More awards recognition for Argo, which has been quietly amassing a nice trove of awards. Django Unchained picked up three awards, but few of import.

Award Tallies

(3) Django Unchained
(2) Argo, Compliance, Lincoln, Moonrise Kingdom, Zero Dark Thirty

The Awards

Best Film

Argo (RU: TIE: Life of Pi; Lincoln)

Best Animated Film

Wreck-It Ralph (RU: ParaNorman)

Best Director

Ben Affleck – Argo (RU: TIE: Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained; Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild)

Best Actor

Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln (RU: John Hawkes – The Sessions)

Best Actress

Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty (RU: Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook)

Best Supporting Actor

Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained (RU: Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln)

Best Supporting Actress

TIE:
Ann Dowd – Compliance
Helen Hunt – The Sessions

Best Original Screenplay

Zero Dark Thirty (RU: Django Unchained)

Best Adapted Screenplay

TIE:
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook

Best Music

TIE:
Django Unchained
Moonrise Kingdom

Best Cinematography

Skyfall (RU: Life of Pi)

Best Visual Effects

Life of Pi (PU: The Avengers)

Best Foreign-Language Film

The Intouchables (RU: TIE: The Fairy; Headhunters)

Best Documentary

Searching for Sugar Man (RU: TIE: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry; Bully; How to Survive a Plague)

Best Comedy

TIE:
Moonrise Kingdom
Ted

Best Art House or Festival Film

TIE:
Compliance
Safety Not Guaranteed

Best Scene

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

St. Louis Film Critics Association Data

Year Founded: 2004
First Awards: 2006 (7)