NAMED 2012 BEST FILM OF THE YEAR BY
THE NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW
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2012 Gala to be held on
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
hosted by Meredith Vieira
New York, NY – (December 5, 2012) – The National Board of Review has named ZERO DARK THIRTY the 2012 Best Film of the Year.
Below is a full list of the awards given by the National Board of Review:
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 SUGARMAN
William K. Everson Film History Award: 50 YEARS OF BOND FILMS
Best Ensemble: LES MISÉRABLES
Spotlight Award: John Goodman (ARGO, FLIGHT, PARANORMAN, TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE)
NBR Freedom of Expression Award: CENTRAL PARK FIVE
NBR Freedom of Expression Award: PROMISED LAND
Top 10 Films and other lists after the cut.
Top Films
(in alphabetical order)
ARGO
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD
DJANGO UNCHAINED
LES MISÉRABLES
LINCOLN
LOOPER
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
PROMISED LAND
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
Top 5 Foreign Language Films
(In Alphabetical Order)
BARBARA
THE INTOUCHABLES
THE KID WITH A BIKE
NO
WAR WITCH
Top 5 Documentaries
(In Alphabetical Order)
AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY
DETROPIA
THE GATEKEEPERS
THE INVISIBLE WAR
ONLY THE YOUNG
Top 10 Independent Films
(In Alphabetical Order)
ARBITRAGE
BERNIE
COMPLIANCE
END OF WATCH
HELLO I MUST BE GOING
LITTLE BIRDS
MOONRISE KINGDOM
ON THE ROAD
QUARTET
SLEEPWALK WITH ME
My previous predictions:
- Picture: Lincoln
- Director: Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
- Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
- Actor: Daniel Day Lewis, Lincoln
- Supporting Actress: Sally Field, Lincoln
- Supporting Actor: Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
- Ensemble: Lincoln
- Adapted Screenplay: Tony Kushner, Lincoln
- Original Screenplay: Wes Anderson, Moonrise Kingdom
- Documentary: Queen of Versailles
- Foreign: Amour
- Animated: ParaNorman
- Breakthrough: Samantha Barks
The Top 10:
Lincoln, Les Miserables, The Silver Linings Playbook, The Dark Knight Rises, Zero Dark Thirty, Moonrise Kingdom, Argo, The Master, Life of Pi, Anna Karenina
Filed under: Awards
The 16th President would be very proud with the domination of LINCOLN by NBR. Wow!
But a very great film indeed!
Well I misread the post Craig, thinking your predictions were the final choices.
NBR has voted the worst stinker perhaps of all-time, citing the pedestrian Bradley Cooper for Best Actor in a year where Daniel-Day Lewis prevails.
Will one fell swoop that have sent their membership back into the dark ages with an embarrassing choice that will immediately re-kindle all the derision that is usually sent their way. Even the impressive choices for Best Picture and director cannot erase the stench of their Best Actor choice.
Sorry, that was not at all clear. I just threw the post up in the morning in anticipation of the final results.
Really surprised they didn’t go for Lincoln. At all. And appalled by the choice of Cooper over Day-Lewis, but then to keep this in perspective, it is just the NBR. In years past, they got attention for being first, but now they don’t even have that in their favor.
I’ve noticed that a lot of years the NBR just seems to be on a completely different wavelength from everyone else. They definitely don’t necessarily match up with the Oscars. Maybe they just like being different.
I do like that they chose Searching for Sugarman. Don’t know what it’s chances are compared to other potential Oscar contenders in this category but it was a nicely done film and I’m glad it’s getting some recognition.
I’d say Sugarman’s chances are pretty good since it’s backed by Sony Pictures Classics and they have the money to mount a campaign for it and it appears to be a crowd favorite.
In this case, the top two NBR awards lined up with the NY Film critics so it’s not like they’re totally out in left field, but the Day-Lewis snub remains a mystery. I really really thought Lincoln would be their cup of tea and they’d go nuts for it. Shows you what I know!
So Bradley Cooper is going to be the equivalent of Jonah Hill during the awards season, eh? I didn’t hate Moneyball, but making Jonah Hill an Oscar nominee…. eh…
Haven’t seen Silver Linings Playbook yet and I don’t hate Cooper (I’m neutral), but with the way awards voters go…. :S
Rodrigo, despite the NBR win, I must say I would be shocked to see Cooper receive an Academy Award noimination. I do think the five Best Actor choices have probably been spoken for:
Day-Lewis
Phoenix
Hawkes
Jackman
Washington
If Washington is left off, then either Cooper or Trintignant can slip in the way I am figuring it.
Yeah, I wouldn’t read too much into the NBR win… then again, I have to just admit a lot of people like SLP a hell of a lot more than I do
I could see Cooper getting in ahead of Phoenix for a number of reasons, but mainly because I think Phoenix has as many admirers as detractors in the Academy, but I don’t think Cooper deserves the nomination. If he does get in, it will be the similar to the reasoning that got Jonah Hill a nom. I honestly think there’s a stronger argument to be made for Washington than Phoenix at this point, but that’s just my opinion (which is often counter to the crowd on these things). I don’t follow the awards prognosticating very closely.
I can see Cooper becoming a Golden Globe nominee in the Lead Actor Comedy category (if SLP gets placed there — I mean, Descendants should have been placed on the Comedy category, but it went on Drama instead), but among the Drama films, he has a snowball’s chance in hell of getting there (I’m not sure about Jackman getting nominated, though). Then again, you never know with voters…