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Are the Wins at this year’s Film Independent Spirit Awards Things to Oscar Tomorrow

March 6, 2010

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Lee Daniels with Gabourey Sidibe Win Together

HOLLYWOOD,CA (RPRN) 03/06/10 — Bridges “Crazy Heart” & Sidibe “Precious” Get Spirited Away

–“Crazy Heart” and “Precious” had all the spirit they needed to win big at this year’s Film Independent Spirit Awards show. Lee Daniels with Gabourey Sidibe Win Together By Tom Wright Lee Daniels got his justice winning as Best Director for “Precious”, which won the Best Feature at Friday night’s Film Independent Spirit Awards, this film won all the categories in which it was nominated. It may not win the Oscar but it won the hearts of the millions that saw this heart warming and emotional charged film. Sharing the win was actress Gabourey Sidibe for Best Lead Female and Mo’Nique for Best Supporting Female with Geoffrey Fletcher winning the Best First Screenplay.

Jeff Bridges "Crazy Heart" Best Lead Male With a little help from T Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham, Jeff Bridges sang himself into the history books, pick up two Spirit awards, on stage Bridges performed the theme song “The Weary Kind” from the Oscar nominated film “Crazy Heart”. Bridges also won Best Lead Male for his performance and was it honored as the Best First Feature. Not Bad Mr. Blake.

Film Independent Spirit Awards

The complete list of winners;

BEST FEATURE
“Precious”
“(500) Days of Summer”
“Amreeka”
”Sin Nombre”
“The Last Station”

BEST DIRECTOR
Lee Daniels, “Precious”
Ethan & Joel Coen, “A Serious Man”
Cary Fukunaga, “Sin Nombre”
James Gray, “Two Lovers”
Michael Hoffman, “The Last Station”

BEST FIRST FEATURE
“Crazy Heart”
“A Single Man”
“Easier With Practice”
“The Messenger”
“Paranormal Activity”

BEST LEAD FEMALE
Gabourey Sidibe, “Precious”
Maria Bello, “Downloading Nancy”
Nisreen Faour, “Amreeka”
Helen Mirren, “The Last Station”
Gwyneth Paltrow, “Two Lovers”

BEST LEAD MALE
Jeff Bridges, “Crazy Heart”
Colin Firth, “A Single Man”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, “(500) Days of Summer”
Souleymane Sy Savane, “Goodbye Solo”
Adam Scott, “The Vicious Kind”

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
Mo’Nique, “Precious”
Dina Korzun, “Cold Souls”
Samantha Morton, “The Messenger”
Natalie Press, “Fifty Dead Men Walking”
Mia Wasikowska, “That Evening Sun”

BEST SUPPORTING MALE
Woody Harrelson, “The Messenger”
Christian McKay, “Me and Orson Welles”
Ray McKinnon, “That Evening Sun”
Christopher Plummer, “The Last Station”

BEST SCREENPLAY
Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, “(500) Days of Summer”
Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman, “The Messenger”
Michael Hoffman, “The Last Station”
Lee Toland Krieger, “The Vicious Kind”
Greg Mottola, “Adventureland”

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Geoffrey Fletcher, “Precious”
Sophie Barthes, “Cold Souls”
Scott Cooper, “Crazy Heart”
Cherien Dabis, “Amreeka”
Tom Ford, “A Single Man”

BEST FOREIGN FILM
“An Education,” directed by Lone Scherfig
“A Prophet,” directed by Jacques Audiard
“Everlasting Moments,” directed by Jan Troell
“Mother,” directed by Bong Joon-ho
“The Maid,” directed by Sebastián Silva

BEST DOCUMENTARY
“Anvil! The Story of Anvil”
“Food, Inc”
“More Than a Game”
“October Country”
“Which Way Home”

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”

JOHN CASSAVETTES AWARD
(For a feature made for under $500,000)
“Humpday”
“Big Fan”
“The New Year Parade”
“Treeless Mountain”
“Zero Bridge”

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD
“A Serious Man”

ACURA SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD
Kyle Patrick Alvarez, “Easier With Practice”
Tariq Tapa, “Zero Bridge”
Asiel Norton, “Redland”

PIAGET PRODUCERS AWARD
Karin Chien, “Santa Mesa,” “The Exploding Girl”
Larry Fessenden, “I Sell the Dead,” “House of the Devil”
Dia Sokol, “Beeswax,” “Nights and Weekends”

CHAZ & ROGER EBERT TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD
Bill Ross & Turner Ross, “45365″
Natalia Almada, “El General”
Jessica Oreck, “Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo”

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