Hollywood And Me Awards: 2012 (Year in Review)

Best Film:

-The Master
-Zero Dark Thirty
-Amour
-Holy Motors
-Beasts of the Southern Wild
-Moonrise Kingdom
-Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
-Tabu
-Silver Linings Playbook
-The Turin Horse

Best Director:

-Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master
-Michael Haneke, Amour
-Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
-Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
-Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
-Leos Carax, Holy Motors

Hollywood And Me Awards 2011

              Nominees are placed on the bases of my preference, the first one being the winner. Also i may or may not change my choices depending upon more movies that i watch in the future. For Foreign Movies, i go with their US release dates unless i am able to watch them a year earlier.

   

Best Picture 

* A Separation


- The Tree of Life
- Midnight in Paris
- The Artist
- Drive
- Moneyball
- Certified Copy
- Hugo
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- Shame

Best Director

* Terrence Malick - The Tree Of Life

- Martin Scorsese - Hugo
- Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
- Nicolas Winding Refn - Drive
- Asghar Farhadi - A Separation
- Bennett Miller - Moneyball

Best Lead Actor

* Brad Pitt - Moneyball

- Michael Fassbender - Shame
- Jean Dujardin - The Artist
- Michael Shannon - Take Shelter
- Ryan Gosling - Drive
- Gary Oldman - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Best Lead Actress

* Juliette Binoche - Certified Copy


- Tilda Swinton - We Need to Talk About Kevin
- Viola Davis - The Help
- Olivia Colman - Tyrannosaur
- Kristen Dunst - Melancholia
- Elizabeth Olsen - Martha Marcy May Marlene

Best Supporting Actor 

* Christopher Plummer - Beginners

- Brad Pitt - The Tree of Life
- Nick Nolte - Warrior
- Albert Brooks - Drive
- Andy Serkis - Rise of the Planet of the Apes
- Shahab Hosseini - A Separation

Best Supporting Actress 

* Jessica Chastain - Take Shelter/The Tree of Life/The Help

- Octavia Spencer - The Help
- Sareh Bayat - A Separation
- Charlotte Gainsbourgh - Melancholia
- Berenice Bejo - The Artist
- Melissa McCarthy - Bridesmaids

Best Original Screenplay

* A Separation

- Midnight in Paris
- Certified Copy
- Bridesmaids
- Martha Marcy May Marlene
- The Artist

Best Adapted Screenplay

* Moneyball

- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Hugo
- We Need to Talk About Kevin
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

Best Foreign Film

* A Separation

- Certified Copy
- Tomboy
- Zindagi na Milege Dobara
- Le Havre
- The Skin i Live In

Best Animated Film

* Rango

- Arthur Christmas
- Winnie the Pooh
- The Adventures of Tintin
- Puss in Boots
- Kung Fu Panda 2

Best Film Editing

* Moneyball

- Contagion
- We Need to Talk About Kevin
- Source Code
- Martha Marcy May Marlene

Best Cinematography

* The Tree of Life

- Hugo
- Moneyball
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- The Artist

Best Production Design

* Hugo

- Midnight in Paris
- The Artist
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2

Best Visual Effects

* Hugo

- Rise of the Planet of the Apes
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2
- The Tree of Life
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Best Costume Design

* Jane Eyre

- The Artist
- Hugo
- The Help
- My Week with Marilyn

Best Hair & Makeup

* The Iron Lady

- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2
- Albert Nobbs
- The Artist
- My Week with Marilyn

Best Score

* Hugo

- The Artist
- The Skin i Live In
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Super 8

Best Sound

* Hugo

- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2
- Drive
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Source Code

Best Ensemble

* A Separation

- The Help
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Bridesmaids
- The Artist
- The Descendants

Breakthrough Male

* Michael Fassbender (Jane Eyre, X Men: First Class, A Dangerous Method and Shame)

- Ryan Gosling (Drive, The Ides Of March and Crazy Stupid Love)
- Hunter McCraken (The Tree Of Life)
- Ezra Miller (We Need to Talk About Kevin)
- Tom Hiddleston (Thor, Midnight in Paris and War Horse)

Breakthrough Female

* Jessica Chastain (The Help, The Tree of Life, Take Shelter and The Debt)

- Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
- Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy May Marlene)
- Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids)
- Shailene Woodley (The Descendants)

Best Movies (indie/too small to be noticed)

- Weekend
- Meek's Cutoff
- Tomboy
- Beginners
- Win Win
- The Guard
- Another Earth
- Tyrannosaur
- Attack the Block
- Margin Call

Honorable Mentions:

Pictures

- Bridesmaids
- Martha Marcy May Marlene
- Take Shelter
- Melancholia 
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- We Need to Talk About Kevin
- 50/50
- Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
- The Muppets
- Source Code

Actors

- Chris New - Weekend
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt - 50/50
- George Clooney - The Descendants
- Demian Bichir - A Better Life
- Peter Mullan - Tyrannosaur

- Charlize Theron - Young Adult
- Rooney Mara - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Kristen Wiig - Bridesmaids
- Janet McTeer - Albert Nobbs
- Michelle Williams - My Week with Marilyn