2013 St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards

10th StLFCA Awards

December 14, 2013

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Best Film:
12 Years a Slave

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Best Director:
Steve McQueen
12 Years a Slave

The nominees for the 10th St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 9, 2013.

Winners, runners-up and nominees

Best Film

• 12 Years a Slave
  • Runner-up: American Hustle
• Gravity
• Her
• Nebraska

Best Actor

• Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave
  • Runner-up: Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club
• Christian Bale – American Hustle
• Bruce Dern – Nebraska
• Michael B. Jordan – Fruitvale Station

Best Supporting Actor

• Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club
  • Runner-up: Will Forte – Nebraska
• Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips
• Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave
• Harrison Ford – 42

Best Original Screenplay

• Her – Spike Jonze
  • Runner-up: American Hustle – David O. Russell and Eric Warren Singer
• Enough Said – Nicole Holofcener
• Nebraska – Bob Nelson
• Saving Mr. Banks – Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith

Best Cinematography

• 12 Years a Slave – Sean Bobbitt
  • Runner-up: Gravity – Emmanuel Lubezki
• The Grandmaster – Philippe Le Sourd
• The Great Gatsby – Simon Duggan
• Inside Llewyn Davis – Bruno Delbonnel
• Nebraska – Phedon Papamichael

Best Music

• Arcade Fire - Her
  • Runner-up (tie): Steven Price - Gravity and Mark Orton - Nebraska
• Hans Zimmer - 12 Years a Slave
• Howard Shore - The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
• Thomas Newman - Saving Mr. Banks

Best Art Direction

• The Great Gatsby
  • Runner-up: Her
• 12 Years a Slave
• The Grandmaster
• Inside Llewyn Davis

Best Foreign Language Film

• Blue Is the Warmest Colour • France
  • Runner-up Wadjda • Saudi Arabia / Germany
• A Hijacking • Denmark
• The Hunt • Denmark
• No • Chile

Best Animated Feature

• Frozen
  • Runner-up: The Wind Rises
• The Croods
• Despicable Me 2
• Monsters University

Best Scene

(favorite movie scene or sequence)

• 12 Years a Slave: The hanging scene
  • Runner-up: Gravity: Opening tracking shot
• Captain Phillips: The scene near the end of the film where Tom Hanks is being checked out by military medical personnel and he breaks down.
• Her: OS sex scene
• The Place Beyond the Pines: The opening scene where Ryan Gosling is walking through the carnival.

Best Director

• Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave
  • Runner-up: Alfonso Cuarón – Gravity
• Spike Jonze – Her
• Alexander Payne – Nebraska
• David O. Russell – American Hustle

Best Actress

• Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
  • Runner-up: Meryl Streep – August: Osage County
• Amy Adams – American Hustle
• Sandra Bullock – Gravity
• Judi Dench – Philomena
• Emma Thompson – Saving Mr. Banks

Best Supporting Actress

• Lupita Nyong'o – 12 Years a Slave
  • Runner-up: June Squibb – Nebraska
• Scarlett Johansson – Her
• Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle
• Léa Seydoux – Blue Is the Warmest Colour

Best Adapted Screenplay

• 12 Years a Slave – John Ridley
  • Runner-up: Philomena – Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
• Before Midnight – Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater
• Captain Phillips – Billy Ray
• Short Term 12 – Destin Daniel Cretton
• The Spectacular Now – Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber

Best Visual Effects

• Gravity
  • Runner-up: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
• Iron Man 3
• Pacific Rim
• Star Trek Into Darkness
• Thor: The Dark World

Best Soundtrack

• Inside Llewyn Davis
  • Runner-up: Frozen
• American Hustle
• Despicable Me 2
• The Great Gatsby
• Muscle Shoals

Best Documentary Film

• Blackfish
  • Runner-up (tie): The Act of Killing and Stories We Tell
• 20 Feet from Stardom
• Muscle Shoals

Best Comedy

• Enough Said and The World's End (tie)
• The Heat
• Nebraska
• The Way, Way Back

Best Art-House or Festival Film

• Short Term 12
  • Runner-up (tie): Blue Is the Warmest Colour and Frances Ha
• Ain't Them Bodies Saints
• Before Midnight
• In a World...

Multiple nominations and awards

These films had multiple nominations:

• 10 nominations: 12 Years a Slave
• 9 nominations: Nebraska
• 7 nominations: American Hustle, Gravity, and Her
• 3 nominations: Blue is the Warmest Color, Captain Phillips, The Great Gatsby, Inside Llewyn Davis, and Saving Mr. Banks
• 2 nominations: Before Midnight, Dallas Buyers Club, Despicable Me 2, Enough Said, Frozen, The Grandmaster, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Philomena, and Short Term 12

External links

• Official website