# 2010 St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards

7th StLFCA 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.

## 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
* Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
* 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
* Tron: Legacy

### 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.