Awards - 2011 Independent Spirit Awards

After taking home the big prize with the NY critics, the Artist has made another good appearance with the FISA this year. Among other top films in the running are Beginners, Take Shelter & The Descendants, with a few nice surprises and a few big snubs throw into the mix to (love the love for 50/50).


BEST FEATURE
50/50
The Artist
Beginners
The Descendants
Drive
Take Shelter

BEST DIRECTOR
Michel Hazanavicius "The Artist"
Mike Mills "Beginners"
Jeff Nichols "Take Shelter"
Alexander Payne "The Descendants"
Nicholas W. Refn "Drive"

BEST ACTOR
Demian Bichir "A Better Life"
Jean Dujardin "The Artist"
Ryan Gosling "Drive"
Woody Harrelson "Rampart"
Michael Shannon "Take Shelter"

BEST ACTRESS
Lauren Ambrose "Think of Me"
Rachel Harris "Natural Selection"
Adeparo Oduye "Pariah"
Elizabeth Olsen "Martha Marcy May Marlene"
Michelle Williams "My Week with Marilyn"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Albert Brooks "Drive"
John Hawkes "Martha Marcy May Marlene"
Christopher Plummer "Beginners"
John C. Reilly "Cedar Rapids"
Corey Stoll "Midnight in Paris"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain "Take Shelter"
Angelica Huston "50/50"
Janet McTeer "Albert Nobbs"
Harmony Santana "Gun Hill Road"
Shaileen Woodley "The Descendants"

BEST SCREENPLAY
The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
Beginners - Mike Mills
The Descendants - Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
FootNote - Joseph Cedar
Win Win - Tom McCarthy

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Artist - Gui-omme Shiffman
Bellflower - Joel Hodge
The Dynamiter - Jeffrey Waldron
Midnight in Paris - Darius Kond-Jee
The Off Hours - Benjamin Kuh-Sulk

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
The Kid With a Bike
Melancholia
A Separation
Shame
Tyrannosaur

BEST DOCUMENTARY
An African Selection
Bill Cunningham New York
The Interrupters
The Redemption of General Butt Naked
We Were Here

BEST FIRST FEATURE
Another Earth
In the Family
Margin Call
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Natural Selection

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
50/50 - Will Reiser
Another Earth - Mike Cahill & Brit Marling
Cedar Rapids - Phil Johnston
Margin Call - J.C. Chandor
Terri - Patrick DeWitt

JOHN CASSAVATES AWARD (film made for under 500K)
Bellflower
Circumstance
The Dynamiter
Hello Lonesome
Pariah

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD (given to 1 film's director, casting director & ensemble)
Margin Call

PIAGET PRODUCERS AWARD
Chad Burris "Mosquita y Mari"
Sophia Lin "Take Shelter"
Josh Mond "Martha Marcy May Marlene"

SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD
Simon Arthur "Silver Tongues"
Mark Jackson "Without"
Nicholas Ozeki "Mamitas"

TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD
Heather Courtney "Where Soldiers Come From"
Danfung Dennis "Hell and Back Again"
Alma Har'el "Bombay Beach"