One Line Review's Top Ten Movies and Noteworthy Achievements 2012

TOP TEN 2012 (alphabetical)
Django Unchained (d. Quentin Tarantino)
Frankenweenie (d. Tim Burton)
Moonrise Kingdom (d. Wes Anderson)
Prometheus (d. Ridley Scott)
The Raid: Redemption (d. Gareth Evans)
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
(d. Lorene Scafaria)
The Sessions (d. Ben Lewin)
Silver Linings Playbook (d. David O. Russell)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2
(d. Bill Condon)
Zero Dark Thirty (d. Kathryn Bigeow)

NOTEWORTHY ACHIEVEMENTS

Best Film:
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

Best Actor:

Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook

Best Actress:
Noomi Rapace in Prometheus

Best Supporting Actor:
Leonardo DiCaprio in Django Unchained

Best Supporting Actress:
Sally Field in Lincoln

Best Original Screenplay:
Lorene Scafaria for Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

Best Adapted Screenplay:
David O. Russell for Silver Linings Playbook

Best Director:
Wes Anderson for Moonrise Kingdom

Honorable Mentions:

Best Film: Moonrise Kingdom; Silver Linings Playbook.

Best Actor: Jack Black in Bernie; Steve Carell in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World; Mark Duplass in Your Sister's Sister; Hugh Jackman in Les Miserables; Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln; John Hawkes in The Sessions; Joaquin Phoenix in The Master.

Best Actress: Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty; Judi Dench in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel; Helen Hunt in The Sessions; Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook; Emmanuelle Riva in Amour; Naomi Watts in The Impossible.

Best Supporting Actor: Larry David in The Three Stooges; Robert DeNiro in Silver Linings Playbook; Ezra Miller in The Perks of Being a Wallflower; Martin Sheen in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World; Michael Sheen in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2; Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained.

Best Supporting Actress: Charlize Theron in Prometheus.

Best Original Screenplay: Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola for Moonrise Kingdom; Rian Johnson for Looper; Ben Lewin for The Sessions.

Best Adapted Screenplay: Tony Kushner for Lincoln; Chris Terrio for Argo.

Best Director: David O. Russell for Silver Linings Playbook; Lorene Scafaria for Seeking a Friend for the End of the World.