2012 Top 10 List and Awards

1. Compliance
2. Django Unchained
3. Life of Pi
4. Beasts of the Southern Wild
5. Moonrise Kingdom
6. Lincoln
7. The Silver Linings Playbook
8. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
9. Looper
10. The Avengers

Honorable Mention: Safety Not Guaranteed, Zero Dark Thirty, Flight, The Cabin in the Woods, The Hobbit

Director

*Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Craig Zobel, Compliance

Actor

Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Denzel Washington, Flight
Logan Lerman, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
*Daniel Day Lewis, Lincoln
Jared Gilman, Moonrise Kingdom

Actress

*Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Greta Gerwig, Damsels in Distress
Michelle Williams, Take This Waltz

Supporting Actor

*Leonardo Dicaprio, Django Unchained
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Ezra Miller, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Dwight Henry, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Supporting Actress

Kelly Reilly, Flight
Amy Adams, The Master
Sally Field, Lincoln
Emily Blunt, Looper
*Ann Dowd, Compliance

Adapted Screenplay

Beasts of the Southern Wild
Life of Pi
Lincoln
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Silver Linings Playbook

Original Screenplay

Cabin in the Woods
Compliance
Django Unchained
Looper
Moonrise Kingdom