The awards were announced on 9 December, 2012
Best Picture: Amour
Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master (runner up: Kathryn Bigelow, Dark Zero Thirty)
Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix, The Master (runner up: Denis Lavant, Holy Motors)
Best Actress: (tie) Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook and Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Best Supporting Actor: Dwight Henry, Beasts of the Southern Wild (runner up: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained)
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, The Master (Anne Hathaway, The Dark Knight Rises and Les Miserables)
Best Screenplay: Chris Terrio, Argo (runner up: David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook)
Best Animated Feature: Frankenweenie (runner up: It’s Such a Beautiful Day)
Best Documentary: The Gatekeepers (runner up: Searching for Sugar Man)
Best Editing: Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg, Zero Dark Thirty (runner up: William Goldenberg, Argo)
Best Foreign Film: Holy Motors
Best Music: Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Best Production Design: David Crank, Jack Fisk, The Master (runner up: Adam Stockhausen, Moonrise Kingdom)