St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards 2010



7th SLGFCA Awards December 20, 2010

Best Film: The Social Network

Best Director: David Fincher The Social Network The 7th St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 20, 2010.

Best Actor

 * Javier Bardem – Biutiful
 * Jeff Bridges – True Grit
 * Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network
 * Colin Firth – The King's Speech
 * James Franco – 127 Hours

Best Actress

 * Nicole Kidman – Rabbit Hole
 * Jennifer Lawrence – Winter's Bone
 * Natalie Portman – Black Swan
 * Noomi Rapace – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
 * Naomi Watts – Fair Game

Best Animated Film

 * Despicable Me
 * How to Train Your Dragon
 * Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
 * Tangled
 * Toy Story 3

Best Director

 * Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
 * Danny Boyle – 127 Hours
 * David Fincher – The Social Network
 * Tom Hooper – The King's Speech
 * Christopher Nolan – Inception

Best Documentary Film

 * A Film Unfinished
 * Restrepo
 * The Tillman Story
 * Waiting for "Superman"
 * Waking Sleeping Beauty

Best Film

 * Black Swan
 * The Fighter
 * Inception
 * The King's Speech
 * The Social Network

Best Comedy

 * Easy A
 * I Love You Phillip Morris
 * Jackass 3D
 * Micmacs
 * Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Best Foreign Language Film

 * Biutiful • Mexico
 * The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Män som hatar kvinnor) • Sweden
 * Micmacs (Micmacs à tire-larigot) • France
 * North Face (Nordwand) • Germany
 * A Prophet (Un prophète) • France

Best Music

 * Black Swan
 * Burlesque
 * The Fighter
 * Inception
 * The Social Network

Best Original Screenplay

 * Biutiful – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Armando Bo and Nicolás Giacobone
 * Black Swan – Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin
 * The Fighter – Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson
 * Inception – Christopher Nolan
 * The King's Speech – David Seidler

Best Adapted Screenplay

 * 127 Hours – Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle
 * Scott Pilgrim vs. the World – Edgar Wright and Michael Bacall
 * The Social Network – Aaron Sorkin
 * True Grit – Joel and Ethan Coen
 * Winter's Bone – Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini

Best Supporting Actor

 * Christian Bale – The Fighter
 * John Hawkes – Winter's Bone
 * Jeremy Renner – The Town
 * Sam Rockwell – Conviction
 * Geoffrey Rush – The King's Speech

Best Supporting Actress

 * Amy Adams – The Fighter
 * Helena Bonham Carter – The King's Speech
 * Barbara Hershey – Black Swan
 * Melissa Leo – The Fighter
 * Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit

Best Visual Effects

 * Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1
 * Inception
 * Kick-Ass
 * Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
 * Tron: Legacy

Moving the Medium Forward
(for technical/artistic innovative that advances the medium)
 * 127 Hours
 * Inception
 * Kick-Ass
 * Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
 * Toy Story 3
 * Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Best Artistic/Creative Film
(for excellence in art-house cinema)
 * The King's Speech
 * Micmacs
 * Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
 * Trash Humpers
 * Winter's Bone

Special Merit
(for best scene, cinematic technique or other memorable aspect or moment)
 * 127 Hours: the zoom-up scene which begins with a tight shot on Aron (James Franco) as he is screaming and pulls out to a wide shot of a large land area, showing how isolated he was from other humans.


 * Easy A: the John Hughes tribute near the beginning.
 * Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1: the “obliviate” scene in which Hermione erases her parents’ memories of her.
 * Inception: the zero-gravity hotel fight in the tumbling hallway scene with Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
 * Kick-Ass: the Hit-Girl kill spree.