5,061 films on the site were released in 2012, and 682 have enough critic or audience ratings to be ranked. It's Such a Beautiful Day tops the list, ahead of Almayer's Folly and Amour. The biggest hit was The Avengers with $1.5B worldwide, and Argo won Best Picture at the 2013 Oscars.
It's Such a Beautiful Day is the best-rated film of 2012, with a rank value of 87/100 from critics and audiences, ahead of Almayer's Folly (86/100). Ranked by a blend of Metascore and IMDb/Letterboxd user ratings (Echo Scores start with 2017 releases).
#1 of 682 Best-rated film of 2012
2012 Sci-Fi Drama Fantasy 1h 2m English
90 Metascore $60.8M worldwide
Directed by Don Hertzfeldt
It's Such a Beautiful Day earned $60.8M worldwide; the year's biggest hit, The Avengers, earned $1.5B.
About It's Such a Beautiful DayAlmayer's Folly and Amour follow It's Such a Beautiful Day. Drama is the most common genre in the top 25 (14 films). Ranked by a blend of Metascore and IMDb/Letterboxd user ratings (Echo Scores start with 2017 releases).
2012 · Drama · 2h 7m
No Echo Score: ranked 86/100 on critics & audiences
2012 · Drama, Romance · 2h 7m
Dir. Michael Haneke No Echo Score: ranked 86/100 on critics & audiences
2012 · Action, Adventure · 2h 45m
Dir. Quentin Tarantino No Echo Score: ranked 84/100 on critics & audiences
2012 · Drama · 1h 27m
Dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne No Echo Score: ranked 83/100 on critics & audiences
2012 · Documentary · 1h 26m
Dir. Brenna Sanchez No Echo Score: ranked 82/100 on critics & audiences
2012 · Action, Adventure · 2h 45m
Dir. Christopher Nolan No Echo Score: ranked 82/100 on critics & audiences
2012 · Action, Drama · 2h 37m
Dir. Kathryn Bigelow No Echo Score: ranked 82/100 on critics & audiences
2012 · History, Documentary · 2h
Dir. David France No Echo Score: ranked 81/100 on critics & audiences
2012 · Drama · 2h 30m
Dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan No Echo Score: ranked 81/100 on critics & audiences
2012 · Biography, Music · 1h 26m
Dir. Malik Bendjelloul No Echo Score: ranked 81/100 on critics & audiences
2012 · Biography, Music · 2h 24m
Dir. Kevin Macdonald No Echo Score: ranked 81/100 on critics & audiences
2012 · Drama, Comedy · 1h 34m
Dir. Wes Anderson No Echo Score: ranked 81/100 on critics & audiences
2012 · Documentary · 1h 15m
No Echo Score: ranked 81/100 on critics & audiences
2012 · Drama · 2h
No Echo Score: ranked 81/100 on critics & audiences
2012 · Documentary · 1h 27m
Dir. Ross McElwee No Echo Score: ranked 81/100 on critics & audiences
2012 · Drama · 1h 19m
Dir. Sang-soo Hong No Echo Score: ranked 80/100 on critics & audiences
2012 · Documentary · 2h 1m
Dir. Bruce Sinofsky No Echo Score: ranked 80/100 on critics & audiences
2012 · Drama · 1h 49m
Dir. Andrei Zvyagintsev No Echo Score: ranked 80/100 on critics & audiences
2012 · Drama · 1h 35m
Dir. Joachim Trier No Echo Score: ranked 80/100 on critics & audiences
2012 · Biography, History · 1h 48m
Dir. Joe Berlinger No Echo Score: ranked 80/100 on critics & audiences
2012 · Documentary · 1h 12m
Dir. Kimi Takesue No Echo Score: ranked 80/100 on critics & audiences
2012 · Documentary · 1h 39m
Dir. Christopher Kenneally No Echo Score: ranked 79/100 on critics & audiences
2012 · Adventure, Drama · 2h 7m
Dir. Ang Lee No Echo Score: ranked 79/100 on critics & audiences
2012 · Documentary · 1h 37m
Dir. Arnon Goldfinger No Echo Score: ranked 79/100 on critics & audiences
The Avengers earned $1.5B worldwide, ahead of The Dark Knight Rises ($1.1B). The top 10 took $9.3B together; 1,365 films released in 2012 have a box office record here. Grosses that look like data errors are left out.
#1 $1.5B worldwide The Avengers $623.4M domestic · Action #2 $1.1B worldwide The Dark Knight Rises $448.1M domestic · Action 
#3 $1.1B worldwide Skyfall $304.4M domestic · Action 
#4 $1B worldwide The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey $303M domestic · Adventure 
#5 $877.2M worldwide Ice Age: Continental Drift $161.3M domestic · Adventure 
#6 $848.6M worldwide The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 $292.3M domestic · Adventure 
#7 $758.7M worldwide The Amazing Spider-Man $262.8M domestic · Action 
#8 $746.9M worldwide Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted $216.4M domestic · Adventure 
#9 $695.2M worldwide The Hunger Games $408M domestic · Action 
#10 $654.2M worldwide Men in Black III $179M domestic · Action Silver Linings Playbook leads with 14 wins from 37 nominations, then Argo with 13 wins. Argo won Best Picture at the 2013 Oscars. In all, 123 films released in 2012 have award nominations on the site, with 145 wins between them.
The highest-ranked 2012 film of 12 genres, from Sci-Fi (It's Such a Beautiful Day) to Mystery (Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story). Each film appears once, under its first genre that is still free.
It's Such a Beautiful Day 90 Metascore Almayer's Folly 92 Metascore Amour 95 Metascore Django Unchained 81 Metascore Burn 82 Metascore The Dark Knight Rises 78 Metascore Zero Dark Thirty 95 Metascore Searching for Sugar Man 79 Metascore Marley 82 Metascore Moonrise Kingdom 84 Metascore Lincoln 87 Metascore 
Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story 78 Metascore October was the busiest month of 2012 with 569 releases; its best-rated film is It's Such a Beautiful Day.
52% of 2012's films with a known language are in English (2,594). French comes next with 260 films, out of 74 languages in all.
A best-of page for each of 55 years, from 1900 to 2026 (so far). Before 1980 there is one page per decade, for its first year (1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970); from 1980 every year has its own.
Quick answers about 2012's best-rated films, biggest hits and awards, from the lists above.
It's Such a Beautiful Day is the best-rated film of 2012 on What's After the Movie, with a rank value of 87/100 from critics and audiences. Almayer's Folly is second and Amour third. Ranked by a blend of Metascore and IMDb/Letterboxd user ratings (Echo Scores start with 2017 releases).
About It's Such a Beautiful DayThe Avengers earned $1.5B worldwide, the most of any 2012 release on the site. The Dark Knight Rises follows with $1.1B.
2012 box officeArgo (2012) won Best Picture at the 2013 Academy Awards.
ArgoSilver Linings Playbook has the best award record of the 2012 releases on the site: 14 wins from 37 nominations.
2013 awards seasonThe site lists 5,061 films released in 2012. 682 of them are ranked, and October had the most releases with a known day (569).
Ranked by a blend of Metascore and IMDb/Letterboxd user ratings (Echo Scores start with 2017 releases). Only feature films count (60 minutes or longer, no concert recordings), and a film needs enough ratings, box office or award attention to be ranked.
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