Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire won Best Feature and a total of 5 awards last night at the 25th Annual Film Independent Spirit Awards. Comedian Eddie Izzard served as Master of Ceremonies at the late-night show at LA Live’s event deck in downtown Los Angeles.
Here are all the winners:
BEST FEATURE
Producers Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness for Precious
BEST DIRECTOR
Lee Daniels for Precious
BEST FIRST FEATURE
Scott Cooper, Robert Duvall, Rob Carliner, Judy Cairo, T Bone Burnett for Crazy Heart
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD for Best Feature made for under $500,000
Lynn Shelton for Humpday
BEST SCREENPLAY
Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber for 500 Days of Summer
BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Geoffrey Fletcher for Precious
BEST FEMALE LEAD
Gabourey Sidibe for Precious
BEST MALE LEAD
Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart
BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
Mo’Nique for Precious
BEST SUPPORTING MALE
Woody Harrelson for The Messenger
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Roger Deakins for A Serious Man
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Sacha Gervasi for Anvil! The Story of Anvil
BEST FOREIGN FILM
Lone Scheerfig for An Education
ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD for the film’s director, casting director and ensemble cast
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Ellen Chenoweth, Rachel Tenner, Richard Kind, Sari Lennick, Jessica McManus, Fred Melamed, Michael Stuhlbarg, Aaron Wolff for A Serious Man
PRODUCERS AWARD
Karen Chien
SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD
Kyle Patrick Alvarez for Easier With Practice
TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD
Bill Ross, Turner Ross for 45365
Of note is the fact that The Hurt Locker could not be nominated because it was shown at film festivals in 2008 before it found a distributor. So, it will just have to make dur with the Oscar nomination and potential win. I think it will be okay.
