78th New York Film Critics Circle Awards (2012)

Best Film:

	Zero Dark Thirty
	Runners-up: Argo and The Master

Best Director:

	Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty
	Runners-up: Ben Affleck - Argo and Paul Thomas Anderson - The Master

Best Actor:

	Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln
	Runners-up: Jack Black - Bernie, Denis Lavant - Holy Motors, and Joaquin Phoenix - The Master

Best Actress:

	Rachel Weisz - The Deep Blue Sea
	Runners-up: Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty, Jennifer Lawrence - The Hunger Games and Silver Linings Playbook, and Emmanuelle Riva - Amour

Best Supporting Actor:

	Matthew McConaughey - Bernie and Magic Mike
	Runners-up: Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln and Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained

Best Supporting Actress:

	Sally Field - Lincoln
	Runner-up: Anne Hathaway - The Dark Knight Rises and Les Misérables

Best Screenplay:

	Tony Kushner - Lincoln
	Runners-up: Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola - Moonrise Kingdom and Mark Boal - Zero Dark Thirty

Best Cinematography:

	Greig Fraser - Zero Dark Thirty
	Runner-up: Mihai Mălaimare Jr. - The Master

Best Foreign Language Film:

	Amour • Austria / France / Germany
	Runners-up: Holy Motors • France / Germany and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da) • Bosnia and Herzegovina / Turkey

Best Non-Fiction Film:

	The Central Park Five
	Runners-up: The Gatekeepers and This Is Not a Film

Best Animated Film:

	Frankenweenie
	Runners-up: Brave and ParaNorman

Best First Film:

	David France - How to Survive a Plague
	Runner-up: Benh Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild