2012 New York Film Critics Circle Awards



78th NYFCC Awards January 7, 2013

Best Picture: Zero Dark Thirty

The 78th New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2012, were announced on 3 December 2012 and presented on 7 January 2013.

Winners



 * Best Film:
 * Zero Dark Thirty
 * Runners-up: Argo and The Master
 * Best Director:
 * Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty
 * Runners-up: Ben Affleck – Argo and Paul Thomas Anderson – The Master
 * Best Actor:
 * Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
 * Runners-up: Jack Black – Bernie, Denis Lavant – Holy Motors, and Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
 * Best Actress:
 * Rachel Weisz – The Deep Blue Sea
 * Runners-up: Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty, Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games and Silver Linings Playbook, and Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
 * Best Supporting Actor:
 * Matthew McConaughey – Bernie and Magic Mike
 * Runners-up: Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln and Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained
 * Best Supporting Actress:
 * Sally Field – Lincoln
 * Runner-up: Anne Hathaway – The Dark Knight Rises and Les Misérables
 * Best Screenplay:
 * Tony Kushner – Lincoln
 * Runners-up: Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola – Moonrise Kingdom and Mark Boal – Zero Dark Thirty
 * Best Animated Film:
 * Frankenweenie
 * Runners-up: Brave and ParaNorman
 * Best Cinematography:
 * Greig Fraser – Zero Dark Thirty
 * Runner-up: Mihai Mălaimare Jr. – The Master
 * Best Foreign Language Film:
 * Amour • Austria / France / Germany
 * Runners-up: Holy Motors • France / Germany and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da) • Bosnia and Herzegovina / Turkey
 * Best Non-Fiction Film:
 * The Central Park Five
 * Runners-up: The Gatekeepers and This Is Not a Film
 * Best First Film:
 * David France – How to Survive a Plague
 * Runner-up: Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild