2011 Independent Spirit Award Winners

The 2011 Independent Spirit Awards took place earlier today in Santa Monica, California. Hosted by Joel McHale (TV’s Community) and broadcast on the IFC cable network, the show was all about honoring the best and brightest in the indie film scene. But that’s nothing new, as they’ve been doing so ever since debuting in 1984 as the FINDIE Awards.

Presenters for the event included Ben Stiller, Diego Luna, Paul Rudd, Anna Kendrick, John Waters, Josh Radnor, Eva Mendes, and Kerry Washington.

In case you missed out on the excitement, here’s a list of the 2011 Independent Spirit Award winners. As you might have guessed, winners are listed in bold print.

Best Feature

• 127 Hours
• Black Swan
• Greenberg
• The Kids Are All Right
• Winter’s Bone

Best Director

• Black Swan: Darren Aronofsky
• 127 Hours: Danny Boyle
• The Kids Are All Right: Lisa Cholodenko
• Winter’s Bone: Debra Granik
• Rabbit Hole: John Cameron Mitchell

Best Male Lead

• Go Get Some Rosemary: Ronald Bronstein
• Rabbit Hole: Aaron Eckhart
• 127 Hours: James Franco
• Cyrus: John C. Reilly
• Greenberg: Ben Stiller

Best Supporting Male

• Winter’s Bone: John Hawkes
• Mother and Child: Samuel L. Jackson
• Get Low: Bill Murray
• Jack Goes Boating: John Ortiz
• The Kids Are All Right: Mark Ruffalo

Best Female Lead

• The Kids Are All Right: Annette Bening
• Greenberg: Greta Gerwig
• Rabbit Hole: Nicole Kidman
• Winter’s Bone: Jennifer Lawrence
• Black Swan: Natalie Portman
• Blue Valentine: Michelle Williams

Best Supporting Female

• The Last Exorcism: Ashley Bell
• Winter’s Bone: Dale Dickey
• Life During Wartime: Allison Janney
• Jack Goes Boating: Daphne Rubin-Vega
• Mother and Child: Naomi Watts

Best Screenplay

• The Kids Are All Right: Stuart Blumberg, Lisa Cholodenko
• Life During Wartime: Todd Solondz
• Please Give: Nicole Holofcener
• Rabbit Hole: David Lindsay-Abaire
• Winter’s Bone: Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini

Best First Screenplay

• Jack Goes Boating: Robert Glaudini
• Lovely, Still: Nicholas Fackler
• Monogamy: Dana Adam Shapiro, Evan M. Wiener
• Obselidia: Diane Bell
• Tiny Furniture: Lena Dunham

Best Cinematography

• Black Swan: Matthew Libatique
• Greenberg: Harris Savides
• Never Let Me Go: Adam Kimmel
• Tiny Furniture: Jody Lee Lipes
• Winter’s Bone: Michael McDonough

Best Documentary

• Exit Through the Gift Shop
• Marwencol
• Restrepo
• Sweetgrass
• Thunder Soul

Best Foreign Film

• Of Gods and Men
• The King’s Speech
• Kisses
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
• Mademoiselle Chambon

Best First Feature

• Everything Strange and New
• Get Low
• The Last Exorcism
• Night Catches Us
• Tiny Furniture

John Cassavetes Award (recognizing the best film made for under $500,000)

• The Exploding Girl: Bradley Rust Gray, Karin Chien, Ben Howe, So Yong Kim
• Daddy Longlegs: Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie, Casey Neistat, Tom Scott
• Lbs.: Matthew Bonifacio, Carmine Famiglietti
• Lovers of Hate: Bryan Poyser, Megan Gilbride
• Obselidia: Diane Bell, Chris Byrne, Matthew Medlin

Robert Altman Award (recognizing the best ensemble cast)

• Please Give

Truer Than Fiction Award (recognizing director of non-fiction films)

• Marwencol: Jeff Malmberg
• Summer Pasture: Lynn True, Nelson Walker III
• Sweetgrass: Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Producers Award (honors emerging film producers)

• Au revoir Taipei: In-Ah Lee
• The Myth of the American Sleepover: Adele Romanski
• Meek’s Cutoff: Anish Savjani

Someone to Watch Award (recognizing a director who’s yet to receive significant attention)

• Dog Sweat: Hossein Keshavarz
• The Wolf Knife: Laurel Nakadate
• Littlerock: Mike Ott

That wraps up our look at the 2011 Independent Spirit Award winners. If you’ve still got a hankering for some award-related goodness, be sure to check out these other fine articles from Only Good Movies:

• List of 2010 Oscar Winners
• Best Oscar Speeches
• The Academy Awards Ballot

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