Throughout December, Indiewire bid farewell to 2012 by running a daily series titled Honor Roll. The column featured new or previously published interviews with some of the year’s most notable cinematic voices. The 2012 crop was a stellar one that included Joss Whedon, Jessica Chastain, Michael Haneke, Wes Anderson and many more — no doubt our best roster since we launched the series a few years back.
Below, catch up on all 31 unique profiles and revisit one fantastic year at the movies.
December 1: The Team Behind “How To Survive a Plague”
December 2: John Hawkes, “The Sessions”
December 3: Marion Cotillard, “Rust and Bone”
December 4: Bart Layton, “The Imposter”
December 5: Quvenzhané Wallis, “Beasts of the Southern Wild”
December 6: Matthew McConaughey, “Magic Mike” / “Mud” / “Bernie” / “The Paperboy” / “Killer Joe”
December 7: Judd Apatow and Lena Dunham, “Girls”
December 8: Elle Fanning, “Ginger and Rosa”
December 9: Melanie Lynskey, “Hello I Must Be Going”
December 10: Malik Bendjellou, “Searching for Sugar Man”
December 11: Christopher Nolan, “The Dark Knight Rises”
December 12: Helen Hunt, “The Sessions”
December 13: Christopher Walken, “Seven Psychopaths” / “A Late Quartet” / “Dark Horse”
December 14: Robert Zemeckis, “Flight”
December 15: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, “Smashed”
December 16: Ava DuVernay, “Middle of Nowhere”
December 17: Jessica Chastain, “Zero Dark Thirty”
December 18: Ben Affleck, “Argo”
December 19: Michael Haneke, “Amour”
December 20: Kristen Stewart, “On the Road”
December 21: Wes Anderson, “Moonrise Kingdom”
December 22: Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson, “Samsara”
December 23: Zoe Kazan, “Ruby Sparks”
December 24: David O. Russell, “Silver Linings Playbook”
December 25: Keira Knightley, “Anna Karenina”
December 26: Joss Whedon, “The Avengers”
December 27: Leos Carax, “Holy Motors”
December 28: Rebel Wilson, “Bachelorette” / “Pitch Perfect”
December 29: Kirby Dick, “The Invisible War”
December 30: Steven Soderbergh, “Haywire” / “Magic Mike”
December 31: Rachel Weisz, “The Deep Blue Sea”
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