25th Independent Spirit Awards

The 2009 Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 2009, were announced on March 5, 2010. It was hosted by Eddie Izzard.

Nominees and winners

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 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

• The 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

External links

• 2009 Spirit Awards at IMDb