2012 North Carolina Film Critics Association Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface

Best Narrative Film

Best Documentary Film
  • Silver Linings Playbook
    • Lincoln
    • The Master
    • Moonrise Kingdom
    • The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    • Zero Dark Thirty
  • Searching for Sugar Man
    • The Central Park Five
    • The Imposter
    • Jiro Dreams of Sushi
    • The Queen of Versailles
    • Room 237
    • Under African Skies

Best Animated Film

Best Foreign Language Film
  • Wreck-It Ralph
    • Brave
    • Frankenweenie
    • ParaNorman
    • The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
  • Holy Motors
    • The Intouchables
    • The Kid with a Bike
    • Oslo, August 31st
    • The Raid: Redemption
    • Rust and Bone

Best Director

Tar Heel Award
  • Ang Lee – Life of Pi
    • Paul Thomas Anderson – The Master
    • Wes Anderson – Moonrise Kingdom
    • Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty
    • Rian Johnson - Looper
    • David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
  • The Hunger Games
    • The Campaign
    • Jimmy
    • Love Free or Die
    • The Odd Life of Timothy Green
    • Zero Dark Thirty

Best Actor

Best Actress
  • Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
    • Bradley Cooper –Silver Linings Playbook''
    • Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
    • John Hawkes – The Sessions
    • Denzel Washington - Flight
  • Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
    • Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
    • Helen Mirren – Hitchcock
    • Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild
    • Mary Elizabeth Winstead – Smashed

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
    • Javier Bardem –Skyfall''
    • Jason Clarke – Zero Dark Thirty
    • Samuel L. Jackson - Django Unchained
    • Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained
  • Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables
    • Amy Adams - The Master
    • Sally Field - Lincoln
    • Gina Gershon – Killer Joe
    • Anne Hathaway – The Dark Knight Rises
    • Emma Watson - The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Best Original Screenplay

Best Adapted Screenplay
  • 'Rian Johnson -Looper''
    • Paul Thomas Anderson – The Master
    • Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola – Moonrise Kingdom
    • Mark Boal - Zero Dark Thirty
    • Drew Goddard & Joss Whedon – The Cabin in the Woods
    • Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained
  • Tony Kushner – Lincoln
    • Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild
    • Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    • David Magee - Life of Pi
    • David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
    • Chris Terrio - Argo