Precursor: 8th St. Louis Film Critics Nominations (2013)

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Precursor: 8th St. Louis Film Critics Nominations (2013)

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December 9, 2013

Wesley Lovell

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Announcing earlier than expected, the St. Louis film critics have made their nominations known, giving their Best Picture slate the lion’s share of nominations and spreading the rest out amongst a wide variety of films.

Nominations Tallies

(10) 12 Years a Slave
(9) Nebraska
(7) American Hustle, Gravity, Her
(3) Blue Is the Warmest Color, Captain Phillips, The Great Gatsby, Inside Llewyn Davis, Saving Mr. Banks

The Nominations

Best Film

12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Gravity
Her
Nebraska

Best Animated Film

The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Frozen
Monsters University
The Wind Rises

Best Director

Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity
Spike Jonze – Her
Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave
Alexander Payne – Nebraska
David O. Russell – American Hustle

Best Actor

Christian Bale – American Hustle
Bruce Dern – Nebraska
Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave
Michael B. Jordan – Fruitvale Station
Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club

Best Actress

Amy Adams – American Hustle
Cate Blanchette – Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Judi Dench – Philomena
Meryl Streep – August: Osage County
Emma Thompson – Saving Mr. Banks

Best Supporting Actor

Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips
Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave
Harrison Ford – 42
Will Forte – Nebraska
Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club

Best Supporting Actress

Scarlett Johannson – Her
Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle
Lupita Nyongo – 12 Years a Slave
Lea Seydoux – Blue Is the Warmest Colour
June Squibb – Nebraska

Best Original Screenplay

American Hustle
Enough Said
Her
Nebraska
Saving Mr. Banks

Best Adapted Screenplay

12 Years a Slave
Before Midnight
Captain Phillips
Philomena
Short Term 12
The Spectacular Now

Best Musical Score

12 Years a Slave
Gravity
Her
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Nebraska
Saving Mr. Banks

Best Cinematography

12 Years a Slave
The Grandmaster
The Great Gatsby
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska

Best Art Direction

12 Years A Slave
The Grandmaster
The Great Gatsby
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis

Best Visual Effects

Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
Pacific Rim
Star Trek Into Darkness
Thor: The Dark World

Best Foreign-Language Film

Blue Is the Warmest Colour
A Hijacking
The Hunt
No
Wadjda

Best Documentary

20 Feet from Stardom
The Act of Killing
Blackfish
Muscle Shoals
Stories We Tell

Best Comedy

Enough Said
The Heat
Nebraska
The Way Way Back
The World’s End

Best Art-House or Festival Film

Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Before Midnight
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Frances Ha
In a World…
Short Term 12

Best Scene

12 Years a Slave – The hanging scene
Captain Phillips – The scene near the end of the film where Tom Hanks is being checked out by military medical personnel and he breaks down
Gravity – the opening tracking shot
Her – OS sex scene
The Place Beyond the Pines – The opening scene where Ryan Gosling is walking through the carnival