2012 Tyler's Choice Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Best Picture

• Argo (George Clooney, Ben Affleck & Grant Heslov)
• Les Misérables (Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward & Cameron Mackintosh)
• Lincoln (Steven Spielberg & Kathleen Kennedy)
• Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales & Jeremy Dawson)
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich & Russell Smith)
  (Honourable Mentions: The Avengers, Django Unchained, The Master, Silver Linings Playbook, Zero Dark Thirty)

Best Director

• Ben Affleck - Argo
• Wes Anderson - Moonrise Kingdom
• Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty
• David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook
• Steven Spielberg - Lincoln
  (Honourable Mentions: Paul Thomas Anderson - The Master, Tom Hooper - Les Misérables, Ang Lee - Life of Pi, Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained, Benh Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild)

Best Lead Actor

• Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook
• Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln
• Hugh Jackman - Les Misérables
• Joaquin Phoenix - The Master
• Denzel Washington - Flight
  (Honourable Mentions: Jack Black - Bernie, Richard Gere - Arbitrage, John Hawkes - The Sessions, Logan Lerman - The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Bill Murray - Hyde Park on the Hudson)

Best Lead Actress

• Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
• Marion Cotillard - Rust and Bone
• Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
• Emmanuelle Riva - Amour
• Naomi Watts - The Impossible
  (Honourable Mentions: Judi Dench - The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Keira Knightley - Anna Karenina, Helen Mirren - Hitchcock, Meryl Streep - Hope Springs, Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild)

Best Supporting Actor

• Leonardo DiCaprio - Django Unchained
• Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master
• Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln
• Ezra Miller - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Bruce Willis - Moonrise Kingdom
  (Honourable Mentions: Alan Arkin - Argo, Javier Bardem - Skyfall, Robert De Niro - Silver Linings Playbook, Dwight Henry - Beasts of the Southern Wild, Matthew McConaughey - Magic Mike)

Best Supporting Actress

• Amy Adams - The Master
• Sally Field - Lincoln
• Anne Hathaway - Les Misérables
• Helen Hunt - The Sessions
• Emma Watson - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  (Honourable Mentions: Samantha Barks - Les Misérables, Judi Dench - Skyfall, Ann Dowd - Compliance, Anne Hathaway - The Dark Knight Rises, Jacki Weaver - Silver Linings Playbook)

Best Original Screenplay

• Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)
• Flight (John Gatins)
• The Intouchables (Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano)
• The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
• Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola)
  (Honourable Mentions: Amour, Brave, The Cabin in the Woods, Wreck-it Ralph, Zero Dark Thirty)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Argo (Chris Terrio; based on the memoir "The Master of Disguise" by Tony Mendez and the article "The Great Escape: How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran" by Joshuah Bearman)
• Beasts of the Southern Wild (Lucy Aliban & Benh Zeitlin; based on the play "Juicy and Delicious" by Lucy Aliban)
• Lincoln (Tony Kushner; based on the book "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" by Doris Kearns Goodwin)
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky; based on the novel by Stephen Chbosky)
• Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell; based on the novel by Matthew Quick)
  (Honourable Mentions: 21 Jump Street, The Avengers, Life of Pi, The Sessions, Skyfall)

Best Cast Ensemble

• The Avengers [Sarah Finn & Randi Hiller] (Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Tom Hiddleston, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Clark Gregg, Stellan Skarsgard & Samuel L. Jackson, et. al.)
• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel [Michelle Guish & Seher Latif] (Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Penelope Winton, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson, Ronald Pickup, Celia Imrie, Tina Desai & Dev Patel, et. al.)
• Les Misérables [Nina Gold] (Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Aaron Tveit, Daniel Huttlestone, Samantha Barks, Sacha Baron Cohen & Helena Bonham Carter, et. al.)
• Moonrise Kingdom [Douglas Aibel] (Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Bob Balaban, Jason Schwartzman & Harvey Keitel, et. al.)
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower [Venus Kanini & Mary Vernieu] (Logan Lerman, Ezra Miller, Emma Watson, Mae Whitman, Paul Rudd, Nina Dobrev, Johnny Simmons, Kate Walsh, Dylan McDermott & Joan Cusack, et. al.)
  (Honourable Mentions: Argo, Django Unchained, Lincoln, Seven Psychopaths, Silver Linings Playbook)

Best Young Actor (18 or Under)

• Jared Gilman - Moonrise Kingdom
• Kara Hayward - Moonrise Kingdom
• Tom Holland - The Impossible
• Chloë Moretz - Dark Shadows
• Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild
  (Honourable Mentions: CJ Adams - The Odd Life of Timothy Green, Elle Fanning - Ginger & Rosa, Zachary Gordon - Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, Daniel Huttlestone - Les Misérables, Suraj Sharma - Life of Pi)

Best Foreign Language Film [TIE]

• Amour [Austria] (Michael Haneke)
• The Intouchables [France] (Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano)
• Kon-Tiki [Norway] (Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg)
• A Royal Affair [Denmark] (Nikolaj Arcel)
• War Witch [Canada] (Kim Nguyen)
  (Honourable Mentions: Holy Motors, The Kid with a Bike, No, Rust and Bone, This is Not a Film)

Best Documentary Feature

• Bully (Lee Hirsch & Cynthia Lowen)
• The Imposter (Bart Layton & Dimitri Doganis)
• The Queen of Versailles (Lauren Greenfield & Danielle Renfrew Behrens)
• Searching for Sugar Man (Malik Bendjelloul & Simon Chinn)
• West of Memphis (Amy Berg, Damien Echols, Peter Jackson & Fran Walsh)
  (Honourable Mentions: The Central Park Five, Chasing Ice, How to Survive a Plague, The Invisible War, Jiro Dreams of Sushi)

Best Original Score

• Argo (Alexandre Desplat)
• Brave (Patrick Doyle)
• The Dark Knight Rises (Hans Zimmer)
• Lincoln (John Williams)
• Moonrise Kingdom (Alexandre Desplat)
  (Honourable Mentions: Anna Karenina - Dario Marianelli, Beasts of the Southern Wild - Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin, Life of Pi - Mychael Danna, The Master - Jonny Greenwood, Skyfall - Thomas Newman)

Best Original Song

• "Into the Open Air" - Brave (Alex Mandel)
• "Safe and Sound" - The Hunger Games (Taylor Swift, T-Bone Burnett, John Paul White & Joy Williams)
• "Skyfall" - Skyfall (Adele & Paul Epworth)
• "Suddenly" - Les Misérables (Claude-Michael Schönberg, Alain Boublil & Herbert Kretzmer)
• "When Can I See You Again?" - Wreck-it Ralph (Adam Young, Matthew Thiessen & Brian Lee)
  (Honourable Mentions: "Ancora Qui" - Django Unchained, "Everybody Needs a Best Friend" - Ted, "For You" - Act of Valor, "Still Alive" - Paul Williams Still Alive, "Touch the Sky" - Brave)

Best Sound Editing

• The Avengers (Christopher Boyes & Frank Eulner)
• Brave (Gary Rydstrom & Gwendolyn Yates Whittle)
• The Dark Knight Rises (Richard King)
• Django Unchained (Wylie Stateman)
• Skyfall (Karen Baker Landers & Per Hallberg)
  (Honourable Mentions: Argo, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Life of Pi, Prometheus, Zero Dark Thirty)

Best Sound Mixing

• The Dark Knight Rises (Gary Rizzo, Gregg Landaker & Ed Novick)
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Tony Johnson, Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges & Michael Semanick)
• Les Misérables (Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson & Simon Hayes)
• Life of Pi (Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill & Drew Kunin)
• Skyfall (Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell & Stuart Wilson)
  (Honourable Mentions: Argo, The Avengers, Cloud Atlas, Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty)

Best Animated Feature

• Brave (Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman & Katherine Sarafian)
• Frankenweenie (Tim Burton & Allison Abbate)
• ParaNorman (Chris Butler, Sam Fell, Travis Knight & Arianne Sutner)
• Rise of the Guardians (Peter Ramsey, Christina Steinberg & Nancy Bernstein)
• Wreck-it Ralph (Rich Moore & Clark Spencer)
  (Honourable Mentions: From Up on Poppy Hill, Hotel Transylvania, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, The Rabbi's Cat)

Best Voice-Over Performance

• Jude Law - Rise of the Guardians for voicing Pitch Black
• Kelly Macdonald - Brave for voicing Princess Merida
• Frances McDormand - Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted for voicing Chantal DuBois
• John C. Reilly - Wreck-it Ralph for voicing Wreck-it Ralph
• Adam Sandler - Hotel Transylvania for voicing Dracula
  (Honourable Mentions: Peter Dinklage - Ice Age: Continental Drift, Seth MacFarlane - Ted, Catherine O'Hara - Frankenweenie, Imelda Staunton - The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Alan Tudyk - Wreck-it Ralph)

Best Cinematography

• The Dark Knight Rises (Wally Pfister)
• Django Unchained (Robert Richardson)
• Life of Pi (Claudio Miranda)
• Lincoln (Janusz Kamiński)
• Skyfall (Roger Deakins)
  (Honourable Mentions: Anna Karenina - Seamus McGarvey, Beasts of the Southern Wild - Ben Richardson, Les Misérables - Danny Cohen, The Master - Mihai Mălaimare Jr., Moonrise Kingdom - Robert Yeoman)

Best Film Editing

• Argo (William Goldenberg)
• The Dark Knight Rises (Lee Smith)
• Lincoln (Michael Kahn)
• Silver Linings Playbook (Jay Cassidy & Crispin Struthers)
  
• Zero Dark Thirty (William Goldenberg & Dylan Tichenor)
  (Honourable Mentions: Django Unchained - Fred Raskin, Les Misérables - Chris Dickens & Melanie Oliver, Life of Pi - Tim Squyres, The Master - Leslie Jones & Peter McNulty, Skyfall - Stuart Baird)

Best Production Design

• Brave (Steve Pilcher)
• Django Unchained (J. Michael Riva & Michael A. Pope)
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Dan Hennah, Ra Vincent & Simon Bright)
• Les Misérables (Eve Stewart & Anna Lynch-Robinson)
• Lincoln (Rick Carter & Jim Erickson)
• Moonrise Kingdom (Adam Stockhausen & Kris Moran)
  (Honourable Mentions: Anna Karenina, Argo, Cloud Atlas, The Master, Skyfall)

Best Costume Design

• Anna Karenina (Jacqueline Durran)
  
• Les Misérables (Paco Delgado)
• Lincoln (Joanna Johnston)
• Mirror Mirror (Eiko Ishioka)
• Snow White and the Huntsman (Colleen Atwood)
  (Honourable Mentions: Cloud Atlas, Django Unchained, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Moonrise Kingdom, A Royal Affair)

Best Makeup

• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Peter "Swords" King, Richard Taylor & Tami Lane)
• Les Misérables (Lisa Westcott & Julie Dartnell)
• Lincoln (Lois Burwell & Kay Georgiou)
  (Honourable Mentions: Hitchcock, The Impossible, Looper, Men in Black III, Snow White and the Huntsman)

Best Visual Effects

• The Avengers (Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams & Dan Sudick)
• The Dark Knight Rises (Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley & Peter Bebb)
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton & R. Christopher White)
• Life of Pi (Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer & Donald R. Elliott)
• Prometheus (Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley & Martin Hill)
  (Honourable Mentions: The Amazing Spider-Man, Cloud Atlas, John Carter, Skyfall, Snow White and the Huntsman)