2010 Independent Spirit Award Nominations

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

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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