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“BLACK SWAN” WINS BIG AT SPIRIT AWARDS
The Film Independent Spirit Awards just wrapped (see it on IFC tonight @ 10ET) and Darren Aronofsky‘s thriller Black Swan was the big winner taking home four awards, including Best Feature, Best Director for Aronofsky and Best Female Lead for Natalie Portman. Winter’s Bone won the supporting acting prizes with John Hawkes taking it for actor and Dale Dickey for actress while James Franco won Best Male Lead for 127 Hours, Banksy‘s Exit through the Gift Shop won Best Documentary and Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg won Best Screenplay for The Kids Are All Right.
Also, “25 New Face” alum Lena Dunham won the Best First Screenplay prize for Tiny Furniture and Mike Ott, who we awarded with our “Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You” award at this year’s Gotham Awards for his latest Littlerock, won the Someone to Watch award.
Read the full list of winners below.
Best Feature
Black Swan
Best Director
Best Female Lead
Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Best Male Lead
James Franco, 127 Hours
Best Supporting Female
Dale Dickey, Winter’s Bone
Best Supporting Male
John Hawkes, Winter’s Bone
Best Screenplay
Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg, The Kids Are All Right
Best First Feature
Get Low
John Cassavetes Award
Best First Screenplay
Best Documentary
Exit Through The Gift Shop
Best Foreign Film
The King’s Speech
Best Cinematography
Matthew Libatique, Black Swan
Truer Than Fiction Award
Someone to Watch Award
Mike Ott, director of Littlerock
Producers Award
Anish Savjani, producer of Meek’s Cutoff
Robert Altman Award
Please Give — Nicole Holofcener (writer-director), Jeanne McCarthy (casting director) and actors Ann Gilbert, Rebecca Hall, Catherine Keener, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Lois Smith and Sarah Steele
