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2010 Spirit Awards

Winners announced on Friday, March 5th.

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Best Feature

WINNER

Precious (2009)

Other Nominees:

(500) Days of Summer (2009)

Amreeka (2009)

The Last Station (2009)

Sin Nombre (2009)

Best Female Lead

WINNER

Gabourey Sidibe for Precious (2009)

Other Nominees:

Maria Bello for Downloading Nancy (2008)

Nisreen Faour for Amreeka (2009)

Helen Mirren for The Last Station (2009)

Gwyneth Paltrow for Two Lovers (2008)

Best Male Lead

WINNER

Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart (2009)

Other Nominees:

Colin Firth for A Single Man (2009)

Joseph Gordon-Levitt for (500) Days of Summer (2009)

Souleymane Sy Savane for Goodbye Solo (2008)

Adam Scott for The Vicious Kind (2009)

Best Supporting Female

WINNER

Mo'Nique for Precious (2009)

Other Nominees:

Dina Korzun for Cold Souls (2009)

Samantha Morton for The Messenger (2009/I)

Natalie Press for Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)

Mia Wasikowska for That Evening Sun (2009)

Best Supporting Male

WINNER

Woody Harrelson for The Messenger (2009/I)

Other Nominees:

Jemaine Clement for Gentlemen Broncos (2009)

Christian McKay for Me and Orson Welles (2008)

Ray McKinnon for That Evening Sun (2009)

Christopher Plummer for The Last Station (2009)

Best Director

WINNER

Lee Daniels for Precious (2009)

Other Nominees:

Ethan Coen, Joel Coen for A Serious Man (2009)

Cary Fukunaga for Sin Nombre (2009)

James Gray for Two Lovers (2008)

Michael Hoffman for The Last Station (2009)

Best Screenplay

WINNER

(500) Days of Summer (2009): Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber

Other Nominees:

Adventureland (2009): Greg Mottola

The Messenger (2009/I): Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman

The Last Station (2009): Michael Hoffman

The Vicious Kind (2009): Lee Toland Krieger

Best First Screenplay

WINNER

Precious (2009): Geoffrey Fletcher

Other Nominees:

Amreeka (2009): Cherien Dabis

Cold Souls (2009): Sophie Barthes

Crazy Heart (2009): Scott Cooper

A Single Man (2009): Tom Ford, David Scearce

Best Cinematography

WINNER

A Serious Man (2009): Roger Deakins

Other Nominees:

The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (2009): Peter Zeitlinger

Cold Souls (2009): Andrij Parekh

Sin Nombre (2009): Adriano Goldman

Treeless Mountain (2008): Anne Misawa

Best First Feature

WINNER

Crazy Heart (2009)

Other Nominees:

Easier with Practice (2009)

The Messenger (2009/I)

Paranormal Activity (2007)

A Single Man (2009)

Best Foreign Film

WINNER

An Education (2009)

Other Nominees:

Everlasting Moments (2008)

Mother (2009)

The Maid (2009)

A Prophet (2009)

Best Documentary

WINNER

Anvil: The Story of Anvil (2008)

Other Nominees:

Food, Inc. (2008)

More Than a Game (2008)

October Country (2009)

Which Way Home (2009)

John Cassavetes Award

WINNER

Humpday (2009)

Other Nominees:

Big Fan (2009)

The New Year Parade (2008)

Treeless Mountain (2008)

Zero Bridge (2008)

Truer Than Fiction Award

WINNER

45365 (2009): Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross

Other Nominees:

Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo (2009): Jessica Oreck

The General (2009): Natalia Almada

Someone to Watch Award

WINNER

Kyle Patrick Alvarez for Easier with Practice (2009)

Other Nominees:

Asiel Norton for Redland (2009)

Tariq Tapa for Zero Bridge (2008)

Producers Award

WINNER

Karin Chien for Santa Mesa (2008), The Exploding Girl (2009)

Other Nominees:

Larry Fessenden for I Sell the Dead (2008), The House of the Devil (2009)

Dia Sokol Savage for Beeswax (2009), Nights and Weekends (2008)

Robert Altman Award

WINNER

A Serious Man (2009)