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The nominees for the 2012 International On-Line Film Critics’ Poll 2012 have been announced. Open to all films released in the United States between November 2011 and November 2012, it allows for a slightly different playing field than the Oscars typically does. It also means that I am (as a non-American) far more likely to have seen all the nominees, with only Lincoln yet to see among the Best Picture nominees. Anyway, I will be sending in my ballot soon enough, but take a gander at the full list of nominees below. It’s a strong list, to be sure.

Best Film – Motion Picture

• The Artist
• The King’s Speech
• Lincoln
• The Master
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Best Director

• Ben Affleck – Argo
• Tomas Alfredson – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• Paul Thomas Anderson – The Master
• Terrence Malick – The Tree of Life
• Steven Spielberg – Lincoln

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
• Jean Dujardin – The Artist
• Colin Firth – The King’s Speech
• Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
• Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Elizabeth Olsen – Martha Marcy May Marlene
• Natalie Portman – Black Swan
• Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady
• Tilda Swinton – We Need to Talk About Kevin
• Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Supporting Actor

• Christian Bale – The Fighter
• Bryan Cranston – Argo
• Christopher Plummer – Beginners
• Geoffrey Rush – The King’s Speech
• Philip Seymur Hoffman – The Master

Best Supporting Actress

• Amy Adams – The Master
• Amy Adams – The Fighter
• Bérénice Bejo – The Artist
• Helena Bonham Carter – The King’s Speech
• Melissa Leo – The Fighter

Best Cast

• Argo
• The Artist
• The Fighter
• The King’s Speech
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Best Original Screenplay

• Paul Thomas Anderson – The Master
• Paddy Considine – Tyrannosaur
• Sean Durkin – Martha Marcy May Marlene
• Andrés Heinz, Mark Heyman and John McLaughlin – Black Swan
• David Seidler – The King’s Speech

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Lucy Alibar and Ben Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Bridget O’Connor, Peter Straughan – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• Alexander Payne, Net Faxon and Jim Rash – The Descendants
• Tony Kushner – Lincoln
• Chris Terrio – Argo

Best Cinematography

• Emmanuel Lubezki – The Tree of Life
• Hoyte Van Hoytema – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• Janusz Kaminski – Lincoln
• Walter Pfister – The Dark Knight Rises
• Guillame Shiffman – The Artist

Best Production Design

• Rick Carter – Lincoln
• Nathan Crowley, Kevin Kavanaugh – The Dark Knight Rises
• Maria Djurkovic – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• David Crank, Jack Fish – The Master
• Dennis Gassner – Skyfall

Best Film Editing

• Tariq Anwar – The King’s Speech
• William Goldenberg – Argo
• Michael Kahn – Lincoln
• Leslie Jones, Peter McNulty – The Master
• Dino Jonsäter – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Best Original Score

• Ludovic Bource – The Artist
• Alberto Iglesias – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• Alexandre Desplat – The King’s Speech
• Jonny Greenwood – The Master
• Clint Mansell – Black Swan

Best Visual Effects

• The Avengers
• Black Swan
• The Dark Knight Rises
• Skyfall
• The Tree of Life

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