2012 New York Film Critics Circle Awards

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The 78th New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2012, were announced on December 3, 2012.

Winners

Best Actor:

Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln

Runners-up: Jack Black - Bernie, Joaquin Phoenix - The Master and Denis Lavant - Holy Motors

Best Actress:

Rachel Weisz – The Deep Blue Sea

Runners-up: Jennifer Lawrence - The Hunger Games and Silver Linings Playbook, Emmanuelle Riva - Amour and Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty

Best Animated Film:

Frankenweenie

Runners-up: Brave and ParaNorman

Best Cinematography:

Greig Fraser – Zero Dark Thirty

Runner-up: Mihai Malăimare Jr. - The Master

Best Director:

Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty

Runners-up: Paul Thomas Anderson - The Master and Ben Affleck - Argo

Best Film:

Zero Dark Thirty

Runners-up: Argo and The Master

Best First Film:

David France – How to Survive the Plague

Runner-up: Benh Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild

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) • Turkey/Bosnia and Herzegovina

Best Non-Fiction Film:

The Central Park Five

Runners-up: The Gatekeepers and This Is Not a Film

Best Screenplay:

Tony Kushner – Lincoln

Runners-up: Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola - Moonrise Kingdom and Mark Boal - Zero Dark Thirty

Best Supporting Actor:

Matthew McConaughey – Magic Mike and Bernie

Runners-up: Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained and Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln

Best Supporting Actress:

Sally Field – Lincoln

Runner-up: Anne Hathaway - The Dark Knight Rises and Les Misérables

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