The 11th San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2012, were given on 17 December 2012.^[1][2]

Winners

• Best Picture:
  • The Master
• Best Director:
  • Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty
• Best Original Screenplay:
  • Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal
• Best Adapted Screenplay:
  • Lincoln – Tony Kushner
• Best Actor:
  • Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
• Best Actress:
  • Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Helen Hunt – The Sessions
• Best Animated Feature:
  • ParaNorman
• Best Foreign Language Film:
  • Amour • Austria / France / Germany
• Best Documentary:
  • The Waiting Room
• Best Cinematography:
  • Life of Pi – Claudio Miranda
• Best Film Editing:
  • Argo – William Goldenberg
• Best Production Design:
  • Moonrise Kingdom – Adam Stockhausen
• Marlon Riggs Award (for courage & vision in the Bay Area film community):
  • Peter Nicks – The Waiting Room
• Special Citation (for under-appreciated independent cinema):
  • Girl Walk//All Day