St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards 2012

9th SLGFCA Awards

December 11, 2012

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Best Film:
Argo

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Best Director:
Ben Affleck
Argo

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

References

1. "St. Louis Critics Announce 2012 Award Nominees". indieWire. 2012-12-11. Retrieved 2012-12-12.
2. "St. Louis Film Critics' Awards: 2012". stlfilmcritics.org. Retrieved December 19, 2012.

External links

• Official website