Tuesday, November 29, 2011

AWARDS 2011: "Drive" & "Beginners" Dominate Indie Spirit Nods

Let me quickly clarify that this was hell to speed write out all the nominations as they were announced via twitter. Give a guy a chance to breathe! All the same, it was really quite fantastic to finally be in the rush of awards season, especially when we're starting in such great fashion. The Film Independent Spirit Awards nominations are really the best way to kick off the season which ends in the bitter disappointment of the Oscars. Of course there are quite a few films that I still don't care for, primarily "The Descendants", and as time ticks by "The Artist". I am not spent on "Beginners" yet, as the film was really quite charming, and its resurgence here gives me enough pause to see it again and reevaluate it.

Still haven't seen "50/50", which doesn't seem as spectacular as it once did, and I expect to get branded by everyone I love for not falling for it. I never got the chance to see it, sadly enough. Fortunately, "Take Shelter" is coming around the bend for me to get in just under the wire for this year. And I've even more ecstatic about "Drive" making such a strong surge for the Indie Spirits. With each passing second it seems all the more like the "Black Swan" of this year. It was nice to see "Martha Marcy May Marlene" to get some love under the main line. What wasn't nice was the almost complete alienation of "Shame", which left Fassbender and Mulligan out of the races, much to my disdain. I'll survive. This is still a nice batch.

BEST PICTURE
-"50/50"
-"Beginners"
-"Drive"
-"Take Shelter"
-"The Artist"
-"The Descendants"

BEST DIRECTOR
-Mike Mills ("Beginners")
-Nicolas Winding Refn ("Drive")
-Jeff Nichols ("Take Shelter")
-Michel Hazanavicius ("The Artist")
-Alexandre Payne ("The Descendants")

BEST FIRST FEATURE
-"Another Earth"
-"In the Family"
-"Margin Call"
-"Martha Marcy May Marlene"
-"Natural Selection"

BEST ACTOR
-Damien Bichir ("A Better Life")
-Jean Dujardin ("The Artist")
-Ryan Gosling ("Drive")
-Woody Harrelson ("Rampart")
-Michael Shannon ("Take Shelter")

BEST ACTRESS
-Lauren Ambrose ("Think of Me")
-Rachel Harris ("Natural Selection - FIND Lab-ber!")
-Adepero Oduye ("Pariah")
-Elizabeth Olsen ("Martha Marcy May Marlene")
-Michelle Williams ("My Week with Marilyn")

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
-Albert Brooks ("Drive")
-John Hawkes ("Martha Marcy May Marlene")
-Christopher Plummer ("The Beginners")
-John C. Reilly ("Cedar Rapids")
-Corey Stoll ("Midnight in Paris")

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
-Jessica Chastain ("Take Shelter")
-Angelica Huston ("50/50")
-Janet McTeer ("Albert Nobbs")
-Harmony Santana ("Gun Hill Road")
-Shaileene Woodley ("The Descendants")

BEST SCREENPLAY
-"Footnote"
-"The Artist"
-"Win Win"
-"Beginners"
-"The Descendants"

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
-"Another Earth"
-"Margin Call"
-"Terri"
-"Cedar Rapids"
-"50/50"

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
-"Bellflower"
-"The Off Hours"
-"Midnight in Paris"
-"The Artist"
-"The Dynamiter"

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
-"A Separation"
-"Melancholia"
-"Shame"
-"The Kid with a Bike"
-"Tyrannosaur"

BEST DOCUMENTARY
-"An African Selection"
-"Bill Cunningham New York"
-"The Interrupters
-"The Redemption of General Butt Naked"
-"We Were Here"

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