2012 Ranked/Rated
Best Picture: The Master
Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson for The Master
Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix for The Master
Best Actress: Naomi Watts for The Impossible
Best Supporting Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman for The Master
Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway for Les Miserables
Original Screenplay: Moonrise Kingdom
Adapted Screenplay: Silver Linings Playbook
Best Editing: The Master
Best Cinematography: Tabu
Best Production Design: Moonrise Kingdom
Best Sound: The Impossible
Best Score: The Master
Best Song: Robot & Frank - "Fell On Your Head"
Best Documentary: Searching For Sugar Man
Best Foreign Language: Tabu
Best Animation: Wreck-It Ralph
#1-#7: 9/10
#8-#21: 8/10
#22-#41: 7/10
#42-#53: 6/10
#54-#56: 5/10
#57-#59: 4/10
#60: 3/10
NOTE: I moved Once Upon A Time In Anatolia to 2011 so the lineups aren't exact.
Top 10 to see:
1. Laurence Anyways
2. In The House
3. Ernest and Celestine
4. Chicken With Plums
5. Sightseers
6. Rust and Bone
7. 5 Broken Cameras
8. Take This Waltz
9. End of Watch
10. Beyond the Hills
Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson for The Master
Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix for The Master
Best Actress: Naomi Watts for The Impossible
Best Supporting Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman for The Master
Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway for Les Miserables
Original Screenplay: Moonrise Kingdom
Adapted Screenplay: Silver Linings Playbook
Best Editing: The Master
Best Cinematography: Tabu
Best Production Design: Moonrise Kingdom
Best Sound: The Impossible
Best Score: The Master
Best Song: Robot & Frank - "Fell On Your Head"
Best Documentary: Searching For Sugar Man
Best Foreign Language: Tabu
Best Animation: Wreck-It Ralph
#1-#7: 9/10
#8-#21: 8/10
#22-#41: 7/10
#42-#53: 6/10
#54-#56: 5/10
#57-#59: 4/10
#60: 3/10
NOTE: I moved Once Upon A Time In Anatolia to 2011 so the lineups aren't exact.
Top 10 to see:
1. Laurence Anyways
2. In The House
3. Ernest and Celestine
4. Chicken With Plums
5. Sightseers
6. Rust and Bone
7. 5 Broken Cameras
8. Take This Waltz
9. End of Watch
10. Beyond the Hills
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- DirectorPaul Thomas AndersonStarsJoaquin PhoenixPhilip Seymour HoffmanAmy AdamsA Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by the Cause and its charismatic leader.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1560747/reviews-330
Picture Director - Paul Thomas Anderson Actor - Joaquin Phoenix Supporting Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman
Supporting Actress - Amy Adams (#3)
Original Screenplay (#2)
Cinematography (#2)
Editing
Production Design (#2)
Sound (#5)
Score
6 wins/11 noms
9/10 - DirectorWes AndersonStarsJared GilmanKara HaywardBruce WillisTwo 12-year-olds, who live on an island, fall in love with each other and elope into the wilderness. While people set out on a search mission, a violent storm approaching them catches their attention.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1748122/reviews-304
Picture (#2)
Director - Wes Anderson (#2)
Actress - Kara Hayward (#5)
Original Screenplay
Editing (#5)
Production Design Costume Design
3 wins/7 noms
9/10 - DirectorMiguel GomesStarsTelmo ChurroMiguel GomesHortêncílio AquinaA restless retired woman teams up with her deceased neighbor's maid to seek out a man who has a secret connection to her past life as a farm owner at the foothill of Mount Tabu in Africa.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2153963/reviews-15
Picture (#3)
Director - Miguel Gomes (#3)
Cinematography
Sound (#3)
Foreign Language
2 wins/5 noms
9/10 - DirectorPablo BergerStarsMaribel VerdúEmilio GaviraDaniel Giménez CachoA twist on the Snow White fairy tale that is set in 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1854513/reviews-14
Picture (#4)
Director - Pablo Berger (#4)
Adapted Screenplay (#2)
Score (#2)
Foreign Language (#2)
5 noms
9/10 - DirectorAndrew DominikStarsBrad PittRay LiottaRichard JenkinsJackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1764234/reviews-24
Supporting Actor - Scoot McNairy (#2)
Editing (#2)
Sound (#2)
3 noms
9/10 - DirectorRian JohnsonStarsJoseph Gordon-LevittBruce WillisEmily BluntIn 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276104/reviews-273
Original Screenplay (#3)
1 nom
9/10 - DirectorDavid O. RussellStarsBradley CooperJennifer LawrenceRobert De NiroAfter a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1045658/reviews-511
Actor - Bradley Cooper (#4)
Actress - Jennifer Lawrence (#4)
Supporting Actor - Robert De Niro (#5)
Adapted Screenplay
1 win/4 noms
8/10 - DirectorJ.A. BayonaStarsNaomi WattsEwan McGregorTom HollandThe story of a tourist family in Thailand caught in the destruction and chaotic aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1649419/reviews-151
Actress - Naomi Watts
Supporting Actor - Ewan McGregor (#3)
Cinematography (#5)
Editing (#3)
Visual Effects (#4)
Sound
2 wins/6 noms
8/10 - DirectorTom HooperStarsHugh JackmanRussell CroweAnne HathawayIn 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter. The decision changes their lives forever.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1707386/reviews-707
Actor - Hugh Jackman (#3)
Supporting Actress - Anne Hathaway
Supporting Actress - Samantha Barks (#5)
Adapted Screenplay (#3)
Production Design (#4)
Costume Design (#3)
1 win/6 noms
8/10 - DirectorNikolaj ArcelStarsAlicia VikanderMads MikkelsenMikkel Boe FølsgaardA young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276419/reviews-50
Adapted Screenplay (#4)
Costume Design (#5)
Foreign Language (#4)
3 noms
8/10 - DirectorRich MooreStarsJohn C. ReillyJack McBrayerJane LynchA video game villain wants to be a hero and sets out to fulfill his dream, but his quest brings havoc to the whole arcade where he lives.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772341/reviews-272
Special Achievement In Animation - Runner-Up
1 nom
8/10 - DirectorMalik BendjelloulStarsRodriguezStephen 'Sugar' SegermanDennis CoffeyTwo South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock n roller, Rodriguez.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2125608/reviews-87
Documentary
1 win
8/10 - DirectorMojtaba MirtahmasbJafar PanahiStarsJafar PanahiIgiMrs. GheiratIt's been months since Jafar Panahi, stuck in jail, has been awaiting a verdict by the appeals court. By depicting a day in his life, Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb try to portray the deprivations looming in contemporary Iranian cinema.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1667905/reviews-15
Documentary (#2)
1 nom
8/10 - DirectorChristopher KenneallyStarsDerek AmbrosiMichael BallhausAndrzej BartkowiakThe documentary investigates the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2014338/reviews-25
Documentary (#3)
1 nom
8/10 - DirectorJake SchreierStarsPeter SarsgaardFrank LangellaSusan SarandonIn the near future, an ex-jewel thief receives a gift from his son: a robot butler programmed to look after him. But soon the two companions try their luck as a heist team.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1990314/reviews-53
Original Screenplay (#4)
Special Achievement In Songwriting: "Fell On Your Head"
1 win/2 noms
8/10 - DirectorRon FrickeStarsBalinese Tari Legong DancersNi Made Megahadi PratiwiPuti Sri Candra DewiFilmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770802/reviews-48
Documentary (#4)
1 nom
8/10 - DirectorJoachim TrierStarsAnders Danielsen LieHans Olav BrennerIngrid OlavaOne day in the life of Anders, a young recovering drug addict, who takes a brief leave from his treatment center to interview for a job and catch up with old friends in Oslo.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1736633/reviews-24
Foreign Language (#5)
1 nom
8/10 - DirectorBenh ZeitlinStarsQuvenzhané WallisDwight HenryLevy EasterlyFaced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2125435/reviews-226
Adapted Screenplay (#5)
Score (#3)
2 noms
8/10 - DirectorBart LaytonStarsAdam O'BrianNicholas BarclayCarey GibsonA documentary centered on a young man in Spain who claims to a grieving Texas family that he is their 16-year-old son who has been missing for 3 years.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1966604/reviews-47
Documentary (#5)
1 nom
8/10 - DirectorMichael HanekeStarsJean-Louis TrintignantEmmanuelle RivaIsabelle HuppertGeorges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1602620/reviews-140
Actor - Jean-Louis Trintignant (#5)
Actress - Emmanuelle Riva (#2)
2 noms
8/10 - DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsJamie FoxxChristoph WaltzLeonardo DiCaprioWith the help of a German bounty-hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal plantation owner in Mississippi.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1853728/reviews-915
Costume Design (#4)
1 nom
7/10 - DirectorSam MendesStarsDaniel CraigJavier BardemNaomie HarrisJames Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1074638/reviews-1413
Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem (#4)
Cinematography (#4)
Visual Effects (#5)
Sound (#4)
Score (#5)
5 noms
7/10 - DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsMads MikkelsenThomas Bo LarsenAnnika WedderkoppA teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son's custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2106476/reviews-109
7/10 - DirectorMatthew LillardStarsJacob WysockiMatt O'LearyBilly CampbellA dropout comes to the aid of a chubby and suicidal high-school kid by recruiting him as the drummer for his upstart punk-rock band.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1995304/reviews-9
7/10 - DirectorTom TykwerLana WachowskiLilly WachowskiStarsTom HanksHalle BerryHugh GrantAn exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1371111/reviews-615
Supporting Actor - Halle Berry (#4)
Production Design (#5)
Score (#4)
3 noms
7/10 - DirectorPhil LordChristopher MillerStarsJonah HillChanning TatumIce CubeA pair of underachieving cops are sent back to a local high school to blend in and bring down a synthetic drug ring.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232829/reviews-288
7/10 - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsDaniel Day-LewisSally FieldDavid StrathairnAs the Civil War rages on, U.S President Abraham Lincoln struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on his decision to emancipate the slaves.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443272/reviews-613
Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis (#2)
1 nom
7/10 - DirectorJoss WhedonStarsRobert Downey Jr.Chris EvansScarlett JohanssonEarth's mightiest heroes must come together and learn to fight as a team if they are going to stop the mischievous Loki and his alien army from enslaving humanity.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/reviews-1586
Visual Effects
1 win
7/10 - DirectorJoe WrightStarsKeira KnightleyJude LawAaron Taylor-JohnsonIn late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1781769/reviews-163
Production Design (#3)
Costume Design (#2)
2 noms
7/10 - DirectorMartin McDonaghStarsColin FarrellWoody HarrelsonSam RockwellA struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1931533/reviews-216
7/10 - DirectorGus Van SantStarsMatt DamonFrances McDormandJohn KrasinskiA salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2091473/reviews-67
7/10 - DirectorBen AffleckStarsBen AffleckBryan CranstonJohn GoodmanActing under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024648/reviews-578
Editing (#4)
1 nom
7/10 - DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsMatthew McConaugheyEmile HirschJuno TempleWhen a debt puts a young man's life in danger, he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the insurance.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1726669/reviews-171
7/10 - DirectorDrew GoddardStarsKristen ConnollyChris HemsworthAnna HutchisonFive college friends head out to a remote cabin for a getaway, but things don't go as planned when they start getting killed. They soon discover that there is more to the cabin than it seems.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1259521/reviews-842
7/10 - DirectorJames PonsoldtStarsMary Elizabeth WinsteadAaron PaulNick OffermanA married couple whose bond is built on a mutual love of alcohol gets their relationship put to the test when the wife decides to get sober.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2063781/reviews-26
Actress - Mary Elizabeth Winstead (#3)
1 nom
7/10 - DirectorAng LeeStarsSuraj SharmaIrrfan KhanAdil HussainA young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454876/reviews-618
Visual Effects (#2)
1 nom
7/10 - DirectorSeth MacFarlaneStarsMark WahlbergMila KunisSeth MacFarlaneJohn Bennett, a man whose childhood wish of bringing his teddy bear to life came true, now must decide between keeping the relationship with the bear, Ted or his girlfriend, Lori.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637725/reviews-546
7/10 - DirectorPablo LarraínStarsGael García BernalAlfredo CastroAntonia ZegersAn advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2059255/reviews-29
7/10 - DirectorLeos CaraxStarsDenis LavantEdith ScobEva MendesA man boards a limousine to be driven to his day's work: nine mysterious "appointments."Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2076220/reviews-81
7/10 - DirectorDon CoscarelliStarsChase WilliamsonRob MayesPaul GiamattiA new street drug that sends its users across time and dimensions has one drawback: some people return no longer human. Can two college drop-outs save humanity from this silent, otherworldly invasion?Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1783732/reviews-7
7/10 - DirectorBarry SonnenfeldStarsWill SmithTommy Lee JonesJosh BrolinAgent J travels in time to M.I.B.'s early days in 1969 to stop an alien from assassinating his friend Agent K and changing history.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1409024/reviews-325
6/10 - DirectorBen LewinStarsJohn HawkesHelen HuntWilliam H. MacyA man in an iron lung who wishes to lose his virginity contacts a professional sex surrogate with the help of his therapist and priest.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1866249/reviews-97
6/10 - DirectorKathryn BigelowStarsJessica ChastainJoel EdgertonChris PrattA chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1790885/reviews-535
6/10 - DirectorSacha GervasiStarsAnthony HopkinsHelen MirrenScarlett JohanssonThe relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho (1960) in 1959 is explored.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0975645/reviews-152
6/10 - DirectorChristopher NolanStarsChristian BaleTom HardyAnne HathawayEight years after the Joker's reign of chaos, Batman is coerced out of exile with the assistance of the mysterious Selina Kyle in order to defend Gotham City from the vicious guerrilla terrorist Bane.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/reviews-2649
6/10 - DirectorJason MooreStarsAnna KendrickBrittany SnowRebel WilsonBeca, a freshman at Barden University, is cajoled into joining The Bellas, her school's all-girls singing group. Injecting some much needed energy into their repertoire, The Bellas take on their male rivals in a campus competition.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981677/reviews-190
6/10 - DirectorPeter JacksonStarsMartin FreemanIan McKellenRichard ArmitageA reluctant Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, sets out to the Lonely Mountain with a spirited group of dwarves to reclaim their mountain home and the gold within it from the dragon Smaug.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903624/reviews-1289
6/10 - DirectorTony GilroyStarsJeremy RennerRachel WeiszEdward NortonAn expansion of the universe from Robert Ludlum's novels, centered on a new hero whose stakes have been triggered by the events of the previous three films.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194173/reviews-451
6/10 - DirectorGareth EvansStarsIko UwaisAnanda GeorgeRay SahetapyA S.W.A.T. team becomes trapped in a tenement run by a ruthless mobster and his army of killers and thugs.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1899353/reviews-237
6/10 - DirectorRidley ScottStarsNoomi RapaceLogan Marshall-GreenMichael FassbenderFollowing clues to the origin of mankind, a team finds a structure on a distant moon, but they soon realize they are not alone.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446714/reviews-2208
Visual Effects (#3)
1 nom
6/10 - DirectorNicholas JareckiStarsRichard GereSusan SarandonBrit MarlingA troubled hedge fund magnate desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1764183/reviews-119
6/10 - DirectorJohn HillcoatStarsTom HardyShia LaBeoufGuy PearceSet in Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a trio of bootlegging brothers are threatened by a new special deputy and other authorities angling for a cut of their profits.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1212450/reviews-230
6/10 - DirectorLarry CharlesStarsSacha Baron CohenAnna FarisJohn C. ReillyThe heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1645170/reviews-278
5/10 - DirectorRichard LinklaterStarsJack BlackShirley MacLaineMatthew McConaugheyIn small-town Texas, an affable mortician strikes up a friendship with a wealthy widow, though when she starts to become controlling, he goes to great lengths to separate himself from her grasp.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1704573/reviews-110
5/10 - DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsDenzel WashingtonNadine VelazquezDon CheadleTroubling questions arise after airline pilot Whip Whitaker makes a miracle landing after a mid-air catastrophe.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1907668/reviews-371
5/10 - DirectorGary RossStarsJennifer LawrenceJosh HutchersonLiam HemsworthKatniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games: a televised competition in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to fight to the death.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392170/reviews-1771
4/10 - DirectorMark AndrewsBrenda ChapmanSteve PurcellStarsKelly MacdonaldBilly ConnollyEmma ThompsonDetermined to make her own path in life, Princess Merida defies a custom that brings chaos to her kingdom. Granted one wish, Merida must rely on her bravery and her archery skills to undo a beastly curse.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1217209/reviews-386
4/10 - DirectorMarc WebbStarsAndrew GarfieldEmma StoneRhys IfansAfter Peter Parker is bitten by a genetically altered spider, he gains newfound, spider-like powers and ventures out to save the city from the machinations of a mysterious reptilian foe.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0948470/reviews-1170
4/10 - DirectorStephen ChboskyStarsLogan LermanEmma WatsonEzra MillerCharlie, a 15-year-old introvert, enters high school and is nervous about his new life. When he befriends his seniors, he learns to cope with his friend's suicide and his tumultuous past.Review: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1659337/reviews-284
3/10