Independent Spirit Award Nominations

Take Shelter

FEATURE

• 50/50
• The Artist
• Beginners
• The Descendants
• Drive
• Take Shelter

DIRECTOR

• Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
• Mike Mills, Beginners
• Jeff Nichols, Take Shelter 
• Alexander Payne, The Descendants
• Nicholas Winding Refn, Drive

FIRST FEATURE

• Another Earth
• In the Family
• Margin Call
• Martha Marcy May Marlene
• Natural Selection

JOHN CASSAVETTES AWARD (Best Feature under $500,000)

• Bellflower
• Circumstance
• The Dynamiter
• Hello Lonesome
• Pariah

Drive

MALE LEAD

• Demian Bichir, A Better Life
• Jean Dejardin, The Artist
• Ryan Gosling, Drive
• Woody Harrelson, Rampart
• Michael Shannon, Take Shelter

FEMALE LEAD

• Lauren Ambrose, Think of Me
• Rachel Harris, Natural Selection
• Adepero Oduye, Pariah
• Elizabeth Olsen, Martha Marcy May Marlene
• Michelle Williams, My Week with Marilyn

Beginners

 SUPPORTING MALE

• Albert Brooks, Drive
• John Hawkes, Martha Marcy May Marlene
• Christopher Plummer, Beginners
• John C. Rielly, Cedar Rapids
• Corey Stoll, Midnight in Paris

SUPPORTING FEMALE

• Jessica Chastain, Take Shelter
• Anjelica Huston, 50/50
• Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs
• Harmony Santana, Gun Hill Road
• Shaileen Woodley, The Descendants

The Descendants

SCREENPLAY

• The Artist- Michel Hazanavicius
• Beginners- Mike Mills
• The Descendants- Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
• Footnote- Joseph Cedar
• Win Win- Thomas McCarthy 

FIRST SCREENPLAY

• 50/50- Will Reiser
• Another Earth- Mike Cahill & Brit Marling
• Cedar Rapids- Phil Johnston
• Margin Call- J.C. Chandor
• Terri- Patrick DeWitt

The Artist

CINEMATOGRAPHY

• The Artist- Gui-omme Shiffman
• Bellflower- Joel Hodge
• The Dynamiter- Jeffrey Waldron
• Midnight in Paris- Darius Kond-Jee
• The Off Hours- Benjamin Kuh-Sulk

INTERNATIONAL FILM

• The Kid with the Bike
• Melancholia
• A Separation
• Shame
• Tyrannosaur

DOCUMENTARY

• An African Selection
• Bill Cunningham New York
• The Interrupters
• The Redemption of General Butt Naked
• We Were Here

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD
(presented to a filmmaker, the ensemble cast and the casting director)

• Margin Call