St. Louis Film Critics’ Awards

Best Film:“Argo “
runners-up: “Life of Pi” and “Lincoln”)

Best Director:Ben Affleck (“Argo”)
runner-up): Quentin Tarantino (“Django Unchained”) and
Benh Zeitlin (“Beasts of the Southern Wild”)

Best Actor:Daniel Day-Lewis (“Lincoln”) 
(runner-up): John Hawkes (“The Sessions”)

Best Actress:Jessica Chastain (“Zero Dark Thirty”)
(runner-up): Jennifer Lawrence (“Silver Linings Playbook”)

Best Supporting Actor:Christoph Waltz (“Django Unchained”)
(runner-up): Tommy Lee Jones (“Lincoln”)

Best Supporting Actress:(Tie): Ann Dowd (“Compliance”) and Helen Hunt (“The Sessions”)

Best Original Screenplay:”Zero Dark Thirty” (Mark Boal) 
(runner-up): “Django Unchained” (Quentin Tarantino)

Best Adapted Screenplay:(Tie): “Lincoln” (Tony Kushner) and “Silver Linings Playbook” (David O. Russell)

Best Cinematography:”Skyfall” (Roger Deakins
(runner-up): “Life of Pi” (Claudio Miranda)

Best Visual Effects:”Life of Pi”
(runner-up): “The Avengers”

Best Music:(Tie): “Django Unchained” and “Moonrise Kingdom

Best Foreign-Language Film:“The Intouchables”
(runners-up): “The Fairy” and “Headhunters”

Best Documentary:“Searching for Sugar Man”
(runner-up): “Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry,” “Bully” and “How To Survive A Plague”

Best Comedy:(Tie): “Moonrise Kingdom” and
“Ted”

Best Animated Film:“Wreck-It Ralph”
(runner-up): “ParaNorman”

Best Art-House or Festival Film(Tie): “Compliance” and “Safety Not Guaranteed”

Special Merit (for best scene, cinematic technique or other memorable aspect or moment)
(Four-way Tie):
“Django Unchained” – The “bag head” bag/mask problems scene
“Hitchcock” – Anthony Hopkins in lobby conducting to music/audience’s reaction during “Psycho” screening 
“The Impossible” – Opening tsunami scene 
“The Master” – The first “processing” questioning scene between Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix