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin), The Color Wheel (Alex Ross Perry), Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh), Tabu (Miguel Gomes), Argo (Ben Affleck), How to Survive a Plague (David France), Goodbye First Love (Mia Hansen-Løve), The Miners’ Hymns (Bill Morrison), Dreams of a Life (Carol Morley), Elena (Andrei Zvyagintsev), Rust and Bone (Jacques Audiard), Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell), The Law in These Parts (Ra’anan Alexandrowicz), and Oki’s Movie (Hong Sang-soo).

Best Director
#1: Béla Tarr (The Turin Horse)
#2: Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia)
#3: Léos Carax (Holy Motors)
#4: Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master)
#5: Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)

Best Actor
#1: Denis Lavant (Holy Motors)
#2: Alfredo Castro (Post Mortem)
#3: Jean-Louis Trintignant (Amour)
#4: Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
#5: Muhammet Uzuner (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia)

Best Actress
#1: Rachel Weisz (The Deep Blue Sea)
#2: Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)
#3: Emmanuelle Riva (Amour)
#4: Greta Gerwig (Damsels in Distress)
#5: Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)

Best Supporting Actor
#1: Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)
#2: Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)
#3: Leonardo DiCaprio (Django Unchained)
#4: Ezra Miller (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
#5: Matthew McConaughey (Magic Mike)

Best Supporting Actress
#1: Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables)
#2: Amy Adams (The Master)
#3: Ann Dowd (Compliance)
#4: Isabelle Huppert (Amour)
#5: Ann Mitchell (The Deep Blue Sea)

Best Original Screenplay
#1: The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
#2: Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)
#3: Zero Dark Thirty (Mark Boal)
#4: Holy Motors (Léos Carax)
#5: Damsels in Distress (Whit Stillman)

Best Adapted Screenplay
#1: The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies)
#2: Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell)
#3: Argo (Chris Terrio)
#4: Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold and Olivia Hetreed)
#5: The Perks of Being a Wallflower(Stephen Chbosky)

Best Cinematography
#1: Fred Kelemen (The Turin Horse)
#2: Gökhan Tiryaki (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia)
#3: Ron Fricke (Samsara)
#4: Robert Richardson (Django Unchained)
#5: Rui Poças (Tabu)

Best Film Editing
#1: Magic Mike
#2: Django Unchained
#3: Haywire
#4: Headhunters
#5: Zero Dark Thirty

Best Score
#1: Zero Dark Thirty (Alexandre Desplat)
#2: The Master (Jonny Greenwood)
#3: Beasts of the Southern Wild (Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin)
#4: Haywire (David Holmes)
#5: Looper (Nathan Johnson)

Best Song
#1: “Freedom” (Django Unchained)
#2: “Breath of Life” (Snow White and the Huntsman)
#3: “I Gave You All” (Wuthering Heights)
#4: “Who Did That to You?” (Django Unchained)
#5: “Dull Tool” (This Is 40)

Best Production Design
#1: Holy Motors
#2: Anna Karenina
#3: Django Unchained
#4: Les Misérables
#5: Magic Mike

Best Costume Design
#1: Anna Karenina
#2: Les Misérables
#3: Django Unchained
#4: Holy Motors
#5: Lincoln

Best Makeup
#1: Holy Motors
#2: Django Unchained
#3: Les Misérables
#4: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
#5: Dark Shadows

Best Sound
#1: Magic Mike
#2: Django Unchained
#3: Holy Motors
#4: Les Misérables
#5: Haywire

Best Visual Effects
#1: Life of Pi
#2: Holy Motors
#3: The Cabin in the Woods
#4: Snow White and the Huntsman
#5: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey