2012 Awards -- St. Louis Film Critics nominees/WINNERS

The St. Louis Film Critics have announced their nominees, and their are a few surprises thrown in with mostly the usual suspects. Also, they have several new categories (comedy film, scene, etc...), which always makes it more interesting.

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And their winners are in, and it's ARGO for the top prize!

BEST PICTURE
Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Moonrise Kingdom
Zero Dark Thirty

BEST DIRECTOR
Ben Affleck -- "Argo"
Wes Anderson -- "Moonrise Kingdom"
Kathryn Bigelow -- "Zero Dark Thirty"
Ang Lee -- "Life of Pi"
Quentin Tarantino -- "Django Unchained"
Benh Zeitlin -- "Beasts of the Southern Wild"

BEST ACTOR
Bradley Cooper -- "Silver Linings Playbook"
Daniel Day-Lewis -- "Lincoln"
Jamie Foxx -- "Django Unchained"
John Hawkes -- "The Sessions"
Joaquin Phoenix -- "The Master"
Denzel Washington -- "Flight"

BEST ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain -- "Zero Dark Thirty"
Jennifer Lawrence -- "Silver Linings Playbook"
Helen Mirren -- "Hitchcock"
Aubrey Plaza -- "Safety Not Guaranteed"
Quvenzhane Wallis -- "Beasts of the Southern Wild"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alan Arkin -- "Argo"
John Goodman -- "Argo"
Tommy Lee Jones -- "Lincoln"
William H. Macy -- "The Sessions"
Christoph Waltz -- "Django Unchained"
Bruce Willis -- "Moonrise Kingdom"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams -- "The Master"
Ann Dowd -- "Compliance" (tie)
Sally Field -- "Lincoln"
Anne Hathaway -- "Les Miserables"
Helen Hunt -- "The Sessions" (tie)
Emma Watson -- "Perks of Being a Wallflower"

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Cabin in the Woods
Django Unchained
Moonrise Kingdom
Seven Psychopaths
Zero Dark Thirty

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Life of Pi
Lincoln (tie)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Silver Linings Playbook (tie)

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
Rise of the Guardians
Wreck-It Ralph

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Cloud Atlas
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
The Master
Skyfall

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Avengers
Cloud Atlas
Life of Pi
Prometheus
Snow White and the Huntsman

BEST MUSIC SCORE/SOUNDTRACK
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Cloud Atlas
The Dark Knight Rises
Django Unchained (tie)
Moonrise Kingdom (tie)
Not Fade Away

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Fairy
Headhunters
Holy Motors
The Intouchables
The Kid with a Bike

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Bully
How to Survive a Plague
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Searching for Sugar Man

BEST COMEDY
The Cabin in the Woods
Moonrise Kingdom (tie)
Seven Psychopaths
Ted (tie)
Wreck-It Ralph

BEST ARTHOUSE OR FESTIVAL FILM
Bernie
Compliance (tie)
The Fairy
Safety Not Guaranteed (tie)
Sleepwalk with Me
Take This Waltz

BEST SCENE
Beasts of the Southern Wild -- The hurricane (and Wink shooting at it)
Django Unchained -- The "bag head" bag/mask problems scene (tie)
Flight -- The plane crash
Hitchcock -- Anthony Hopkins in lobby conducting to music/audience's reaction during "Psycho" shower scene (tie)
The Impossible -- Opening tsunami scene (tie)
The Master -- The first "processing" questioning scene between Hoffman and Phoenix (tie)