ST. LOUIS FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION NOMINATIONS

Best Film

·          Argo

·          Django Unchained

·          Life of Pi

·          Lincoln

·          Moonrise Kingdom

·          Zero Dark Thirty

Best Director

·          Ben Affleck (Argo)

·          Wes Anderson (Moonrise Kingdom)

·          Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty)

·          Ang Lee (Life of Pi)

·          Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)

·          Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

Best Actor

·          Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook)

·          Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)

·          Jamie Foxx (Django Unchained)

·          John Hawkes (The Sessions)

·          Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)

·          Denzel Washington (Flight)

Best Actress

·          Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)

·          Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)

·          Helen Mirren (Hitchcock)

·          Aubrey Plaza (Safety Not Guaranteed)

·          Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

Best Supporting Actor

·          Alan Arkin (Argo)

·          John Goodman (Argo)

·          Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln)

·          William H. Macy (The Sessions)

·          Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)

·          Bruce Willis (Moonrise Kingdom)

Best Supporting Actress

·          Amy Adams (The Master)

·          Ann Dowd (Compliance)

·          Sally Field (Lincoln)

·          Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables)

·          Helen Hunt (The Sessions)

·          Emma Watson (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

Best Original Screenplay

·          Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola (Moonrise Kingdom)

·          Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty)

·          Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon (The Cabin in the Woods)

·          Martin McDonagh (Seven Psychopaths)

·          Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)

Best Adapted Screenplay

·          Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

·          Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

·          Tony Kushner (Lincoln)

·          David Magee (Life of Pi)

·          David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)

·          Chris Terrio (Argo)

Best Cinematography

·          Roger Deakins (Skyfall)

·          Frank Griebe and John Toll (Cloud Atlas)

·          Mihai Malaimare Jr. (The Master)

·          Claudio Miranda (Life of Pi)

·          Ben Richardson (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

·          Robert Richardson (Django Unchained)

Best Visual Effects

·          The Avengers

·          Cloud Atlas

·          Life of Pi

·          Prometheus

·          Snow White and the Huntsman

Best Music Score / Soundtrack

·          Beasts of the Southern Wild

·          Cloud Atlas

·          The Dark Knight Rises

·          Django Unchained

·          Moonrise Kingdom

·          Not Fade Away

Best Animated Film

·          Brave

·          Frankenweenie

·          ParaNorman

·          Rise of the Guardians

·          Wreck-It Ralph

Best Documentary

·          Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry

·          Bully

·          How to Survive a Plague

·          Jiro Dreams of Sushi

·          Searching for Sugar Man

Best Foreign Language Film

·          The Fairy

·          Headhunters

·          Holy Motors

·          The Intouchables

·          The Kid with a Bike

Best Arthouse or Festival Film

·          Bernie

·          Compliance

·          The Fairy

·          Safety Not Guaranteed

·          Sleepwalk with Me

·          Take This Waltz

Best Comedy

·          The Cabin in the Woods

·          Moonrise Kingdom

·          Seven Psychopaths

·          Ted

·          Wreck-It Ralph

Best Scene

·          ‘Anthony Hopkins in lobby conducting to music / audience’s reaction to ‘Psycho’ shower scene’ (Hitchcock)

·          ‘The ‘bag-head’ bag / mask problems scene’ (Django Unchained)

·          ‘The first ‘processing’ questioning scene between Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)

·          ‘The hurricane (and Wink shooting at it)’ (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

·          ‘Opening tsunami scene’ (The Impossible)

·          ‘The plane crash’ (Flight)

One nomination for Les Mis from St. Louis, and not much love for The Master either! Other than that, The Perks of Being a Wallflower does well again, The Cabin in the Woods proves stronger than expected (also, it's a comedy... since when? I didn't laugh once!), and Life of Pi has finally begun showing up on lists. Hooray! No idea when winners will be announced.