National Board of Review Awards 2012

The 84th National Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in film for 2012, were held on January 8, 2013.^[1]

Films listed alphabetically except top, which is ranked as Best Film of the Year:

Zero Dark Thirty

• Argo
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Django Unchained
• Les Misérables
• Lincoln
• Looper
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Promised Land
• Silver Linings Playbook

Best Film:

• Zero Dark Thirty

Best Director:

• Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty

Best Actor:

• Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook

Best Actress:

• Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty

Best Supporting Actor:

• Leonardo DiCaprio – Django Unchained

Best Supporting Actress:

• Ann Dowd – Compliance

Best Original Screenplay:

• Rian Johnson – Looper

Best Adapted Screenplay:

• David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook

Best Animated Feature:

• Wreck-It Ralph

Best Foreign Language Film:

• Amour

Best Documentary:

• Searching for Sugar Man

Best Ensemble:

• Les Misérables

Breakthrough Actor:

• Tom Holland – The Impossible

Breakthrough Actress:

• Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Directorial Debut:

• Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild

Special Achievement in Filmmaking:

• Ben Affleck – Argo

William K. Everson Film History Award:

• 50 Years of Bond Films

Spotlight Award:

• John Goodman, for Argo, Flight, ParaNorman, Trouble with the Curve

NBR Freedom of Expression:

• The Central Park Five
• Promised Land

Amour

• Barbara
• The Intouchables
• The Kid with a Bike
• No
• War Witch

Searching for Sugar Man

• Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
• Detropia
• The Gatekeepers
• The Invisible War
• Only the Young

• Arbitrage
• Bernie
• Compliance
• End of Watch
• Hello I Must Be Going
• Little Birds
• Moonrise Kingdom
• On the Road
• Quartet
• Sleepwalk with Me