12 Years a Slave wins St. Louis Film Critics

Best Film:	"12 Years a Slave" (runner-up): "American Hustle"
Best Director:	Steve McQueen ("12 Years a Slave") (runner-up): Alfonso Cuaron ("Gravity")
Best Actor:	Chiwetel Ejiofor ("12 Years a Slave") (runner-up): Matthew McConaughey ("Dallas Buyers Club")
Best Actress:	Cate Blanchett ("Blue Jasmine") (runner-up): Meryl Streep ("August: Osage County")
Best Supporting Actor:	Jared Leto ("Dallas Buyers Club") (runner-up): Will Forte ("Nebraska")
Best Supporting Actress:	Lupita Nyong’o ("12 Years a Slave") (runner-up): June Squibb ("Nebraska")
Best Original Screenplay:	Spike Jonze ("Her") (runner-up): David O. Russell and Eric Singer ("American Hustle")
Best Adapted Screenplay:	John Ridley and Solomon Northrup ("12 Years a Slave") (runner-up): Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope and Martin Sixsmith ("Philomena")
Best Cinematography:	Tie: Sean Bobbitt ("12 Years a Slave") and Emmanuel Lubezki ("Gravity")
Best Visual Effects:	"Gravity" (runner-up): "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug"
Best Musical Score:	Marie Ebbing and Ren Klyce ("Her") (runners-up): Steven Price ("Gravity") and Mark Orton ("Nebraska")
Best Soundtrack:	T-Bone Burnett ("Inside Llewyn Davis") runner-up: Christophe Beck ("Frozen")
Best Art Direction:	Damien Drew, Ian Gracie and Michael Turner ("The Great Gatsby") runner-up: Austin Gorg ("Her")
Best Animated Film:	"Frozen" (runner-up): "The Wind Rises"
Best Art-House or Festival Film	"Short Term 12" (runners-up): "Blue Is the Warmest Colour" and "Frances Ha"
Best Comedy:	TIE: "Enough Said" and "The World’s End"
Best Documentary:	"Blackfish" (runners-up): "The Art of Killing" and "Stories We Tell"
Best Non-English Language Film:	"Blue Is the Warmest Colour" (runner-up): "Wadjda"
Best Scene (favorite movie scene or sequence):	"12 Years a Slave" – The hanging scene runner-up: "Gravity" – The opening tracking shot