ST. LOUIS FILM CRITICS ANNNOUNCE NOMINEES FOR 2010 AWARDS

Winners to be announced Monday, December 20, 2010

The St. Louis Film Critics, a professional association of working St. Louis-area film critics, announced nominees for its annual St. Louis Film Critics' Awards on Monday, December 13, 2010. The yearly awards are given to recognize the best in cinema for the year.

Winners of the St. Louis Film Critics' Awards will be announced on Monday, December 20 by press release and on the association's website at www.stlfilmcritics.org. The award winners will be decided by SLFC members' vote on Saturday, December 18 and announced to SLFC members at the association’s annual party.

Both nominees and winners will be posted on the association’s website: www.stlfilmcritics.org.

The 2010 St. Louis Film Critics' Award nominees are:

Best Film
Black Swan

The Fighter

Inception

The King’s Speech

The Social Network

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 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

Natalie Portman (Black Swan)

Naomi Watts (Fair Game)

Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone)

Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole)

Noomi Rapace (The Girl who Played with Fire)

Best Supporting Actor

Christian Bale (The Fighter)

John Hawkes (Winter's Bone)

Jeremy Renner (The Town)

Sam Rockwell (Conviction)

Geoffery Rush - 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 Cinematography (photography, not special effects)

127 Hours (Enrique Chediak and Anthony Dod Mantle)

Black Swan (Matthew Libatique)

Inception (Wally Pfister)

The King’s Speech (Danny Cohen)

True Grit (Roger Deakins)

Best Music (soundtrack or score)

Black Swan

Burlesque

The Fighter

Inception

Social Network

Best Visual Effects

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1

Inception

Kick-Ass

Scott Pilgrim vs The World

Tron

Best Original Screenplay

Black Swan (Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin)

Biutiful (Alejandro González Iñárritu, Armando Bo and Nicolas Giacobone)

The Fighter (Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson and Keith Dorrington)

Inception (Christopher Nolan)

The King’s Speech (David Seidler)

Best Adapted Screenplay

127 Hours (Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy)

Scott Pilgrim vs the World (Edgar Wright and Michael Bacall)

The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin)

True Grit (Ethan Coen and Joel Coen)

Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini)

Best Foreign-Language Film

Biutiful

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Micmacs

North Face

A Prophet

Best Documentary

A Film Unfinished

Restrepo

The Tillman Story

Waiting for Superman

Waking Sleeping Beauty

Best Comedy

Easy A

I Love You Phillip Morris

Jack Ass 3D

Micmacs

Scott Pilgrim vs the World

Best Animated Film

Despicable Me

How To Train Your Dragon

Legend of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole

Tangled

Toy Story 3

Best Artistic/Creative Film (for excellence in art-house cinema)

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Micmacs

Winter's Bone

Kings Speech

Trash Humpers

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

Special Merit (for best scene, cinematic technique or other memorable aspect or moment)

1) In “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.

2) In "Easy A," the John Hughes tribute near the beginning.

3) In “Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows, Part 1,” the “obliviate” scene in which Hermione erases her parents' memories of her.

4) In “Kick-Ass,” the Hit-Girl kill spree.

5) In "Inception," the zero-gravity hotel fight in the tumbling hallway scene with Joseph Gordon-Levitt.