Awards for 2012

PFCS Award

Best Picture

WINNER

Argo

NOMINEES

Lincoln
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Moonrise Kingdom
The Avengers
Silver Linings Playbook
Life of Pi
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty
Les Misérables

Best Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER

Lincoln: Daniel Day-Lewis

NOMINEES

The Sessions: John Hawkes
The Master: Joaquin Phoenix
Hitchcock: Anthony Hopkins
Les Misérables: Hugh Jackman

Best Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER

Zero Dark Thirty: Jessica Chastain

NOMINEES

Silver Linings Playbook: Jennifer Lawrence
Beasts of the Southern Wild: Quvenzhané Wallis
Smashed: Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Best Youth Performance in a Lead or Supporting Role - Male

WINNER

The Impossible: Tom Holland

NOMINEES

Moonrise Kingdom: Jared Gilman
The Odd Life of Timothy Green: CJ Adams
Les Misérables: Daniel Huttlestone

Best Youth Performance in a Lead or Supporting Role - Female

WINNER

Beasts of the Southern Wild: Quvenzhané Wallis

NOMINEES

Moonrise Kingdom: Kara Hayward
This Is 40: Maude Apatow
Les Misérables: Isabelle Allen

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER

The Master: Philip Seymour Hoffman

NOMINEES

Skyfall: Javier Bardem
Lincoln: Tommy Lee Jones
The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Ezra Miller
Silver Linings Playbook: Robert De Niro

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER

Les Misérables: Anne Hathaway

NOMINEES

The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Emma Watson
Skyfall: Judi Dench
The Sessions: Helen Hunt
Lincoln: Sally Field

Best Director

WINNER

Zero Dark Thirty: Kathryn Bigelow

NOMINEES

Life of Pi: Ang Lee
Lincoln: Steven Spielberg
Argo: Ben Affleck
Les Misérables: Tom Hooper

Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

WINNER

Moonrise Kingdom: Roman Coppola, Wes Anderson

NOMINEES

Arbitrage: Nicholas Jarecki
The Master: Paul Thomas Anderson
Zero Dark Thirty: Mark Boal

Best Screenplay Adapted from Another Medium

WINNER

Argo: Chris Terrio

NOMINEES

Silver Linings Playbook: David O. Russell
Les Misérables: Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer, William Nicholson, Alain Boublil
The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Stephen Chbosky

Best Cinematography

WINNER

Life of Pi: Claudio Miranda

NOMINEES

Lincoln: Janusz Kaminski
Skyfall: Roger Deakins
Les Misérables: Danny Cohen
Zero Dark Thirty: Greig Fraser

Best Costume Design

WINNER

Anna Karenina: Jacqueline Durran

NOMINEES

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: Richard Taylor, Ann Maskrey, Bob Buck
A Royal Affair: Manon Rasmussen
Lincoln: Joanna Johnston
Les Misérables: Paco Delgado

Best Film Editing

WINNER

Argo: William Goldenberg

NOMINEES

The Dark Knight Rises: Lee Smith
Life of Pi: Tim Squyres
Zero Dark Thirty: Dylan Tichenor, William Goldenberg
Skyfall: Stuart Baird

Best Visual Effects

WINNER

Life of Pi

NOMINEES

The Avengers
Cloud Atlas
Prometheus
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Best Original Song

WINNER

Skyfall: Adele, Paul Epworth
For the song "Skyfall".

NOMINEES

Wreck-It Ralph: Adam Young, Matthew Thiessen
For the song "When Can I See You Again?".
Les Misérables: Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer, Alain Boublil
For the song "Suddenly".

Best Original Score

WINNER

Skyfall: Thomas Newman

NOMINEES

Hitchcock: Danny Elfman
Life of Pi: Mychael Danna
Lincoln: John Williams

Best Documentary

WINNER

Searching for Sugar Man

NOMINEES

Bully
The Queen of Versailles
Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Best Foreign Language Film

WINNER

The Intouchables

NOMINEES

Headhunters
A Royal Affair
Amour
Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Breakthrough Performance on Camera

WINNER

Beasts of the Southern Wild: Quvenzhané Wallis

NOMINEES

Life of Pi: Suraj Sharma
Safety Not Guaranteed: Mark Duplass
Beasts of the Southern Wild: Dwight Henry

Overlooked Film of the Year

WINNER

Safety Not Guaranteed

NOMINEES

The Cabin in the Woods
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Sound of My Voice

Best Animated Film

WINNER

Wreck-It Ralph

NOMINEES

Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman

Best Live Action Family Film

WINNER

Life of Pi

NOMINEES

The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Chimpanzee
Big Miracle

Best Ensemble Acting

WINNER

Moonrise Kingdom: Frances McDormand, Bill Murray, Jared Gilman, Harvey Keitel, Tilda Swinton, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Jason Schwartzman

NOMINEES

Silver Linings Playbook: John Ortiz, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Shea Whigham, Anupam Kher, Chris Tucker, Julia Stiles, Jacki Weaver, Dash Mihok, Paul Herman
Les Misérables: Eddie Redmayne, Colm Wilkinson, Russell Crowe, Aaron Tveit, Daniel Huttlestone, Isabelle Allen, Natalya Angel Wallace, Helena Bonham Carter, Samantha Barks, Hugh Jackman, Sacha Baron Cohen, Amanda Seyfried, Anne Hathaway
Argo: Scoot McNairy, Kerry Bishé, John Goodman, Rory Cochrane, Tate Donovan, Victor Garber, Alan Arkin, Christopher Denham, Bryan Cranston, Ben Affleck, Zeljko Ivanek, Kyle Chandler, Clea DuVall, Chris Messina

Breakthrough Performance Behind the Camera

WINNER

Beasts of the Southern Wild: Benh Zeitlin

NOMINEES

Compliance: Craig Zobel
The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Stephen Chbosky
Ted: Seth MacFarlane

Best Stunts

WINNER

Skyfall

NOMINEES

The Bourne Legacy
The Dark Knight Rises
Looper
The Avengers

Best Production Design

WINNER

Moonrise Kingdom: Adam Stockhausen

NOMINEES

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: Dan Hennah
Anna Karenina: Sarah Greenwood
Cloud Atlas: Uli Hanisch, Hugh Bateup
Les Misérables: Anna Lynch-Robinson, Eve Stewart

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