2007 Independent Spirit Award Nominees

November 27th, 2007 by James Cook | Source:

Another award season is gearing up, and with it brings endless debate about all the films we’ve spent the last 12 months watching. The Independent Spirit Awards kicked things off this morning with its list of nominees. I’m already feeling like I haven’t seen enough films this year, as there’s a bunch on this list I’m dying to see but just haven’t gotten around to yet. I’m glad to see that Scott Frank recieved a nomination for The Lookout, a film that didn’t seem to get any attention when it was released back in April, it’s also nice to see Steve Zahn nominated for Rescue Dawn. The show airs on IFC February 23, 2008 and you can check out the site to view the press conference where the nominees were announced.

Best Feature
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
I’m Not There
Juno
A Mighty Heart
Paranoid Park

Best Director
Todd Haynes (I’m Not There)
Tamara Jenkins (The Savages)
Jason Reitman (Juno)
Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
Gus Van Sant (Paranoid Park)

Best First Feature
Julie Delpy (2 Days in Paris)
Craig Zobel (Great World of Sound)
Scott Frank (The Lookout)
Jeffrey Blitz (Rocket Science)
Rajnesh Domalpalli (Vanaja)

Best Screenplay
Ronald Harwood (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
Tamara Jenkins (The Savages)
Fred Parnes & Andrew Wagner (Starting Out in the Evening)
Adrienne Shelly (Waitress)
Mike White (Year of the Dog)

Best First Screenplay
Jeffrey Blitz (Rocket Science)
Zoe Cassavetes (Broken English)
Diablo Cody (Juno)
Kelly Masterson (Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead)
John Orloff (A Mighty Heart)

Best Male Lead
Pedro Castaneda (August Evening)
Don Cheadle (Talk To Me)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Savages)
Frank Langella (Starting Out in the Evening)
Tony Leung (Lust, Caution)

Best Female Lead
Angelina Jolie (A Mighty Heart)
Sienna Miller (Interview)
Ellen Page (Juno)
Parker Posey (Broken English)
Tang Wei (Lust, Caution)

Best Supporting Male
Chiwetel Ejiofor (Talk To Me)
Marcus Carl Franklin (I’m Not There)
Kene Holliday (Great World of Sound)
Irrfan Khan (The Namesake)
Steve Zahn (Rescue Dawn)

Best Supporting Female
Cate Blanchett (I’m Not There)
Anna Kendrick (Rocket Science)
Jennifer Jason Leigh (Margot at the Wedding)
Tamara Podemski (Four Sheets to the Wind)
Marisa Tomei (Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead)

Best Cinematography
Mott Hupfel (The Savages)
Janusz Kaminski (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
Milton Kam (Vanaja)
Mihai Malaimare, Jr. (Youth Without Youth)
Rodrigo Prieto (Lust, Caution)

Best Documentary
Crazy Love
Lake of Fire
Manufactured Landscapes
The Monastery
The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair

Best Foreign Film
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Romania)
The Band’s Visit (Israel)
Lady Chatterley (France)
Once (Ireland)
Persepolis (France)