Film Independent Spirit Awards Nominees 2011

Here are your Film Independent Spirit Awards 2011 nominees:

Best Feature:
127 Hours
Black Swan
Greenberg
The Kids Are All Right
Winter's Bone

Best Director:
Darren Aronofsky, "Black Swan"
Danny Boyle, "127 Hours"
Lisa Cholodenko, "The Kids Are All Right"
Debra Granik, "Winter's Bone"
John Cameron Mitchell, "Rabbit Hole"

Best Screenplay:
Stuart Blumberg & Lisa Cholodenko, "The Kids Are All Right"
Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini, "Winter's Bone"
Nicole Holofcener, "Please Give"
David Lindsay-Abaire, "Rabbit Hole"
Todd Solondz, "Life During Wartime"

Best Female Lead:
Annette Bening
Greta Gerwig
Nicole Kidman
Jennifer Lawrence
Natalie Portman
Michelle Williams

Best Male Lead:
Ronald Bronstein
Aaron Eckhart
James Franco
John C. Reilly
Ben Stiller

Best Supporting Female:
Ashley Bell
Dale Dickey
Allison Janney
Daphne Rubin-Vega
Naomi Watts

Best Supporting Male:
John Hawkes
Samuel L. Jackson
Bill Murray
John Ortiz
Mark Ruffalo

Best Documentary:
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Marwencol
Sweetgrass
Restrepo
Thunder Soul

Best Foreign Film:
Kisses
Mademoiselle Chambon
Of Gods and Men
The King's Speech
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Best Cinematography:
Adam Kimmel, "Never Let Me Go"
Matthew Libatique, "Black Swan"
Jody Lee Lipes, "Tiny Furniture"
Michael McDonough, "Winter's Bone"
Harris Savides, "Greenberg"

Best First Feature:
Everything Strange and New
Get Low
Night Catches Us
The Last Exorcism
Tiny Furniture

Best First Screenplay:
Diane Bell, "Obselidia"
Lena Dunham, "Tiny Furniture"
Nik Fackler, "Lovely, Still"
Bob Glaudini, "Jack Goes Boating"
Dana Adam Shapiro, Evan M. Wiener, "Monogamy"

John Cassavetes Award:
"Daddy Longlegs"; Writer/Directors: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, Producers: Casey Neistat, Tom Scott
"Lbs."; Director: Matthew Bonifacio, Writer/Producers: Matthew Bonifacio, Carmine Famiglietti
"Lovers of Hate"; Writer/Director: Bryan Poyser, Producer: Megan Gilbride
"Obselidia"; Writer/Director: Diane Bell, Producers: Chris Byrne, Mathew Medlin
"The Exploding Girl"; Writer/Director: Bradley Rust Gray, Producers: Karin Chien, Ben Howe, So Yong Kim

Acura Someone to Watch Award:
Hossein Keshavarz, "Dog Sweat"
Laurel Nakadate, "The Wolf Knife"
Mike Ott, "Littlerock"

Piaget Producers Award:
In-Ah Lee, "Au Revoir Taipei"
Adele Romanski, "The Myth of the American Sleepover"
Anish Savjani, "Meek's Cutoff"

Aveeno Truer Than Fiction Award:
Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, "Sweetgrass"
Jeff Malmberg, "Marwencol"
Lynn True, Nelson Walker, "Summer Pasture"

Robert Altman Award:
"Please Give" - Director: Nicole Holofcener; Casting Director: Jeanne McCarthy; Ensemble Cast: Ann Guilbert, Rebecca Hall, Catherine Keener, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Lois Smith, Sarah Steele

For the complete list of winners, click here.