Our Favorites From The 2009 Film Independent's Spirit Awards美國獨立精神獎

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
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力挽狂瀾 "The Wrestler" took top honors at the award show last night with trophies for Best Feature, Best Male Lead (Mickey Rourke) and Best Cinematography (Maryse Alberti). I don't know how many of you bastards caught this movie, but I absolutely loved it. Now, "Slumdog Millionaire" is a great flick, but I feel like the "The Wrestler" is on a whole another level of cinema. Everything from acting to story to music was topnotch, so it's really unfortunate that it will get passed up later tonight at the Academy Awards.

Anyway, enough with the babbling. While we await the flood of red carpet pics from the Oscars, here are some of our favorite pics from the Spirit Awards' red carpet.

BEST FEATURE
Ballast

Frozen River

Rachel Getting Married

Wendy and Lucy

The Wrestler

BEST FIRST FEATURE
Afterschool

No Poster

Medicine for Melancholy

Sangre De Mi Sangre

Sleep Dealer

No Poster

Synecdoche, New York

BEST DIRECTOR
Ramin Bahrani - Chop Shop

Jonathan Demme - Rachel Getting Married

Lance Hammer – Ballast

Courtney Hunt - Frozen River

Tom McCarthy - The Visitor

BEST MALE LEAD
Javier Bardem - Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Richard Jenkins - The Visitor

Sean Penn – Milk

Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker

Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

BEST FEMALE LEAD
Summer Bishil – Towelhead

Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married

Melissa Leo - Frozen River

Tarra Riggs – Ballast

Michelle Williams - Wendy and Lucy

BEST SUPPORTING MALE
James Franco – Milk

Anthony Mackie - The Hurt Locker

Charlie McDermott - Frozen River

JimMyron Ross – Ballast

Haaz Sleiman - The Visitor

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Rosemarie DeWitt - Rachel Getting Married

Rosie Perez - The Take

Misty Upham - Frozen River

Debra Winger - Rachel Getting Married

BEST SCREENPLAY
Woody Allen - Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck – Sugar

Charlie Kaufman - Synecdoche, New York

Howard A. Rodman - Savage Grace

Christopher Zalla - Sangre De Mi Sangre

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Maryse Alberti - The Wrestler

Lol Crawley – Ballast

James Laxton - Medicine for Melancholy

Harris Savides – Milk

Michael Simmonds - Chop Shop

BEST DOCUMENTARY
The Betrayal

Encounters at the End of the World

Man on Wire

The Order of Myths

Up the Yangtze

BEST FOREIGN FILM
The Class (France)

Gomorra (Italy)

Hunger (U.K./Ireland)

Secret of the Grain (France)

Silent Light (Mexico/France/Netherlands/Germany)

Robert Altman Award - Synecdoche, New York