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Film Independent - 2010 Spirit Awards

Film Independent (FIND)
Spirit Awards (26th)
Nominations: November 30, 2010
Awards: February 26, 2011

Below are the nominations & winners for the 26th Annual Spirit Awards.

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Best Picture
"127 Hours" (Fox Searchlight) Darlow Smithson Productions, Cloud Eight, Producers: Christian Colson, Danny Boyle, John Smithson
WINNER "Black Swan" (Fox Searchlight) Cross Creek Pictures, Dune, Protozoa Pictures, Phoenix Pictures, Producers: Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin
"Greenberg" (Focus Features) Producers: Scott Rudin, Jennifer Jason Leigh
"The Kids Are All Right" (Focus Features) Plum Pictures, Antidote Films, Producers: Gary Gilbert, Philippe Hellmann, Jordan Horowitz, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, Celine Rattray, Daniela Taplin Lundberg
"Winter's Bone" (Roadside Attractions) Anonymous Content, Winter's Bone Prods., Producers: Alix Madigan-Yorkin, Anne Rosellini

Best Director
WINNER "Black Swan" (Fox Searchlight) Darren Aronofsky
"127 Hours" (Fox Searchlight) Danny Boyle
"The Kids Are All Right" (Focus Features) Lisa Cholodenko
"Winter's Bone" (Roadside Attractions) Debra Granik
"Rabbit Hole" (Lionsgate Films) John Cameron Mitchell

Best Screenplay
WINNER "The Kids Are All Right" (Focus Features) Stuart Blumberg, Lisa Cholodenko
"Winter's Bone" (Roadside Attractions) Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini
"Please Give" (Sony Pictures Classics) Nicole Holofcener
"Rabbit Hole" (Lionsgate Films) David Lindsay-Abaire
"Life During Wartime" (IFC Films) Todd Solondz

Best First Feature
"Everything Strange and New" Director: Frazer Bradshaw; Producers: A.D. Liano, Laura Techera Francia
WINNER "Get Low" (Sony Pictures Classics) Director: Aaron Schneider; Producers: David Gundlach, Dean Zanuck
"Night Catches Us" (Magnolia Pictures) Director: Tanya Hamilton; Producers: Sean Costello, Jason Orans, Ronald Simons
"The Last Exorcism" (Lions Gate Films) Arcade, Director: Daniel Stamm; Producers: Marc Abraham, Tom Bliss, Eric Newman, Eli Roth
"Tiny Furniture" (IFC Films) Director: Lena Dunham; Producers: Kyle Martin, Alicia Van Couvering

Best First Screenplay
"Obselidia" Diane Bell
WINNER "Tiny Furniture" (IFC Films) Lena Dunham
"Lovely, Still" (Monterey Media) Nik Fackler
"Jack Goes Boating" (Overture Films) Robert Glaudini
"Monogamy" Dana Adam Shapiro, Evan M. Wiener

John Cassavetes Award
WINNER "Daddy Longlegs" (IFC Films) 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" (Oscilloscope Pictures) Writer/Director: Bradley Rust Gray; Producers: Karin Chien, Ben Howe, So Yong Kim

Best Actress
Annette Bening in "The Kids Are All Right" (Focus Features)
Greta Gerwig in "Greenberg" (Focus Features)
Nicole Kidman in "Rabbit Hole" (Lionsgate Films)
Jennifer Lawrence in "Winter's Bone" (Roadside Attractions)
WINNER Natalie Portman in "Black Swan" (Fox Searchlight)
Michelle Williams in "Blue Valentine" (Weinstein Co.)

Best Actor
Ronald Bronstein in "Daddy Longlegs" (IFC Films)
Aaron Eckhart in "Rabbit Hole" (Lionsgate Films)
WINNER James Franco in "127 Hours" (Fox Searchlight)
John C. Reilly in "Cyrus" (Fox)
Ben Stiller in "Greenberg" (Focus Features)

Best Supporting Actress
Ashley Bell in "The Last Exorcism" (Lions Gate Films)
WINNER Dale Dickey in "Winter's Bone" (Roadside Attractions)
Allison Janney in "Life During Wartime" (IFC Films)
Daphne Rubin-Vega in "Jack Goes Boating" (Overture Films)
Naomi Watts in "Mother and Child" (Sony Pictures Classics)

Best Supporting Actor
WINNER John Hawkes in "Winter's Bone" (Roadside Attractions)
Samuel L. Jackson in "Mother and Child" (Sony Pictures Classics)
Bill Murray in "Get Low" (Sony Pictures Classics)
John Ortiz in "Jack Goes Boating" (Overture Films)
Mark Ruffalo in "The Kids Are All Right" (Focus Features)

Best Cinematography
"Never Let Me Go" (Fox) Adam Kimmel
WINNER "Black Swan" (Fox Searchlight) Matthew Libatique
"Tiny Furniture" (IFC Films) Jody Lee Lipes
"Winter's Bone" (Roadside Attractions) Michael McDonough
"Greenberg" (Focus Features) Harris Savides

Best Documentary
WINNER "Exit Through the Gift Shop" (Revolver Entertainment, Producers Distribution Agency) Director: Banksy
"Marwencol" (Cinema Guild) Director: Jeff Malmberg
"Restrepo" (National Geographic) Directors: Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger
"Sweetgrass" (Cinema Guild) Directors: Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
"Thunder Soul" Director: Mark Landsman

Best Foreign Film
"Kisses" Director: Lance Daly, Ireland
"Mademoiselle Chambon" Director: Stéphane Brizé, France
"Of Gods and Men" (Sony Pictures Classics) Director: Xavier Beauvois, Morocco
WINNER "The King's Speech" (Weinstein Co.) Director: Tom Hooper, United Kingdom
"Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" (Strand Releasing) Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand

Someone to Watch Award
"Dog Sweat" Director: Hossein Keshavarz
"The Wolf Knife" Director: Laurel Nakadate
WINNER "Littlerock" Director: Mike Ott

Truer Than Fiction Award
"Sweetgrass" (Cinema Guild) Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
WINNER "Marwencol" (Cinema Guild) Jeff Malmberg
"Summer Pasture" Lynn True, Nelson Walker

Producers Award
"Au Revoir Taipei" In-Ah Lee
"The Myth of the American Sleepover" Adele Romanski
WINNER "Meek's Cutoff" (Oscilloscope Pictures) Anish Savjani

Robert Altman Award
WINNER "Please Give" (Sony Pictures Classics) Director: Nicole Holofcener; Casting Director: Jeanne McCarthy; Ensemble Cast: Ann Guilbert, Rebecca Hall, Catherine Keener, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Lois Smith, Sarah Steele

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