{"id":4945,"date":"2009-02-22T09:26:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T09:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=4945"},"modified":"2009-02-22T22:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T22:20:00","slug":"independent-spirit-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/02\/22\/independent-spirit-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Spirit Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Indie<\/a><\/p>\n

The Wrestler<\/a><\/strong> led a fairly evenly split Film Independent\u2019s Spirit Awards<\/a> yesterday in Santa Monica, winning awards for Best Feature, Best Actor Mickey Rourke and Best Cinematography. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The other notable winners were Milk<\/strong>, Vicky Cristina Barcelona<\/strong> and Frozen River<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Here is the complete list of who won what:<\/p>\n

BEST FEATURE:\u00a0The Wrestler<\/strong><\/p>\n

BEST DIRECTOR:\u00a0Tom McCarthy<\/strong>, The Visitor<\/p>\n

BEST FIRST FEATURE:\u00a0Synecdoche, New York<\/strong><\/p>\n

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD:\u00a0In Search of a Midnight Kiss<\/strong><\/p>\n

BEST SCREENPLAY:\u00a0Woody Allen<\/strong>, Vicky Cristina Barcelona<\/p>\n

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY:\u00a0Dustin Lance Black<\/strong>, Milk<\/p>\n

BEST FEMALE LEAD:\u00a0Melissa Leo<\/strong>, Frozen River<\/p>\n

BEST MALE LEAD:\u00a0Mickey Rourke<\/strong>, The Wrestler<\/p>\n

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE:\u00a0Penelope Cruz<\/strong>, Vicky Cristina Barcelona<\/p>\n

BEST SUPPORTING MALE:\u00a0James Franco<\/strong>, Milk<\/p>\n

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:\u00a0Maryse Alberti<\/strong>, The Wrester<\/p>\n

BEST DOCUMENTARY:\u00a0Man on Wire<\/strong><\/p>\n

BEST FOREIGN FILM:\u00a0The Class<\/strong><\/p>\n

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD:\u00a0Synecdoche, New York<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Charlie Kaufman (Director), Jeanne McCarthy (Casting Director), Hope Davis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Catherine Keener, Samantha Morton, Tom Noonan, Emily Watson, Diane Weist, Michelle Williams<\/p>\n

PIAGET PRODUCERS AWARD:\u00a0Heather Rae<\/strong>, Frozen River<\/p>\n

ACURA SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD:\u00a0Lynn Shelton<\/strong>, My Effortless Brillance<\/p>\n

LACOSTE TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD:\u00a0Margaret Brown<\/strong>, The Order of Myths<\/p>\n

UPDATED: The highlight was Mickey Rourke’s acceptance speech:<\/p>\n

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> Official site for the Indie Spirit Awards<\/a>
\n> Find out more about the awards at Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Wrestler led a fairly evenly split Film Independent\u2019s Spirit Awards yesterday in Santa Monica, winning awards for Best Feature, Best Actor Mickey Rourke and Best Cinematography. \u00a0 The other notable winners were Milk, Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Frozen River. Here is the complete list of who won what: BEST FEATURE:\u00a0The Wrestler BEST DIRECTOR:\u00a0Tom McCarthy, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2],"tags":[2802,838],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}