Awards for 2012

PFCS Award

Best Picture

WINNER

Argo

NOMINEES

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

Best Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER

Lincoln: Daniel Day-Lewis

NOMINEES

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

Best Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER

Zero Dark Thirty: Jessica Chastain

NOMINEES

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

Best Youth Performance in a Lead or Supporting Role - Male

WINNER

The Impossible: Tom Holland

NOMINEES

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

Best Youth Performance in a Lead or Supporting Role - Female

WINNER

Beasts of the Southern Wild: Quvenzhané Wallis

NOMINEES

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

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER

The Master: Philip Seymour Hoffman

NOMINEES

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

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER

Les Misérables: Anne Hathaway

NOMINEES

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

Best Director

WINNER

Zero Dark Thirty: Kathryn Bigelow

NOMINEES

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

Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

WINNER

Moonrise Kingdom: Roman Coppola, Wes Anderson

NOMINEES

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

Best Screenplay Adapted from Another Medium

WINNER

Argo: Chris Terrio

NOMINEES

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

Best Cinematography

WINNER

Life of Pi: Claudio Miranda

NOMINEES

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

Best Costume Design

WINNER

Anna Karenina: Jacqueline Durran

NOMINEES

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

Best Film Editing

WINNER

Argo: William Goldenberg

NOMINEES

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

Best Visual Effects

WINNER

Life of Pi

NOMINEES

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Avengers
Cloud Atlas
Prometheus

Best Original Song

WINNER

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

NOMINEES

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

Best Original Score

WINNER

Skyfall: Thomas Newman

NOMINEES

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

Best Documentary

WINNER

Searching for Sugar Man

NOMINEES

Bully
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
The Queen of Versailles

Best Foreign Language Film

WINNER

The Intouchables

NOMINEES

Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Amour
A Royal Affair
Headhunters

Breakthrough Performance on Camera

WINNER

Beasts of the Southern Wild: Quvenzhané Wallis

NOMINEES

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

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

ParaNorman
Brave
Frankenweenie

Best Live Action Family Film

WINNER

Life of Pi

NOMINEES

Big Miracle
Chimpanzee
The Odd Life of Timothy Green

Best Ensemble Acting

WINNER

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

NOMINEES

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

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 Avengers
The Bourne Legacy
Looper
The Dark Knight Rises

Best Production Design

WINNER

Moonrise Kingdom: Adam Stockhausen

NOMINEES

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

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