2012: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. Zero Dark Thirty (dir: Kathryn Bigelow)

2. The Master (dir: Paul Thomas Anderson)

3. Holy Motors (dir: Leos Carax)

4. Moonrise Kingdom (dir: Wes Anderson)

5. Cosmopolis (dir: David Cronenberg)

6. Oslo, August 31 (dir: Joachim Trier; US release date)

7. The Kid with a Bike (dir: Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne; US release date)

8. Tabu (dir: Miguel Gomes)

9. Starlet (dir: Sean Baker)

10. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan; US release date)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Beasts of a Southern Wild (dir: Benh Zeitlin), Berberian Sound Studio (dir: Peter Strickland), Byzantium (dir: Neil Jordan), The Deep Blue Sea (dir: Terence Davies), Django Unchained (dir: Quentin Tarantino), The Five-Year Engagement (dir: Nicholas Stoller), How to Survive a Plague (dir: David France), It's Such a Beautiful Day (dir: Don Hertzfeld), Killer Joe (dir: William Friedkin), ParaNorman (dir: Chris Butler), and Wuthering Heights (dir: Andrea Arnold)

Best Film of the Year: Zero Dark Thirty
Director: Kathryn Bigelow Producers: Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Megan Ellison
US Distributor: Columbia Pictures

Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
2. Leos Carax, Holy Motors
3. Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master
4. Wes Anderson, Moonrise Kingdom
5. David Cronenberg, Cosmopolis

Best Actor
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
2. Anders Danielsen Lie, Oslo, August 31
3. Denis Lavant, Holy Motors
4. Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
5. Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln

Best Actress
Rachel Weisz, The Deep Blue Sea
2. Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
3. Dree Hemingway, Starlet
4. Juno Temple, Killer Joe
5. Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of a Southern Wild

Best Supporting Actor
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
2. Samuel L. Jackson, Django Unchained
3. Matthew McConaughey, Magic Mike
4. Bruce Willis, Moonrise Kingdom
5. Paul Giamatti, Cosmopolis

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, The Master
2. Sarah Gadon, Cosmopolis
3. Cecile De France, The Kid With a Bike
4. Allison Brie, The Five-Year Engagement
5. Kylie Minogue, Holy Motors

Best Original Screenplay
Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
2. The Five-Year Engagement — Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller
3. Django Unchained — Quentin Tarantino
4. ParaNorman – Chris Butler
5. Starlet — Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch

Best Adapted Screenplay
Oslo, August 31 – Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt
2. Wuthering Heights – Andrea Arnold and Olivia Hetreed
3. Argo – Chris Terio
4. Cosmopolis – David Cronenberg
5. The Deep Blue Sea – Terence Davies

Best Cinematography
Wuthering Heights — Robbie Ryan
2. The Master – Mihai Malaimare, Jr.
3. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia – Gokhan Tiryaki
4. The Turin Horse — Fred Kelemen
5. The Grey – Masanobu Takayangi

Best Original Score
The Master – Jonny Greenwood
2. Berberian Sound Studio – Broadcast
3. Haywire – David Holmes
4. Looper – Nathan Johnson
5. ParaNorman – Jon Brion

Best Film Editing
Zero Dark Thirty – William Goldenberg and Dylan Tichenor
2. Argo – William Goldenberg
3. Magic Mike – Steven Soderbergh
4. Moonrise Kingdom – Andrew Weisblum
5. Tabu – Telmo Churro and Miguel Gomes

Best Production Design
Anna Karenina – Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer
2. Beasts of the Southern Wild – Alex DiGerlando and Erin Staub
3. Moonrise Kingdom – Adam Stockhausen and Kris Moran
4. Cloud Atlas – Hugh Bateup, Uli Hanisch, Rebecca Alleway and Peter Walpole
5. Django Unchained – J. Michael Riva and Leslie Pope

Best Costume Design
Moonrise Kingdom — Kasia Walicka-Maimone
2. Anna Karenina — Jacqueline Durran
3. Cloud Atlas — Kym Barrett and Pierre Yves Gayraud
4. Holy Motors — Anaïs Romand
5. Lincoln — Joanna Johnston

Best Visual Effects
The Life of Pi
2. Prometheus
3. The Impossible

Best Sound
Zero Dark Thirty
2. Les Misérables
3. The Life of Pi

Best Makeup
Holy Motors
2. Cloud Atlas
3. Lincoln

Best Documentary Feature
The Queen of Versailles — Lauren Greenfield
2. How to Survive a Plague — David France
3. Tchoupitoulas — Tunner Ross and Bill Ross

Best Animated Feature
It's Such a Beautiful Day — Don Hertzfeld
2. ParaNorman — Chris Butler and Sam Fell
3. Wreck-It Ralph — Rich Moore

Best Limited Series:
This is England ‘88 — Shane Medows, Jack Thorne, and Rebekah Wray Rogers
2. Hatfield & McCoys — Kevin Reynolds, Ted Mann, Ronald Parker, Herb Nanas, Vlad Paunescu, Joanne Rubino, and Kevin Costner
3. Secret State — Ed Fraiman, Robert Jones, Chris Mullin, and Johann Knobel

Best Ensemble Cast: 
Django Unchained

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Don Hertzfeld, It’s Such a Beautiful Day

Best Ensemble Cast (dir: Quentin Tarantino; in alphabetical order): Dennis Christopher, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ato Essandoh, Jamie Foxx (pictured), Nichole Galicia, Walton Goggins, Samuel L. Jackson, Don Johnson, James Remar, Christoph Waltz and Kerry Washington (pictured)

Best First Feature: Don Hertzfeld’s It’s Such a Beautiful Day

RECAP

W I N S :

The Master — 4, Zero Dark Thirty — 4,
Anna Karenina — 1, The Deep Blue Sea — 1, Django Unchained — 1, Holy Motors — 1, It’s Such a Beautiful Day — 1, Life of Pi — 1, Moonrise Kingdom — 1, Oslo, August 31 — 1, The Queen of Versailles — 1, This Is England ‘88 — 1, Wuthering Heights — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

The Master — 7,
Holy Motors — 6, Moonrise Kingdom — 6, Cosmopolis — 5, Django Unchained — 5, Zero Dark Thirty — 5, Cloud Atlas — 3, Lincoln — 3, Oslo, August 31 — 3, ParaNorman — 3, Starlet — 3, Anna Karenina — 2, Beasts of the Southern Wild — 2, The Deep Blue Sea — 2, The Five-Year Engagement — 2, It’s Such a Beautiful Day — 2, The Kid with a Bike – 2, Life of Pi — 2, Magic Mike — 2, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia — 2, Tabu — 2, Wuthering Heights — 2

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