Year-End Lists

The Huffington Post: 30+ Best Movies of 2012. The Huffington Post is now known as HuffPost.

1. Zero Dark Thirty
   Kathryn Bigelow
2. Lincoln
   Steven Spielberg
3. Beasts of the Southern Wild
   Benh Zeitlin
4. Argo
   Ben Affleck
5. Django Unchained
   Quentin Tarantino
6. Moonrise Kingdom
   Wes Anderson
7. Silver Linings Playbook
   David O. Russell
8. Skyfall
   Sam Mendes
9. Les Misérables
   Tom Hooper
10. Looper
    Rian Johnson
11. The Avengers
    Joss Whedon
12. Life of Pi
    Ang Lee
13. The Master
    Paul Thomas Anderson
14. The Dark Knight Rises
    Christopher Nolan
14. The Hunger Games
    Gary Ross
15. Pitch Perfect
    Jason Moore
16. Amour
    Michael Haneke
17. 21 Jump Street
    Phil Lord and Chris Miller
18. Flight
    Robert Zemeckis
19. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    Stephen Chbosky
20. Holy Motors
    Leos Carax
21. The Impossible
    Juan Antonio Bayona
22. ParaNorman
    Chris Butler & Sam Fell
22. Wreck-It Ralph
    Rich Moore
23. Promised Land
    Gus Van Sant
24. Magic Mike
    Steven Soderbergh
25. The Cabin in the Woods
    Drew Goddard
26. The Grey
    Joe Carnahan
27. Sleepwalk With Me
    Mike Birbiglia and Seth Barrish
28. The Sessions
    Ben Lewin
29. This Is 40
    Judd Apatow
30. Ruby Sparks
    Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
30. Celeste & Jesse Forever
    Lee Toland Krieger