25th Independent Spirit Awards

The 25th Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 2009, were announced on March 5, 2010. It was hosted by Eddie Izzard.[1][2][3][4][5]

25th Independent Spirit Awards
Date	March 5, 2010
Site	U.S.
Hosted by	Eddie Izzard
Highlights
Best Film	Precious
Most awards	Precious (4)
Most nominations	Precious (5) The Last Station (5)

Winners and nominees

Lee Daniels, Best Director winner

Jeff Bridges, Best Male Lead winner

Gabourey Sidibe, Best Female Lead winner

Woody Harrelson, Best Supporting Male winner

Mo'Nique, Best Supporting Female winner

Best Feature	Best Director
Precious (500) Days of Summer Amreeka The Last Station Sin Nombre	Lee Daniels – Precious Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – A Serious Man Cary Fukunaga – Sin Nombre James Gray – Two Lovers Michael Hoffman – The Last Station
Best Male Lead	Best Female Lead
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart Colin Firth – A Single Man Joseph Gordon-Levitt – (500) Days of Summer Souleymane Sy Savane – Goodbye Solo Adam Scott – The Vicious Kind	Gabourey Sidibe – Precious Maria Bello – Downloading Nancy Nisreen Faour – Amreeka Helen Mirren – The Last Station Gwyneth Paltrow – Two Lovers
Best Supporting Male	Best Supporting Female
Woody Harrelson – The Messenger Jemaine Clement – Gentlemen Broncos Christian McKay – Me and Orson Welles Ray McKinnon – That Evening Sun Christopher Plummer – The Last Station	Mo'Nique – Precious Dina Korzun – Cold Souls Samantha Morton – The Messenger Natalie Press – Fifty Dead Men Walking Mia Wasikowska – That Evening Sun
Best Screenplay	Best First Screenplay
(500) Days of Summer – Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber Adventureland – Greg Mottola The Last Station – Michael Hoffman The Messenger – Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman The Vicious Kind – Lee Toland Krieger	Precious – Geoffrey Fletcher Amreeka – Cherien Dabis Cold Souls – Sophie Barthes Crazy Heart – Scott Cooper A Single Man – Tom Ford and David Scearce
Best First Feature	Best Documentary
Crazy Heart Easier with Practice The Messenger Paranormal Activity A Single Man	Anvil! The Story of Anvil Food, Inc. More Than a Game October Country Which Way Home
Best Cinematography	Best Foreign Film
A Serious Man – Roger Deakins Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans – Peter Zeitlinger Cold Souls – Andrij Parekh Sin Nombre – Adriano Goldman Treeless Mountain – Anne Misawa	An Education • France/UK Everlasting Moments • Sweden The Maid • Chile Mother • South Korea A Prophet • France

Films with multiple nominations and awards

Films that received multiple nominations

Nominations	Film
5	Precious
	The Last Station
3	(500) Days of Summer
	A Single Man
	Amreeka
	Crazy Heart
	The Messenger
	Sin Nombre
2	A Serious Man
	Cold Souls
	Two Lovers
	The Vicious Kind
	That Evening Sun

Films that won multiple awards

Awards	Film
4	Precious
2	A Serious Man

Special awards

John Cassavetes Award

Humpday

• Big Fan
• The New Year Parade
• Treeless Mountain
• Zero Bridge

Truer Than Fiction Award

45365

• Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
• El General

Producers Award

Karin Chien – Santa Mesa and The Exploding Girl

• Larry Fessenden – I Sell the Dead and The House of the Devil
• Dia Sokol Savage – Beeswax and Nights and Weekends

Someone to Watch Award

Kyle Patrick Alvarez – Easier with Practice

• Asiel Norton – Redland
• Tariq Tapa – Zero Bridge

Robert Altman Award

• A Serious Man — Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Ellen Chenoweth, Rachel Tenner, Richard Kind, Sari Lennick, Jessica McManus, Fred Melamed, Michael Stuhlbarg and Aaron Wolff

References

1. "'Precious' and 'The Last Station' lead Independent Spirit Award nominations". The Envelope. 2009-12-01. Retrieved 2012-08-25.
2. "Precious, Last Station Score Five Indie Spirit Noms". indieWire. 2009-12-01. Archived from the original on 2015-12-10. Retrieved 2012-08-25.
3. ""Precious" Tops Spirit Awards". indieWire. 2010-03-06. Retrieved 2012-08-25.
4. "'Precious' wins big at Independent Spirit Awards". Los Angeles Times. 2010-03-06. Retrieved 2012-08-25.
5. "'Precious' dominates Spirit Awards with 5 prizes". USA Today. 2010-03-06. Retrieved 2012-08-25.

External links

• 2009 Spirit Awards at IMDb
• Official show on YouTube