List of 25th Film Independent Spirit Award winners
And the winners are:
BEST FEATURE (Award given to the Producer)
Precious, Producers Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness
BEST DIRECTOR
Lee Daniels for Precious
Accepting the directing award, Daniels wisecracked, “Kathryn Bigelow’s not here tonight. I am,” referring to the maker of The Hurt Locker, the favorite to win best director at the Oscars.
BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director and producer)
Crazy Heart - Scott Cooper, Robert Duvall, Rob Carliner, Judy Cairo, T Bone Burnett
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD
(Given to the best feature made for under $500,000; award given to the writer, director, and producer)
Humpday directed by Lynn Shelton
BEST SCREENPLAY
Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber for 500 Days of Summer
BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Geoffrey Fletcher for Precious
BEST FEMALE LEAD
Gabourey Sidibe for Precious
BEST MALE LEAD
Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart
Borrowing a line from the Dude, the laidback bowler he played in “The Big Lebowski,” Bridges held his Spirit Award aloft and told his wife in the audience, “This is really going to tie the room together, baby.”
BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
Mo'Nique for Precious
Mo’Nique said backstage she had not prepared a speech for the Oscars, “because I think the universe would say, You have a lot of nerve.”
BEST SUPPORTING MALE
Woody Harrelson for The Messenger
“Actually, I don’t know how you distinguish one performance from another. It’s never felt right to me to declare a winner. We’re all just actors and lucky to be doing this. Of course, now it feels a little more right.”
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Roger Deakins for A Serious Man
BEST DOCUMENTARY (Award given to the director)
Anvil! The Story of Anvil, directed by Sacha Gervasi
BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director)
An Education directed by Lone Scheerfig
ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD
(Given to one film’s director, casting director, and its ensemble cast)
A Serious Man -- Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Ellen Chenoweth, Rachel Tenner, Richard Kind, Sari Lennick, Jessica McManus, Fred Melamed, Michael Stuhlbarg, Aaron Wolff
PRODUCERS AWARD
(for emerging producers)
Karen Chien (The Exploding Girl, Santa Mesa)
SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD
(for emerging feature directors)
Kyle Patrick Alvarez for Easier With Practice
TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD
(for emerging documentary makers)
Bill Ross, Turner Ross for 45365
03-06-10
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