And the Spirit Award Nominees Are…

Glad to see Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There getting much Spirit Awards loving with four nominations plus the Robert Altman Award.  Also glad to see Tamara Jenkins recognized for The Savages even if that film didn’t get a Best Feature nomination. Congrats to Once and 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days for the Foreign Film recognition. Not surprisingly, Juno got 5 total nominations including Best Feature, Director, First Screenplay, Actress and Supporting Actor. It kind of feels like Juno vs. I’m Not There. Let’s just say I’m rooting for Todd Haynes.

All the nominees after the jump…

Selected from 200 films by 45 nominating members, here are the nominees for the 2008 Spirit Awards:

Best Feature

• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  Producers: Kathleen Kennedy, Jon Kilik
• I’m Not There
  Producers: Christine Vachon, John Sloss, John Goldwyn, James D. Stern
• Juno
  Producers: Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich, Mason Novick, Russell Smith
• A Mighty Heart
  Producers: Dede Gardner, Andrew Eaton, Brad Pitt
• Paranoid Park
  Producers: Neil Kopp, David Cress

Best Director

• Todd Haynes
  I’m Not There
• Tamara Jenkins
  The Savages
• Jason Reitman
  Juno
• Julian Schnabel
  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Gus Van Sant
  Paranoid Park

Best First Feature

• 2 Days in Paris
  Director: Julie Delpy
  Producers: Julie Delpy, Christophe Mazodier, Thierry Potok
• Great World of Sound
  Director: Craig Zobel
  Producers: Melissa Palmer, David Gordon Green, Richard Wright, Craig Zobel
• The Lookout
  Director: Scott Frank
  Producers: Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, Laurence Mark, Walter Parkes
• Rocket Science
  Director: Jeffrey Blitz
  Producers: Effie T. Brown, Sean Welch
• Vanaja
  Director: Rajnesh Domalpalli
  Producer: Latha R. Domalapalli

John Cassavettes Award

(Given to the best feature made for under $500,000)

• August Evening
  Writer/Director: Chris Eska
  Producers: Connie Hill, Jason Wehling
• Owl and the Sparrow
  Writer/Director: Stephane Gauger
  Producers: Nguyen Van Quan, Doan Nhat Nam, Stephane Gauger
• The Pool
  Director: Chris Smith
  Producer: Kate Noble
  Writer: Chris Smith & Randy Russell
• Quiet City
  Director: Aaron Katz
  Producers: Brendan McFadden, Ben Stambler
  Writers: Aaron Katz, Erin Fisher, Cris Lankenau
• Shotgun Stories
  Writer/Director: Jeff Nichols
  Producers: David Gordon Green, Lisa Muskat, Jeff Nichols

Best Screenplay

• Ronald Harwood
  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Tamara Jenkins
  The Savages
• Fred Parnes & Andrew Wagner
  Starting Out in the Evening
• Adrienne Shelly
  Waitress
• Mike White
  Year of the Dog

Best First Screenplay

• Jeffrey Blitz
  Rocket Science
• Zoe Cassavetes
  Broken English
• Diablo Cody
  Juno
• Kelly Masterson
  Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
• John Orloff
  A Mighty Heart

Best Female Lead

• Angelina Jolie
  A Mighty Heart
• Sienna Miller
  Interview
• Ellen Page
  Juno
• Parker Posey
  Broken English
• Tang Wei
  Lust, Caution

Best Male Lead

• Pedro Castaneda
  August Evening
• Don Cheadle
  Talk To Me
• Philip Seymour Hoffman
  The Savages
• Frank Langella
  Starting Out in the Evening
• Tony Leung
  Lust, Caution

Best Supporting Female

• Cate Blanchett
  I’m Not There
• Anna Kendrick
  Rocket Science
• Jennifer Jason Leigh
  Margot at the Wedding
• Tamara Podemski
  Four Sheets to the Wind
• Marisa Tomei
  Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

Best Supporting Male

• Chiwetel Ejiofor
  Talk To Me
• Marcus Carl Franklin
  I’m Not There
• Kene Holliday
  Great World of Sound
• Irrfan Khan
  The Namesake
• Steve Zahn
  Rescue Dawn

Best Cinematography

• Mott Hupfel
  The Savages
• Janusz Kaminski
  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Milton Kam
  Vanaja
• Mihai Malaimare, Jr.
  Youth Without Youth
• Rodrigo Prieto
  Lust, Caution

Best Documentary

• Crazy Love
  Director: Dan Klores
• Lake of Fire
  Director: Tony Kaye
• Manufactured Landscapes
  Director: Jennifer Baichwal
• The Monastery
  Director: Pernille Rose Grønkjær
• The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair
  Directors: Petra Epperlein & Michael Tucker

Best Foreign Film

• 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
  Director: Cristian Mungiu
  (Romania)
• The Band’s Visit
  Director: Eran Kolirin
  (Israel)
• Lady Chatterley
  Director: Pascale Ferran
  (France)
• Once
  Director: John Carney
  (Ireland)
• Persepolis
  Directors: Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi
  (France)

1st Annual ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD

(Given to one film’s director, casting director and its ensemble cast)

• I’m Not There
  Director: Todd Haynes
  Casting Director: Laura Rosenthal
  Ensemble Cast: Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Ben Whishaw, Marcus Carl Franklin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bruce Greenwood

The awards telecast will be broadcast on IFC on February 23, 2008.

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