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Spirit Awards – 2/23/13

Awards Season › 2013 › Spirit Awards

Film Independent Spirit Awards

28th Film Independent Spirit Awards

28th

And the Winner Goes To…

The Full Ballot

Film

BEST FEATURE

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Bernie

Keep the Lights on

Moonrise Kingdom

Silver Linings Playbook WINNER

BEST DIRECTOR

Wes Anderson, Moonrise Kingdom

Julia Loktev, The Loneliest Planet

David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook WINNER

Ira Sachs, Keep the Lights on

Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild

BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director and producer)

Fill the Void

Gimme the Loot

Safety Not Guaranteed

Sound of My Voice

The Perks of Being a Wallflower WINNER

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

Breakfast With Curtis

Middle of Nowhere WINNER

Mosquita Y Mari

The Color Wheel

Starlet

BEST SCREENPLAY

Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola, Moonrise Kingdom

Zoe Kazan, Ruby Sparks

Martin McDonagh, Seven Psychopaths

David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook WINNER

Ira Sachs & Mauricio Zacharias, Keep the Lights on

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY

Rama Burshtein, Fill the Void

Derek Connolly, Safety Not Guaranteed WINNER

Jonathan Lisecki, Gayby

Christopher Ford, Robot and Frank

Rashida Jones and Will McCormack, Celeste and Jesse Forever

BEST FEMALE LEAD

Linda Cardellini, Return

Emayatzy Corinealdo, Middle of Nowhere

Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook WINNER

Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Smashed

Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild

BEST MALE LEAD

Jack Black, Bernie

Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook

John Hawkes, The Sessions WINNER

Thure Lindhart, Keep the Lights on

Matthew McConaughey, Killer Joe

Wendell Pierce, Four

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE

Rosemarie DeWitt, Your Sister’s Sister

Ann Dowd, Compliance

Helen Hunt, The Sessions WINNER

Brit Marling, Sound of My Voice

Lorraine Toussaint, Middle of Nowhere

BEST SUPPORTING MALE

Matthew McConaughey, Magic Mike WINNER

David Oyelowo, Middle of Nowhere

Michael Pena, End of Watch

Sam Rockwell, Seven Psychopaths

Bruce Willis, Moonrise Kingdom

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Yoni Brook, Valley of Saints

Lol Crawley, Here

Ben Richardson, Beasts of the Southern Wild WINNER

Roman Vasyanov, End of Watch

Robert Yeoman, Moonrise Kingdom

BEST DOCUMENTARY

How to Survive a Plague

Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present

The Central Park Five

The Invisible War WINNER

The Waiting Room

BEST FOREIGN FILM

Amour WINNER

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Rust and Bone

Sister

War Witch

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

Starlet WINNER

PIAGET PRODUCERS AWARD

Alicia Van Couvering, Nobody Walks

Mynette Louie, Stones in the Sun WINNER

Derrick Tseng, Prince Avalanche

WINDOWS PHONE SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD

David Fenster, Pincus

Adam Leon, Gimme the Loot WINNER

Rebecca Thomas, Eletrick Children

STELLA ARTOIS TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD

Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel, Leviathan

Peter Nicks, The Waiting Room WINNER

Jason Yee Tippet and Elizabeth Mimms, Only the Young

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