North Carolina Film Critics Association Awards 2013 Nominations.

North Carolina Film Critics Association announced their nominees for the year 2012. A very interesting line-up which includes Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty, Moonrise Kingdom, The Master, Silver Linings Playbook and The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Its interesting how much of diversity there is in all the categories. They showed no love for Argo which is something that critics lately have been doing in excess.

Below is the full list of the nominees:

Best Narrative Film
Lincoln
The Master
Moonrise Kingdom
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master)
Wes Anderson (Moonrise Kingdom)
Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty)
Rian Johnson (Looper)
Ang Lee (Life of Pi)
David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)

Best Actor
Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook)
Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
John Hawkes (The Sessions)
Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)
Denzel Washington (Flight)

Best Actress
Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)
Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)
Helen Mirren (Hitchcock)
Quvenzhane Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Smashed)

Best Supporting Actor
Javier Bardem (Skyfall)
Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)
Samuel L. Jackson (Django Unchained)
Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams (The Master)
Sally Field (Lincoln)
Gina Gershon (Killer Joe)
Anne Hathaway (The Dark Knight Rises)
Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables)
Emma Watson (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

Best Original Screenplay
Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master)
Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola (Moonrise Kingdom)
Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty)
Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon (The Cabin in the Woods)
Rian Johnson (Looper)
Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)

Best Adapted Screenplay
Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
Tony Kushner (Lincoln)
David Magee (Life of Pi)
David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)
Chris Terrio (Argo)

Best Animated Film
Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph

Best Foreign Language Film
Amour
Holy Motors
The Intouchables
The Kid with a Bike
Oslo, August 31st
The Raid
Rust and Bone

Best Documentary Film
The Central Park Five
The Imposter
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
The Queen of Versailles
Room 237
Searching for Sugar Man
Under African Skies

Tarheel Award
The Campaign
The Hunger Games
Jimmy
Love Free or Die: How the Bishop of New Hampshire is Changing the World
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Zero Dark Thirty