Best Picture

TIE, The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan and Holy Motors, Leo Carax

Rounding out the Ten Best Films of 2012:

3. Amour, Michael Haneke
4. Lincoln, Steven Spielberg
5. The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson
6. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
7. How to Survive a Plague, David France
8. Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin
9. Django Unchained, Quentin Taratino
10. Tabu, Miguel Gomes

Best Actor:

Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln

Considered:

1. Denis Lavant, Holy Motors
2. John Hawkes, The Sessions
3. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Amour
4. Denzel Washington, Flight
5. Joaquin Phoenix, The Master

Best Actress

Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone

Considered:

• Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
• Rachel Weisz, The Deep Blue Sea
• Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Naomi Watts, The Impossible

Best Supporting Actor

Dwight Henry, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Considered:

• Matthew McConaughey, Magic Mike
• Samuel L. Jackson, Django Unchained
• Leonardo DiCaprio, Django Unchained
• Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
• Phillip Seymour Hoffman, The Master

Best Supporting Actress

Anne Dowd, Compliance

Considered:

• Sally Field, Lincoln
• Amy Adams, The Master
• Juno Temple, Killer Joe
• Helen Hunt, The Sessions
• Anne Hathaway, The Dark Knight Rises
• Gina Gershon, Killer Joe

Director: Leo Carax, Holy Motors

Considered:

• Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
• Michael Haneke, Amour
• Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master
• Steven Spielberg, Lincoln

Biggest Disappointment

Prometheus

Most Overrated Films of the Year

• Argo, Ben Affleck
• Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell
• Searching for Sugar Man, Malik Bendjelloul
• Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow
• Keep the lights On, Ira Sachs
• Not Fade Away, David Chase

Worst Picture

Battleship

Rounding out the ten worst pictures of 2012 are:

1. 2016: Obama’s America
2. The Words
3. Anna Karenina
4. Red Tails
5. Cloud Atlas
6. October Baby
7. This Means War
8. Alex Cross
9. Rock of Ages

Worst Actor: Tyler Perry, Alex Cross

Worst Actress: Katherine Heigl, One for the Money

Worst Supporting Actor: Russell Crowe, Les Miserables

Worst Supporting Actress: Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy

Worst Director: Joe Wright, Anna Kareninia

Kevin Costner Award for Distinguished Career in Mediocrity: Adam Sandler