| Best Film | Best Director |
Silver Linings Playbook
| David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook* Ben Affleck – Argo* Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty* Kim Ki-duk – Pietà* Ben Lewin – The Sessions* Steven Spielberg – Lincoln |
| Best Actor | Best Actress |
| Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook as Patrizio "Pat" Solitano Jr.* Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln as President Abraham Lincoln* John Hawkes – The Sessions as Mark O'Brien* Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables as Jean Valjean* Joaquin Phoenix – The Master as Freddie Quell* Omar Sy – The Intouchables as Bakary "Driss" Bassari* Denzel Washington – Flight as Captain Whip Whitaker | Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook as Tiffany Maxwell* Laura Birn – Purge as Aliide Truu* Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty as Maya Harris* Émilie Dequenne – Our Children as Murielle* Keira Knightley – Anna Karenina as Anna Arkadievna Karenina* Laura Linney – Hyde Park on Hudson as Margaret "Daisy" Suckley* Emmanuelle Riva – Amour as Anne Laurent |
| Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress |
| Javier Bardem – Skyfall as Raoul Silva* Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook as Patrizio "Pat" Solitano Sr.* John Goodman – Flight as Harling Mays* Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master as Lancaster Dodd* Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln as Congressman Thaddeus Stevens* Eddie Redmayne – Les Misérables as Marius Pontmercy | Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables as Fantine* Amy Adams – The Master as Peggy Dodd* Samantha Barks – Les Misérables as Éponine* Judi Dench – Skyfall as M* Hélène Florent – Café de Flore as Carole* Helen Hunt – The Sessions as Cheryl Cohen-Greene |
| Best Original Screenplay | Best Adapted Screenplay |
| Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal* Flight – John Gatins* The Intouchables – Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache* The Master – Paul Thomas Anderson* Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola* Pietà – Kim Ki-duk | Life of Pi – David Magee* Anna Karenina – Tom Stoppard* Argo – Chris Terrio* Lincoln – Tony Kushner* The Sessions – Ben Lewin* Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell |
| Best Animated or Mixed Media Film | Best Documentary Film |
| Rise of the Guardians* Brave* Frankenweenie* Ice Age: Continental Drift* Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted* ParaNorman* Wreck-It Ralph | Chasing Ice* Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry* The Central Park Five* The Gatekeepers* Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present* The Pruitt-Igoe Myth* Searching for Sugar Man* West of Memphis |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Best Art Direction and Production Design |
| The Intouchables Pietà * Amour * Beyond the Hills * Caesar Must Die * Kon-Tiki * Our Children * A Royal Affair * War Witch | Lincoln – Curt Beech, Rick Carter, David Crank, and Leslie McDonald* Anna Karenina* The Dark Knight Rises* Les Misérables* The Master* A Royal Affair |
| Best Cinematography | Best Costume Design |
| Life of Pi – Claudio Miranda* Anna Karenina – Seamus McGarvey* Beasts of the Southern Wild – Ben Richardson* Lincoln – Janusz Kamiński* The Master – Mihai Mălaimare Jr.* Skyfall – Roger Deakins | A Royal Affair – Manon Rasmussen* Anna Karenina* Cloud Atlas* Farewell, My Queen* Les Misérables* Snow White and the Huntsman |
| Best Original Score | Best Original Song |
| Argo – Alexandre Desplat* Anna Karenina – Dario Marianelli* Beasts of the Southern Wild – Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin* Lincoln – John Williams* The Master – Jonny Greenwood* Skyfall – Thomas Newman | "Suddenly" – Les Misérables* "Fire in the Blood/Snake Song" – Lawless* "Learn Me Right" – Brave* "Love Always Comes As a Surprise" – Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted* "Skyfall" – Skyfall* "Still Alive" – Paul Williams Still Alive |
| Best Film Editing | Best Sound (Editing and Mixing) |
| Silver Linings Playbook – Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers* Cloud Atlas* Flight* Les Misérables* The Sessions* Zero Dark Thirty | Les Misérables – Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Lee Walpole, and John Warhurst* Flight* Kon-Tiki* Life of Pi* Prometheus* Snow White and the Huntsman |
| Best Visual Effects | Best Ensemble – Motion Picture |
| Flight – Kevin Baillie, Jim Gibbs, Michael Lantieri, and Ryan Tudhope* Cloud Atlas* The Dark Knight Rises* Life of Pi* Prometheus* Skyfall | Les Miserábles – Samantha Barks, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham Carter, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Eddie Redmayne, and Amanda Seyfried |