Winners of the 2010 St. Louis Film Critics’ Awards

Best Film

The Social Network

runner-up: The King’s Speech

Best Director
David Fincher (The Social Network)

runner-up: Christopher Nolan (Inception)

Best Actor
Colin Firth (The King’s Speech)

runner-up: James Franco (127 Hours)

Best Actress

Natalie Portman (Black Swan)

runner-up: Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone)

Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale (The Fighter)

runner-up: Geoffrey Rush (King’s Speech)

Best Supporting Actress
Melissa Leo (The Fighter)

runner-up: Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)

Best Cinematography (photography, not special effects)

True Grit (Roger Deakins)

runner-up: 127 Hours (Enrique Chediak and Anthony Dod Mantle)

Best Music (soundtrack or score)
Social Network

runners-up: Inception & Black Swan (tie

Best Visual Effects

Inception

runner-up: Scott Pilgrim vs The World

Best Original Screenplay
The King’s Speech (David Seidler)

runner-up: Inception (Christopher Nolan)

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin)

runner-up: Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini)

Best Foreign-Language Film

Micmacs

runners-up: Biutiful, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo & A Prophet (tie)

Best Documentary

The Tillman Story

runner-up: Waiting for Superman

Best Comedy

Scott Pilgrim vs the World

runner-up: Micmacs

Best Animated Film
Toy Story 3

runner-up: How To Train Your Dragon

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

Micmacs

runner-up: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Moving the Medium Forward (for technical/artistic innovative that advances the medium)

Inception

runner-up: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

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

(a tie)

– 127 Hours: the zoom-up scene beginning with a tight shot on Aron (James Franco) screaming which pulls up to a wide shot of a large land area, showing how isolated he was.

– Inception: the zero-gravity hotel hallway fight scene with Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

runners-up:

– Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows, Part 1: the ‚Äúobliviate‚Äù scene in which Hermione erases her parents’ memories of her.

– Kick-Ass: the Hit-Girl kill spree.

– Easy A: the John Hughes tribute near the beginning.