ST. LOUIS FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION WINNERS

Best Film

1.     Argo

2.        Life of Pi

Lincoln

Best Director

1.     Ben Affleck (Argo)

2.        Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)

Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

Best Actor

1.     Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)

2.        John Hawkes (The Sessions)

Best Actress

1.     Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)

2.        Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)

Best Supporting Actor

1.     Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)

2.        Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln)

Best Supporting Actress

       Ann Dowd (Compliance)

Helen Hunt (The Sessions)

Best Original Screenplay

1.     Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty)

2.        Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)

Best Adapted Screenplay

1.     Tony Kushner (Lincoln)

2.        David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)

Best Cinematography

1.     Roger Deakins (Skyfall)

2.        Claudio Miranda (Life of Pi)

Best Visual Effects

1.     Life of Pi

2.        The Avengers

Best Music Score / Soundtrack

       Django Unchained

Moonrise Kingdom

Best Animated Film

1.     Wreck-It Ralph

2.        ParaNorman

Best Documentary

1.     Searching for Sugar Man

2.        Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry

Bully

How to Survive a Plague

Best Foreign Language Film

1.     The Intouchables

2.        The Fairy

Headhunters

Best Arthouse or Festival Film

       Compliance

Safety Not Guaranteed

Best Comedy

       Moonrise Kingdom

Ted

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)

‘Opening tsunami scene’ (The Impossible)

Plenty of ties from the St. Louis critics, although plenty of commendable choices too. Argo continues to prove to be a force to be reckoned with in the Best Picture race - if Zero Dark Thirty's star is fading, could it be Argo that sneaks past and takes home the big prize in the end? It's still so much more up in the air than we first thought it would be! Ann Dowd and Helen Hunt share Best Supporting Actress, and receive deserved boosts in the race. Nominations can be found here.