Spirit Awards nominees announced

Here’s the official nominees list straight from LA Times of the 25th annual Independent Spirit Awards. This includes a many of nominations like 500 Days of Summer and the sleeper hit Paranormal Activity. The Last Station definitely is getting the spotlight, grabbing some of the most nominations and there’s even a nod for one of my more favorite films, Big Fan and one of writer Jon Peter’s favorite under-the-radar films Goodbye Solo. The Independent Spirit Awards takes place on March 5th 2010. The whole list of nominees is below:

Best Feature

• 500 Days of Summer
• Amreeka
• Precious
• Sin Nombre
• The Last Station

Best Director

• Ethan and Joel Cohen – A Serious Man
• Lee Daniels – Precious
• Cary Joji Fukunaga – Sin Nombre
• James Gray - Two Lovers
• Michael Hoffman - The Last Station

Best Screenplay

• Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman - The Messenger
• Michael Hoffman - The Last Station
• Lee Toland Krieger - The Vicious Kind
• Greg Mottola - Adventureland
• Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber - 500 Days of Summer

Best First Feature

• A Single Man
• Crazy Heart
• Easier With Practice
• Paranormal Activity
• The Messenger

Best First Screenplay

• Sophie Barthes - Cold Souls
• Scott Cooper - Crazy Heart
• Cherien Dabis - Amreeka
• Geoffrey Fletcher - Precious
• Tom Ford & David Scearce - A Single Man

John Cassavetes Award

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

Best Female Lead

• Maria Bello - Downloading Nancy
• Nisreen Faour - Amreeka
• Helen Mirren - The Last Station
• Gwyneth Paltrow - Two Lovers
• Gabourey Sidibe - Precious

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 Supporting Female

• Dina Korzun - Cold Souls
• Mo’Nique - Precious
• Samantha Morton - The Messenger
• Natalie Press - Fifty Dead Men Walking
• Mia Wasikowska - That Evening Sun

Best Supporting Male

• Jermaine Clement - Gentlemen Broncos
• Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
• Christian McKay – Me and Orson Welles
• Raymond McKinnon - That Evening Sun
• Christopher Plummer - The Last Station

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

Best Documentary

• Anvil!: The Story of Anvil
• Food, Inc.
• More Than a Game
• October Country
• Which Way Home

Best Foreign Film

• A Prophet
• An Education
• Everlasting Moments
• Mother
• The Maid

Acura Someone to Watch Award

• Kyle Patrick Alvarez - Easier With Practice
• Asiel Norton - Redland
• Tariq Tapa - Zero Bridge

Truer Than Fiction Award

• Natalie Almada - El General
• Jessica Oreck - Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
• Bill & Turner Ross - 45365

Plaget Producers Award

• Karin Chien - The Exploding Girl, Santa Mesa
• Larry Fessenden – I Sell the Dead, The House of the Devil
• Dia Sokol - Beeswax, Nights & Weekends