**The best for each category is mark with the Dead Head Award:
Followed by the runners-up.
Best Animated Feature:
WRECK-IT RALPH
Frankenweenie
PARANORMAN
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Best Comedy:
TED
The Five-Year
Engagement
GOON
WANDERLUST
THE DICTATOR
Best Action:
SKYFALL
DREDD 3D
HAYWIRE
THE EXPENDABLES 2
Best Sci-Fi:
TOTAL RECALL
PROMETHEUS
LOOPER
CLOUD ATLAS
LOCKOUT
Best Adventure/Superhero:
THE AVENGERS
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF
VENGEANCE
JOHN CARTER
Best Drama:
ARGO
THE WORDS
SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END
OF THE WORLD
Best Horror:
V/H/S
LOVELY MOLLY
JOHN DIES AT THE END
THE DEVIL INSIDE
CABIN IN THE WOODS
Biggest Surprise:
TOTAL RECALL
THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT
GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF
VENGEANCE
DARK SHADOWS
SAFE
JOHN DIES AT THE END
THE WORDS
Biggest Let Down (No “Dead Head”):
~~UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING
BATTLESHIP
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
Best Score:
ACT OF VALOR (Nathan Furst)
CLOUD ATLAS (Reinhold Heil,
Johnny Klimek, Tom Tykwer)
TOTAL RECALL (Harry
Gregson-Williams)
BATTLESHIP (Steve Jablonsky)
RESIDENT EVIL: Retribution (tomandandy)
Best Cinematography:
THE AVENGERS (Seamus McGarvey)
TOTAL RECALL (Paul Cameron)
CLOUD ATLAS (John Toll, Frank
Griebe)
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (Wally
Pfister)
PROMETHEUS (Dariusz Wolski)
SKYFALL (Roger Deakins)
GHOSTE RIDER: SPIRIT OF
VENGEANCE (Brandon Trost)
SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END
OF THE WORLD (Tim Orr)
Best Special Effects:
TOTAL RECALL
PROMETHEUS
THE AVENGERS
CLOUD ATLAS
GHOSTE RIDER: SPIRIT OF
VENGEANCE
Best On-Screen Performance:
Gretchen Lodge (LOVELY MOLLY)
Doona Bae (CLOUD ATLAS)
Daniel Craig (SKYFALL)
Noomi Rapace (PROMETHEUS)
Ben Whishaw (CLOUD ATLAS)
Michael Fassbender
(PROMETHEUS)
Gina Carano (HAYWIRE)
Colin Farrell (TOTAL RECALL)
Jason Segel (THE FIVE-YEAR
ENGAGEMENT)
Bryan Cranston (ARGO)
Bradley Cooper (THE WORDS)
Best Director:
Ben Affleck (ARGO)
Joss Whedon (THE AVENGERS)
Christopher Nolan (THE DARK
KNIGHT RISES)
Len Wiseman (TOTAL RECALL)
Sam Mendes (SKYFALL)
Rian Johnson (LOOPER)
Rich Moore (WRECK-IT RALPH)
MOVIE RANKINGS OF 2012:
*Have not seen THE HOBBIT
yet. I expect that to make the list.
1.
THE AVENGERS
THE AVENGERS
2.
THE DARK KNIGHT
RISES
3.
TOTAL RECALL
4.
SKYFALL
5.
PROMETHEUS
6.
WRECK IT RALPH
7.
ARGO
8.
TED
9.
GHOST RIDER:
Spirit of Vengeance
10.
JOHN CARTER
11.
WRATH OF THE
TITANS
12.
LOOPER
13.
V/H/S
14.
LOVELY MOLLY
15.
JOHN DIES AT THE
END
16.
THE WORDS
17.
CLOUD ATLAS
18.
THE DEVIL INSIDE
19.
CABIN IN THE
WOODS
20.
LOCKOUT
21.
DREDD 3D
22.
HAYWIRE
23.
FIVE-YEAR
ENGAGEMENT
24.
SILENT HILL:
REVELATION 3D
25.
THE EXPENDABLES 2
26.
FRANKENWEENIE
27.
DARK SHADOWS
28.
THE AMAZING
SPIDER-MAN
29.
GOON
30.
WANDERLUST
31.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN:
VAMPIRE HUNTER
32.
SINISTER
