Associated Awards
Finalists
- The Adjustment Bureau, George Nolfi, writer/director (Universal)
- Attack the Block, Joe Cornish, writer/director (Optimum Releasing; Screen Gems)
- Captain America: The First Avenger, Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, writers; Joe Johnston, director (Paramount)
- Hugo, John Logan, writer; Martin Scorsese, director (Paramount)
- Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen, writer/director (Sony)
- Source Code, Ben Ripley, writer; Duncan Jones, director (Summit)
Finalists
- Akata Witch, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking Juvenile)
- The Boy at the End of the World, Greg van Eekhout (Bloomsbury Children's Books)
- Chime, Franny Billingsley (Dial Books; Bloomsbury)
- Daughter of Smoke & Bone, Laini Taylor (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Hodder & Stoughton)
- Everybody Sees the Ants, A. S. King (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
- The Girl of Fire and Thorns, Rae Carson (Greenwillow Books)
- Ultraviolet, R. J. Anderson (Orchard Books; Carolrhoda Lab)