AFT Awards: Best Ensemble Cast

This is the twenty-second category of the 6th Annual AFT Film Awards to be announced. The AFT Awards are my own personal choices for the best in film of each year and the best in television of each season. The AFT Film Awards include the traditional Oscar categories and a number of additional specific honors. Nominees are pictured in the order I’ve ranked them. Click here to see previous years of this category.

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order):
About Cherry, The Amazing Spider-Man, Anna Karenina, Arbitrage, The Avengers, Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Black Tulip, The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best, Caroline and Jackie , Compliance, Damsels in Distress, Detachment, The Five-Year Engagement, Flight, Footnote, The Giant Mechanical Man, Grassroots, Headhunters, Les Miserables, Lincoln, People Like Us, Prometheus, La Rafle, Return , Safety Not Guaranteed, Silver Linings Playbook, Skyfall, To Rome with Love, We Have a Pope, The Well-Digger’s Daughter

Runners-up:
The Master
Quartet
Ruby Sparks
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Sessions

The winner:
Moonrise Kingdom brought together a wonderful band of experienced adult actors and promising child thespians for a unique and involving cinematic experience.

Other nominees:
Your Sister’s Sister
Zero Dark Thirty
The Dark Knight Rises
Argo