Village Voice Film Poll: Best Films of 2012 (as published by The Village Voice, compiled from the votes of over 80 critics)
[see also 2017, 2016, 2015, 2011]
- The Master — Paul Thomas Anderson
- Zero Dark Thirty — Kathryn Bigelow
- Holy Motors — Leos Carax
- Moonrise Kingdom — Wes Anderson
- This is Not a Film — Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
- Amour — Michael Haneke
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia — Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- The Turin Horse — Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
- Lincoln — Steven Spielberg
- Tabu — Miguel Gomes
- The Deep Blue Sea — Terence Davies
- The Kid with a Bike — Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
- Beasts of the Southern Wild — Benh Zeitlin
- Oslo, August 31st — Joachim Trier
- The Loneliest Planet — Julia Loktev
- Cosmopolis — David Cronenberg
- Django Unchained — Quentin Tarantino
- Bernie — Richard Linklater
- Silver Linings Playbook — David O. Russell
- Rust and Bone — Jacques Audiard
- Argo — Ben Affleck
- Barbara — Christian Petzold
- Almayer’s Folly — Chantal Akerman
- Neighboring Sounds — Kleber Mendonça Filho
- Magic Mike — Steven Soderbergh