Year-End Lists

Ty Burr: Top 26 Movies of 2012, as published by The Boston Globe

1. Beasts of the Southern Wild
   Benh Zeitlin
2. Amour
   Michael Haneke
3. Zero Dark Thirty
   Kathryn Bigelow
4. Moonrise Kingdom
   Wes Anderson
5. Holy Motors
   Leos Carax
6. Lincoln
   Steven Spielberg
7. Argo
   Ben Affleck
8. Django Unchained
   Quentin Tarantino
9. This is Not a Film
   Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
10. Oslo, August 31st
    Joachim Trier

Honorable Mention

• Bachelorette
  Leslye Headland

Runners-up

• The Sessions
  Ben Lewin
• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Silver Linings Playbook
  David O. Russell
• Safety Not Guaranteed
  Colin Trevorrow
• The Central Park Five
  Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon
• Killing Them Softly
  Andrew Dominik
• The House I Live In
  Eugene Jarecki
• Frankenweenie
  Tim Burton
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  Stephen Chbosky
• Searching for Sugar Man
  Malik Bendjelloul