BEST FEATURE
(Award Given
To The Producer) * Executive Producers Are Not
Listed.
50/50 - Producers: Evan Goldberg, Ben Karlin,
Seth Rogen
The Artist - Producer: Thomas Langmann
Beginners - Producers: Miranda De Pencier, Lars
Knudsen, Leslie Urdang, Dean Vanech, Jay Van Hoy
The Descendants - Producers: Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
Drive - Producers: Michel Litvak, John Palermo,
Marc Platt, Gigi Pritzker, Adam Siegel
Take Shelter - Producers: Tyler Davidson, Sophia
Lin
BEST DIRECTOR
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Mike Mills - Beginners
Jeff Nichols - Take Shelter
Alexander Payne - The Descendants
Nicolas Winding Refn - Drive
BEST SCREENPLAY
Joseph Cedar - Footnote
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Tom McCarthy - Win Win
Mike Mills - Beginners
Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash - The
Descendants
BEST FIRST FEATURE
(Award given to the director and producer)
Another Earth - Director: Mike Cahill,
Producers: Mike Cahill, Hunter Gray, Brit Marling, Nicholas Shumaker
In The Family - Director: Patrick
Wang, Producers: Robert Tonino, Andrew Van Den Houten, Patrick Wang
Margin Call - Director: J.C.
Chandor, Producers: Robert Ogden Barnum, Michael Benar-Oya, Neal Dodson, Joe Jenckes,
Corey Moosa, Zachary Quinto
Martha Marcy May Marlene - Director: Sean
Durkin, Producers: Antonio Campos, Patrick Cunningham, Chris Maybach, Josh Mond
Natural Selection - Director: Robbie
Pickering, Producers: Brion Hambel, Paul Jensen
BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Mike Cahill & Brit Marling - Another
Earth
J.C. Chandor - Margin Call
Patrick Dewitt - Terri
Phil Johnston - Cedar Rapids
Will Reiser - 50/50
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD
(Award given to the best feature made for under
$500,000; award given to the writer, director, and producer) * Executive Producers are not listed.
Bellflower - Writer/Director: Evan
Glodell, Producers: Evan Glodell, Vincent Grashaw
Circumstance - Writer/Director: Maryam
Keshavarz, Producers: Karin Chien, Maryam Keshavarz, Melissa Lee
Hello Lonesome - Writer/Director/ Producer: Adam
Reid
Pariah - Writer/Director: Dee Rees, Producer:
Nekisa Cooper
The Dynamiter - Writer: Brad Inglesby, Director:
Matthew Gordon, Producers: Kevin Abrams, Matthew Gordon, Merilee Holt, Art
Jones, Mike Jones, Nate Tuck, Amile Wilson
BEST FEMALE LEAD
Lauren Ambrose - Think Of Me
Rachael Harris - Natural Selection
Adepero Oduye - Pariah
Elizabeth Olsen - Martha Marcy May Marlene
Michelle Williams - My Week With Marilyn
BEST MALE
LEAD
Demián Bichir - A Better Life
Jean Dujardin - The Artist
Ryan Gosling - Drive
Woody Harrelson - Rampart
Michael Shannon - Take Shelter
BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
Jessica Chastain - Take Shelter
Anjelica Huston - 50/50
Janet Mcteer - Albert Nobbs
Harmony Santana - Gun Hill Road
Shailene Woodley - The Descendants
BEST SUPPORTING MALE
Albert Brooks - Drive
John Hawkes - Martha Marcy May Marlene
Christopher Plummer - Beginners
John C. Reilly - Cedar Rapids
Corey Stoll - Midnight In Paris
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Joel Hodge - Bellflower
Benjamin Kasulke - The Off Hours
Darius Khondji - Midnight In Paris
Guillaume Schiffman - The Artist
Jeffrey Waldron - The Dynamiter
BEST DOCUMENTARY
(Award given to the director and producer)
An African Election - Director/Producer: Jarreth
Merz
Bill Cunningham New York - Director: Richard
Press, Producer: Philip Gefter
The Interrupters - Director/Producer: Steve
James, Producer: Alex Kotlowitz
The Redemption Of General Butt Naked - Directors/Producers:
Eric Strauss, Daniele Anastasion
We Were Here - Director/Producer: David Weissman
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
(Award given to the director)
A Separation (Iran) - Director: Asghar
Farhadi
Melancholia (Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany) - Director: Lars Von Trier
Shame (UK) - Director: Steve Mcqueen
The Kid With A Bike (Belgium, France, Italy) - Director: Jean-Pierre
Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
Tyrannosaur (UK) - Director: Paddy
Considine
ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD
(Award given to one film’s director, casting
director, and its ensemble cast) MARGIN CALL DIRECTOR: J.C. Chandor
CASTING
DIRECTORS: Tiffany Little Canfield,
Bernard Telsey ENSEMBLE
CAST: Penn Badgley, Simon Baker, Paul Bettany, Jeremy
Irons, Mary McDonnell, Demi Moore, Zachary Quinto, Kevin Spacey, Stanley Tucci
PIAGET
PRODUCERS AWARD
The 15th annual Piaget Producers Award honors
emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources demonstrate the
creativity, tenacity, and vision required to produce quality, independent
films. The award includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant funded by Piaget. The
Finalists are:
Chad Burris, producer of Mosquita y Mari
Sophia
Lin, producer of Take Shelter
Josh Mond, producer of Martha Marcy May Marlene
Piaget Producers Award Nominating Committee:
Brian Udovich (Chair), Anish Savjani, Lynette
Howell, Amy Kaufman
SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD
The 18th annual Someone To Watch Award
recognizes a talented filmmaker of singular vision who has not yet received
appropriate recognition. The award includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant. The
Finalists are:
Simon Arthur, director of Silver Tongues
Mark Jackson, director of Without
Nicholas Ozeki, director of Mamitas
Someone To Watch Award Nominating Committee:
Alison Dickey (Chair), Jay Duplass, Lisa
Kennedy, Daniel Stamm, James Faust
TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD
The 17th annual Truer Than Fiction Award is
presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features who has not yet
received significant recognition. The award includes a $25,000 unrestricted
grant. The Finalists are:
Heather Courtney, director of Where Soldiers
Come From
Danfung Dennis, director of Hell And Back Again
Alma Har’el, director of Bombay Beach
Truer Than Fiction Nominating Committee:
Wesley Morris (Chair), Ava DuVernay, Laura
Poitras, PJ Raval, Laura Thielen
JAMESON FIND YOUR AUDIENCE AWARD
The 2nd annual Jameson FIND Your Audience Award
was established to help make it possible for one Spirit Award-nominated film to
find a broader audience. The Award includes a $40,000 marketing and
distribution grant, funded by Jameson Irish Whiskey. The grant is designed to
meet the filmmakers’ biggest challenge today: How to get their films out into
the marketplace. A blue-ribbon committee will determine the winner. The
deadline to submit is Friday, December 2, 2011.
All of the winners of our filmmaker grants will
be highlighted at the Spirit Awards ceremony and announced at the Spirit Awards
Nominee Brunch on January 14 at BOA Steakhouse in West Hollywood.
The Independent Spirit Awards are usually the night before the Oscars.
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