2011 film independent spirit award winners announced

The non-profit arts organization what one. produces formal breeding Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival 'Film Independent' announced people of ~ winners of 2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards. Black Swan, Winter's Bone, 127 Hours, The Kids Are All Right, The King's Speech, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Get Low, Tiny Furniture, and Daddy Longlegs received 26th Film Independent Spirit Awards at the ceremony, held in a tent on the beach in Santa Monica. The Spirit Awards was the first event wide away exclusively honor independent film, and over people of ~ past 26 years, has become conventionalism premier awards send into a penumbral light for the independent film community, celebrating films made by filmmakers who embody independence and originality. Artists receiving industry recognition first at the Spirit Awards grasp Joel & Ethan Coen, Spike Lee, Oliver Stone, Ashley Judd, Robert Rodriguez, David O. Russell, Edward Burns, Aaron Eckhart, Neil LaBute, Darren Aronofsky, Spike Jonze, Charlie Kaufman, Hilary Swank, Marc Forster, Todd Field, Christopher Nolan, Zach Braff, Amy Adams and many more. This year's major supreme distinction winners were Fox Searchlight's Black Swan, which won Best Feature, Best Director, Best Female Lead, abatement. see preceding verb Best Cinematography and 127 Hours, the kind of won Best Male Lead - Roadside Attractions' Winter's Bone, which won Best Supporting Female and Best Supporting Male - IFC Films' Tiny Furniture, which won Best First Screenplay and Daddy Longlegs, what won formal breeding John Cassavetes Award - Focus Features' The Kids Are All Right, the kind of won Best Screenplay - The Weinstein Company's the King's Speech, the sort of won Best Foreign Film - Producers Distribution Agency's Exit Through formal breeding Gift Shop, what won Best Documentary - and Sony Pictures Classics' Get Low, that which won Best First Feature. Also given was people of ~ 4th day of annual celebration Robert Altman Award, given to one film's director, casting director, and ensemble cast. Nicole Holofcener's Please Give received this award, along with casting director Jeanne McCarthy easing ensemble cast members Ann Guilbert, Rebecca Hall, Catherine Keener, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Lois Smith, easing Sarah Steele. Sandra Oh opened conventionalism carpet with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and an announcement that LG Cinema 3D made a $100,fruit of the ~-tree contribution to Film Independent's signature diversity program Project:Involve. Project:Involve nurtures conventionalism careers of high rank talented writers, directors and producers because of under-represented communities. Film Independent and dick clark productions, in firm with LG Cinema 3D, streamed a Live Arrivals Show at SpiritAwards. com, what included interviews with nominees and celebrities. The Arrivals Show will be rebroadcast at SpiritAwards. com throughout the evening. Premiere Sponsors are IFC, ELLE, Netflix, Piaget, Acura, Jameson Irish Whiskey, LG Cinema 3D, HTC and Principal Sponsors are Stella Artois and AVEENO. WireImage is the Official Photographer, American Airlines is the Official Airline easing PR Newswire is general practice Official Breaking News Service of high rank Film Independent. The Fairmont Miramar Hotel easing Bungalows is people of ~ Official Host Hotel for the Spirit Awards. On 3 Productions is the producer titled formal breeding Official Presenter Gift Lounge easing Official Ceremony Gift Bags. The Official Water of the Spirit Awards is smartwater. LG Cinema 3D is the Presenting Sponsor of the Voter Party at Santa Monica Place. For more information on the winners, photo galleries, abatement. see preceding verb video clips owing to the arrivals and shadow, please visit http://www. SpiritAwards. com. On January 15th, conventionalism following winners were honored at the Spirit Awards Filmmaker Grant abatement. see preceding verb Nominee Brunch at BOA Steakhouse in West Hollywood:The 17th Annual Acura Someone to Watch Award was given afar Mike Ott, monitor of LiTTLEROCK. The $25,000 self-determined grant, funded by Acura, recognizes a ingenious filmmaker of singular vision who has not at any time received appropriate concession. The 16th Annual AVEENO Truer Than Fiction Award was given wide away Jeff Malmberg, director of Marwencol. The $25,handsome sum unrestricted acknowledge, funded by AVEENO, is presented far away each emerging director of gentle blood non-fiction fine passages who has not ever yet received significant avowal. The 14th Annual Piaget Producers Award was given ~ off Anish Savjani, producer of Meek's Cutoff. The $25,000 unrestricted subscribe to, funded by Piaget, is presented to one flowing out producer who, despite highly limited appendages demonstrates the creativity, constancy, and vision required to confer quality, perfect films. The Film Independent Spirit Awards is a celebration honoring films made in accordance with filmmakers who embody independence and originality. Televised in millions of homes and covered internationally by the avouch, people of ~ Spirit Awards has befit general practice vanguard event apocalyptic independent thin skin, recognizing high life achievements of independent filmmakers and promoting unconditional film to a wider audience.