St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards

Best Film: “Up in the Air”
Runner-Up: “The Hurt Locker”

Best Actor: George Clooney, “Up in the Air”
Runner-Up: Patton Oswalt in “Big Fan”

Best Actress: Carey Mulligan in “An Education”
Runner-Up: Gabourey Sidibe in “Precious”

Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz in “Inglorious Basterds”
Runner-up: Stanley Tucci in “The Lovely Bones”

Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique in “Precious”
Runner-Up: Marion Cotillard in “Nine”

Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow in “The Hurt Locker”
Runners-Up (tie): Jason Reitman for “Up in the Air” and Quentin Tarantino
for ‘Inglourious Basterds”

Best Screenplay: Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber for ‘(500) Days of Summer”
Runner-Up: Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner for “Up in the Air”

Best Cinematography: Dion Beebe for “Nine”
Runner-Up: Eduard Grau for “A Single Man”

Best Music: “Nine”
Runner-Up: “Crazy Heart”

Best Visual Effects: “Avatar”
Runner-Up: “Where the Wild Things Are”

Best Foreign Language Film: “Red Cliff”
Runner-Up: Treeless Mountain

Best Documentary: “Capitalism: A Love Story”
Runner-Up: “Anvil! The Story of Anvil”

Best Animated Film: “Up”
Runner-Up: “The Fantastic Mr. Fox”

Best Comedy: “The Hangover”
Runner-Up: “(500) Days of Summer”

Most Original, Innovative or Creative Film: “Avatar”
Runner-Up (tie): “The Fantastic Mr. Fox” and “(500) Days of Summer”

Favorite Scene: “Up” – the four-minute marriage montage
Runner-Up: “Inglourious Basterds” – the opening farmhouse scene