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Last updated April 19, 2024

2012 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, critics' lists of the best films of 2012, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, and notable deaths. Most notably, Universal and Paramount, two of America's oldest surviving film studios, celebrated their centennial anniversaries, marking the first time that two major film studios celebrate 100 years. The Dolby Atmos sound format was launched for the premiere of Brave . The James Bond film series celebrated its 50th anniversary and released its 23rd film, Skyfall . Six box-office blockbusters from previous years ( Beauty and the Beast , Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace , Titanic , Raiders of the Lost Ark , Finding Nemo , and Monsters, Inc. ) were re-released in 3D and IMAX. Also, the year marked the debut for high frame rate technology. The first film using 48 F.P.S., a higher frame rate than the film industry standard 24 F.P.S., was The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey .

Evaluation of the year

Richard Brody of The New Yorker said, "2012 has been a good year for Hollywood and off-Hollywood. Note, once more, the remarkable Hollywood nexus of the Gotham and Independent Spirit nominees, as the path of independent financing becomes ever more significant for filmmakers whose work doesn't fit into franchise formatting. And that's a good thing, from the perspective of filmmaking—whether it means that directors and actors share producers' risks in getting their work made, or that complicit producers give a director's vision free rein. But the latter notion makes some critics uneasy. There's an undercurrent of thought—one rooted in an antiquated and nostalgic vision of a halcyon classic Hollywood that supposedly both reached the masses and made modest and un-self-conscious art—that looks to producers to restrain the idiosyncrasies of directors and fit them into a readily marketable package of popular appeal. These critics yearn for the adversarial relationship of producer and director, seeing the producer as the supporter of democratic values and the director as a sort of egomaniacal élitist who, unrestrained, would spend someone else's money frivolously to make a movie that would please himself and his friends. Of course, that relationship becomes adversarial only if the producer doesn't see himself as a sort of benefactor, a patron of the arts whose very role is to finance and to foster individual expression—and, as ever, it all depends on who the individual is and what the nature of the vision is. It's fairly obvious that strong producers improve films made by mediocre directors but often constrain or dilute the distinctiveness and individuality of the work of good ones. There is a political agenda hidden within the critics' aesthetic preference for the strong hand of the producer, as critics demagogically put themselves in the position of defenders of the people—defending them from radical outliers and finding popular tastes with which to align themselves. It's another case of left and right agreeing without common ground and leading to bad policy—and, in this case, bad art."^[1] In August 2012 BFI announced their 2012 Sight & Sound Greatest films of all Time survey which was topped for the first time by Vertigo .

Highest-grossing films

The top 10 films released in 2012 by worldwide gross are as follows:^[2]

Highest-grossing films of 2012
Rank	Title	Distributor	Worldwide gross
1	The Avengers	Disney	$1,518,812,988
2	Skyfall	Sony	$1,108,561,013
3	The Dark Knight Rises	Warner Bros.	$1,081,041,287
4	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Warner Bros.	$1,017,003,568
5	Ice Age: Continental Drift	Fox	$877,244,782
6	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2	Lionsgate	$829,746,820
7	The Amazing Spider-Man	Sony	$757,930,663
8	Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted	Paramount	$746,921,274
9	The Hunger Games	Lionsgate	$694,394,724
10	Men in Black 3	Sony	$654,213,485

The Avengers grossed over $1.5 billion and it became the third highest-grossing film of all time. Skyfall , The Dark Knight Rises , and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey have each grossed over $1 billion, making them among the highest-grossing films of all time.

2012 box office records

The Hunger Games was the first film of 2012 to pass the $500 million mark worldwide, and is also the first film since Avatar to place first at the U.S. box office for four consecutive weekends.
Skyfall became the first film to gross more than £100 million, amassing a total of £102.9 million.
With their 3-D re-releases, two films achieved new milestones: Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace reached $1.027 billion, and Titanic reached $2.187 billion, becoming the second film to surpass the $2 billion mark, following Avatar.
2012 was the first year to have four films cross the billion-dollar milestone,^[3] surpassing the previous year's record of three billion-dollar films.^[4]

Events

Awards

Category/Organization	18th Critics' Choice Awards January 10, 2013	70th Golden Globe Awards January 13, 2013		Producers, Directors, Screen Actors, and Writers Guild Awards	66th BAFTA Awards February 10, 2013	85th Academy Awards February 24, 2013
Category/Organization	18th Critics' Choice Awards January 10, 2013	Drama	Musical or Comedy		66th BAFTA Awards February 10, 2013	85th Academy Awards February 24, 2013
Best Film	Argo		Les Misérables	Argo
Best Director	Ben Affleck Argo					Ang Lee Life of Pi
Best Actor	Daniel Day-Lewis Lincoln		Hugh Jackman Les Misérables	Daniel Day-Lewis Lincoln
Best Actress	Jessica Chastain Zero Dark Thirty		Jennifer Lawrence Silver Linings Playbook		Emmanuelle Riva Amour	Jennifer Lawrence Silver Linings Playbook
Best Supporting Actor	Philip Seymour Hoffman The Master	Christoph Waltz Django Unchained		Tommy Lee Jones Lincoln	Christoph Waltz Django Unchained
Best Supporting Actress	Anne Hathaway Les Misérables
Best Screenplay, Adapted	Tony Kushner Lincoln	Quentin Tarantino Django Unchained		Chris Terrio Argo	David O. Russell Silver Linings Playbook	Chris Terrio Argo
Best Screenplay, Original	Quentin Tarantino Django Unchained	Quentin Tarantino Django Unchained		Mark Boal Zero Dark Thirty	Quentin Tarantino Django Unchained
Best Animated Film	Wreck-It Ralph	Brave		Wreck-It Ralph	Brave
Best Original Score	Lincoln John Williams	Life of Pi Mychael Danna		—	Skyfall Thomas Newman	Life of Pi Mychael Danna
Best Original Song	"Skyfall" Skyfall			—	—	"Skyfall" Skyfall
Best Foreign Language Film	Amour			—	Amour
Best Documentary	Searching for Sugar Man	—	—	Searching for Sugar Man

2012 films

By country/region

By genre/medium

Births

January 7 - Blue Ivy Carter, American singer, Beyoncé’s manager
April 23 - Alan Kim, American actor
June 4 - Vivien Lyra Blair, American actress

Deaths

Month	Date	Name	Age	Country	Profession	Notable films
January	1	Bob Anderson	89	UK	Stuntman, Choreographer	Star Wars The Lord of the Rings
	2	Silvana Gallardo	58	US	Actress	Windwalker Death Wish II
	3	Joaquín Martínez	81	Mexico	Actor	Jeremiah Johnson House of Cards
	4	Harry Fowler	85	UK	Actor	Went the Day Well? Hue and Cry
	5	Frederica Sagor Maas	111	US	Screenwriter	The Plastic Age Dance Madness
	10	Lila Kaye	82	UK	Actress	An American Werewolf in London Nuns on the Run
	11	Richard Bruno	87	US	Costume Designer	The Karate Kid Chinatown
	11	David Whitaker	81	UK	Composer	Hammerhead Run Wild, Run Free
	13	Morgan Jones	83	US	Actor	Not of This Earth Apache Woman
	14	Mila Parely	94	France	Actress	The Rules of the Game Beauty and the Beast
	21	Eiko Ishioka	73	Japan	Costume Designer	Bram Stoker's Dracula The Cell
	23	Bingham Ray	57	US	Studio Executive
	24	Theo Angelopoulos	76	Greece	Director, Screenwriter	Eternity and a Day Ulysses' Gaze
	24	James Farentino	82	US	Actor	Bulletproof The Final Countdown
	26	Ian Abercrombie	77	UK	Actor	Young Frankenstein The Lost World: Jurassic Park
	26	Dimitra Arliss	79	US	Actress	The Sting The Other Side of Midnight
	29	John Rich	86	US	Director	Boeing Boeing Wives and Lovers
February	3	Ben Gazzara	81	US	Actor	Anatomy of a Murder Road House
	3	Zalman King	69	US	Director, Screenwriter, Actor	9½ Weeks Two Moon Junction
	4	Andrew Wight	51	Australia	Screenwriter, Producer	Sanctum Aliens of the Deep
	5	Sam Coppola	79	US	Actor	Serpico Saturday Night Fever
	6	Peter Breck	82	US	Actor	Shock Corridor Benji
	8	Phil Bruns	80	US	Actor	Flashdance Harry and Tonto
	8	Laurie Main	89	Australia	Actor	Freaky Friday Time After Time
	11	Whitney Houston	48	US	Singer, Actress, Producer	The Bodyguard Waiting to Exhale
	12	Zina Bethune	66	US	Actress	Sunrise at Campobello Who's That Knocking at My Door
	12	David Kelly	82	Ireland	Actor	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Waking Ned
	13	Russell Arms	92	US	Actor, Singer	The Man Who Came to Dinner Captains of the Clouds
	14	Dory Previn	86	US	Lyricist	Valley of the Dolls The Sterile Cuckoo
	16	Elyse Knox	94	US	Actress	The Mummy's Tomb Joe Palooka
	16	Dick Anthony Williams	77	US	Actor	Dog Day Afternoon Edward Scissorhands
	18	Peter Halliday	87	UK	Actor	The Swordsman The Remains of the Day
	18	Ric Waite	78	US	Cinematographer	Red Dawn Footloose
	23	Bruce Surtees	74	US	Cinematographer	Dirty Harry Beverly Hills Cop
	25	Erland Josephson	88	Sweden	Actor	Fanny and Alexander The Sacrifice
	26	Richard Carpenter	82	UK	Actor	The Terrornauts Mystery Submarine
	29	Davy Jones	66	UK	Actor, Singer	Head The Brady Bunch Movie
March	1	Phillip R. Allen	72	US	Actor	Mommie Dearest Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
	1	Jerome Courtland	85	US	Actor, Producer	The Man from Colorado Battleground
	3	Leonardo Cimino	94	US	Actor	Dune Moonstruck
	3	Ralph McQuarrie	82	US	Designer, Illustrator	Star Wars Raiders of the Lost Ark
	4	Joan Taylor	82	US	Actress	20 Million Miles to Earth War Paint
	5	Philip Madoc	77	UK	Actor	Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde Hell Boats
	6	Robert B. Sherman	86	US	Songwriter	Mary Poppins The Aristocats
	9	Terry Teene	70	US	Actor, Singer	Raging Bull Die Laughing
	10	Jean Giraud	73	France	Designer, Illustrator	Alien Tron
	11	Faith Brook	90	UK	Actress	To Sir, with Love Eye of the Needle
	19	Ulu Grosbard	83	Belgium	Director, Producer	The Subject Was Roses Falling in Love
	21	Robert Fuest	84	UK	Director, Screenwriter	Just Like a Woman Wuthering Heights
	21	Tonino Guerra	92	Italy	Screenwriter	Blowup Amarcord
	25	Hal E. Chester	91	US	Producer, Screenwriter, Actor	The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms Night of the Demon
	25	Bill Weston	70	UK	Stuntman, Actor	Batman Titanic
	27	Warren Stevens	92	US	Actor	Forbidden Planet The Barefoot Contessa
	28	Neil Travis	73	US	Film Editor	Dances with Wolves Patriot Games
	29	Luke Askew	80	US	Actor	Easy Rider Cool Hand Luke
April	1	Jamaa Fanaka	69	US	Director, Screenwriter	Penitentiary Welcome Home Brother Charles
	9	Carol Adams	94	US	Actress	Sis Hopkins Ridin' on a Rainbow
	9	Barry Cahill	90	Canada	Actor	Grand Theft Auto Sweet Bird of Youth
	10	Grant Tilly	74	Australia	Actor	30 Days of Night Nate and Hayes
	11	Rainer Penkert	90	Germany	Actor	Morituri Paper Tiger
	14	William Finley	71	US	Actor	Phantom of the Paradise The Black Dahlia
	14	Jonathan Frid	87	Canada	Actor	House of Dark Shadows Seizure
	14	Martin Poll	89	US	Producer	Nighthawks The Lion in Winter
	15	Paul Bogart	92	US	Director	Marlowe Torch Song Trilogy
	15	Murray Rose	73	Australia	Actor	Ice Station Zebra Ride the Wild Surf
	18	Dick Clark	82	US	Actor, Producer	The Young Doctors Because They're Young
	18	Robert O. Ragland	80	US	Composer	Abby Project Kill
	19	Levon Helm	71	US	Actor, Singer	Coal Miner's Daughter The Right Stuff
	20	Peter Carsten	83	Germany	Actor	The Quiller Memorandum The Vengeance of Fu Manchu
	25	Paul L. Smith	75	US	Actor	Popeye Red Sonja
	28	Patricia Medina	92	UK	Actress	Mr. Arkadin Phantom of the Rue Morgue
	29	Joel Goldsmith	54	US	Composer	The Man with Two Brains Kull the Conqueror
	30	George Murdock	81	US	Actor	The X-Files The American President
May	2	Tracy Reed	69	UK	Actress	Dr. Strangelove A Shot in the Dark
	4	Mort Lindsey	89	US	Composer	I Could Go On Singing Real Life
	6	James Isaac	51	US	Director, Special Effects Artist	Jason X Skinwalkers
	6	George Lindsey	83	US	Actor	Ensign Pulver The Aristocats
	7	Andrea Crisanti	75	Italy	Production Designer	Cinema Paradiso The Emperor's New Clothes
	7	Virgil Frye	81	US	Actor	Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw Revenge of the Ninja
	9	Vidal Sassoon	84	UK	Hairstylist	Rosemary's Baby Be My Guest
	10	Joyce Redman	93	UK	Actress	Othello Tom Jones
	11	Roland Shaw	91	UK	Composer, Arranger	The Secret of My Success Straight On till Morning
	15	Henry Denker	99	US	Screenwriter	Time Limit The Hook
	22	Janet Carroll	71	US	Actress	Risky Business Forces of Nature
	24	Lee Rich	93	US	Producer	Passenger 57 The Score
	27	Dee Caruso	83	US	Screenwriter	Which Way to the Front? The World's Greatest Athlete
	28	Matthew Yuricich	89	US	Special Effects Artist	Logan's Run Close Encounters of the Third Kind
	29	Kaneto Shindo	100	Japan	Screenwriter, Director	Onibaba Postcard
	31	Christopher Challis	91	UK	Cinematographer	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang The Deep
June	2	Richard Dawson	79	UK	Actor	The Running Man King Rat
	2	Kathryn Joosten	72	US	Actress	Wedding Crashers Bedtime Stories
	2	Marco Onorato	59	Italy	Cinematographer	Gomorrah Reality
	3	Jean-Louis Richard	85	France	Screenwriter	Day for Night Fahrenheit 451
	4	Stan Jolley	86	US	Production Designer	Witness Caddyshack
	5	Caroline John	71	UK	Actress	The Razor's Edge Love Actually
	5	Ray Bradbury	90	US	Screenwriter	Moby Dick Something Wicked This Way Comes
	7	J. Michael Riva	63	US	Production Designer	Lethal Weapon A Few Good Men
	8	Frank Cady	96	US	Actor	Rear Window When Worlds Collide
	11	Ann Rutherford	94	Canada	Actress	Gone with the Wind A Christmas Carol
	14	Yvette Wilson	48	US	Actress	Friday Poetic Justice
	16	Giuseppe Bertolucci	65	Italy	Director, Screenwriter	Berlinguer, I Love You 1900
	16	Susan Tyrrell	67	US	Actress	Cry-Baby Fat City
	18	Victor Spinetti	82	UK	Actor	A Hard Day's Night The Return of the Pink Panther
	19	Richard Lynch	72	US	Actor	Halloween Invasion U.S.A.
	26	Nora Ephron	71	US	Director, Screenwriter, Producer	Sleepless in Seattle When Harry Met Sally...
	26	Charles Rosen	81	US	Production Designer	Broadcast News Invasion of the Body Snatchers
	27	Bruce Guerin	93	US	Actor	Revelation The Salvation Hunters
	28	Paul Stassino	81	Greece	Actor	Thunderball Exodus
July	2	Ben Davidson	72	US	Actor	Conan the Barbarian Necessary Roughness
	2	Ben Van Os	67	Netherlands	Production Designer	Girl with a Pearl Earring Orlando
	3	Andy Griffith	86	US	Actor	A Face in the Crowd No Time for Sergeants
	4	Eric Sykes	89	UK	Actor	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire The Others
	8	Ernest Borgnine	95	US	Actor	Marty The Poseidon Adventure
	13	Sage Stallone	36	US	Actor	Rocky V Daylight
	13	Ginny Tyler	86	US	Voice Actress	Son of Flubber The Sword in the Stone
	13	Richard D. Zanuck	77	US	Producer	Jaws Driving Miss Daisy
	15	Celeste Holm	95	US	Actress	All About Eve Gentleman's Agreement
	16	William Asher	90	US	Director, Screenwriter	Muscle Beach Party Beach Blanket Bingo
	17	Morgan Paull	67	US	Actor	Blade Runner Patton
	18	Rajesh Khanna	69	India	Actor	Anand Amar Prem
	19	Tom Davis	59	US	Actor, Screenwriter	Coneheads Trading Places
	20	Tony Epper	73	US	Stuntman, Actor	Dick Tracy Nowhere to Run
	20	Simon Ward	70	UK	Actor	The Three Musketeers Young Winston
	21	Angharad Rees	63	UK	Actress	Hands of the Ripper To Catch a Spy
	22	Fern Persons	101	US	Actress	Hoosiers Class
	22	Frank Pierson	87	US	Screenwriter, Director	A Star Is Born Dog Day Afternoon
	24	Chad Everett	76	US	Actor	Made in Paris Airplane II: The Sequel
	24	Sherman Hemsley	74	US	Actor	Love at First Bite Mr. Nanny
	26	Walter Goss	84	New Zealand	Sound Engineer	Deliverance In the Heat of the Night
	26	Lupe Ontiveros	69	US	Actress	The Goonies Selena
	26	Mary Tamm	62	UK	Actress	The Odessa File The Likely Lads
	27	Norman Alden	87	US	Actor	Back to the Future Tora! Tora! Tora!
	27	R. G. Armstrong	95	US	Actor	Predator Ride the High Country
	27	Geoffrey Hughes	68	UK	Actor	The Bofors Gun Yellow Submarine
	27	Tony Martin	98	US	Actor, Singer	Hit the Deck The Big Store
	29	John P. Finnegan	86	US	Actor	JFK The Natural
	29	Chris Marker	91	France	Director	Sans Soleil La Jetée
	30	Jonathan Hardy	71	New Zealand	Actor, Director	Mad Max Moulin Rouge!
	31	Gore Vidal	86	US	Actor, Screenwriter	The Best Man Gattaca
August	6	Marvin Hamlisch	68	US	Composer	The Way We Were Sophie's Choice
	8	Sancho Gracia	75	Spain	Actor	Antony and Cleopatra The Call of the Wild
	9	Al Freeman Jr.	78	US	Actor	Finian's Rainbow Malcolm X
	9	Mel Stuart	83	US	Director, Producer	Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Four Days in November
	10	Irving Fein	101	US	Producer	18 Again! Oh, God! You Devil
	10	Carlo Rambaldi	86	Italy	Special Effects Artist	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial King Kong
	13	Joan Roberts	94	US	Actress	The Model and the Marriage Broker Lovely to Look At
	14	Ron Palillo	63	US	Actor	Skatetown, U.S.A. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
	14	Phyllis Thaxter	92	US	Actress	Superman Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
	15	Biff Elliot	89	US	Actor	I, the Jury House of Bamboo
	16	William Windom	88	US	Actor	To Kill a Mockingbird The Detective
	18	George Bowers	68	US	Film Editor, Director	A League of Their Own Roll Bounce
	19	Tony Scott	68	UK	Director, Producer	Top Gun Unstoppable
	20	Phyllis Diller	95	US	Actress, Comedian	Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! A Bug's Life
	23	Jerry Nelson	78	US	Puppeteer, Actor	The Muppet Movie Follow That Bird
	24	Steve Franken	80	US	Actor	The Party The Missouri Breaks
	31	Max Bygraves	89	UK	Actor, Singer	Tom Brown's Schooldays Charley Moon
September	1	Hal David	91	US	Lyricist	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid What's New Pussycat?
	3	Michael Clarke Duncan	54	US	Actor	The Green Mile Planet of the Apes
	6	Jake Eberts	71	Canada	Producer	The Way Back Driving Miss Daisy
	6	Frank Godwin	95	UK	Producer	Woman in a Dressing Gown Operation Bullshine
	8	Leigh Hamilton	62	New Zealand	Actress	Hocus Pocus Forced Vengeance
	10	Vondell Darr	93	US	Actress	The City That Never Sleeps The Pony Express
	10	Lance LeGault	75	US	Actor	Stripes Mortal Kombat Annihilation
	10	Stanley Long	78	UK	Director, Screenwriter, Producer	The Wife Swappers Adventures of a Taxi Driver
	10	John Moffatt	89	UK	Actor	The Silent Enemy Tom Jones
	13	Edgar Metcalfe	78	UK	Actor	Evil Angels Percy's Progress
	14	Stephen Dunham	48	US	Actor	The Mummy Paranormal Activity 4
	14	Winston Rekert	63	Canada	Actor	Agnes of God The Blue Man
	16	John Ingle	84	US	Actor	Heathers Senseless
	16	Roman Kroitor	85	Canada	Director, Producer	In the Labyrinth City of Gold
	24	Edward A. Biery	92	US	Film Editor	When Time Ran Out Rollercoaster
	25	Andy Williams	84	US	Actor, Singer	I'd Rather Be Rich Something in the Wind
	26	Johnny Lewis	28	US	Actor	The Runaways Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
	27	Herbert Lom	95	Czech Republic	Actor	The Phantom of the Opera The Return of the Pink Panther
	28	Michael O'Hare	60	US	Actor	Last Exit to Brooklyn C.H.U.D.
	30	Turhan Bey	90	Austria	Actor	Shadows on the Stairs The Mummy's Tomb
	30	Stephen Frankfurt	80	US	Title Designer	To Kill a Mockingbird Goodbye, Columbus
October	2	Marjorie Lane	100	US	Actress, Singer	Born to Dance Broadway Melody of 1936
	7	Larry Block	69	US	Actor	Shamus Slap Shot
	7	Hank Moonjean	82	US	Producer	Dangerous Liaisons Sharky's Machine
	8	Ken Sansom	85	US	Actor	The Sting The Tigger Movie
	9	Harris Savides	55	US	Cinematographer	Gerry Zodiac
	10	Alex Karras	77	US	Actor	Blazing Saddles Victor/Victoria
	10	Leo O'Brien	41	US	Actor	The Last Dragon Rappin'
	12	Norm Grabowski	79	US	Actor	The Cannonball Run Hooper
	13	Gary Collins	74	US	Actor	Hangar 18 Airport
	14	John Clive	79	UK	Actor	A Clockwork Orange Yellow Submarine
	18	Sylvia Kristel	60	Netherlands	Actress	Emmanuelle Private School
	20	Joe Melia	77	UK	Actor	Modesty Blaise Oh! What a Lovely War
	21	Yash Chopra	80	India	Director, Producer	Deewaar Dil To Pagal Hai
	22	Russell Means	72	US	Actor	The Last of the Mohicans Pocahontas
	24	Peggy Ahern	95	US	Actress	Our Gang Excuse Me
	24	Anita Bjork	89	Sweden	Actress	Miss Julie Night People
	26	Mac Ahlberg	81	Sweden	Cinematographer	Beverly Hills Cop III Re-Animator
	26	Natina Reed	32	US	Actress, Singer	Bring It On Honey
	27	Robert W. Castle	81	US	Actor	Philadelphia Rachel Getting Married
	28	Merry Anders	78	US	Actress	The Dalton Girls The Time Travelers
	28	Bob Brunner	78	US	Screenwriter	The Other Sister Exit to Eden
	29	Bounty	52	Canada	Ship, Film Prop	Mutiny on the Bounty Yellowbeard
	30	Leonard Termo	77	US	Actor	Fight Club Year of the Dragon
November	5	Olympe Bradna	93	France	Actress	Souls at Sea The Night of Nights
	6	Clive Dunn	92	UK	Actor	Dad's Army The Magic Christian
	7	Richard Robbins	71	US	Composer	Howards End The Remains of the Day
	8	Lucille Bliss	96	US	Voice Actress	Cinderella The Secret of NIMH
	8	Roger Hammond	76	UK	Actor	The King's Speech Richard III
	17	Katherine Kath	92	UK	Actress	Anastasia Moulin Rouge
	21	Dann Cahn	89	US	Film Editor	The Octagon Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
	21	Deborah Raffin	59	US	Actress	Once Is Not Enough Death Wish 3
	23	Larry Hagman	81	US	Actor, Director	Fail Safe Nixon
	23	John Kemeny	87	Canada	Producer	Quest for Fire Atlantic City
	25	Dinah Sheridan	92	UK	Actress	Genevieve The Railway Children
	26	Martin Richards	80	US	Producer	Chicago Fort Apache, The Bronx
	27	Bob Kellett	84	UK	Director, Producer, Screenwriter	Are You Being Served? Up Pompeii
	28	Don Rhymer	51	US	Screenwriter	Rio Big Momma's House
	29	Susan Luckey	74	US	Actress	The Music Man Carousel
	29	Benjamin Tatar	82	US	Actor	The Wind and the Lion Battle of the Bulge
December	3	Eileen Moran	60	US	Visual Effects Artist	The Lord of the Rings Rise of the Planet of the Apes
	4	Rozina Cambos	60	Romania	Actress	Mivtza Savta The Human Resources Manager
	7	Jeni Le Gon	96	US	Actress, Dancer	Sundown Bright Road
	8	Hal Schaefer	87	US	Composer	The Money Trap There's No Business Like Show Business
	10	Marla English	77	US	Actress	Voodoo Woman The She-Creature
	10	Ed Grady	89	US	Actor	The Notebook Lolita
	10	Patricia Kennedy	96	Australia	Actress	The Getting of Wisdom My Brilliant Career
	11	Ravi Shankar	92	India	Composer	Gandhi Charly
	12	Don Medford	95	US	Director	The Hunting Party The Organization
	13	Gil Friesen	75	US	Producer	The Breakfast Club 20 Feet from Stardom
	16	Avraham Mor	77	Israel	Actor	Alex Holeh Ahavah Laura Adler's Last Love Affair
	18	Danny Steinmann	70	US	Director, Screenwriter	Friday the 13th: A New Beginning Savage Streets
	19	Bud Alper	82	US	Sound Engineer	Rocky Blade Runner
	22	Cliff Osmond	75	US	Actor	The Fortune Cookie Kiss Me, Stupid
	23	Ha Nguyen	57	Vietnam	Costume Designer	The Mask Super 8
	24	Richard Rodney Bennett	76	UK	Composer	Nicholas and Alexandra Murder on the Orient Express
	24	Charles Durning	89	US	Actor	The Sting Dog Day Afternoon
	24	Jack Klugman	90	US	Actor	12 Angry Men Days of Wine and Roses
	26	Gerry Anderson	83	UK	Director, Producer, Screenwriter	Crossroads to Crime Thunderbirds Are Go
	27	Harry Carey Jr.	91	US	Actor	Gremlins The Searchers
	28	Jon Finch	70	UK	Actor	Death on the Nile Frenzy
	30	Mike Hopkins	53	New Zealand	Sound Engineer	Transformers The Lord of the Rings

Film debuts

Dylan Arnold – Fat Kid Rules the World
Natasha Bassett – Mental
Gabriel Bateman – George Biddle, CPA
Talitha Bateman – George Biddle, CPA
Diego Boneta – Rock of Ages
John Bradley − Anna Karenina
Hannibal Buress − Sleepwalk with Me
Emilia Clarke − Spike Island
Laia Costa − I Want You
Mackenzie Davis – Smashed
Cara Delevingne − Anna Karenina
Ryan Guzman − Step Up Revolution
Kit Harington − Silent Hill: Revelation
Corey Hawkins – Allegiance
Kara Hayward – Moonrise Kingdom
Tom Holland − The Impossible
Lily James – Wrath of the Titans
Charlotte Le Bon – Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia
Greta Lee – Hello I Must Be Going
Lashana Lynch – Fast Girls
Kate McKinnon – My Best Day
Maika Monroe – At Any Price
Leslie Odom Jr. − Red Tails
Dayo Okeniyi – The Hunger Games
Gayle Rankin – Warfield
Odeya Rush – The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Justice Smith – Trigger Finger
Taylor John Smith – The Hunger Games
Karan Soni – Safety Not Guaranteed
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett – The Comedian
Suki Waterhouse – Pusher
Anthony Welsh – Red Tails
Madison Wolfe – On the Road

References

↑ Brody, Richard (9 December 2012). "The Best Movies of 2012". The New Yorker . Retrieved 30 March 2020.
↑ "2012 Worldwide Box Office". Box Office Mojo . Archived from the original on December 6, 2019. Retrieved September 5, 2023.
↑ Levine, Nick (March 4, 2013). "The Hobbit becomes 15th movie to make $1 billion worldwide". NME . Archived from the original on January 14, 2024. Retrieved January 21, 2024.
↑ Stewart, Andrew (December 28, 2011). "Domestic B.O. falls 3% in 2011". Variety . Archived from the original on January 21, 2021. Retrieved January 21, 2024.

External links

Media related to 2012 in film at Wikimedia Commons

List of 2012 films at IMDb
2012 Domestic Grosses at Box Office Mojo
List of 2012 deaths at IMDb
List of 2012 births at IMDb

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[1] Brody, Richard (9 December 2012). "The Best Movies of 2012". The New Yorker . Retrieved 30 March 2020.

[2] "2012 Worldwide Box Office". Box Office Mojo . Archived from the original on December 6, 2019. Retrieved September 5, 2023.

[3] Levine, Nick (March 4, 2013). "The Hobbit becomes 15th movie to make $1 billion worldwide". NME . Archived from the original on January 14, 2024. Retrieved January 21, 2024.

[4] Stewart, Andrew (December 28, 2011). "Domestic B.O. falls 3% in 2011". Variety . Archived from the original on January 21, 2021. Retrieved January 21, 2024.

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