Performances of 2012 (UK releases)

Leading Female :
1. Nadezhda Markina (Elena)
2. Alice Lowe (Sightseers)
3. Greta Gerwig (Damsels In Distress)
4. Nina Hoss (Barbara)
5. Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)
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Leading Male :
1. Muhammet Uzuner (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia)
2. Marcin Kowalczyk (You Are God)
3. Steve Oram (Sightseers)
4. Channing Tatum (Magic Mike)
5. Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)
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Supporting Male :
1. James Gandolfini (Killing Them Softly)
2. Pierce Gagnon (Looper)
2. Bob Balaban (Moonrise Kingdom)
4. Vincent Cassel (A Dangerous Method)
5. Heinz Lieven (This Must Be the Place)
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Supporting Female :
1. Teresa Madruga (Tabu)
2. Elena Liodova (Elena)
3. Anne Hathaway (The Dark Knight Rises)
4. Molly Parker (Oliver Sherman)
5. Vanessa Redgrave (Coriolanus)
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“Combined” list
1. Markina
2. Madruga
3. Uzuner
4. Gandolfini
5. Kowalczyk
6. Lowe
7. Gerwig
8. Tatum
9. Gagnon
10. Liodova

special mentions:
– Ariane Ascaride for Snows of Kilimanjaro
– Taner Birsel and Yılmaz Erdoğan for Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
– Selma Blair for Dark Horse
– Eileen Davies (and ‘Smurf’) for Sightseers
– Michael Fassbender for Shame andPrometheus
– Werner Herzog for Jack Reacher, the year’s second-best villain (Heinz Lieven is #1)
– Fran Kranz for The Cabin in the Woods
– Ryan Metcalf for Damsels In Distress
– Viggo Mortensen for A Dangerous Method
– Mark Wahlberg for Ted, by some way the “gamest” performance of the year
– Christoph Waltz for Carnage, the most “taken for granted” performance of the year
– Annika Wedderkopp for The Hunt, edging out Quvenzhané Wallis in a great year for tot precocity
– André Wilms (and ‘Laika’) for Le Havre