Highest grossing movies of 2012 that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Bill Murray, Jared Gilman, Bruce Willis, Kara Hayward,
Directors : Wes Anderson,

A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out to find them.

Actors : Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, Martin Landau, Winona Ryder,
Directors : Tim Burton,

Young Victor conducts a science experiment to bring his beloved dog Sparky back to life, only to face unintended, sometimes monstrous, consequences.

Actors : Billy Connolly, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith,
Directors : Dustin Hoffman,

At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday is disrupted by the arrival of Jean, an eternal diva and the former wife of one of the residents.

Actors : Amy Adams, Jesse Plemons, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix,
Directors : Paul Thomas Anderson,

A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader.

Actors : Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Matthew Macfadyen,
Directors : Joe Wright,

In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky.

Actors : Dwight Henry, Quvenzhané Wallis, Lowell Landes, Levy Easterly,
Directors : Benh Zeitlin,

Faced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Brit Marling, Tim Roth, Richard Gere,
Directors : Nicholas Jarecki,

A troubled hedge fund magnate desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.

Actors : Scarlett Johansson, Anthony Hopkins, Danny Huston, Helen Mirren,
Directors : Sacha Gervasi,

The relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho (1960) in 1959 is explored.

Actors : Helen Hunt, Moon Bloodgood, William H. Macy, John Hawkes,
Directors : Ben Lewin,

A man in an iron lung who wishes to lose his virginity contacts a professional sex surrogate with the help of his therapist and priest.

Actors : Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Samuel West, Olivia Williams,
Directors : Roger Michell,

The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret "Daisy" Suckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.

Actors : Antonia Zegers, Luis Gnecco, Alfredo Castro, Gael García Bernal,
Directors : Pablo Larraín,

An ad executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.

Actors : Gustaf Skarsgård, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Odd-Magnus Williamson, Pål Sverre Hagen,

Legendary explorer Thor Heyerdal's epic 4,300-mile crossing of the Pacific on a balsawood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove that it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.

Actors : Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman, John Cusack, Zac Efron,
Directors : Lee Daniels,

A reporter returns to his Florida home-town to investigate a case involving a death row inmate.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Alexandre Tharaud, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Michael Haneke,

Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.