10th SLGFCA Awards
December 14, 2013
Best Film: 12 Years a Slave
Best Director: Steve McQueen12 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
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