The Best of the 2013 Movies - St. Louis Film Critics Annual Awards

2013 St. Louis Film Critics Awards and runners-up, by category:

Best Film

12 Years a Slave

runner-up: American Hustle

Best Director

Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)

runner-up: Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity)

Best Actor

Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)

runner-up: Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)

Best Actress

Cate Blanchette (Blue Jasmine)

runner-up: Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)

Best Supporting Actor

Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

runner-up: Will Forte (Nebraska)

Best Supporting Actress

Lupita Nyongo (12 Years a Slave)

runner-up: June Squibb (Nebraska)

Best Original Screenplay

Her

runner-up: American Hustle

Best Adapted Screenplay

12 Years a Slave

runner-up: Philomena

Best Cinematography

– a tie

12 Years a Slave

Gravity

runner-up: The Grandmaster

Best Visual Special Effects

Gravity

runner-up: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Best Musical Score

Her

tied runners-up: Gravity, Nebraska

Best Soundtrack

Inside Llewyn Davis

runner-up: Frozen

Best Art Direction

The Great Gatsby

runner-up: Her

Best Documentary

Blackfish

tied runners-up: The Art of Killing, Stories We Tell

Best Non-English Language Film

Blue Is the Warmest Colour

runner-up: Wadjda

Best Comedy

- a tie

Enough Said

The World's End

runner-up: The Way Way Back

Best Animated Feature

Frozen

runner-up: The Wind Rises

Best Art-House or Festival Film

Short Term 12

tied runners-up: Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Frances Ha

Best Scene

12 Years a Slave - The hanging scene

runner-up: Gravity - The opening tracking shot.