Houston Film Critics Society Awards 2012

Best Picture

	Argo
	Beasts of the Southern Wild
	Cloud Atlas
	Django Unchained
	Lincoln
	The Master
	Les Misérables
	Moonrise Kingdom
	Silver Linings Playbook
	Zero Dark Thirty

Best Direction of a Motion Picture

	Ben Affleck - Argo
	Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained
	Steven Spielberg - Lincoln
	Tom Hooper - Les Misérables
	Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

	Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln
	John Hawkes - The Sessions
	Hugh Jackman - Les Misérables
	Joaquin Phoenix - The Master
	Denzel Washington - Flight

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

	Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
	Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
	Emmanuelle Riva - Amour
	Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild
	Naomi Watts - The Impossible

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

	Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln
	Alan Arkin - Argo
	Javier Bardem - Skyfall
	Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master
	Matthew McConaughey - Magic Mike

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

	Anne Hathaway - Les Misérables
	Amy Adams - The Master
	Judi Dench - Skyfall
	Sally Field - Lincoln
	Helen Hunt - The Sessions

Best Screenplay

	Lincoln - Tony Kushner
	Argo - Chris Terrio
	Looper - Rian Johnson
	Silver Linings Playbook - David O. Russell
	Zero Dark Thirty - Mark Boal

Best Cinematography

	Skyfall - Roger Deakins
	Life of Pi - Claudio Miranda
	Lincoln - Janusz Kamiński
	The Master - Mihai Mălaimare Jr.
	Les Misérables - Danny Cohen

Best Original Score

	Cloud Atlas - Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek, and Tom Tykwer
	Life of Pi - Mychael Danna
	Hitchcock - Danny Elfman
	The Master - Jonny Greenwood
	Skyfall - Thomas Newman
	Beasts of the Southern Wild - Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin
	Lincoln - John Williams

Best Original Song

	"Skyfall" by Adele - Skyfall
	"Learn Me Right" by Mumford & Sons and Birdy - Brave
	"Song of the Lonely Mountain" by Neil Finn - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
	"Suddenly" by Claude-Michel Schönberg - Les Misérables
	"Touch the Sky" by Alex Mandel and Mark Andrews - Brave

Best Foreign Language Film

	Holy Motors • France/Germany
	Amour • French
	The Intouchables • French
	A Royal Affair • Denmark
	Rust and Bone • France/Belgium

Best Documentary Feature

	Searching for Sugar Man
	Bully
	The Central Park Five
	The House I Live In
	The Imposter
	The Queen of Versailles

Best Animated Feature Film

	Wreck-It Ralph
	Brave
	Frankenweenie
	ParaNorman
	Rise of the Guardians

Worst Film

	That's My Boy
	Anna Karenina
	Battleship
	Prometheus
	The Three Stooges