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BY MAGGIE SCOTT

Like New York, Boston and L.A., St. Louis has its own professional organization of film critics. Founded and organized through the efforts of Cate Marquis and Sandra Olmsted, the St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association is a non-profit organization which “works to promote appreciation of cinema in the St. Louis area and bestows awards recognizing outstanding films at the annual St. Louis International Film Festival and the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase.”

2006 was the first year that the Association announced nominees and winners of its Film Awards. Working critics in all media, including print, broadcast and internet are invited to submit their nominations and to vote for their choices of best in acting, directing, writing, cinematography and musical composition for the big screen.

The following is a list of the winners of the 2007 St. Louis Gateway Film Awards, announced at a press conference at Schlafly Bottleworks in Maplewood last monty.

Best Picture: No Country for Old Men
Best Actress: Ellen Page, Juno
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan, Gone, Baby, Gone
Best Supporting Actor: Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Best Director: Ethan and Joel Coen, No Country for Old Men
Best Cinematography: The Assassination of Jesse James
Best Screenplay: Diablo Cody, Juno
Best Foreign Language Film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Documentary: Sicko
Best Comedy: Juno
Best Animated or Children’s Film: Ratatouille
Best Visual Effects (CGI): 300
Best Score: Sweeney Todd
Most Innovative Film: I’m Not There
Worst Film of the Year: Brothers Solomon

(Independent News film critic Maggie Scott is a member of the St. Louis Gateway Film Critics)
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