
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
獨立精神獎21日中午在聖塔蒙尼卡海灘帳棚舉行頒獎典禮,一掃日前入圍酒會沒有明星上門的窘況,主辦單位和贊助廠商卯足勁邀大牌明星走星光大道,凸顯和奧斯卡別苗頭的用心。
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