19th annual cadet film awards 2012

best picture

Top 10 of 2012
1. Cloud Atlas – Andy & Lana Wachowski & Tom Tykwer
2. Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell
3. Looper – Rian Johnson
4. Argo – Ben Affleck
5. Zero Dark Thirty – Kathryn Bigelow
6. The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
7. Prometheus – Ridley Scott
8. Rust and Bone – Jacques Audiard
9. Les Misérables – Tom Hooper
10. The Intouchables – Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano

Honourable Mentions:
Hitchcock – Sacha Gervasi
Holy Motors – Leos Carax
The Dark Knight Rises – Christopher Nolan
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Peter Jackson
Compliance – Craig Zobel
This is 40 – Judd Apatow
The Impossible – Juan Antonio Bayona
Life of Pi – Ang Lee

 

best director

Winner:
Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski & Tom Tykwer – Cloud Atlas

Nominees:
Ben Affleck – Argo
Tom Hooper – Les Misérables
Jacques Audiard – Rust and Bone
David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty

 

best lead actor

Winner:
Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook

Nominees:
Denis Lavant – Holy Motors
Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables
Daniel Day Lewis – Lincoln
Logan Lerman – The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Matthias Schoenearts – Rust and Bone
John Hawkes – The Sessions

 

best lead actress

Winner:
Marion Cotillard – Rust and Bone

Nominees:
Emmanuelle Riva Amour
Helen Mirren Hitchcock
Naomi Watts The Impossible
Jennifer Lawrence Silver Linings Playbook
Jessica Chastain Zero Dark Thirty

 

best supporting actor

Winner:
Ewan McGregor – The Impossible

Nominees:
Eddie Redmayne Les Misérables
Tommy Lee Jones Lincln
Ezra Miller The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Michael Fassbender Prometheus
Robert De Niro Silver Linings Playbook

 

best supporting actress

Winner:
Ann Dowd – Compliance

Nominees:
Kerry Washington Django Unchained
Anne Hathaway Les Misérables
Emily Blunt Looper
Kristin Scott Thomas Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Jacki Weaver Silver Linings Playbook

 

best limited/cameo performance – male

Winner:
John Goodman – Argo

Nominees:
Scoot McNairy Argo
James Badge Dale Flight
James D’Arcy Hitchcock
Andy Serkis The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Lee Pace Lincoln

 

best limited/cameo performance – female

Winner:
Jennifer Ehle – Zero Dark Thirty

Nominees:
Isabelle Huppert Amour
Tamara Tunie Flight
Kylie Minogue Holy Motors
S. Epatha Merkeson Lincoln
Melissa McCarthy This is 40

 

best original screenplay

Winner:
Rian Johnson – Looper

Nominees:
Michael Haneke Amour
Craig Zobel Compliance
John Gatins Flight
Judd Apatow This is 40
Mark Boal Zero Dark Thirty

 

best adapted screenplay

Winner:
Tony Kushner – Lincoln

Nominees:
Chris Terrio Argo
Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski & Tom Tykwer Cloud Atlas
Stephen Chbosky The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Jacques Audiard & Thomas Bidegain Rust and Bone
David O. Russell Silver Linings Playbook

 

best original score

Winner:
Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek & Tom Tykwer – Cloud Atlas

Nominees:
Dario Marianelli Anna Karenina
Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin Beasts of the Southern Wild
Has Zimmer The Dark Knight Rises
Alexandre Desplat Rust and Bone
Alexandre Desplat Zero Dark Thirty

 

best original song

Winner:
”Who Were We” – Holy Motors

Nominees:
“Ancora Qui” Django Unchained
“Pi’s Lullaby” Life of Pi
“Still Dream” Rise of the Guardians
“Skyfall” Skyfall
“Breath of Life” Snow White and the Huntsman

 

best non-english language film

Winner:
Rust and Bone (France)

Nominees:
Amour (Austria/France)
The Deep (Iceland)
Holy Motors (France)
The Intouchables (France)
Lore (Australia/Germany)

 

best cinematography

Winner:
Robert Richardson – Django Unchained

Nominees:
Masanobu Takayanagi The Grey
Caroline Champetier Holy Motors
Janusz Kaminski Lincoln
Robert Yeoman Moonrise Kingdom
Thomas Newman Skyfall

 

best film editing

Winner:
Zero Dark Thirty

Nominees:
Argo
The Dark Knight Rises
The Impossible
Rust and Bone
Skyfall

best production design

Winner:
Cloud Atlas

Nominees:
Argo
Anna Karenina
Hitchcock
Prometheus
Snow White and the Huntsman

 

best costume design

Winner:
Mirror Mirror

Nominees:
Anna Karenina
Cloud Atlas
Django Unchained
A Royal Affair
Snow White and the Huntsman

 

best sound mixing

Winner:
Les Misérables

Nominees:
Cloud Atlas
Life of Pi
Looper
Rise of the Guardians
Skyfall

 

best sound editing

Winner:
Skyfall

Nominees:
The Grey
The Impossible
John Carter
Prometheus
Snow White and the Huntsman

 

best makeup and hairstyling

Winner:
Lincoln

Nominees:
Hitchcock
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Impossible
Les Misérables
Snow White and the Huntsman

 

best visual effects

Winner:
Life of Pi

Nominees:
Cloud Atlas
The Dark Knight Rises
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Impossible
Prometheus

 

best stunt direction

Winner:
Prometheus

Nominees:
The Dark Knight Rises
Flight
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Looper
Skyfall

 

best documentary

Winner:
Bully

Nominees:
The Imposter
Mea Maxima Culpa

 

best ensemble

Winner:
Cloud Atlas

Nominees:
Argo
Django Unchained
Lincoln
Les Misérables
Silver Linings Playbook

 

best breakthrough/debut

Winner:
Tom Holland – The Impossible

Nominees:
Quvenzhane Wallis Beasts of the Southern Wild
Samantha Barks Les Misérables
Suraj Sharma Life of Pi
Lynn Collins John Carter
Saskia Rosendahl Lore

 

best animated feature

Winner:
Rise of the Guardians

Nominees:
Paranorman
Wreck-it Ralph

 

best voiceover performance

Winner:
Hugh Jackman – Rise of the Guardians

 

best titles sequence

Skyfall

 

best poster
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Cosmopolis
Hitchcock
Killing Them Softly
The Paperboy
Rise of the Guardians

 

top 12 scenes of 2012
Escape from Tehran – Argo
What Lies Beneath – The Cabin in the Woods
I Love You, Trevor – Flight
Psycho Planning – Hitchcock
The Tsunami – The Impossible
“I Dreamed a Dream” – Les Miserables (winner)
“Look Down” – Les Miserables
The Rainmaker – Looper
We Can Be Heroes – The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Reunited with the Killer Whale – Rust and Bone
Shanghai Fight – Skyfall
End of the Meeting – Zero Dark Thirty

 

wins tally

multiple nominations tally