9th St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards (2012)

Best Film

	Argo
	Runner-up: Life of Pi (TIE)
	Runner-up: Lincoln (TIE)
	Django Unchained
	Moonrise Kingdom
	Zero Dark Thirty

Best Director

	Ben Affleck - Argo
	Runner-up: Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained (TIE)
	Runner-up: Benh Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild (TIE)
	Wes Anderson - Moonrise Kingdom
	Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty
	Ang Lee - Life of Pi

Best Actor

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

Best Actress

	Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
	Runner-up: Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
	Helen Mirren - Hitchcock
	Aubrey Plaza - Safety Not Guaranteed
	Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Supporting Actor

	Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained
	Runner-up: Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln
	Alan Arkin - Argo
	John Goodman - Argo
	William H. Macy - The Sessions
	Bruce Willis - Moonrise Kingdom

Best Supporting Actress

	Ann Dowd - Compliance (TIE)
	Helen Hunt - The Sessions (TIE)
	Amy Adams - The Master
	Sally Field - Lincoln
	Anne Hathaway - Les Misérables
	Emma Watson - The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Best Adapted Screenplay

	Lincoln - Tony Kushner (TIE)
	Silver Linings Playbook - David O. Russell (TIE)
	Argo - Chris Terrio
	Beasts of the Southern Wild - Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin
	Life of Pi - David Magee
	The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

Best Original Screenplay

	Zero Dark Thirty - Mark Boal
	Runner-up: Django Unchained - Quentin Tarantino
	The Cabin in the Woods - Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard
	Moonrise Kingdom - Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
	Seven Psychopaths - Martin McDonagh

Best Cinematography

	Skyfall - Roger Deakins
	Runner-up: Life of Pi - Claudio Miranda
	Beasts of the Southern Wild - Ben Richardson
	Cloud Atlas - Frank Griebe and John Toll
	Django Unchained - Robert Richardson
	The Master - Mihai Mălaimare Jr.

Best Visual Effects

	Bill Westenhofer - Life of Pi
	Runner-up: The Avengers
	Cloud Atlas
	Prometheus
	Snow White and the Huntsman

Best Music

	Django Unchained (TIE)
	Moonrise Kingdom (TIE)
	Beasts of the Southern Wild
	Cloud Atlas
	The Dark Knight Rises
	Not Fade Away

Best Foreign Language Film

	The Intouchables (Intouchables) • France
	Runner-up: The Fairy (La fée) • Belgium / France (TIE)
	Runner-up: Headhunters (Hodejegerne) • Norway (TIE)
	Holy Motors • France / Germany
	The Kid with a Bike (Le gamin au vélo) • Belgium / France / Italy

Best Documentary Film

	Searching for Sugar Man
	Runner-up: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (TIE)
	Runner-up: Bully (TIE)
	Runner-up: How to Survive a Plague (TIE)
	Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Best Animated Film

	Wreck-It Ralph
	Runner-up: ParaNorman
	Brave
	Frankenweenie
	Rise of the Guardians

Best Comedy Film

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

Best Arthouse or Festival Film

	Compliance (TIE)
	Safety Not Guaranteed (TIE)
	Bernie
	The Fairy (La fée)
	Sleepwalk with Me
	Take This Waltz

Best Scene

	Django Unchained: The "bag head" bag/mask problems scene (TIE)
	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 Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix (TIE)
	Beasts of the Southern Wild: The hurricane (and Wink shooting at it)
	Flight: The plane crash