The winners were announced on December 5, 2012.
Best Picture: Zero Dark Thirty
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
Best Directorial Debut: Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
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 Adapted Screenplay: David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Best Original Screenplay: Rian Johnson, Looper
Best Animated Feature: Wreck-It-Ralph
Best Documentary: Searching for Sugar Man
Best Ensemble: Les Miserables
Best Foreign Film: Amour
Breakthrough Performance Actor: Tom Holland, The Impossible
Breakthrough Performance Actress: Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
NBR Freedom of Expression: The Central Park Five
NBR Freedom of Expression: Promised Land
Special Achievement in Filmmaking: Ben Affleck, Argo
Spotlight Award: John Goodman (Arog, Flight, Paranorman, Trouble with the Curve)
William K. Everson Award for Film History: 50 Years of Bond Films
Top Films (alphabetical)
- Argo
- Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Django Unchained
- Les Miserables
- Lincoln
- Looper
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Promised Land
- Silver Linings Playbook
Top 5 Documentaries (alphabetical)
- Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
- Detropia
- The Gatekeepers
- The Invisible War
- Only the Young
- Barbara
- The Intouchables
- The Kid with a Bike
- No
- War Witch
Top 10 Independent Films (alphabetical)
- Arbitrage
- Bernie
- Compliance
- End of Watch
- Hello I Must Be Going
- Little Birds
- Moonrise Kingdom
- On the Road
- Quartet
- Sleepwalk with Me
