DK's Best Achievements in Cinema - 2012


Best Director

Best Actor
Also worth mentioning
Alan Cumming    Any Day Now
Tom Holland    The Impossible
Frank Langella    Robot & Frank

Best Cinematography

Best Score
Daniel Pemberton    The Awakening
Fernando Velazquez    The Impossible
Benoit Charest    Upside Down
Francis and the Lights    Robot & Frank

Best Writing

Best Editing

Best Production Design
The Impossible
Upside Down
Best Picture
Also worth mentioning
Any Day Now

Best Actress
Also worth mentioning
Emmanuelle Riva    Amour
Naomi Watts    The Impossible

Best Makeup
The Impossible

Best Visual Effects
Prometheus
Upside Down

Best Practical Effects
The Impossible

Best Sound Editing

Best Steadicam
Movies that were considered (106):
The Good (DK's rating 5.5/10 and above): Any Day Now | Argo | Frankenweenie | Hitchcock | Man on a Ledge | Premium Rush | Prometheus | Room 237 | Space Dive | Stand Up Guys | Tangled Ever After | The Hunger Games | The Impossible | True Skin | Upside Down | What to Expect When You're Expecting | Wreck-It Ralph
The Bad (DK's rating 4.5-5/10): 21 Jump Street | American Reunion | Amour | Antiviral | Arbitrage | Brake | Bullet to the Head | Chronicle | End of Watch | Flight | Ice Age: Continental Drift | Life of Pi | Looper | Men in Black 3 | Nitro Circus: The Movie | ParaNorman | Pieta | Red Lights | Robot & Frank | Safe House | Skyfall | Ted | The Dark Knight Rises | The Expendables 2 | The Invisible War | This Means War | Zero Dark Thirty
The Ugly (DK's rating 4/10 and below): 2 Days in New York | A Fantastic Fear of Everything | A Thousand Words | Being Flynn | Branded | Brave | Cherry | Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away | Cloud Atlas | Cockneys vs Zombies | Cosmopolis | Dark Shadows | Deadfall | Dredd | Fire with Fire | Get the Gringo | Here Comes the Boom | Imaginaerum | Jack Reacher | John Carter | Killing Them Softly | Lincoln | Lockout | Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted | Moonrise Kingdom | Nameless Gangster | Not Suitable for Children | On the Road | One for the Money | Piranha 3DD | Ruby Sparks | Safe | Safety Not Guaranteed | Savages | Seven Psychopaths | Sick Boy | Silver Linings Playbook | Sinister | Sleepwalk with Me | Snow White and the Huntsman | Struck by Lightning | The ABCs of Death | The Amazing Spider-Man | The Angels' Share | The Avengers | The Courier | The Dictator | The Five-Year Engagement | The Girl | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | The Lorax | The Magic of Belle Isle | The Master | The Three Stooges | The Watch | The Woman in Black | Think Like a Man | This Is 40 | Total Recall | Transit | Vamps | Wrath of the Titans

Movies that were not considered (and should have):
All you Need is Love


Special Awards

Best Trailer: Prometheus, The Dark Knight Rises