Großer Tag für Silver Linings Playbook, vor allem für Darstellerin Jennifer Lawrence. Ebenso wurde The Master 2x als „Bester Film“ ausgezeichnet und je 1x Phoenix & Hoffman.

Zero Dark Thirty ist wie nicht anders zu erwarten auch zahlreich vertreten. Bei den Darstellern ist neben Daniel Day-Lewis, Anne Hathayway immer noch Favoritin, aber erstmals kommt Helen Hunt ins Gespräch; Sally Field ist weiterhin gefährlich. Bei den Nebendarstellern ist es ein wildes hin- und her mit Tommy Lee Jones als Frontrunner. Middle of Nowhere gewinnt ebenfalls ein paar Preise hinzu, u.a. für die beste Darstellerin.

Detroit Film Critics Society

Film Silver Linings Playbook
Director David O Russell Silver Linings Playbook
Actress Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Actor Daniel Day Lewis, Lincoln
Supporting Actress Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables
Supporting Actor Robert DeNiro, Silver Linings Playbook
Ensemble Lincoln
Breakthrough Zoe Kazan, Ruby Sparks
Screenplay Silver Linings Playbook
Documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi

San Francisco Film Critics Circle

Picture The Master
Director Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
Actress Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Actor Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Supporting Actress Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Supporting Actor Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Documentary The Waiting Room
Foreign Film Amour
Animated Film ParaNorman 
Editing Argo
Production Design Moonrise Kingdom
Cinematography Life of Pi
Adapted Screenplay Lincoln
Original Screenplay Zero Dark Thirty 
Marlon Riggs Award Peter Nicks, The Waiting Room
Special Citation Girl Walk / All Day, a dance film

Kansas City Film Critics

Film The Master
Director Ang Lee Life of Pi
Actress Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Actor Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Supporting Actress Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables
Supporting Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Adapted Screenplay Argo
Original Screenplay The Master
Foreign Film Amour
Best Sci Fi Fantasy Horror Film Cabin in the Woods
Animated Film Frankenweenie
Documentary Imposter

African American Film Critics Association

Film Zero Dark Thirty
Director Ben Affleck Argo
Actress Emayatzky Corinealdi Middle of Nowhere
Actor Denzel Washington, Flight
Supporting Actress Sally Field, Lincoln
Supporting Actor Nate Parker, Arbitrage
Screenplay Middle of Nowhere
Foreign Film The Intouchables
Animated Film Rise of the Guardians
Documentary (tie) The House I Live In and Versailles 73: American Runway Revolution
Independent Film Middle of Nowhere
Breakthrough Performance Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Use of Music Middle of Nowhere 
Special Achievement Cicely Tyson and Billy Dee Williams

Top 10:

1. Zero Dark Thirty
2. Argo
3. Lincoln
4. Middle of Nowhere
5. Life of Pi
6. Les Misérables
7. Django Unchained
8. Beasts of the Southern Wild
9. Moonrise Kingdom
10. Think Like a Man