84th NBR Awards Best Film: Zero Dark Thirty

The 84th National Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in film for 2012, were held on January 8, 2013.

Top 10 Films Films listed alphabetically except top, which is ranked as Best Film of the Year:

Zero Dark Thirty Argo Beasts of the Southern Wild Django Unchained Les Misérables Lincoln Looper The Perks of Being a Wallflower Promised Land Silver Linings Playbook

Winners

Best Film: Zero Dark Thirty

Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty

Best Actor: Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook

Best Actress: Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty

Best Supporting Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio – Django Unchained

Best Supporting Actress: Ann Dowd – Compliance

Best Original Screenplay: Rian Johnson – Looper

Best Adapted Screenplay: David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook

Best Animated Feature: Wreck-It Ralph

Best Foreign Language Film: Amour

Best Documentary: Searching for Sugar Man

Best Ensemble: Les Misérables

Breakthrough Actor: Tom Holland – The Impossible

Breakthrough Actress: Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Directorial Debut: Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild

Special Achievement in Filmmaking: Ben Affleck – Argo

William K. Everson Film History Award: 50 Years of Bond Films

Spotlight Award: John Goodman, for Argo, Flight, ParaNorman, Trouble with the Curve

NBR Freedom of Expression: The Central Park Five Promised Land

Top Foreign Films Amour Barbara The Intouchables The Kid with a Bike No War Witch

Top Documentaries Searching for Sugar Man Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Detropia The Gatekeepers The Invisible War Only the Young

Top Independent Films Arbitrage Bernie Compliance End of Watch Hello I Must Be Going Little Birds Moonrise Kingdom On the Road Quartet Sleepwalk with Me

References