2012 Critics Awards: St. Louis Film Critics
Best Film: Argo
Best Director: Ben Affleck (Argo)
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
Best Actress: Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)
Best Supporting Actress: (Tie): Ann Dowd (Compliance) and Helen Hunt (The Sessions)
Best Original Screenplay: Zero Dark Thirty (Mark Boal)
Best Adapted Screenplay: (Tie): Lincoln (Tony Kushner) and Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell)
Best Cinematography: Skyfall (Roger Deakins)
Best Visual Effects: Life of Pi
Best Music: (Tie): Django Unchained and Moonrise Kingdom
Best Foreign-Language Film: The Intouchables
Best Documentary: Searching for Sugar Man
Best Comedy: (Tie): Moonrise Kingdom and Ted
Best Animated Film: Wreck-It Ralph
Special Merit (for best scene, cinematic technique or other memorable aspect or moment)
(Four-way Tie):
Django Unchained – The bag head bag/mask problems scene
Hitchcock – Anthony Hopkins in lobby conducting to music/audience’s reaction during Psycho screening
The Impossible – Opening tsunami scene
The Master – The first processing questioning scene between Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix