2010 Independent Spirit Awards nominations

The 2010 Spirit Award Nominees came out! Here's the list of the nominees in each category with my winner predictions with a * (I'm glad that Naomi Watts and Samuel L. Jackson weren't snubed for their amazing performances in Mother and Child, but I can't understand why weren't Ryan Gosling nominated for Best Male Lead for his performance in Blue Valentine or Julianne Moore for The Kids Are All Right in Best Supporting Female).
So, let's start...

Best Feature
127 Hours
Black Swan
Greenberg
The Kids Are All Right
Winter's Bone *

Best Director
Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan
Danny Boyle for 127 Hours
Lisa Cholodenko for The Kids Are All Right
Debra Granik for Winter's Bone *
John Cameron Mitchell for Rabbit Hole

Best First Feature
Everything Strange and New
Get Low *
The Last Exorcism
Night Catches Us
Tiny Furniture

John Cassavetes Award (best feature made for under $500,000)
Daddy Long Legs *
The Exploding Girl
LBS
Lovers of Hate
Obselidea

Best Screenplay
Lisa Cholodonko and Stuart Blumberg for The Kids Are All Right *
Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini for Winter's Bone
Nicole Holofcener for Please Give
David Lindsay-Abaire for Rabbit Hole
Todd Solondz for Life During Wartime

Best First Screenplay
Diane Bell for Obselidia
Lena Dunham for Tiny Furniture
Nik Fackler for Lovely, Still
Robert Glaudini for Jack Goes Boating *
Dana Adam Shapiro and Evan M Wiener for Monogamy

Best Female Lead
Nicole Kidman for Rabbit Hole *
Annette Bening for The Kids Are All Right
Greta Gerwig for Greenberg
Jennifer Lawrence for Winter's Bone
Natalie Portman for Black Swan
Michelle Williams for Blue Valentine

Best Male Lead
Ronald Bronstein for Daddy Longlegs
Aaron Eckhart for Rabbit Hole
James Franco for 127 Hours *
John C Reilly for Cyrus
Ben Stiller for Greenberg

Best Supporting Female
Ashley Bell for The Last Exorcism
Dale Dickey for Winter's Bone *
Allison Janney for Life During Wartime
Daphne Rubin-Vega for Jack Goes Boating
Naomi Watts for Mother and Child

Best Supporting Male
John Hawkes for Winter's Bone *
Samuel L Jackson for Mother and Child
Bill Murray for Get Low
John Ortiz for Jack Goes Boating
Mark Ruffalo for The Kids Are All Right

Best Cinematography
Adam Kimmel for Never Let Me Go
Matthew Libatique for Black Swan *
Jody Lee Lipes for Tiny Furniture
Michael McDonough for Winter's Bone
Harris Savides for Greenberg

Best Documentary
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Marwencol
Restrepo
Sweetgrass
Thunder Soul

Best Foreign Film
The King's Speech *
Kisses
Mademoiselle Chambon
Of Gods and Men
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Robert Altman Award
Please Give - Directed by Nicole Holofcenter with casting director Jeanne McCarthy and starring Ann Guilbert, Rebecca Hall, Catherine Keener, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Lois Smith, and Sarah Steele.

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