2012 New York Film Critics Circle Awards

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''