By Yesterday, we brought you news about this year’s Gotham Independent Film Award winners. All the while, the next big indie film recognition machine, The Spirit Awards, were heaping more nominations on the impressive array of material the industry has produced this year. The full list of nominees were announced yesterday in Los Angeles, with the most nods going to Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone, with seven nominations, and Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids are Alright, with five nominations. In addition to its new Best Feature, Director, Screenplay, and Actress nominations, Winter’s Bone was already recognized as Best Film at the Gotham Awards.
The Spirit Awards, organized by the Film Independent organization, are a good early predictor for Oscar season, though big studio contenders are obviously absent, and it seems foreign contenders only qualify in the Best Foreign Film category, where you will find Morocco’s Of Gods and Men and UK’s The King’s Speech. Black Swan‘s gravy train has started with Best Feature, Director, and Actress nods, as it has for Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours, which has comparable category nominations, including a Best Actor nod for James Franco. Interestingly, Gotham’s Festival Genius Audience Award was bestowed upon the documentary Waiting…
Yesterday, we brought you news about this year's Gotham Independent Film Award winners. All the while, the next big indie film recognition machine, The Spirit Awards, were heaping more nominations on the impressive array of material the industry has produced this year. The full list of nominees were announced yesterday in Los Angeles, with the most nods going to Debra Granik's Winter's Bone, with seven nominations, and Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids are Alright, with five nominations. In addition to its new Best Feature, Director, Screenplay, and Actress nominations, Winter's Bone was already recognized as Best Film at the Gotham Awards.
The Spirit Awards, organized by the Film Independent organization, are a good early predictor for Oscar season, though big studio contenders are obviously absent, and it seems foreign contenders only qualify in the Best Foreign Film category, where you will find Morocco's Of Gods and Men and UK's The King's Speech. Black Swan's gravy train has started with Best Feature, Director, and Actress nods, as it has for Danny Boyle's 127 Hours, which has comparable category nominations, including a Best Actor nod for James Franco. Interestingly, Gotham's Festival Genius Audience Award was bestowed upon the documentary Waiting for 'Superman,' also an entry on the Academy Awards short list for Best Documentary, but the Spirit Awards has decided not to give the film any notice.
Check out the full list of nominees after the break!
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BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer)
127 HOURS
Producers: Danny Boyle, Christian Colson, John Smithson
BLACK SWAN
Producers: Scott Franklin, Mike Medavoy, Arnold W. Messer, Brian Oliver
GREENBERG
Producers: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Scott Rudin
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT
Producers: Gary Gilbert, Philippe Hellmann, Jordan Horowitz, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, Celine Rattray, Daniela Taplin Lundberg
WINTER’S BONE
Producers: Alix Madigan-Yorkin, Anne Rosellini
BEST DIRECTOR
DARREN ARONOFSKY – Black Swan
DANNY BOYLE – 127 Hours
LISA CHOLODENKO – The Kids Are All Right
DEBRA GRANIK – Winter’s Bone
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL – Rabbit Hole
BEST SCREENPLAY
STUART BLUMBERG & LISA CHOLODENKO – The Kids Are All Right
DEBRA GRANIK & ANNE ROSELLINI – Winter’s Bone
NICOLE HOLOFCENER – Please Give
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE – Rabbit Hole
TODD SOLONDZ – Life During Wartime
BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director and producer)
EVERYTHING STRANGE AND NEW
Director: Frazer Bradshaw
Producers: A.D. Liano, Laura Techera Francia
GET LOW
Director: Aaron Schneider
Producers: David Gundlach, Dean Zanuck
NIGHT CATCHES US
Director: Tanya Hamilton
Producers: Sean Costello, Jason Orans, Ronald Simons
THE LAST EXORCISM
Director: Daniel Stamm
Producers: Marc Abraham, Tom Bliss, Eric Newman, Eli Roth
TINY FURNITURE
Director: Lena Dunham
Producers: Kyle Martin, Alicia Van Couvering
BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
DIANE BELL – Obselidia
LENA DUNHAM – Tiny Furniture
NIK FACKLER – Lovely, Still
BOB GLAUDINI – Jack Goes Boating
DANA ADAM SHAPIRO & EVAN M. WIENER – Monogamy
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD (Given to the best feature made for under $500,000; award given to the writer, director, and producer)
DADDY LONGLEGS
Writers/Directors: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie
Producers: Casey Neistat, Tom Scott
LBS.
Director: Matthew Bonifacio
Writers/Producers: Matthew Bonifacio, Carmine Famiglietti
LOVERS OF HATE
Writer/Director: Bryan Poyser
PRODUCER: Megan Gilbride
OBSELIDIA
Writer/Director: Diane Bell
Producers: Chris Byrne, Matthew Medlin
THE EXPLODING GIRL
Writer/Director: Bradley Rust Gray
Producers: Karin Chien, Ben Howe, So Yong Kim
BEST FEMALE LEAD
ANNETTE BENING – The Kids Are All Right
GRETA GERWIG – Greenberg
NICOLE KIDMAN – Rabbit Hole
JENNIFER LAWRENCE – Winter’s Bone
NATALIE PORTMAN – Black Swan
MICHELLE WILLIAMS – Blue Valentine
BEST MALE LEAD
RONALD BRONSTEIN – Daddy Longlegs
AARON ECKHART – Rabbit Hole
JAMES FRANCO – 127 Hours
JOHN C. REILLY – Cyrus
BEN STILLER – Greenberg
BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
ASHLEY BELL – The Last Exorcism
DALE DICKEY – Winter’s Bone
ALLISON JANNEY – Life During Wartime
DAPHNE RUBIN-VEGA – Jack Goes Boating
NAOMI WATTS – Mother and Child
BEST SUPPORTING MALE
JOHN HAWKES – Winter’s Bone
SAMUEL L. JACKSON – Mother and Child
BILL MURRAY – Get Low
JOHN ORTIZ – Jack Goes Boating
MARK RUFFALO – The Kids Are All Right
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
ADAM KIMMEL – Never Let Me Go
MATTHEW LIBATIQUE – Black Swan
JODY LEE LIPES – Tiny Furniture
MICHAEL McDONOUGH – Winter’s Bone
HARRIS SAVIDES – Greenberg
BEST DOCUMENTARY (Award given to the director)
EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP
Director: Banksy
MARWENCOL
Director: Jeff Malmberg
SWEETGRASS
Directors: Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor
RESTREPO
Directors: Tim Hetherington & Sebastian Junger
THUNDER SOUL
Director: Mark Landsman
BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director)
KISSES (Ireland)
Director: Lance Daly
MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON (France)
Director: Stéphane Brizé
OF GODS AND MEN (Morocco)
Director: Xavier Beauvois
THE KING’S SPEECH (United Kingdom)
Director: Tom Hooper
UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (Thailand)
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD (Given to one film’s director, casting director, and its ensemble cast)
PLEASE GIVE
Director: Nicole Holofcener
Casting Director: Jeanne McCarthy
Ensemble Cast: Ann Guilbert, Rebecca Hall, Catherine Keener, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Lois Smith, Sarah Steele