Independent Spirit Awards winners

BEST FEATURE: PRECIOUS (Sin Nombre, The Last Station, 500 Days of Summer, Amreeka)
BEST DIRECTOR: LEE DANIELS – PRECIOUS (James Gray – Two Lovers, Michael Hoffman – The Last Station, Coen Brothers – A Serious Man, Cary Joji Fukunaga – Sin Nombre)
BEST FIRST FEATURE: CRAZY HEART (The Messenger, Easier with Practice, Paranormal Activity, A Single Man)
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD: HUMPDAY (Zero Bridge, Treeless Mountain, The New Year Parade, Big Fan)
BEST SCREENPLAY: 500 DAYS OF SUMMER (The Messenger, The Last Station, Adventureland, The Vicious Kind)
BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY: PRECIOUS (Crazy Heart, Cold Souls, Amreeka, A Single Man)
BEST FEMALE LEAD: GABOUREY SIDIBE – PRECIOUS (Gwyneth Paltrow – Two Lovers, Helen Mirren – The Last Station, Maria Bello – Downloading Nancy, Nisreen Faour – Amreeka)
BEST MALE LEAD: JEFF BRIDGES – CRAZY HEART (Souléymane Sy Savané – Goodbye Solo, Colin Firth – A Single Man, Adam Scott – The Vicious Kind, Joseph Gordon-Levitt – 500 Days of Summer)
BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE: MO’NIQUE – PRECIOUS (Samantha Morton – The Messenger, Natalie Press – Fifty Dead Men Walking, Dina Korzun – Cold Souls, Mia Wasikowska – That Evening Sun)
BEST SUPPORTING MALE: WOODY HARRELSON – THE MESSENGER (Christopher Plummer – The Last Station, Raymond McKinnon – That Evening Sun, Jemaine Clement – Gentlemen Broncos, Christian McKay – Me and Orson Welles)
BEST FOREIGN FILM: AN EDUCATION (The Maid, Mother, Everlasting Moments, A Prophet)
BEST DOCUMENTARY: ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL (Which Way Home, October Country, More Than a Game, Food Inc)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: A SERIOUS MAN (Sin Nombre, Treeless Mountain, Bad Lieutenant, Cold Souls)
ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD: A SERIOUS MAN
PIAGET PRODUCERS AWARD: THE EXPLODING GIRL, SANTA MESA (Beeswax, Nights and Weekends, I sell the Dead – the House of the Devil)
ACURA SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD: KYLE PATRICK ALVAREZ – EASIER WITH PRACTICE (Tariq Tapa – Zero Bridge, Asiel Norton – Redland)
CHAZ AND ROGER EBERT TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD: 45365 (El General, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo)

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