Film Independent Spirit Awards 2010

Here is the list of winners of the just concluded 25th Film Independent Spirit Awards.

BEST FEATURE
(500) Days Of Summer – Producers: Mason Novick, Jessica Tuchinsky, Mark Waters, Steven J. Wolfe
Amreeka – Producers: Paul Barkin, Christina Piovesan
Precious – Producers: Lee Daniels, Gary Magness, Sarah Siegel-Magness — [Winner]
Sin Nombre – Producer: Amy Kaufman
The Last Station – Producers: Bonnie Arnold, Chris Curling, Jens Meuer

BEST DIRECTOR
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen – A Serious Man
Lee Daniels – Precious — [Winner]
Cary Joji Fukunaga – Sin Nombre
James Gray – Two Lovers
Michael Hoffman – The Last Station

BEST SCREENPLAY
Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman – The Messenger
Michael Hoffman – The Last Station
Lee Toland Krieger – The Vicious Kind
Greg Mottola – Adventureland
Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber – (500) Days Of Summer — [Winner]

BEST FIRST FEATURE
A Single Man – Director: Tom Ford, Producers: Tom Ford, Andrew Miano, Robert Salerno, Chris Weitz
Crazy Heart – Director: Scott Cooper, Producers: T Bone Burnett, Judy Cairo, Rob Carliner, Scott Cooper, Robert Duvall — [Winner]
Easier With Practice – Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez, Producer: Cookie Carosella
Paranormal Activity – Director: Oren Peli, Producer: Jason Blum, Oren Peli
The Messenger – Director: Oren Moverman, Producers: Mark Gordon, Lawrence Inglee, Zach Miller

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Sophie Barthes – Cold Souls
Scott Cooper – Crazy Heart
Cherien Dabis – Amreeka
Geoffrey Fletcher – Precious — [Winner]
Tom Ford, David Scearce – A Single Man

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD
Big Fan – Writer/Director: Robert Siegel, Producers: Elan Bogarin, Jean Kouremetis
Humpday – Writer/Director/Producer: Lynn Shelton — [Winner]
The New Year Parade – Writer/Director: Tom Quinn, Producers: Steve Beal, Tom Quinn
Treeless Mountain – Writer/Director: So Yong Kim, Producers: Bradley Rust Gray, Ben Howe, So Yong Kim, Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy
Zero Bridge – Writer/Director: Tariq Tapa, Producers: Josée Lajoie, Hilal Ahmed Langoo, Tariq Tapa

BEST FEMALE LEAD
Maria Bello – Downloading Nancy
Nisreen Faour – Amreeka
Helen Mirren – The Last Station
Gwyneth Paltrow – Two Lovers
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious — [Winner]

BEST MALE LEAD
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart — [Winner]
Colin Firth – A Single Man
Joseph Gordon-Levitt – (500) Days Of Summer
Souléymane Sy Savané – Goodbye Solo
Adam Scott – The Vicious Kind

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
Dina Korzun – Cold Souls
Mo’Nique – Precious — [Winner]
Samantha Morton – The Messenger
Natalie Press – Fifty Dead Men Walking
Mia Wasikowska – That Evening Sun

BEST SUPPORTING MALE
Jemaine Clement – Gentlemen Broncos
Woody Harrelson – The Messenger — [Winner]
Christian McKay – Me and Orson Welles
Raymond McKinnon – That Evening Sun
Christopher Plummer – The Last Station

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Roger Deakins – A Serious Man — [Winner]
Adriano Goldman – Sin Nombre
Anne Misawa – Treeless Mountain
Andrij Parekh – Cold Souls
Peter Zeitlinger – Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Anvil! The Story of Anvil – Director: Sacha Gervasi — [Winner]
Food, Inc. – Director: Robert Kenner
More Than A Game – Director: Kristopher Belman
October Country – Directors: Donal Mosher, Michael Palmieri
Which Way Home – Director: Rebecca Cammisa

BEST FOREIGN FILM
A Prophet (Un Prophete) (France) – Director: Jacques Audiard
An Education (UK/France)- Director: Lone Scherfig — [Winner]
Everlasting Moments (Sweden) – Director: Jan Troell
Mother (South Korea) -Director: Bong Joon-Ho
The Maid (Chile) – Director: Sebastián Silva

ACURA SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD
Kyle Patrick Alvarez – Easier With Practice — [Winner]
Asiel Norton – Redland
Tariq Tapa – Zero Bridge

TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD
Natalia Almada – El General
Jessica Oreck – Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
Bill Ross, Turner Ross – 45365 — [Winner]

PIAGET PRODUCERS AWARD
Karin Chien – The Exploding Girl, Santa Mesa — [Winner]
Larry Fessenden – I Sell the Dead, The House of the Devil
Dia Sokol – Beeswax, Nights & Weekends