9th StLFCA Awards December 17, 2012
Best Film: Argo
Best Director: Ben Affleck Argo
The nominees for the 9th St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 11, 2012. The winners were announced on December 17, 2012.
Winners, runners-up and nominees
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 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 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 Comedy Film Moonrise Kingdom (TIE) Ted (TIE) The Cabin in the Woods Seven Psychopaths Wreck-It Ralph
Best Director Ben Affleck – Argo Runner-up: Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained (TIE) Runner-up: Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild (TIE) 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 (TIE) Runner-up: Bully (TIE) Runner-up: How to Survive a Plague (TIE) Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Best Film Argo Runner-up: Life of Pi (TIE) Runner-up: Lincoln (TIE) Django Unchained Moonrise Kingdom Zero Dark Thirty
Best Foreign Language Film The Intouchables (Intouchables) • France Runner-up: The Fairy (La fée) • Belgium / France (TIE) Runner-up: Headhunters (Hodejegerne) • Norway (TIE) 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 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 Bill Westenhofer – Life of Pi Runner-up: The Avengers Cloud Atlas Prometheus Snow White and the Huntsman
Best Arthouse or Festival Film Compliance (TIE) Safety Not Guaranteed (TIE) Bernie The Fairy (La fée) Sleepwalk with Me Take This Waltz
Best Scene 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