Year-End Lists

Nick Bradshaw: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• The Act of Killing
  Joshua Oppenheimer
• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• August and After
  Nathaniel Dorsky
• 5 Broken Cameras
  Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
• The House I Live In
  Eugene Jarecki

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Henry K. Miller: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Cosmopolis
  David Cronenberg
• Damsels in Distress
  Whit Stillman
• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• The Turin Horse
  Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
• Dredd 3D
  Pete Travis

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• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

James Bell: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Spring Breakers
  Harmony Korine
• No
  Pablo Larraín
• Margaret
  Kenneth Lonergan
• A Hijacking
  Tobias Lindholm

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Peter Bradshaw: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

[see also 10 Best Films of 2012 • Best Films of 2011]

• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Amour
  Michael Haneke
• Stories We Tell
  Sarah Polley
• Holy Motors
  Leos Carax
• This is Not a Film
  Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Nick Roddick: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• After Lucia
  Michel Franco
• Beyond the Hills
  Cristian Mungiu
• Barbara
  Christian Petzold
• Holy Motors
  Leos Carax
• Everybody in Our Family
  Radu Jude

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

James Quandt: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013]

• Night Across the Street
  Raoul Ruiz
• The Last Time I Saw Macao
  João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata
• In Another Country
  Hong Sang-soo
• No
  Pablo Larraín
• Perret in France and Algeria
  Heinz Emigholz

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Geoffrey O’Brien: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Moonrise Kingdom
  Wes Anderson
• Farewell, My Queen
  Benoît Jacquot
• The Kid with a Bike
  Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
• This is Not a Film
  Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Nicole Brenez: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015]

• Natpwe: The Feast of the Spirits
  Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel
• Three Sisters
  Wang Bing
• Jajouka, Something Good Comes to You
  Eric Hurtado and Marc Hurtado
• Leviathan
  Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
• Our Body Is a Weapon – Prisons
  Clarisse Hahn

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Miriam Bale: Top 10 Films of 2012, as published by Fandor’s Keyframe blog

[see also 2010s • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013]

1. Kuichisan
   Maiko Endo
2. Holy Motors
   Leos Carax
3. The Turin Horse
   Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
4. Moonrise Kingdom
   Wes Anderson
5. Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke
   Jillian Mayer
6. Cosmopolis
   David Cronenberg
7. Sun Don’t Shine
   Amy Seimetz
8. Bernie
   Richard Linklater
9. Almayer’s Folly
   Chantal Akerman
10. The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
    Marie Losier

Roger Ebert: 20 Best Movies of 2012, as published by The Chicago Sun-Times, alphabetically

[see also 2011]

• Arbitrage
  Nicholas Jarecki
• Argo
  Ben Affleck
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
  Benh Zeitlin
• End of Watch
  David Ayer
• Flight
  Robert Zemeckis
• Life of Pi
  Ang Lee
• Lincoln
  Steven Spielberg
• Oslo, August 31st
  Joachim Trier
• The Sessions
  Ben Lewin
• A Simple Life
  Ann Hui

Grand Jury Prizes (alphabetical)

• The Central Park Five
  Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon
• The Impossible
  Juan Antonio Bayona
• In the Family
  Patrick Wang
• Last Ride
  Glendyn Ivin
• A Late Quartet
  Yaron Zilberman
• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
  Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
• Rampart
  Oren Moverman
• Searching for Sugar Man
  Malik Bendjelloul
• West of Memphis
  Amy Berg