Endy Nominations: 2012

Reviving a tradition I had to abandon last year after spending the second half of 2011 in a baby-induced movie-free zone, it's time to nominate some movies for some end of the year awards.  I'll list the nominees in each category here, and then on Saturday publish the winners, along with my predictions for the winners of that other set of awards. As always when assigning dates here at The End, movies are categorized based on their imdb date, which means that a number of films that would be Endy favorites (Damsels in Distress, Margaret, The Deep Blue Sea, etc) are not eligible for this year while several films that won't open theatrically in the US until 2013 are eligilbe.

Best Picture:

1. In Another Country

2. Like Someone in Love

3. The Master

4. Moonrise Kingdom
5. Night Across the Street

Best Director:

1. Hong Sangsoo, In Another Country

2. Abbas Kiarostami, Like Someone in Love

3. Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master

4. Wes Anderson, Moonrise Kingdom
5. Raul Ruiz, Night Across the Street

Best Actor:

1. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Amour

2. Denis Levant, Holy Motors 

3. Tadashi Okuno, Like Someone in Love

4. Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln

5. Joaquin Phoenix, The Master

Best Actress:

1. Emmanuelle Riva, Amour

2. Isabelle Huppert, In Another Country

3. Santi Ahumada, Thursday Till Sunday

4. Nai An, When Night Falls

5. Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty

Supporting Actor:

1. Ben Whishaw, Could Atlas

2. Samuel L. Jackson, Django Unchained

3. Yu Jun-sang, In Another Country

4. Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master

5. Gustavo Jahn, Neighboring Sounds

Supporting Actress:

1. Amy Adams, The Master

2. Samantha Barks, Les Misérables

3. Lola Créton, Something in the Air

4. Ana Moreira, Tabu

5. Jennifer Ehle, Zero Dark Thirty

Original Screenplay:

1. Hong Sangsoo, In Another Country

2. Abbas Kiarostami, Like Someone in Love

3. Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master

4. Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola, Moonrise Kingdom
5. Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty

Adapted Screenplay:

1. Wachowskis & Tykwer, Cloud Atlas

2. David Cronenberg, Cosmopolis

3. Li Luo, Emperor Visits the Hell

4. Tony Kushner, Lincoln

5. Raul Ruiz, Night Across the Street

Foreign Language Film:

1. Holy Motors

2. In Another Country

3. Like Someone in Love

4. Mekong Hotel

5. Night Across the Street

Documentary Feature:

1. In Search of Haydn

2. People's Park

3. Reconversão

4. Shut Up and Play the Hits

5. Three Sisters

Animated Feature:

1. Brave

2. Wreck-It Ralph

Animated Short:

1. The Longest Daycare

2. Paperman

Live Action Short:

1. My Way (Ann Hui)
2. Walker (Tsai Ming-Liang)
3. You Are More than Beautiful (Kim Tae-young)

Film Editing:

1. The Last Time I Saw Macao
2. The Master

3. Moonrise Kingdom
4. Night Across the Street
5. Zero Dark Thirty

Cinematography:

1. Katsumi Yanagijima, Like Someone in Love
2. Mihai Malaimare Jr., The Master
3. Robert D. Yeoman , Moonrise Kingdom
4. Inti Briones, Night Across the Street
5. Rui Poças, Tabu

Art Direction:

1. Cosmopolis

2. Lincoln

3. Moonrise Kingdom

4. Night Across the Street
5. Skyfall

Costume Design:

1. Django Unchained

2. Holy Motors

3. Moonrise Kingdom
4. Night Across the Street
5. Something in the Air

Make-up:

1. Holy Motors
2. Lincoln
3. Django Unchained

Sound Mixing:

1. Django Unchained
2. The Master
3. Mekong Hotel
4. Neighboring Sounds
5. Shut Up and Play the Hits

Sound Editing:

1. The Avengers
2. Django Unchained
3. Flight
4. Skyfall
5. Zero Dark Thirty

Visual Effects:

1. The Avengers

2. Flight

3. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

4. Night Across the Street
5. Prometheus

Original Score:

1. In Another Country

2. The Master
3. Mekong Hotel
4. Moonrise Kingdom
5. Zero Dark Thirty

Soundtrack:

1. Holy Motors

2. Les Misérables

3. Moonrise Kingdom

4. Something in the Air
5. Tabu