More critics awards: the St. Louis Film Critics Association has spoken, and their results include a lot of the usual suspects but a few surprises.
The Best Film nominees are “(500) Days of Summer,” “An Education,” “The Hurt Locker,” “Invictus,” “Precious,” “Up” and “Up in the Air” – but in the Best Director category, only Kathryn Bigelow (“The Hurt Locker”) and Jason Reitman (“Up in the Air”) received nods. The other five directors responsible for the Best Film nominees were shunned in favor of Wes Anderson (“Fantastic Mr. Fox”), Oren Moverman (“The Messenger”) and Quentin Tarantino (“Inglourious Basterds”).
Other unexpected nominations include Patton Oswalt as Best Actor for “Big Fan” (right), Maya Rudolph as Best Actress for “Away We Go,” and Robert Duvall as Best Supporting Actress for “The Road.”
The full list:
Best Film
(500) Days of Summer
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Invictus
Precious
Up
Up in the Air
Best Actor
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
George Clooney – Up in the Air
Ben Foster -The Messenger
Morgan Freeman – Invictus
Patton Oswald – Big Fan
Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker
Best Actress
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Saoirse Ronan – The Lovely Bones
Maya Rudolph – Away We Go
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious
Meryl Streep – Julie and Julia
Best Supporting Actor
Robert Duvall – The Road
Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
Alfred Molina – An Education
Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds
Best Supporting Actress
Marion Cotillard – Nine
Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air
Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
Melanie Laurent – Inglourious Basterds
Mo’Nique – Precious
Samantha Morton – the Messenger
Best Director
Wes Anderson – The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
Oren Moverman – The Messenger
Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds
Best Cinematography
The Hurt Locker – Barry Ackroyd
Inglourious Basterds – Robert Richardson
Nine – Dion Beebe
Red Cliff – Yue Lü and Li Zhang
A Single Man -Eduard Grau
Where the Wild Things Are – Lance Acord
Best Music
Crazy Heart
Nine
Pirate Radio
Princess and the Frog
Up
Best Visual Effects
Avatar
District 9
The Lovely Bones
Star Trek
Where the Wild Things Are
Best Screenplay (Original or Adapted)
(500) Days of Summer – Scott Neustadlter/Michael H. Weber
An Education – Nick Hornby
The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal
Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino
Up in the Air – Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Best Foreign-Language Film
(Must open in St. Louis this year)
Baader-Meinhof Complex
Coco Before Chanel
The Maid
Red Cliff
Sin Nombre
Treeless Mountain
Best Documentary
Anvil: The Story of Anvil
Capitalism: A Love Story
Food, Inc.
Good Hair
Tyson
Best Animated Film
Coraline
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Ponyo
The Princess and the Frog
Up
Best Comedy
(500) Days of Summer
Away We Go
The Hangover
Pirate Radio
Zombieland
Most Original, Innovative or Creative Film (“Most Artistic Film”)
(500) Days of Summer
Avatar
District 9
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Lovely Bones
Special Merit (“Favorite Scene”) – our new category
(500) Days of Summer – Expectations vs. reality splitscreen sequence
(500) Days of Summer – Morning after dance number
Inglourious Basterds – The opening farm house scene
Precious – Mo’Nique’s at social worker office scene
Up – Opening marriage montage at beginning
