The 47th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 5 January 2013, honored the best in film for 2012.^[1][2]

Film titles are listed in order of placings:

1. Amour
2. The Master
3. Zero Dark Thirty

1. Michael Haneke – Amour
2. Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty
2. Paul Thomas Anderson – The Master

1. Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
2. Denis Lavant – Holy Motors
2. Joaquin Phoenix – The Master

1. Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
2. Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
3. Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty

1. Matthew McConaughey – Bernie and Magic Mike
2. Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master

1. Amy Adams – The Master
2. Sally Field – Lincoln
3. Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables

1. Tony Kushner – Lincoln
2. Paul Thomas Anderson – The Master
3. David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook

1. Mihai Mălaimare Jr. – The Master
2. Roger Deakins – Skyfall
3. Greig Fraser – Zero Dark Thirty

1. The Gatekeepers
2. This Is Not a Film
3. Searching for Sugar Man

This Is Not a Film

1. Laurence Kardish, senior film curator at the Museum of Modern Art, for his extraordinary 44 years of service, including this year's Weimar Cinema retrospective.
2. Milestone Film and Video for its ongoing "Project Shirley".