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
Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski & Tom Tykwer – Cloud Atlas
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
Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
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
Marion Cotillard – Rust and Bone
Emmanuelle Riva Amour
Helen Mirren Hitchcock
Naomi Watts The Impossible
Jennifer Lawrence Silver Linings Playbook
Jessica Chastain Zero Dark Thirty

best supporting actor
Ewan McGregor – The Impossible
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
Ann Dowd – Compliance
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
John Goodman – Argo
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
Jennifer Ehle – Zero Dark Thirty
Isabelle Huppert Amour
Tamara Tunie Flight
Kylie Minogue Holy Motors
S. Epatha Merkeson Lincoln
Melissa McCarthy This is 40

best original screenplay
Rian Johnson – Looper
Michael Haneke Amour
Craig Zobel Compliance
John Gatins Flight
Judd Apatow This is 40
Mark Boal Zero Dark Thirty

best adapted screenplay
Tony Kushner – Lincoln
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
Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek & Tom Tykwer – Cloud Atlas
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
”Who Were We” – Holy Motors
“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
Rust and Bone (France)
Amour (Austria/France)
The Deep (Iceland)
Holy Motors (France)
The Intouchables (France)
Lore (Australia/Germany)

best cinematography
Robert Richardson – Django Unchained
Masanobu Takayanagi The Grey
Caroline Champetier Holy Motors
Janusz Kaminski Lincoln
Robert Yeoman Moonrise Kingdom
Thomas Newman Skyfall

best film editing
Zero Dark Thirty
Argo
The Dark Knight Rises
The Impossible
Rust and Bone
Skyfall

best production design
Cloud Atlas
Argo
Anna Karenina
Hitchcock
Prometheus
Snow White and the Huntsman

best costume design
Mirror Mirror
Anna Karenina
Cloud Atlas
Django Unchained
A Royal Affair
Snow White and the Huntsman

best sound mixing
Les Misérables
Cloud Atlas
Life of Pi
Looper
Rise of the Guardians
Skyfall

best sound editing
Skyfall
The Grey
The Impossible
John Carter
Prometheus
Snow White and the Huntsman

best makeup and hairstyling
Lincoln
Hitchcock
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Impossible
Les Misérables
Snow White and the Huntsman

best visual effects
Life of Pi
Cloud Atlas
The Dark Knight Rises
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Impossible
Prometheus

best stunt direction
Prometheus
The Dark Knight Rises
Flight
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Looper
Skyfall

best documentary
Bully
The Imposter
Mea Maxima Culpa

best ensemble
Cloud Atlas
Argo
Django Unchained
Lincoln
Les Misérables
Silver Linings Playbook

best breakthrough/debut
Tom Holland – The Impossible
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
Rise of the Guardians
Paranorman
Wreck-it Ralph
best voiceover performance
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