Houston Film Critics Society Awards 2012

The 6th Houston Film Critics Society Awards were given out at a ceremony held at the Museum of Fine Arts on January 5, 2013. The nominations were announced on December 15, 2012.

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Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface.

Best Picture	Best Foreign Language Film
Argo * Beasts of the Southern Wild * Cloud Atlas * Django Unchained * Lincoln * The Master * Les Misérables * Moonrise Kingdom * Silver Linings Playbook * Zero Dark Thirty	Holy Motors • France/Germany * Amour • French * The Intouchables • French * A Royal Affair • Denmark * Rust and Bone • France/Belgium
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln * John Hawkes – The Sessions * Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables * Joaquin Phoenix – The Master * Denzel Washington – Flight	Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook * Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty * Emmanuelle Riva – Amour * Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild * Naomi Watts – The Impossible
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln * Alan Arkin – Argo * Javier Bardem – Skyfall * Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master * Matthew McConaughey – Magic Mike	Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables * Amy Adams – The Master * Judi Dench – Skyfall * Sally Field – Lincoln * Helen Hunt – The Sessions
Best Direction of a Motion Picture	Best Cinematography
Ben Affleck – Argo * Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained * Steven Spielberg – Lincoln * Tom Hooper – Les Misérables * Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty	Skyfall – Roger Deakins * Life of Pi – Claudio Miranda * Lincoln – Janusz Kamiński * The Master – Mihai Mălaimare Jr. * Les Misérables – Danny Cohen
Best Animated Feature Film	Best Documentary Feature
Wreck-It Ralph * Brave * Frankenweenie * ParaNorman * Rise of the Guardians	Searching for Sugar Man * Bully * The Central Park Five * The House I Live In * The Imposter * The Queen of Versailles
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
Cloud Atlas – Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek, and Tom Tykwer * Life of Pi – Mychael Danna * Hitchcock – Danny Elfman * The Master – Jonny Greenwood * Skyfall – Thomas Newman * Beasts of the Southern Wild – Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin * Lincoln – John Williams	"Skyfall" by Adele – Skyfall * "Learn Me Right" by Mumford & Sons and Birdy – Brave * "Song of the Lonely Mountain" by Neil Finn – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey * "Suddenly" by Claude-Michel Schönberg – Les Misérables * "Touch the Sky" by Alex Mandel and Mark Andrews – Brave
Best Screenplay	Worst Film
Lincoln – Tony Kushner * Argo – Chris Terrio * Looper – Rian Johnson * Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell * Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal	That's My Boy * Anna Karenina * Battleship * Prometheus * The Three Stooges

Individual awards

Lifetime Achievement Award

'''Robert Duvall'''

Humanitarian Award

'''Adam Yauch'''

Outstanding Achievement

'''Jeff Millar'''

Technical Achievement

'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey'''''