St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards 2010

7th SLGFCA Awards

December 20, 2010

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Best Film:
The Social Network

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Best Director:
David Fincher
The Social Network

The 7th St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 20, 2010.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Best Actor

• Javier Bardem – Biutiful
• Jeff Bridges – True Grit
• Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network
  • Colin Firth – The King's Speech
• James Franco – 127 Hours

Best Actress

• Nicole Kidman – Rabbit Hole
• Jennifer Lawrence – Winter's Bone
  • Natalie Portman – Black Swan
• Noomi Rapace – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• Naomi Watts – Fair Game

Best Animated Film

• Despicable Me
• How to Train Your Dragon
• Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
• Tangled
  • Toy Story 3

Best Director

• Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
• Danny Boyle – 127 Hours
  • David Fincher – The Social Network
• Tom Hooper – The King's Speech
• Christopher Nolan – Inception

Best Documentary Film

• A Film Unfinished
• Restrepo
  • The Tillman Story
• Waiting for "Superman"
• Waking Sleeping Beauty

Best Film

• Black Swan
• The Fighter
• Inception
• The King's Speech
  • The Social Network

Best Comedy

• Easy A
• I Love You Phillip Morris
• Jackass 3D
• Micmacs
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Best Foreign Language Film

• Biutiful • Mexico
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Män som hatar kvinnor) • Sweden
  • Micmacs (Micmacs à tire-larigot) • France
• North Face (Nordwand) • Germany
• A Prophet (Un prophète) • France

Best Music

• Black Swan
• Burlesque
• The Fighter
• Inception
  • The Social Network

Best Original Screenplay

• Biutiful – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Armando Bo and Nicolás Giacobone
• Black Swan – Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin
• The Fighter – Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson
• Inception – Christopher Nolan
  • The King's Speech – David Seidler

Best Adapted Screenplay

• 127 Hours – Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World – Edgar Wright and Michael Bacall
  • The Social Network – Aaron Sorkin
• True Grit – Joel and Ethan Coen
• Winter's Bone – Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini

Best Supporting Actor

• • Christian Bale – The Fighter
• John Hawkes – Winter's Bone
• Jeremy Renner – The Town
• Sam Rockwell – Conviction
• Geoffrey Rush – The King's Speech

Best Supporting Actress

• Amy Adams – The Fighter
• Helena Bonham Carter – The King's Speech
• Barbara Hershey – Black Swan
  • Melissa Leo – The Fighter
• Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit

Best Visual Effects

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
  • Inception
• Kick-Ass
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
• Tron: Legacy

Moving the Medium Forward

(for technical/artistic innovative that advances the medium)

• 127 Hours
  • Inception
• Kick-Ass
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
• Toy Story 3
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Best Artistic/Creative Film

(for excellence in art-house cinema)

• The King's Speech
  • Micmacs
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
• Trash Humpers
• Winter's Bone

Special Merit

(for best scene, cinematic technique or other memorable aspect or moment)

• 127 Hours: the zoom-up scene which begins with a tight shot on Aron (James Franco) as he is screaming and pulls out to a wide shot of a large land area, showing how isolated he was from other humans.

• Easy A: the John Hughes tribute near the beginning.
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I: the “obliviate” scene in which Hermione erases her parents’ memories of her.
  • Inception: the zero-gravity hotel fight in the tumbling hallway scene with Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
• Kick-Ass: the Hit-Girl kill spree.

References

1. "St. Louis Film Critics Announce Winners of 2010 Awards". stlfilmcritics.org.

External links

• Official website