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2011 Film Independent Spirit Nominee Jennifer Lawrence in Winter's Bone, which received seven 2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards. |
By John Esther
The thrice winner at last night's Gothan Awards, Winter's Bone leads the way for the Film Independent Awards 2011 with seven nominations, including best picture.
Announced this morning at The London West Hollywood Hotel, by Eva Mendes and Jeremy Renner (star of last year's Hurt Locker), Winter's Bone, along with The Kids Are All Right (five nominations), Black Swan (four nominations), Rabbit Hole (four nominations), 127 Hours (three nominations), and Greenberg (three nominations) will be the major contenders at the 2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards, which will return to Santa Monica -- after staging its 25th anniversary last year downtown -- on February 26, 2011, one day before the Academy Awards.
Held annually the same weekend at the Oscars, the Film Independent Awards embrace if not enhance visibility for some of the best films made in America by American filmmakers. In order to qualify for The Spirit Awards a film must have been made in the United States by an American filmmaker, must have a running time of at least 70 minutes, received a domestic theatrical release of no less than a week, and made for under $20 million. Films must also be determined to be independent in the judgment of one of the three Film Independent committees determining nominees. Although Film Independent Spirit Awards were originally a more rigid in independence, now studio films may be deemed independent if they meet, shall we say, certain ambiguous criteria.
Best Feature nominations: 127 Hours, Black Swan, Greenberg, The Kids Are Alright, Winter's Bone.
Best Director nominations: Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan; Lisa Cholodenko, The Kids Are All Right; Debra Granik, Winter's Bone; John Cameron Mitchell, Rabbit Hole.
Best Screenplay nominations: Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg, The Kids Are All Right; Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini, Winter's Bone; Nicole Holofcener, Please Give; David Lindsay-Abaire, Rabbit Hole.
Best Female Lead nominations: Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right; Greta Gerwig, Greenberg; Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole; Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone; Natalie Portman, Black Swan; Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine.
Best Male Lead nominations: Ronald Bronstein, Daddy Longlegs; Aaron Eckhart, Rabbit Hole; James Franco, 127 Hours; John C. Reilly, Cyrus; Ben Stiller, Greenberg.
Best Supporting Female nominations: Ashley Bell, The Last Exorcism; Dale Dickey, Winter's Bone; Allison Janney, Life During Wartime; Daphne Rubin-Vega, Jack Goes Boating, Naomi Watts, Mother and Child.
Best Supporting Male nominations: John Hawkes, Winter's Bones; Samuel Jackson, Mother and Child; Bill Murray, Get Low; Jack Ortiz, Jack Goes Boating; Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right.
Best Documentary nominations: Exit Through the Gift Shop; Marwencol; Restrepo; Sweetgrass, Thunder Soul.
Best Cinematography nominations: Adam Kimmel, Never Let Me Go; Matthew Libatique, Black Swan; Jody Lee Lipes, Tiny Furniture; Michael McDonough, Winter's Bone; Harry Savides, Greenberg.
Robert Altman Award (best ensemble): Please, Give.
Best First Feature nominations: Everything Strange and New, Get Low, The Last Exorcism, Night Catches Us, Tiny Furniture.
John Cassavetes Award nominations: Daddy Longlegs, The Exploding Girl, Lbs., Lovers of Hate, Obselidia.
Best First Screenplay nominations: Diane Bell, Obselidia; Lena Dunham, Tiny Furniture; Nik Fackler, Lovely, Still; Robert Glaudini, Jack Goes Boating; Dana Adam Shapiro and Evan M. Wierner, Monogamy.
Best Foreign Film nominations: The King's Speech, Kisses, Mademoiselle Chambon, Of Gods and Men; Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.
Acura Someone to Watch Award nominations: Mike Ott, Littlerock; Laura Nakadate, The Wolf's Knife; Hossein Keshavarz, Dog Sweat.
Nominations for Piaget Producers Award and Aveeno Stranger Than Fiction were also announced.
