National Board of Review Awards 2012

84th NBR Awards
Best Film: Zero Dark Thirty

January 8, 2013

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

Top films

Films listed alphabetically except first, which is ranked as Best Film of the year.

• Zero Dark Thirty
• Argo (Academy Award for Best Picture)
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Django Unchained
• Les Misérables
• Lincoln
• Looper
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Promised Land
• Silver Linings Playbook

Top foreign films

• Barbara
• The Intouchables
• The Kid with a Bike
• No
• War Witch

Top documentaries

• 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

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

Special Achievement in Filmmaking:

• Ben Affleck, Argo

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

Best Foreign Language Film:

• Amour

Best Documentary:

• Searching for Sugar Man

William K. Everson Film History Award:

• 50 Years of Bond Films

Best Ensemble:

• Les Misérables

Spotlight Award:

• John Goodman, for Argo, Flight, ParaNorman, Trouble with the Curve

NBR Freedom of Expression:

• The Central Park Five
• Promised Land