St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards 2010 Explained

7th SLGFCA Awards

December 20, 2010

----Best Film:
The Social Network----Best Director:
David Fincher
The Social Network

The 7th St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 20, 2010.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Best Actor

• Javier Bardem  - Biutiful
• Jeff Bridges  - True Grit
• Jesse Eisenberg  - The Social Network
  • Colin Firth  - The King's Speech
• James Franco  - 127 Hours

Best Actress

• Nicole Kidman  - Rabbit Hole
• Jennifer Lawrence  - Winter's Bone
  • Natalie Portman  - Black Swan
• Noomi Rapace  - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• Naomi Watts  - Fair Game

Best Animated Film

• Despicable Me
• How to Train Your Dragon
• Tangled
  • Toy Story 3

Best Director

• Darren Aronofsky  - Black Swan
• Danny Boyle  - 127 Hours
  • David Fincher  - The Social Network
• Tom Hooper  - The King's Speech
• Christopher Nolan  - Inception

Best Documentary Film

• A Film Unfinished
• Restrepo
  • The Tillman Story
• Waiting for "Superman"
• Waking Sleeping Beauty

Best Film

• Black Swan
• The Fighter
• Inception
• The King's Speech
  • The Social Network

Best Comedy

• Easy A
• I Love You Phillip Morris
• Jackass 3D
• Micmacs
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Best Foreign Language Film

• Biutiful • Mexico
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Män som hatar kvinnor) • Sweden
  • Micmacs (Micmacs à tire-larigot) • France
• North Face (Nordwand) • Germany
• A Prophet (Un prophète) • France

Best Music

• Black Swan
• Burlesque
• The Fighter
• Inception
  • The Social Network

Best Original Screenplay

• Biutiful  - Alejandro González Iñárritu, Armando Bo and Nicolás Giacobone
• Black Swan  - Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin
• The Fighter  - Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson
• Inception  - Christopher Nolan
  • The King's Speech  - David Seidler

Best Adapted Screenplay

• 127 Hours  - Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World  - Edgar Wright and Michael Bacall
  • The Social Network  - Aaron Sorkin
• True Grit  - Joel and Ethan Coen
• Winter's Bone  - Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini

Best Supporting Actor

• • Christian Bale  - The Fighter
• John Hawkes  - Winter's Bone
• Jeremy Renner  - The Town
• Sam Rockwell  - Conviction
• Geoffrey Rush  - The King's Speech

Best Supporting Actress

• Amy Adams  - The Fighter
• Helena Bonham Carter  - The King's Speech
• Barbara Hershey  - Black Swan
  • Melissa Leo  - The Fighter
• Hailee Steinfeld  - True Grit

Best Visual Effects

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1
  • Inception
• Kick-Ass
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Moving the Medium Forward

(for technical/artistic innovative that advances the medium)

• 127 Hours
  • Inception
• Kick-Ass
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
• Toy Story 3
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Best Artistic/Creative Film

(for excellence in art-house cinema)

• The King's Speech
  • Micmacs
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
• Trash Humpers
• Winter's Bone

Special Merit

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

• 127 Hours: the zoom-up scene which begins with a tight shot on Aron (James Franco) as he is screaming and pulls out to a wide shot of a large land area, showing how isolated he was from other humans.
• Easy A: the John Hughes tribute near the beginning.
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1: the “obliviate” scene in which Hermione erases her parents’ memories of her.
  • Inception: the zero-gravity hotel fight in the tumbling hallway scene with Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
• Kick-Ass: the Hit-Girl kill spree.

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: St. Louis Film Critics Announce Winners of 2010 Awards. stlfilmcritics.org. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140714121713/http://www.stlfilmcritics.org/st-louis-film-critics-announce-winners-of-2010-awards/. 2014-07-14.