AFI: Movies & TV Shows of the Year

American Film Institute has announced the winners of AFI Awards 2012, honoring this year's best motion pictures and television series. 

AFI AWARD Honorees are selected based on works which best advance the art of the moving image, enhance the rich cultural heritage of America’s art form, inspire audiences and artists alike, make a mark on American society and represent the year’s most outstanding achievements in film and television. AFI is the only national organization that honors the creative ensembles as a whole, acknowledging the collaborative nature of the art form.

AFI movie top ten list mostly looks like Oscar best picture front-runners' list, excluding The Master and including The Dark Knight Rises.

Motion Pictures

• Argo
• Beasts of Southern Wild
• The Dark Knight Rises
• Django Unchained
• Les Miserables
• Life of Pi
• Lincoln
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Silver Linings Playbook
• Zero Dark Thirty

Television Series

• American Horror Story: Asylum
• Breaking Bad
• Game of Thrones
• Girls
• Homeland
• Louie
• Mad Men
• Modern Family
• The Walking Dead

This list will probably somehow define the fate of winners for corresponding major award ceremonies. Modern Family already leads Golden Globe best Comedy Series nomination and Homeland hits Drama category.

P.S. Where the hell is Dexter?!

American Film Institute Awards 2012