St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards 2013



10th SLGFCA Awards December 14, 2013

Best Film: 12 Years a Slave

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.

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