Independent Spirit Awards

Yesterday was a big day for Juno (no, not my puppy with the same name) at the Independent Spirit Awards. Juno picked up top prize for Best Feature, Ellen Page landed the Best Female Lead and Diablo Cody grabbed Best First Screenplay.

Some people are talking about Juno being the dark horse for Best Picture tonight at that other awards show. I wouldn’t hold your breath on that one, though I do hope they walk away with at least a couple of little golden guys…

The full list of the winners was nicely complied by FirstShowing.net, so don’t give me credit–I’m just too lazy to type it myself. And the winners are… Oh yeah, and go to filmindependent.org to see the backstage press interviews. And the awards go to:

BEST FEATURE
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly [IMDb]
I’m Not There [IMDb]
WINNER: Juno [IMDb]
A Mighty Heart [IMDb]
Paranoid Park [IMDb]

BEST FIRST FEATURE
2 Days in Paris [IMDb]
Great World of Sound [IMDb]
WINNER: The Lookout [IMDb]
Rocket Science [IMDb]
Vanaja [IMDb]

BEST DIRECTOR
Todd Haynes – I’m Not There [IMDb]
Tamara Jenkins – The Savages [IMDb]
Jason Reitman – Juno [IMDb]
WINNER: Julian Schnabel – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly [IMDb]
Gus Van Sant – Paranoid Park [IMDb]

BEST MALE LEAD
Pedro Castaneda – August Evening [IMDb]
Don Cheadle – Talk To Me [IMDb]
WINNER: Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Savages [IMDb]
Frank Langella – Starting Out in the Evening [IMDb]
Tony Leung – Lust, Caution [IMDb]

BEST FEMALE LEAD
Angelina Jolie – A Mighty Heart [IMDb]
Sienna Miller – Interview [IMDb]
WINNER: Ellen Page – Juno [IMDb]
Parker Posey – Broken English [IMDb]
Tang Wei – Lust, Caution [IMDb]

BEST SUPPORTING MALE
WINNER: Chiwetel Ejiofor – Talk To Me [IMDb]
Marcus Carl Franklin – I’m Not There [IMDb]
Kene Holliday – Great World of Sound [IMDb]
Irrfan Khan – The Namesake [IMDb]
Steve Zahn – Rescue Dawn [IMDb]

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
WINNER: Cate Blanchett – I’m Not There [IMDb]
Anna Kendrick – Rocket Science [IMDb]
Jennifer Jason Leigh – Margot at the Wedding [IMDb]
Tamara Podemski – Four Sheets to the Wind [IMDb]
Marisa Tomei – Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead [IMDb]

BEST SCREENPLAY
Ronald Harwood – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly [IMDb]
WINNER: Tamara Jenkins – The Savages [IMDb]
Fred Parnes & Andrew Wagner – Starting Out in the Evening [IMDb]
Adrienne Shelly – Waitress [IMDb]
Mike White – Year of the Dog [IMDb]

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Jeffrey Blitz – Rocket Science [IMDb]
Zoe Cassavetes – Broken English [IMDb]
WINNER: Diablo Cody – Juno [IMDb]
Kelly Masterson – Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead [IMDb]
John Orloff – A Mighty Heart [IMDb]

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Mott Hupfel – The Savages [IMDb]
WINNER: Janusz Kaminski – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly [IMDb]
Milton Kam – Vanaja [IMDb]
Mihai Malaimare, Jr. – Youth Without Youth [IMDb]
Rodrigo Prieto – Lust, Caution [IMDb]

BEST DOCUMENTARY
WINNER: Crazy Love [IMDb]
Lake of Fire [IMDb]
Manufactured Landscapes [IMDb]
The Monastery [IMDb]
The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair [IMDb]

BEST FOREIGN FILM
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Romania) [IMDb]
The Band’s Visit (Israel) [IMDb]
Lady Chatterley (France) [IMDb]
WINNER: Once (Ireland) [IMDb]
Persepolis (France) [IMDb]

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD
WINNER: I’m Not There, Directed by Todd Haynes