2010 Spirit Awards
2010 Spirit Award nominations: Dec. 1, 2009
2010 Spirit Award winners: LA Live in Los Angeles on Mar. 5, 2010
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique in Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
BEST FEATURE (Award given to the Producer)
(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
Sin Nombre – Producer: Amy Kaufman
The Last Station – Producers: Bonnie Arnold, Chris Curling, Jens Meuer
BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director)
A Prophet (France) – Director: Jacques Audiard
* An Education (UK/France)- Director: Lone Scherfig
Everlasting Moments (Sweden) – Director: Jan Troell
Mother (South Korea) -Director: Bong Joon-Ho
The Maid (Chile) – Director: Sebastián Silva
BEST DOCUMENTARY (Award given to the director)
* Anvil! The Story of Anvil - Director: Sacha Gervasi
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 FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director and producer)
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
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 DIRECTOR
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen – A Serious Man
* Lee Daniels – Precious
Cary Joji Fukunaga – Sin Nombre
James Gray – Two Lovers
Michael Hoffman – The Last Station
BEST FEMALE LEAD
Maria Bello – Downloading Nancy
Nisreen Faour – Amreeka
Helen Mirren – The Last Station
Gwyneth Paltrow - Two Lovers
* Gabourey Sidibe – Precious
BEST MALE LEAD
* Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
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
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
Christian McKay – Me and Orson Welles
Raymond McKinnon – That Evening Sun
Christopher Plummer – 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
BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Sophie Barthes – Cold Souls
Scott Cooper – Crazy Heart
Cherien Dabis – Amreeka
* Geoffrey Fletcher – Precious
Tom Ford, David Scearce – A Single Man
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD – Given to the best feature made for under $500,000. Award given to the writer, director, and producer.
Big Fan – Writer/Director: Robert Siegel
Producers: Elan Bogarin, Jean Kouremetis
* Humpday – Writer/Director/Producer: Lynn Shelton
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 CINEMATOGRAPHY
* Roger Deakins – A Serious Man
Adriano Goldman – Sin Nombre
Anne Misawa – Treeless Mountain
Andrij Parekh – Cold Souls
Peter Zeitlinger – Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
ACURA SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD
* Kyle Patrick Alvarez – Easier With Practice
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
PIAGET PRODUCERS AWARD
* Karin Chien – The Exploding Girl, Santa Mesa
Larry Fessenden – I Sell the Dead, The House of the Devil
Dia Sokol – Beeswax, Nights & Weekends
ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD (Given to one film's director, casting director, and its ensemble cast)
A Serious Man
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Casting Directors: Ellen Chenoweth, Rachel Tenner
Ensemble Cast: Richard Kind, Sari Lennick, Jessica McManus, Fred Melamed, Michael Stuhlbarg, Aaron Wolff
American Narrative Nominating Committee: Chair, producer Stephanie Allain; producers, Nina Jacobson, Gail Mutrux, Heather Rae; writer/director Mora Stephens; writer/director/producer Larry Karaszewski; director John Singleton; actors Melonie Diaz, S. Epatha Merkerson, Andre Royo; casting director Jeanne McCarthy; film critic Elvis Mitchell playwright; Bernard Weinraub; and Los Angeles Film Festival Artistic Director David Ansen.
Documentary Feature Nominating Committee: Co-Chairs, film marketing veteran Laura Kim and Toronto International Film Festival documentary programmer Thom Powers; filmmakers Scott Kennedy, Marina Zenovich, Patrick Creadon, Stefan Forbes; cinematographer Ellen Kuras; and producer Chiemi Karasawa.
Foreign Feature Nominating Committee: Chair, writer/director/producer Mary Sweeney; writer/directors Goran Dukic, Neil LaBute, Kasi Lemmons; past Director of the UCLA Film & Television Archive, Tim Kittleson; Sidney Kimmel Entertainment President of Creative Affairs, Bingham Ray; San Francisco Film Society Director of Programming, Rachel Rosen; and Los Angeles Times Film Critic Kenneth Turan.
Acura Someone to Watch Nominating Committee: Chair, filmmaker and Austin Film Society's Director of Artist Series, Bryan Poyser; filmmakers Rodney Evans, Barry Jenkins; Denver Post Film Critic Lisa Kennedy; and festival programmer Mike Plante.
Truer Than Fiction Nominating Committee: Chair, filmmaker AJ Schnack; filmmakers Thomas Allen Harris, Darius Marder, Laura Poitras; and Sundance Institute's Director of Documentary Film Program, Cara Mertes.
Piaget Producer's Award Nominating Committee: Chair, producer Effie T. Brown; producers Amy Hobby, Paul Mezey; Film Finances Inc. Vice President, Paula Schmit; and New York University film professor Karl Bardosh.
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