Best Performances, Genre Films and Other Works

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

10.) Matthias Schoenaerts- Rust and Bone/ Liam Neeson – The Grey

9.) Jack Black- Bernie 

8.) Hugh Jackman – Les Miserables

7.) Richard Gere - Arbitrage

6.) Denzel Washington - Flight

5.) Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook

4.) Jean-Louise Trintignant- Amour

3.) Daniel Day Lewis – Lincoln

2.) Denis Lavent – Holy Motors

1.) Joaquin Phoneix – The Master

Best Performance by a Actress in a Leading Role

10.) Rashida Jones- Celeste & Jesse Forever

9.) Keira Knightly – Anna Karenina

8.) Mary Elizabeth Winstead- Smashed

7.) Quvenzhane Wallis – Beasts of The Southern Wild

6.) Naomi Watts – The Impossible

5.) Emmanule Riva- Amour

4.) Marion Cotillard- Rust and Bone

3.) Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook

2.) Rachael Weisz – The Deep Blue Sea

1.) Jessica Chastain- Zero Dark Thirty

Best Performance by and Actor in a Supporting Role

10.) Javier Bardem - Skyfall

9) Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln

8.) Sam Rockwell- Seven Psychopaths

7.) Robert DeNiro – Silver Linings Playbook

6.) Leonardo DiCaprio – Django Unchained

5.) Ewan McGregor- The Impossible

4.) Samuel L. Jackson –Django Unchained

3.) Dwight Henry – Beasts of the Southern Wild

2.) Christoph Waltz- Django Unchained

1.) Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

10.) Shirly MacLaine - Bernie

9.) Jacki Weaver – Silver Linings Playbook

8.) Judi Dench - Skyfall

7.) Maggie Smith – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

6.) Brit Marling – Sound of My Voice

5.) Sally Field - Lincoln

4.) Rosmaire DeWitt- Your Sister’s Sister

3.) Emily Blunt – Your Sister’s Sister

2.) Amy Adams – The Master

1.) Anne Hathaway – Les Miserables

Best Director

10.) Julia Loktev - The Loneliest Planet
9.) David O. Russell - Silver Lining Playbook
8.) Jacques Audiard - Rust and Bone
7.) Steven Spielberg - Lincoln
6.) Ben Affleck - Argo
5.) Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained
4.) Michael Haneke - Amour
3.) Leos Carax - Holy Motors
2.) Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty
1.) Paul Thomas Anderson - The Master

Best Original Screenplay
5.) Amour
4.) Zero Dark Thirty
3.) Django Unchained
2.) Looper
1.) Moonrise Kingdom

Best Adapted Screenplay
5.) Life of Pi
4.) Lincoln
3.) Argo
2.) The Perks of Being a Wallflower
1.) Silver Linings Playbook

Best Score (music)
5.) Skyfall
4.) Lincoln
3.) The Master
2.) Anna Karenina
1.) Cloud Atlas

Best Action Movie - The Raid Redemption

Best General Comedy – 21 Jump Street

Best Dark Comedy – Seven Psychopaths

Most Entertaining Movie – Cabin in the Woods

Best Standard Romance - Logan Lerman and Emma Watson in Perks of Being a Wallflower

Best Unconventional Romance - Marion Cotillard and Mattias Schoenaerts in Rust and Bone

Best Science Fiction Movie - Looper

Best Movie I Thought Was Going To Suck – The Grey

Best Horror Movie – Sinister

Most Disappointing Movie of All Time (but still not that bad) – Prometheus

Most Disappointing Movie Outside of Prometheus – Killing Them Softley

Most Pleseant Surprise – Premium Rush

Best Superhero Movie – The Dark Knight Rises

Most Confusing Movie – Cosmopolis

Best Looking Film - Anna Karenina 

Future American Classsic – The Master 

Best Acting Ensambles

5.) The Master

4.) Argo

3.) Silver Lining Playbook

2.) Lincoln

1.) Moonrise Kingdom

(I thought about Les Miserables but when you have 3 bad performances I can’t give it to that)

Best Movies I Didn’t See – Magic Mike, Hitchcock, The Sessions, No, Pretty much every animated movie, The Hunt, A Royal Affair, Salmon Fishing in Yemen, Ruby Sparks, On the Road 

Movies on my Films of 2012 list I didn’t review but saw (No reviews mostly because I saw them way after their relsease):

Bernie (***1/2 out of ****)

The Loneliest Planet (***1/2 out of ****)

Life of Pi (*** out of ****)

The Deep Blue Sea (*** out of ****)

Saftey Not Guranteed (*** out of ****)

Take This Waltz (*** out of ****)

Dredd (*** out of ****)
End of Watch (**1/2 out of ****)

The Five Year Engagement (**1/2 out of ****)

Underworld Awakening (*1/2 out of ****)

Actor with the Best Year (Bias) – Joseph Godorn Levitt  - The Dark Knight Rises, Premium Rush, Looper, and Lincoln

Actor With the Best Year (unbiased, I haven’t seen half his movies) – Channing Tatum – Haywire, The Vow, 21 Jump Street, Magic Mike

Actress With the Best Year – Jennifer Lawrence- Massive and popular blockbuster with The Hunger Games and critic darling of movie that earned her an Oscar nomination with Silver Lining Playbook. Even the shitty The House at the End of the Street didn’t hurt her.