2012 Awards -- Houston Film Critics Society nominees/winners

Nominations from the Houston critics are out. Lincoln leads with 8. The Master and Les Miserables are 2nd with 6 apiece.

BEST PICTURE
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Cloud Atlas
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Lincoln
The Master
Moonrise Kingdom
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

BEST DIRECTOR
Ben Affleck -- "Argo"
Kathryn Bigelow -- "Zero Dark Thirty"
Tom Hooper -- "Les Miserables"
Steven Spielberg -- "Lincoln"
Quentin Tarantino -- "Django Unchained"

BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis -- "Lincoln"
John Hawkes -- "The Sessions"
Hugh Jackman -- "Les Miserables"
Joaquin Phoenix -- "The Master"
Denzel Washington -- "Flight"

BEST ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain -- "Zero Dark Thirty"
Jennifer Lawrence -- "Silver Linings Playbook"
Emmanuelle Riva -- "Amour"
Quvenzhane Wallis -- "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
Naomi Watts -- "The Impossible"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alan Arkin -- "Argo"
Javier Bardem -- "Skyfall"
Tommy Lee Jones -- "Lincoln"
Philip Seymour Hoffman -- "The Master"
Matthew McConaughey -- "Magic Mike"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams -- "The Master"
Judi Dench -- "Skyfall"
Sally Field -- "Lincoln"
Anne Hathaway -- "Les Miserables"
Helen Hunt -- "The Sessions"

BEST SCREENPLAY
Argo
Lincoln
Looper
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
Rise of the Guardians
Wreck-It Ralph

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
The Master
Skyfall

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Cloud Atlas
Hitchcock
Life of Pi
Lincoln
The Master
Skyfall

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Learn Me Right" -- Brave
"Skyfall" -- Skyfall
"Song of the Lonely Mountain" -- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
"Suddenly" -- Les Miserables
"Touch the Sky" -- Brave

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Amour
Holy Motors
The Intouchables
A Royal Affair
Rust and Bone

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Bully
The Central Park Five
The House I Live In
The Imposter
The Queen of Versailles
Searching for Sugar Man

TEXAS INDEPENDENT FILM AWARD
Bernie
Incendiary: The Willingham Case
Kid-Thing
Sushi: The Global Catch
Trash Dance

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
Cloud Atlas
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life of Pi

WORST FILM
Anna Karenina
Battleship
Prometheus
That's My Boy
The Three Stooges