Roger Ebert: 20 Best Movies of 2012 (as published by The Chicago Sun-Times, alphabetically)

• Arbitrage – Nicholas Jarecki
• Argo – Ben Affleck
• Beasts of the Southern Wild – Benh Zeitlin
• End of Watch – David Ayer
• Flight – Robert Zemeckis [pictured]
• Life of Pi – Ang Lee
• Lincoln – Stephen Spielberg
• Oslo, August 31st – Joachim Trier
• The Sessions – Ben Lewin
• A Simple Life – Ann Hui

Grand Jury Prizes (alphabetical)

• The Central Park Five – Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon
• The Impossible – Juan Antonio Bayona
• In the Family – Patrick Wang
• Last Ride – Glendyn Ivin
• A Late Quartet – Yaron Zilberman
• The Master – Paul Thomas Anderson
• Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory – Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
• Rampart – Oren Moverman
• Searching for Sugar Man – Malik Bendjelloul
• West of Memphis – Amy Berg