| 84th National Board of Review Awards (2012) |
| Top 10 Films (Films listed alphabetically except top, which is ranked as Best Film of the Year): |
| Zero Dark Thirty | |
| Argo | |
| Beasts of the Southern Wild | |
| Django Unchained | |
| Les Misérables | |
| Lincoln | |
| Looper | |
| The Perks of Being a Wallflower | |
| Promised Land | |
| Silver Linings Playbook |
| Best Film: |
| Zero Dark Thirty |
| Best Director: |
| Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty |
| Best Ensemble: |
| Les Misérables |
| Best Actor: |
| Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook |
| Best Actress: |
| Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty |
| Best Supporting Actor: |
| Leonardo DiCaprio - Django Unchained |
| Best Supporting Actress: |
| Ann Dowd - Compliance |
| Best Original Screenplay: |
| Rian Johnson - Looper |
| Best Adapted Screenplay: |
| David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook |
| Best Foreign Language Film: |
| Amour |
| Best Documentary: |
| Searching for Sugar Man |
| Best Animated Feature: |
| Wreck-It Ralph |
| Best Directorial Debut: |
| Benh Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild |
| Breakthrough Actor: |
| Tom Holland - The Impossible |
| Breakthrough Actress: |
| Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild |
| Special Achievement in Filmmaking: |
| Ben Affleck - Argo |
| William K. Everson Film History Award: |
| 50 Years of Bond Films |
| Spotlight Award: |
| John Goodman, for Argo, Flight, ParaNorman, Trouble with the Curve |
| NBR Freedom of Expression: |
| The Central Park Five | |
| Promised Land |
| Top Foreign Films: |
| Amour | |
| Barbara | |
| The Intouchables | |
| The Kid with a Bike | |
| No | |
| War Witch |
| Top Documentaries: |
| Searching for Sugar Man | |
| Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry | |
| Detropia | |
| The Gatekeepers | |
| The Invisible War | |
| Only the Young |
| Top Independent Films: |
| Arbitrage | |
| Bernie | |
| Compliance | |
| End of Watch | |
| Hello I Must Be Going | |
| Little Birds | |
| Moonrise Kingdom | |
| On the Road | |
| Quartet | |
| Sleepwalk with Me |