St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards 2012

The nominees for the 9th St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 11, 2012.^[1]

Winners, runners-up and nominees[]

Source:^[2]

Best Actor[]

• Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln

• (runner-up) John Hawkes – The Sessions
• Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
• Jamie Foxx – Django Unchained
• Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
• Denzel Washington – Flight

Best Actress[]

• Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty

• (runner-up) Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
• Helen Mirren – Hitchcock
• Aubrey Plaza – Safety Not Guaranteed
• Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Animated Film[]

• Wreck-It Ralph

• (runner-up) ParaNorman
• Brave
• Frankenweenie
• Rise of the Guardians

Best Cinematography[]

• Skyfall – Roger Deakins

• (runner-up) Life of Pi – Claudio Miranda
• Beasts of the Southern Wild – Ben Richardson
• Cloud Atlas – Frank Griebe and John Toll
• Django Unchained – Robert Richardson
• The Master – Mihai Mălaimare Jr.

Best Director[]

• Ben Affleck – Argo

• (runner-up) Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained
• (runner-up) Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Wes Anderson – Moonrise Kingdom
• Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty
• Ang Lee – Life of Pi

Best Documentary Film[]

• Searching for Sugar Man

• (runner-up) Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
• (runner-up) Bully
• (runner-up) How to Survive a Plague
• Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Best Film[]

• Argo

• (runner-up) Life of Pi
• (runner-up) Lincoln
• Django Unchained
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Zero Dark Thirty

Best Comedy[]

• Moonrise Kingdom (tie)
• Ted (tie)

• The Cabin in the Woods
• Seven Psychopaths
• Wreck-It Ralph

Best Foreign Language Film[]

• The Intouchables (Intouchables) • France

• (runner-up) The Fairy (La fée) • France/Belgium
• (runner-up) Headhunters (Hodejegerne) • Norway
• Holy Motors • France/Germany
• The Kid with a Bike (Le gamin au vélo) • Belgium/France/Italy

Best Music[]

• Django Unchained (tie)
• Moonrise Kingdom (tie)

• Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Cloud Atlas
• The Dark Knight Rises
• Not Fade Away

Best Original Screenplay[]

• Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal

• (runner-up) Django Unchained – Quentin Tarantino
• The Cabin in the Woods – Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard
• Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
• Seven Psychopaths – Martin McDonagh

Best Adapted Screenplay[]

• Lincoln – Tony Kushner (tie)
• Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell (tie)

• Argo – Chris Terrio
• Beasts of the Southern Wild – Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin
• Life of Pi – David Magee
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky

Best Supporting Actor[]

• Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained

• (runner-up) Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
• Alan Arkin – Argo
• John Goodman – Argo
• William H. Macy – The Sessions
• Bruce Willis – Moonrise Kingdom

Best Supporting Actress[]

• Ann Dowd – Compliance (tie)
• Helen Hunt – The Sessions (tie)

• Amy Adams – The Master
• Sally Field – Lincoln
• Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables
• Emma Watson – The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Best Visual Effects[]

• Life of Pi

• (runner-up) The Avengers
• Cloud Atlas
• Prometheus
• Snow White and the Huntsman

Best Art-House or Festival Film[]

• Compliance (tie)
• Safety Not Guaranteed (tie)

• Bernie
• The Fairy (La fée)
• Sleepwalk with Me
• Take This Waltz

Best Scene[]

(favorite movie scene or sequence)

• Django Unchained: The “bag head” bag/mask problems scene(tie)
• Hitchcock: Anthony Hopkins in lobby conducting to music/audience’s reaction during Psycho shower scene(tie)
• The Impossible: Opening tsunami scene(tie)
• The Master: The first “processing” questioning scene between Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix(tie)
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild: The hurricane (and Wink shooting at it)
  • Flight: The plane crash

References[]

External links[]

• Official website