Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2012

In the 25th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, the film critic honored on 17 December 2012, the best performance of the film 2012.

Winners and nominees

Best Picture

Zero Dark Thirty

• Argo
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Lincoln
• The Master

Best / r Director / in

Kathryn Bigelow for Zero Dark Thirty

• Ben Affleck Argo
• Benh Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Paul Thomas Anderson for The Master
• Steven Spielberg for Lincoln

Best Actor

Daniel Day- Lewis in Lincoln

• Denis Lavant in Holy Motors
• Denzel Washington in Flight
• Joaquin Phoenix in The Master
• John Hawkes in The Sessions - When words touch

Best Actress

Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty

• Emmanuelle Riva in love
• Helen Hunt in The Sessions - When words touch
• Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings
• Naomi Watts in The Impossible
• Quvenzhané Wallis in Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Supporting Actor

Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Master

• Dwight Henry in Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Jason Clarke in Zero Dark Thirty
• Leonardo DiCaprio in Django Unchained
• Tommy Lee Jones in Lincoln

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Adams in The Master

• Anne Hathaway in Les Misérables
• Emily Blunt in Looper
• Judi Dench in James Bond 007: Skyfall
• Sally Field in Lincoln

Best Original Screenplay

Zero Dark Thirty by Mark Boal

• Django Unchained by Quentin Tarantino
• Looper from Rian Johnson
• The Master by Paul Thomas Anderson
• Moonrise Kingdom by Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola

Best Adapted Screenplay

Lincoln by Tony Kushner

• Argo by Chris Terrio
• Beasts of the Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar
• Silver Linings by David O. Russell
• Maybe better tomorrow by Stephen Chbosky

Best Foreign Language Film

Love - France, Germany, Austria

• The taste of rust and bones - France, Belgium
• Holy Motors - France
• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia - Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Intouchables - France

Best Documentary

The Invisible War

• The Central Park Five
• The Queen of Versailles
• Searching for Sugar Man
• West of Memphis

Best Animated film

ParaNorman

• Arrietty - The Secret World of Borger
• Frankenweenie
• Ralph reichts

Best Camera

The Master of Mihai Malăimare, Jr.

• James Bond 007: Skyfall for Roger Deakins
• Life of Pi: Life of Pi for Claudio Miranda
• Janusz Kaminski for Lincoln
• Zero Dark Thirty for Greig Fraser

Best Original Score

The Master of Jonny Greenwood

• Argo by Alexandre Desplat
• Moonrise Kingdom by Alexandre Desplat
• Zero Dark Thirty by Alexandre Desplat

Best Art

Moonrise Kingdom

• Anna Karenina
• Les Misérables
• Lincoln
• The Master

Best Editing

Zero Dark Thirty for William Goldberg and Dylan Tichenor

• Argo for William Goldberg
• Cloud Atlas (film ) for Alexander Berner and Claus Wehlisch
• James Bond 007: Skyfall for Stuart Baird
• The Master of Leslie Jones and Peter McNulty

Most Promising / r filmmaker / in

Benh Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild

• Colin Trevorrow for Safety Not Guaranteed
• Drew Goddard for The Cabin in the Woods
• Nicholas Jarecki for arbitrage
• Stephen Chbosky for dear Maybe tomorrow

Most Promising / r actor / actress

Quvenzhané Wallis in Beasts of the Southern Wild

• Dwight Henry in Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Kara Hayward, Moonrise Kingdom
• Samantha Barks Les Misérables in
• Tom Holland in The Impossible