25th Independent Spirit Awards

Best Feature

Precious

• (500) Days of Summer
• Amreeka
• The Last Station
• Sin Nombre

Best First Feature

Crazy Heart

• Easier with Practice
• The Messenger
• Paranormal Activity
• A Single Man

Best Director

Lee Daniels – Precious

• Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – A Serious Man
• Cary Fukunaga – Sin Nombre
• James Gray – Two Lovers
• Michael Hoffman – The Last Station

Best Male Lead

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 Female Lead

Gabourey Sidibe – Precious

• Maria Bello – Downloading Nancy
• Nisreen Faour – Amreeka
• Helen Mirren – The Last Station
• Gwyneth Paltrow – Two Lovers

Best Supporting Male

Woody Harrelson – The Messenger

• Jemaine Clement – Gentlemen Broncos
• Christian McKay – Me and Orson Welles
• Ray McKinnon – That Evening Sun
• Christopher Plummer – The Last Station

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 Screenplay

(500) Days of Summer – Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber

• Adventureland – Greg Mottola
• The Last Station – Michael Hoffman
• The Messenger – Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman
• The Vicious Kind – Lee Toland Krieger

Best First Screenplay

Precious – Geoffrey Fletcher

• Amreeka – Cherien Dabis
• Cold Souls – Sophie Barthes
• Crazy Heart – Scott Cooper
• A Single Man – Tom Ford and David Scearce

Best Cinematography

A Serious Man – Roger Deakins

• Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans – Peter Zeitlinger
• Cold Souls – Andrij Parekh
• Sin Nombre – Adriano Goldman
• Treeless Mountain – Anne Misawa

Best Foreign Film

An Education • France/UK

• Everlasting Moments • Sweden
• The Maid • Chile
• Mother • South Korea
• A Prophet • France

Best Documentary Feature

Anvil! The Story of Anvil

• Food, Inc.
• More Than a Game
• October Country
• Which Way Home

John Cassavetes Award

Humpday

• Big Fan
• The New Year Parade
• Treeless Mountain
• Zero Bridge

Truer Than Fiction Award

45365

• Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
• El General

Producers Award

Karin Chien – Santa Mesa and The Exploding Girl

• Larry Fessenden – I Sell the Dead and The House of the Devil
• Dia Sokol Savage – Beeswax and Nights and Weekends

Someone to Watch Award

Kyle Patrick Alvarez – Easier with Practice

• Asiel Norton – Redland
• Tariq Tapa – Zero Bridge

Robert Altman Award

• A Serious Man