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the 19th annual
cadet film awards 2012

 

best picture

 

    Top 10 of 2012
  1. Cloud Atlas (Andy & Lana Wachowski & Tom Tykwer)
  2. Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell)
  3. Looper (Rian Johnson)
  4. Argo (Ben Affleck)
  5. Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow)
  6. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
  7. Prometheus (Ridley Scott)
  8. Rust and Bone (Jacques Audiard)
  9. Les Misérables (Tom Hooper)
  10. The Intouchables (Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano)
Honourable Mentions: Hitchcock (Sacha Gervasi), Holy Motors (Leos Carax), The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan), The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Peter Jackson), Compliance (Craig Zobel), This is 40 (Judd Apatow),
The Impossible (Juan Antonio Bayona), Life of Pi (Ang Lee).

best director

 

Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski & Tom Tykwer
Cloud Atlas

Nominees
Ben Affleck Argo
Tom Hooper Les Misérables
Jacques Audiard Rust and Bone
David O. Russell Silver Linings Playbook
Kathryn Bigelow Zero Dark Thirty

best lead actor

 

Bradley Cooper
Silver Linings Playbook

Nominees
Denis Lavant Holy Motors
Hugh Jackman Les Misérables
Daniel Day Lewis Lincoln
Logan Lerman The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Matthias Schoenearts Rust and Bone
John Hawkes The Sessions

best lead actress

 

Marion Cotillard
Rust and Bone

Nominees
Emmanuelle Riva Amour
Helen Mirren Hitchcock
Naomi Watts The Impossible
Jennifer Lawrence Silver Linings Playbook
Jessica Chastain Zero Dark Thirty

best supporting actor

 

Ewan McGregor
The Impossible

Nominees
Eddie Redmayne Les Misérables
Tommy Lee Jones Lincln
Ezra Miller The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Michael Fassbender Prometheus
Robert De Niro Silver Linings Playbook

best supporting actress

 

Ann Dowd
Compliance

Nominees
Kerry Washington Django Unchained
Anne Hathaway Les Misérables
Emily Blunt Looper
Kristin Scott Thomas Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Jacki Weaver Silver Linings Playbook

best limited/cameo performance - male

 

John Goodman
Argo

Nominees
Scoot McNairy Argo
James Badge Dale Flight
James D’Arcy Hitchcock
Andy Serkis The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Lee Pace Lincoln

best limited/cameo performance - female

 

Jennifer Ehle
Zero Dark Thirty

Nominees
Isabelle Huppert Amour
Tamara Tunie Flight
Kylie Minogue Holy Motors
S. Epatha Merkeson Lincoln
Melissa McCarthy This is 40

best original screenplay

 

Rian Johnson
Looper

Nominees
Michael Haneke Amour
Craig Zobel Compliance
John Gatins Flight
Judd Apatow This is 40
Mark Boal Zero Dark Thirty

best adapted screenplay

 

Tony Kushner
Lincoln

Nominees
Chris Terrio Argo
Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski & Tom Tykwer Cloud Atlas
Stephen Chbosky The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Jacques Audiard & Thomas Bidegain Rust and Bone
David O. Russell Silver Linings Playbook

best original score

 

Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek & Tom Tykwer
Cloud Atlas

Nominees
Dario Marianelli Anna Karenina
Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin Beasts of the Southern Wild
Has Zimmer The Dark Knight Rises
Alexandre Desplat Rust and Bone
Alexandre Desplat Zero Dark Thirty

best original song

 

”Who Were We”
Holy Motors

Nominees
“Ancora Qui” Django Unchained
“Pi’s Lullaby” Life of Pi
“Still Dream” Rise of the Guardians
“Skyfall” Skyfall
“Breath of Life” Snow White and the Huntsman

best non-english language film

 

Rust and Bone
(France)

Nominees
Amour (Austria/France)
The Deep (Iceland)
Holy Motors (France)
The Intouchables (France)
Lore (Australia/Germany)

best cinematography

 

Robert Richardson
Django Unchained

Nominees
Masanobu Takayanagi The Grey
Caroline Champetier Holy Motors
Janusz Kaminski Lincoln
Robert Yeoman Moonrise Kingdom
Thomas Newman Skyfall

best film editing

 

Zero Dark Thirty

Nominees
Argo
The Dark Knight Rises
The Impossible
Rust and Bone
Skyfall

best production design

 

Cloud Atlas

Nominees
Argo
Anna Karenina
Hitchcock
Prometheus
Snow White and the Huntsman

best costume design

 

Mirror Mirror

Nominees
Anna Karenina
Cloud Atlas
Django Unchained
A Royal Affair
Snow White and the Huntsman

best sound mixing

 

Les Misérables

Nominees
Cloud Atlas
Life of Pi
Looper
Rise of the Guardians
Skyfall

best sound editing

 

Skyfall

Nominees
The Grey
The Impossible
John Carter
Prometheus
Snow White and the Huntsman

best makeup and hairstyling

 

Lincoln

Nominees
Hitchcock
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Impossible
Les Misérables
Snow White and the Huntsman

best visual effects

 

Life of Pi

Nominees
Cloud Atlas
The Dark Knight Rises
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Impossible
Prometheus

best stunt direction

 

Prometheus

Nominees
The Dark Knight Rises
Flight
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Looper
Skyfall

best documentary

 

Bully

Nominees
The Imposter
Mea Maxima Culpa

best ensemble

 

Cloud Atlas

Nominees
Argo
Django Unchained
Lincoln
Les Misérables
Silver Linings Playbook

best breakthrough/debut

 

Tom Holland
The Impossible

Nominees
Quvenzhane Wallis Beasts of the Southern Wild
Samantha Barks Les Misérables
Suraj Sharma Life of Pi
Lynn Collins John Carter
Saskia Rosendahl Lore

best animated feature

 

Rise of the Guardians

Nominees
Paranorman
Wreck-it Ralph

best voiceover performance

 

Hugh Jackman
Rise of the Guardians

best titles sequence

 

best poster

 

top 12 scenes of 2012

 

Escape from Tehran
Argo

 

What Lies Beneath
The Cabin in the Woods

 

I Love You, Trevor
Flight

 

Psycho Planning
Hitchcock

 

The Tsunami
The Impossible

 

"I Dreamed a Dream"
Les Miserables
(winner)

 

"Look Down"
Les Miserables

 

The Rainmaker
Looper

 

We Can Be Heroes
The Perks of Being a Wallflower

 

Reunited with the Killer Whale
Rust and Bone

 

Shanghai Fight
Skyfall

 

End of the Meeting
Zero Dark Thirty

 

wins tally

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multiple nominations tally

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Please note that eligibility periods and category placements may not be 100% accurate, and is in the sole discretion of the writer to do as he wishes. Thanks.