Independent Spirit Award Nominees

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Best Feature
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Rachel Getting Married
Neda Armian, Jonathan Demme, Marc Platt
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The Wrestler
Darren Aronofsky, Scott Franklin
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Wendy and Lucy
Larry Fessenden, Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani
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Ballast
Lance Hammer, Nina Parikh
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Frozen River
Chip Hourihan, Heather Rae
Best Director
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Tom McCarthy
The Visitor
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Jonathan Demme
Rachel Getting Married
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Courtney Hunt
Frozen River
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Ramin Bahrani
Chop Shop
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Lance Hammer
Ballast
Best First Feature
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Afterschool
Antonio Campos, Sean Durkin, Josh Mond
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Medicine for Melancholy
Barry Jenkins, Justin Barber
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Synecdoche, New York
Charlie Kaufman, Anthony Bregman, Spike Jonze, Sidney Kimmel
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Sleep Dealer
Alex Rivera, Anthony Bregman
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Sangre De Mi Sangre
Christopher Zalla, Per Melita, Benjamin Odell
John Cassavetes Award
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Prince of Broadway
Sean Baker, Darren Dean
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Take Out
Sean Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou
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The Signal
David Bruckner, Dan Bush, Jacob Gentry, Alexander Motlagh
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Turn the River
Chris Eigeman, Ami Armstrong
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In Search of a Midnight Kiss
Alex Holdridge, Seth Caplan, Scoot McNairy
Best Screenplay
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Woody Allen
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
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Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck
Sugar
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Charlie Kaufman
Synecdoche, New York
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Howard A. Rodman
Savage Grace
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Christopher Zalla
Sangre De Mi Sangre
Best First Screenplay
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Dustin Lance Black
Milk
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Lance Hammer
Ballast
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Courtney Hunt
Frozen River
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Jonathan Levine
The Wackness
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Jenny Lumet
Rachel Getting Married
Best Female Lead
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Summer Bishil
Towelhead
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Anne Hathaway
Rachel Getting Married
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Melissa Leo
Frozen River
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Tarra Riggs
Ballast
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Michelle Williams
Wendy and Lucy
Best Male Lead
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Javier Bardem
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
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Richard Jenkins
The Visitor
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Sean Penn
Milk
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Jeremy Renner
The Hurt Locker
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Mickey Rourke
The Wrestler
Best Supporting Female
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Penélope Cruz
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
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Rosemarie DeWitt
Rachel Getting Married
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Rosie Perez
The Take
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Misty Upham
Frozen River
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Debra Winger
Rachel Getting Married
Best Supporting Male
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James Franco
Milk
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Anthony Mackie
The Hurt Locker
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Charlie McDermott
Frozen River
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JimMyron Ross
Ballast
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Haaz Sleiman
The Visitor
Best Foreign Film
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The Class
Laurent Cantet
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Gomorra
Matteo Garrone
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Secret of the Grain
Abdellatif Kechiche
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Hunger
Steve McQueen
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Silent Light
Carlos Reygadas
Best Documentary
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The Order of Myths
Margaret Brown
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Up the Yangtze
Yung Chang
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Encounters at the End of the World
Werner Herzog
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The Betrayal
Ellen Kuras & Thavisouk Phrasavath
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Man on Wire
James Marsh
Best Cinematography
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Maryse Alberti
The Wrestler
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Lol Crawley
Ballast
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James Laxton
Medicine for Melancholy
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Harris Savides
Milk
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Michael Simmonds
Chop Shop
Robert Altman Award
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Charlie Kaufman (Director), Jeanne McCarthy (Casting Director), Hope Davis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Catherine Keener, Samantha Morton, Tom Noonan, Emily Watson, Dianne Wiest, Michelle Williams
Synecdoche, New York
Piaget Producers Award
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Heather Rae
Frozen River
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Jason Orans
Goodbye Solo, Year of the Fish
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Lars Knudsen and Jay Van Hoy
Treeless Mountain, I’ll Come Running
Acura Someone to Watch Award
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Lynn Shelton
My Effortless Brilliance
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Nina Paley
Sita Sings the Blues
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Barry Jenkins
Medicine for Melancholy
Lacoste Truer Than Fiction Award
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Darius Marder
Loot
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Sacha Gervasi
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
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Margaret Brown
The Order of Myths

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