Awards -- INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARD Nominees

Best Feature
(500) Days of Summer
Amreeka
The Last Station
Precious
Sin Nombre

Best Director
Joel & Ethan Coen "A Serious Man"
Lee Daniels "Precious"
Cary Fukanaga "Sin Nombre"
James Grey "Two Lovers"
Michael Hoffman "The Last Station"

Best Actor
Jeff Bridges "Crazy Heart"
Colin Firth "A Single Man"
Joseph Gordon Levitt "(500) Days of Summer"
Souleymane Sy Savane "Goodbye Solo"
Adam Scott "The Vicious Kind"

Best Actress
Maria Bello "Downloading Nancy"
Nisreen Faour "Amreeka"
Helen Mirren "The Last Station"
Gwyneth Paltrow "Two Lovers"
Gabourey Sidibe "Precious"

Best Supporting Actor
Jemaine Clement "Gentlemen Broncos"
Woody Harrelson "The Messenger"
Cristian McKay "Me and Orson Welles"
Ramon McKinnon "That Evening Sun"
Christopher Plummer "The Last Station"

Best Supporting Actress
Dina Korzun "Cold Souls"
Mo'Nique "Precious"
Samantha Morton "The Messenger"
Natahlie Press "Fifty Dead Men Walking"
Mia Wasikowska "That Evening Sun"

Best Screenplay
(500) Days of Summer
Adventureland
The Last Station
The Messenger
The Vicious Kind

Best Cinematography
Bad Lieutenant
Cold Souls
A Serious Man
Sin Nombre
Treeless Mountain

Best Foreign Film (Non U.S.)
An Education
Everlasting Moments
The Maid
Mother
A Prophet

Best Documentary
Anvil!
Food, Inc.
More Than a Game
October Country
Which Way Home

Best First Feature
Crazy Heart
Easier With Practice
The Messenger
Paranormal Activity
A Single Man

Best First Screenplay
Amreeka
Crazy Heart
Cold Souls
Precious
A Single Man

Robert Altman Award (Given to 1 Film's director, casting director, and ensemble cast)
A Serious Man

Producers Award
Karen Chien
Larry Fessenden
Dia Sokol

Someone to Watch Award
--to be announced--

Truer Than Fiction Award
Natalie Almada
Jessica Oreck
Bill Ross & Turner Ross



Nomination Tally
5
The Last Station
Precious

4
The Messenger

3
(500) Days of Summer
Amreeka
Cold Souls
Crazy Heart
A Serious Man
A Single Man
Sin Nombre

2
That Evening Sun
Treeless Mountain
Two Lovers
The Vicious Kind