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2010 Independent Spirit Award Nominations

12/9/2009

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The 2010 Independent Spirit Award nominations came out as they ready to hand these suckers out to the winners on March 5. There are some omissions, some surprises (good and bad), but all in all we are starting to see some trends and if that continues it might not be so hard to pick out the top ten come Oscar nomination time. What do you guys think? See the full list of nominees after the jump.

--Greg MacLennan

Best Supporting Male
  Nominees: 
  • Gentlemen Broncos (2009) - Jemaine Clement
  • Me and Orson Welles (2008) - Christian McKay
  • That Evening Sun (2009) - Ray McKinnon
  • The Last Station (2009) - Christopher Plummer (I)
  • The Messenger (2009/I) - Woody Harrelson

  • Best Supporting Female
      Nominees: 
  • Cold Souls (2009) - Dina Korzun
  • Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008) - Natalie Press
  • Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009) - Mo'Nique
  • That Evening Sun (2009) - Mia Wasikowska
  • The Messenger (2009/I) - Samantha Morton

  • Best Director
      Nominees: 
  • A Serious Man (2009) - Ethan Coen; Joel Coen
  • Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009) - Lee Daniels (I)
  • Sin Nombre (2009) - Cary Fukunaga
  • The Last Station (2009) - Michael Hoffman (I)
  • Two Lovers (2008) - James Gray (I)

  • Best Screenplay
      Nominees: 
  • (500) Days of Summer (2009) - Scott Neustadter; Michael H. Weber
  • Adventureland (2009) - Greg Mottola
  • The Last Station (2009) - Michael Hoffman (I)
  • The Messenger (2009/I) - Alessandro Camon; Oren Moverman
  • The Vicious Kind (2009) - Lee Toland Krieger

  • Best First Screenplay
      Nominees: 
  • A Single Man (2009) - Tom Ford (VIII); David Scearce
  • Amreeka (2009) - Cherien Dabis
  • Cold Souls (2009) - Sophie Barthes
  • Crazy Heart (2009) - Scott Cooper (III)
  • Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009) - Geoffrey Fletcher

  • Best Cinematography
      Nominees: 
  • A Serious Man (2009) - Roger Deakins
  • Cold Souls (2009) - Andrij Parekh
  • Sin Nombre (2009) - Adriano Goldman
  • The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (2009) - Peter Zeitlinger
  • Treeless Mountain (2008) - Anne Misawa

  • Best Documentary
      Nominees: 
  • Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2008) - Sacha Gervasi
  • Food, Inc. (2008) - Robert Kenner
  • More Than a Game (2008) - Kristopher Belman
  • October Country (2009) - Michael Palmieri (II); Donal Mosher
  • Which Way Home (2009) - Rebecca Cammisa

  • Best Foreign Film
      Nominees: 
  • An Education (2009) - Lone Scherfig
  • La nana (2009) - Sebastián Silva (III)
  • Madeo (2009) - Joon-Ho Bong
  • Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick (2008) - Jan Troell
  • Un prophète (2009) - Jacques Audiard

  • Best Female Lead
      Nominees: 
  • Amreeka (2009) - Nisreen Faour
  • Downloading Nancy (2008) - Maria Bello
  • Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009) - Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe
  • The Last Station (2009) - Helen Mirren
  • Two Lovers (2008) - Gwyneth Paltrow

  • Best First Feature
      Nominees: 
  • A Single Man (2009) - Tom Ford (VIII) (director/producer); Chris Weitz (producer); Andrew Miano (producer); Robert Salerno (I) (producer)
  • Crazy Heart (2009) - Scott Cooper (III) (director/producer); Robert Duvall (producer); Rob Carliner (producer); Judy Cairo (producer); T-Bone Burnett (producer)
  • Easier with Practice (2009) - Kyle Patrick Alvarez (director); Cookie Carosella (producer)
  • Paranormal Activity (2007) - Oren Peli (director/producer); Jason Blum (I) (producer)
  • The Messenger (2009/I) - Oren Moverman (director); Mark Gordon (II) (producer); Lawrence Inglee (producer); Zach Miller (II) (producer)

  • Best Feature
      Nominees: 
  • (500) Days of Summer (2009) - Jessica Tuchinsky; Mark Waters (VIII); Mason Novick; Steven J. Wolfe
  • Amreeka (2009) - Christina Piovesan; Paul Barkin
  • Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009) - Lee Daniels (I); Sarah Siegel-Magness; Gary Magness
  • Sin Nombre (2009) - Amy Kaufman (II)
  • The Last Station (2009) - Chris Curling; Jens Meurer; Bonnie Arnold

  • Best Male Lead
      Nominees: 
  • (500) Days of Summer (2009) - Joseph Gordon-Levitt
  • A Single Man (2009) - Colin Firth
  • Crazy Heart (2009) - Jeff Bridges (I)
  • Goodbye Solo (2008) - Souleymane Sy Savane
  • The Vicious Kind (2009) - Adam Scott (I)

  • John Cassavetes Award 
     Nominees:
     
  • Big Fan (2009) - Robert D. Siegel (writer/director); Jean Kouremetis (producer); Elan Bogarin (producer)
  • Humpday (2009) - Lynn Shelton (I) (writer/director/producer)
  • The New Year Parade (2008) - Tom Quinn (X) (writer/director/producer); Steve Beal (I) (producer)
  • Treeless Mountain (2008) - So Yong Kim (writer/director/producer); Bradley Rust Gray (producer); Ben Howe (producer); Lars Knudsen (I) (producer); Jay Van Hoy (producer)
  • Zero Bridge (2008) - Tariq Tapa (writer/director/producer); Hilal Ahmed Langoo (producer); Josée Lajoie (producer)

  • Robert Altman Award  
    Winner:
     
    • A Serious Man (2009) - Ethan Coen (director); Joel Coen (director); Ellen Chenoweth (casting director); Rachel Tenner (casting director); Richard Kind; Sari Lennick; Jessica McManus; Fred Melamed; Michael Stuhlbarg; Aaron Wolff

    Truer Than Fiction Award  
    Nominees:
     
  • 45365 (2009) - Bill Ross IV; Turner Ross
  • Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo (2009) - Jessica Oreck
  • El general (2009) - Natalia Almada

  • Producers Award 
     Nominees:
     
  • Beeswax (2009) - Dia Sokol
    - Also for Nights and Weekends (2008).
  • I Sell the Dead (2008) - Larry Fessenden
    - Also for The House of the Devil (2009).
  • Santa Mesa (2008) - Karin Chien
    - Also for The Exploding Girl (2009).

  • Someone to Watch Award  
    Nominees:
     
  • Easier with Practice (2009) - Kyle Patrick Alvarez
  • Redland (2009) - Asiel Norton
  • Zero Bridge (2008) - Tariq Tapa
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