Awards
St. Louis Film Critics announce Best of 2013
On Monday December 16 the St. Louis Film Critics released their list of the best of 2013 in several different categories including Best Comedy, Best Art House Film, and Best Scene . Yours truly was there for the process that began earlier in the month as ballots were sent online to members. On Sunday December 8 we met to whittle down the nominees to five, although in the case of a tie some had six nominees. With voting ending on Saturday December 14 we met once more on Sunday December 15 for the winners announcement. Here’s the official press release:
December 16, 2013
PRESS RELEASE
Contact:
St. Louis Film Critics Association
stlfilmcritics@gmail.com
The St. Louis Film Critics, the professional association of working film critics in the St.Louis-area, announced the winners of its annual St. Louis Film Critics Awards on
Monday, December 16, 2013.
The yearly awards are given to recognize the best in cinema for the year. To be eligible for an award, a film must have been shown in 2013 in the greater St. Louis area in a theater or at a film festival or series, or made available to SLFC members by screening or screener by their deadline for awards consideration.
Films opening in New York or Los Angeles before year’s end for Oscar qualification are eligible in advance of a St. Louis opening, provided the films are made available to members of the St. Louis Film Critics Association by its deadline. This year, among the films not made available for awards consideration was “Labor Day,” and, therefore, it could not be considered for the SLFC Awards.
This year, the SLFC Association added a new category for Best Art Direction.
Critics’ voting for the winners of the 2013 SLFC Awards ended on Saturday, December14. The results were revealed to SLFC members at the association’s annual Awards Party on Sunday, December 15. The winners are announced to the public Monday, December16, at 10 a.m., on the association’s website
www.stlfilmcritics.org. Both the SLFCAwards nominees and winners are posted on the SLFC website.
The official winners of, and runners-up for, the 2013 St. Louis Film Critics Awards are:
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
a tie –
Sean Bobbitt (“12 Years a Slave”) and Emmanuel Lubezki (“Gravity”)
Best Visual Effects
Tim Webber, David Shirk, Chris Lawrence and Neil Corbould (“Gravity”)
runner-up: Joe Letteri and Eric Saindon (“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”)
Best Original Musical Score
Arcade Fire (“Her”)
runners-up (tie): 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 Feature
“Frozen”
runner-up: “The Wind Rises”
Best Art-House or Festival Film
– for artistic excellence in art-house cinema, limited to films that played at film festivals, film series or had a limited-release here, playing only one to three cinemas.
“Short Term 12”
runners-up (tie): “Blue Is the Warmest Color” and “Frances Ha”
Best Comedy
a tie –
“Enough Said” and “The World’s End”
Best Documentary
“Blackfish”
runners-up (tie): “The Act of Killing” and “Stories We Tell”
Best Non-English Language Film
“Blue Is the Warmest Color”
runner-up: “Wadjda”
Best Scene
– favorite movie scene or sequence
“12 Years a Slave” – The hanging scene
runner-up: “Gravity” – The opening tracking shot
The mission of the non-profit St. Louis Film Critics Association is to promote
appreciation of great cinema in St. Louis and to promote St. Louis as an area that
appreciates great cinema. The member film critics review films for a variety of media, including print, radio, television and Internet in the Greater St. Louis area. SLFC also presents awards at the St. Louis International Film Festival and St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, both presented by Cinema St. Louis.
For further information on the SLFC Awards, the St. Louis Film Critics association or the association’s other film awards and activities throughout the year, visit the SLFC website
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