Independent Spirit Awards – winners!
Lastnight also saw the handing out of the Independent Spirit Awards – the Oscars of the indie filmmaking world. The big winners? ‘Black Swan’ and ‘Winters Bone’, plus a Best Actor nod for James Franco (in the absence of Colin Firth)
This is also the only awards ceremony this season which will see ‘The King’s Speech’ take home Best Foreign Film…
More winners after the jump!
Best Feature
Black Swan
127 Hours
Greenberg
The Kids Are All Right
Winter’s Bone
Best Female Lead
Natalie Portman for Black Swan
Annette Bening for The Kids Are All Right
Greta Gerwig for Greenberg
Nicole Kidman for Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence for Winter’s Bone
Michelle Williams for Blue Valentine
Best Male Lead
James Franco for 127 Hours
Ronald Bronstein for Go Get Some Rosemary
Aaron Eckhart for Rabbit Hole
John C. Reilly for Cyrus
Ben Stiller for Greenberg
Best Supporting Female
Dale Dickey for Winter’s Bone
Ashley Bell for The Last Exorcism
Allison Janney for Life During Wartime
Daphne Rubin-Vega for Jack Goes Boating
Naomi Watts for Mother and Child
Best Supporting Male
John Hawkes for Winter’s Bone
Samuel L. Jackson for Mother and Child
Bill Murray for Get Low
John Ortiz for Jack Goes Boating
Mark Ruffalo for The Kids Are All Right
Best Director
Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan
Danny Boyle for 127 Hours
Lisa Cholodenko for The Kids Are All Right
Debra Granik for Winter’s Bone
John Cameron Mitchell for Rabbit Hole
Best Screenplay
The Kids Are All Right: Stuart Blumberg, Lisa Cholodenko
Life During Wartime: Todd Solondz
Please Give: Nicole Holofcener
Rabbit Hole: David Lindsay-Abaire
Winter’s Bone: Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini
Best First Screenplay
Tiny Furniture: Lena Dunham
Jack Goes Boating: Robert Glaudini
Lovely, Still: Nicholas Fackler
Monogamy: Dana Adam Shapiro, Evan M. Wiener
Obselidia: Diane Bell
Best Cinematography
Black Swan: Matthew Libatique
Greenberg: Harris Savides
Never Let Me Go: Adam Kimmel
Tiny Furniture: Jody Lee Lipes
Winter’s Bone: Michael McDonough
Best First Feature
Get Low
Everything Strange and New
The Last Exorcism
Night Catches Us
Tiny Furniture
Best Documentary
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Marwencol
Restrepo
Sweetgrass
Thunder Soul
John Cassavetes Award
Go Get Some Rosemary: Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie, Casey Neistat, Tom Scott
The Exploding Girl: Bradley Rust Gray, Karin Chien, Ben Howe, So Yong Kim
Lbs.: Matthew Bonifacio, Carmine Famiglietti
Lovers of Hate: Bryan Poyser, Megan Gilbride
Obselidia: Diane Bell, Chris Byrne, Matthew Medlin
Truer Than Fiction Award
Marwencol: Jeff Malmberg
Summer Pasture: Lynn True, Nelson Walker III
Sweetgrass: Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Someone to Watch Award
Mike Ott for Littlerock
Hossein Keshavarz for Dog Sweat
Laurel Nakadate for The Wolf Knife
Producers Award
Anish Savjani for Meek’s Cutoff
In-Ah Lee for Au revoir Taipei
Adele Romanski for The Myth of the American Sleepover
Robert Altman Award
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[...] You can check out who won what here, but let’s can we just take a moment and applaud Rosario Dawson’s balls for erm, cupping Paul Rudd’s balls live onstage while he presented the Best Screenplay Award with Eva Mendes. [...]