Don Cheadle and Spirit Award Nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor shake on it in Talk to Me.


Best Feature

And the nominees are...

  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  • I'm Not There
  • Juno (winner)
  • A Mighty Heart
  • Paranoid Park

Best Director

And the nominees are...

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

Best First Feature

And the nominees are...

  • 2 Days in Paris
  • Great World of Sound
  • The Lookout (winner)
  • Rocket Science
  • Vanaja

John Cassavetes Award

And the nominees are...

  • August Evening (winner)
  • Owl and the Sparrow
  • The Pool
  • Quiet City
  • Shotgun Stories

Best Screenplay

And the nominees are...

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

Best First Screenplay

And the nominees are...

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

Best Female Lead

And the nominees are...

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

Best Male Lead

And the nominees are...

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

Best Supporting Female

And the nominees are...

  • Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There (winner)
  • 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

And the nominees are...

  • Chiwetel Ejiofor, Talk to Me (winner)
  • Marcus Carl Franklin, I'm Not There
  • Kene Holliday, Great World of Sound
  • Irfan Khan, The Namesake
  • Steve Zahn, Rescue Dawn

Best Cinematography

And the nominees are...

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

Best Documentary

And the nominees are...

  • Crazy Love (winner)
  • Lake of Fire
  • Manufactured Landscapes
  • The Monastery
  • The Prisoner Or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair

Best Foreign Film

And the nominees are...

  • 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 3 Days
  • The Band's Visit
  • Lady Chatterley
  • Once (winner)
  • Persepolis

Piaget Producer's Award

And the nominees are...

  • Anne Clements, Producer of Ping Pong Playa and Quinceañera
  • Alexis Ferris, Producer of Cthulhu and Police Beat
  • Neil Kopp, Producer of Paranoid Park and Old Joy (winner)

Acura Someone to Watch Award

And the nominees are...

  • Ramin Bahrani, Director of Chop Shop (winner)
  • Lee Isaac Chung, Director of Munyurangabo
  • Ronnie Bronstein, Director of Frownland

IFC Truer Than Fiction Award

And the nominees are...

  • Laura Dunn, Director of The Unforeseen (winner)
  • Gary Hustwit, Director of Helvetica
  • John Maringouin, Director of Running Stumbled

Robert Altman Award

A first-time award given to one film’s director, casting director, and ensemble cast.

I'm Not There: Director Todd Haynes, Casting Director Laura Rosenthal, and actors Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Ben Whishaw, Marcus Carl Franklin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bruce Greenwood (winner)



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