Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2012

The winners of the 13th Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2012, were announced on January 7, 2013.^[1]

Category	Winners and nominees	Films
Best Film	Kathryn Bigelow	Zero Dark Thirty
	Paul Thomas Anderson	The Master
	Steven Spielberg	Lincoln
Best Actor	Joaquin Phoenix	The Master
	John Hawkes	The Sessions
	Daniel Day-Lewis	Lincoln
Best Actress	Jessica Chastain	Zero Dark Thirty
	Marion Cotillard	Rust and Bone
	Jennifer Lawrence	Silver Linings Playbook
Best Supporting Actor	Philip Seymour Hoffman	The Master
	Tommy Lee Jones	Lincoln
	Christoph Waltz	Django Unchained
Best Supporting Actress	Amy Adams	The Master
	Anne Hathaway	Les Misérables
	Helen Hunt	The Sessions
Best Director	Kathryn Bigelow	Zero Dark Thirty
	Ang Lee	Life of Pi
	Steven Spielberg	Lincoln
Best Screenplay	Mark Boal	Zero Dark Thirty
	Tony Kushner	Lincoln
	Quentin Tarantino	Django Unchained
Best Documentary	Malik Bendjelloul	Searching for Sugar Man
	David France	How to Survive a Plague
	Alison Klayman	Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Best Foreign Language Film	Leos Carax	Holy Motors
	Michael Haneke	Amour
	Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache	The Intouchables

Winners and nominees