The Artist – Thomas Langmann
The Descendants – Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor* Drive – Marc Platt and Adam Siegel* The Help – Michael Barnathan, Chris Columbus and Brunson Green* Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Robyn Slovo | Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist* Lynne Ramsay – We Need to Talk About Kevin* Martin Scorsese – Hugo* Nicolas Winding Refn – Drive* Tomas Alfredson – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy |
| Jean Dujardin – The Artist as George Valentin* Brad Pitt – Moneyball as Billy Beane* Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as George Smiley* George Clooney – The Descendants as Matthew King* Michael Fassbender – Shame as Brandon Sullivan | Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady as Margaret Thatcher* Bérénice Bejo – The Artist as Peppy Miller* Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn as Marilyn Monroe* Tilda Swinton – We Need to Talk About Kevin as Eva Khatchadourian* Viola Davis – The Help as Aibileen Clark |
| Christopher Plummer – Beginners as Hal Fields* Jim Broadbent – The Iron Lady as Denis Thatcher* Jonah Hill – Moneyball as Peter Brand* Kenneth Branagh – My Week with Marilyn as Laurence Olivier* Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Ides of March as Paul Zara | Octavia Spencer – The Help as Minerva Jackson* Carey Mulligan – Drive as Irene* Jessica Chastain – The Help as Celia Rae Foote* Judi Dench – My Week with Marilyn as Sybil Thorndike* Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids as Megan Price |
| The Artist – Michel Hazanavicius* Bridesmaids – Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig* The Guard – John Michael McDonagh* The Iron Lady – Abi Morgan* Midnight in Paris – Woody Allen | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan* The Descendants – Nat Faxon, Alexander Payne and Jim Rash* The Help – Tate Taylor* The Ides of March – George Clooney, Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon* Moneyball – Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian |
| The Artist – Guillaume Schiffman* The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Jeff Cronenweth* Hugo – Robert Richardson* Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Hoyte van Hoytema* War Horse – Janusz Kamiński | The Artist – Mark Bridges* Hugo – Sandy Powell* Jane Eyre – Michael O'Connor* My Week with Marilyn – Jill Taylor* Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Jacqueline Durran |
| Senna – Gregers Sall and Chris King* The Artist – Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius* Drive – Mat Newman* Hugo – Thelma Schoonmaker* Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Dino Jonsater | The Iron Lady – Mark Coulier, J. Roy Helland and Marese Langan* The Artist – Cydney Cornell and Julie Hewett* Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 – Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight and Lisa Tomblin* Hugo – Jan Archibald and Morag Ross* My Week with Marilyn – Jenny Shircore |
| The Artist – Ludovic Bource* The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross* Hugo – Howard Shore* Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Alberto Iglesias* War Horse – John Williams | Hugo – Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo* The Artist – Laurence Bennett and Robert Gould* Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 – Stuart Craig and Stephenie McMillan* Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Maria Djurkovic and Tatiana Macdonald* War Horse – Rick Carter and Lee Sandales |
| Hugo – Tom Fleischman, Eugene Gearty, John Midgley and Philip Stockton* The Artist – Michael Krikorian, Gerard Lamps and Nadine Muse* Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 – Mike Dowson, Stuart Hilliker, James Mather, Adam Scrivener and Stuart Wilson* Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Howard Bargroff, John Casali, Doug Cooper, Stephen Griffiths and Andy Shelley* War Horse – Richard Hymns, Tom Johnson, Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Stuart Wilson | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 – Tim Burke, Greg Butler, John Richardson and David Vickery* The Adventures of Tintin – Jamie Beard, Joe Letteri, Keith Miller and Wayne Stables* Hugo – Ben Grossmann, Alex Henning, Robert Legato and Joss Williams* Rise of the Planet of the Apes – Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon, Joe Letteri and R. Christopher White* War Horse – Neil Corbould and Ben Morris |
| Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Tomas Alfredson, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Bridget O'Connor, Robyn Slovo and Peter Straughan* My Week with Marilyn – Simon Curtis, Adrian Hodges, David Parfitt and Harvey Weinstein* Senna – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, James Gay-Rees, Asif Kapadia and Manish Pandey* Shame – Iain Canning, Steve McQueen, Abi Morgan and Emile Sherman* We Need to Talk About Kevin – Jennifer Fox, Rory Stewart Kinnear, Lynne Ramsay, Luc Roeg and Robert Salerno | Tyrannosaur – Paddy Considine and Diarmid Scrimshaw * Attack the Block – Joe Cornish * Black Pond – Sarah Brocklehurst, Tom Kingsley and Will Sharpe * Coriolanus – Ralph Fiennes * Submarine – Richard Ayoade |
| A Morning Stroll – Sue Goffe and Grant Orchard* Abuelas – Afarin Eghbal, Francesca Gardiner and Kasia Malipan* Bobby Yeah – Robert Morgan | Pitch Black Heist – John Maclean and Geradine O'Flynn* Chalk – Martina Amati, Ilaria Bernardini, James Bolton and Gavin Emerson* Mwansa the Great – Gabriel Gauchet and Rungano Nyoni* Only Sound Remains – Arash Ashtiani and Anshu Poddar* Two & Two – Babak Anvari, Gavin Cullen and Kit Fraser |
| Rango – Gore Verbinski* The Adventures of Tintin – Steven Spielberg* Arthur Christmas – Sarah Smith | Senna – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, James Gay-Rees, Asif Kapadia and Manish Pandey* George Harrison: Living in the Material World – Olivia Harrison, Martin Scorsese and Nigel Sinclair* Project Nim – Simon Chinn and James Marsh |
| The Skin I Live In – Agustín Almodóvar and Pedro Almodóvar* Incendies – Luc Déry, Kim McCraw and Denis Villeneuve* Pina – Gian-Piero Ringel and Wim Wenders* Potiche – Eric Altmayer, Nicolas Altmayer and François Ozon* A Separation – Asghar Farhadi | Adam Deacon* Chris Hemsworth* Chris O'Dowd* Eddie Redmayne* Tom Hiddleston |