St Louis Film Critics Association Awards

Best Film: “12 Years a Slave”
(runner-up): “American Hustle”

Best Director: Steve McQueen (“12 Years a Slave”)
(runner-up): Alfonso Cuaron (“Gravity”)

Best Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor (“12 Years a Slave”)
(runner-up): Matthew McConaughey (“Dallas Buyers Club”)

Best Actress: Cate Blanchett (“Blue Jasmine”)
(runner-up): Meryl Streep (“August: Osage County”)

Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto (“Dallas Buyers Club”)
(runner-up): Will Forte (“Nebraska”)

Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’o (“12 Years a Slave”)
(runner-up): June Squibb (“Nebraska”)

Best Original Screenplay: Spike Jonze (“Her”)
(runner-up): David O. Russell and Eric Singer (“American Hustle”)

Best Adapted Screenplay: John Ridley and Solomon Northrup (“12 Years a Slave”)
(runner-up): Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope and Martin Sixsmith (“Philomena”)

Best Cinematography: Tie: Sean Bobbitt (“12 Years a Slave”) and Emmanuel Lubezki (“Gravity”)

Best Visual Effects: “Gravity”
(runner-up): “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”




Best Musical Score: Marie Ebbing and Ren Klyce (“Her”)
(runners-up): Steven Price (“Gravity”) and Mark Orton (“Nebraska”)

Best Soundtrack:
T-Bone Burnett (“Inside Llewyn Davis”)
runner-up: Christophe Beck (“Frozen”)

Best Art Direction: Damien Drew, Ian Gracie and Michael Turner (“The Great Gatsby”)
runner-up: Austin Gorg (“Her”)

Best Animated Film: “Frozen”
(runner-up): “The Wind Rises”

Best Art-House or Festival Film: “Short Term 12″
(runners-up): “Blue Is the Warmest Colour” and “Frances Ha”

Best Comedy: TIE: “Enough Said” and “The World’s End”

Best Documentary: “Blackfish”
(runners-up): “The Art of Killing” and “Stories We Tell”

Best Non-English Language Film: “Blue Is the Warmest Colour”
(runner-up): “Wadjda”

Best Scene (favorite movie scene or sequence): “12 Years a Slave” – The hanging scene
runner-up: “Gravity” – The opening tracking shot