# 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.

## Winners and nominees
### International

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

### Canadian

| Category | Winners and nominees | Films |
| Best Film | Kim Nguyen | War Witch (Rebelle) |
| Best Film | David Cronenberg | Cosmopolis |
| Best Film | Sarah Polley | Stories We Tell |
| Best Actor | Michael Rogers | Beyond the Black Rainbow |
| Best Actor | Robert Pattinson | Cosmopolis |
| Best Actor | Melvil Poupaud | Laurence Anyways |
| Best Actress | Rachel Mwanza | War Witch (Rebelle) |
| Best Actress | Suzanne Clément | Laurence Anyways |
| Best Actress | Stéphanie Lapointe | Liverpool |
| Best Supporting Actor | Serge Kanyinda | War Witch (Rebelle) |
| Best Supporting Actor | Jay Baruchel | Goon |
| Best Supporting Actor | Liev Schreiber | Goon |
| Best Supporting Actress | Sarah Gadon | Cosmopolis |
| Best Supporting Actress | Samantha Morton | Cosmopolis |
| Best Supporting Actress | Alison Pill | Goon |
| Best Director | Panos Cosmatos | Beyond the Black Rainbow |
| Best Director | David Cronenberg | Cosmopolis |
| Best Director | Sarah Polley | Stories We Tell |
| Best British Columbia Film | Panos Cosmatos | Beyond the Black Rainbow |
| Best British Columbia Film | Katrin Bowen | Random Acts of Romance |
| Best British Columbia Film | Jesse James Miller | Becoming Redwood |
| Best British Columbia Film | Mark Sawers | Camera Shy |
| Best Documentary | Nisha Pahuja | The World Before Her |
| Best Documentary | Peter Mettler | The End of Time |
| Best Documentary | Sarah Polley | Stories We Tell |