- FEATURE: Winter's Bone
- BREAKTHROUGH DIRECTOR: Kevin Asch, Holy Rollers
- BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE: Ronald Bronstein, Daddy Longlegs
- ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE: The cast of Winter's Bone
- DOCUMENTARY: The Oath
- FILM NOT PLAYING AT A THEATER NEAR YOU: Littlerock
Winter's Bone nabs the first award of the season, on it's way to I'm sure a slew of Independent Spirit Award nominations, and a possible Best Actress slot for it's leading lady, Jennifer Lawrence. Debra Granik's wrenching film, which nabbed the Grand Jury Prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival is such a strong film, I hope it plays well to the finicky members of Academy, who might embrace the film if they than get over dark subject matter. It's a finely calibrated art film, astutely and confidently made, and features a handful of terrific performances, notably Lawrence, John Hawkes, and Dale Dickey, who seriously should get some supporting actress honors, especially since that category looks mighty sparse this year!
Holy Rollers was a blink, and you miss it, specialty film from last spring, that also debuted at this Sundance Film Festival, centering around Hasidic drug runners. It's the other 2010 film starred Jesse Eisenberg. While the film had an overly programmed feel to it, it was still fairly made.
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