Awards - Independent Spirit Awards - 2005-2014

Best Feature

• 12 Years a Slave (Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, Arnon Milchan, Brad Pitt, Bill Pohlad)
• All Is Lost (Neal Dodson, Anna Gerb)
• Inside Llewyn Davis (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Scott Rudin)
• Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, Scott Rudin, Rodrigo Teixeira, Lila Yacoub)
• Nebraska (Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa)

Best First Feature

• Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler, Forest Whitaker, Nina Yang Bongiovi)
• Concussion (Stacie Passon, Rose Troche)
• Wadjda (Haifaa Al Mansour, Gerhard Meixner, Roman Paul)
• Blue Caprice (Kim Jackson, Alexandre Moors, Brian O'Carroll, Isen Robbins, Will Rowbotham, Aimee Schoof, Ron Simons, Stephen Tedeschi)
• Una Noche (Maite Artieda, Daniel Mulloy, Lucy Mulloy, Sandy Pérez Águila, Yunior Santiago)

Best Director

• Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)
• Alexander Payne (Nebraska)
• Jeff Nichols (Mud)
• J.C. Chandor (All Is Lost)
• Shane Carruth (Upstream Color)

Best Male Lead

• Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)
• Bruce Dern (Nebraska)
• Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)
• Michael B. Jordan (Fruitvale Station)
• Robert Redford (All Is Lost)
• Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis)

Best Female Lead

• Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
• Julie Delpy (Before Midnight)
• Gaby Hoffmann (Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus)
• Brie Larson (Short Term 12)
• Shailene Woodley (The Spectacular Now)

Best Supporting Male

• Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)
• James Gandolfini (Enough Said)
• Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)
• Will Forte (Nebraska)
• Lakeith Stanfield (Short Term 12)

Best Supporting Female

• Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave)
• June Squibb (Nebraska)
• Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine)
• Melonie Diaz (Fruitvale Station)
• Yolonda Ross (Go for Sisters)

Best Screenplay

• John Ridley (12 Years a Slave)
• Nicole Holofcener (Enough Said)
• Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater (Before Midnight)
• Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber (The Spectacular Now)
• Woody Allen (Blue Jasmine)

Best First Screenplay

• Bob Nelson (Nebraska)
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Don Jon)
• Joey Soloway (Afternoon Delight)
• Lake Bell (In a World...)
• Michael Starrbury (The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete)

Best Cinematography

• Sean Bobbitt (12 Years a Slave)
• Benoît Debie (Spring Breakers)
• Frank G. DeMarco (All Is Lost)
• Bruno Delbonnel (Inside Llewyn Davis)
• Matthias Grunsky (Computer Chess)

Best Editing

• Nat Sanders (Short Term 12)
• Jennifer Lame (Frances Ha)
• Cindy Lee (Una Noche)
• Jem Cohen, Marc Vives (Museum Hours)
• Shane Carruth, David Lowery (Upstream Color)

Best Documentary Feature

• 20 Feet from Stardom (Gil Friesen, Morgan Neville, Caitrin Rogers)
• After Tiller (Martha Shane, Lana Wilson)
• Gideon's Army (Julie Goldman, Dawn Porter)
• The Square (Karim Amer, Jehane Noujaim)
• The Act of Killing (Christine Cynn, Anne Köhncke, Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sørensen, Joram ten Brink, Michael Uwemedimo, Anonymous)

Best International Film

• Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche)
• The Hunt (Thomas Vinterberg)
• Gloria (Sebastián Lelio)
• The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino)
• A Touch of Sin (Zhangke Jia)

John Cassavetes Award

• Chad Hartigan, Cherie Saulter (This Is Martin Bonner)
• Andrew Bujalski, Houston King, Alex Lipschultz (Computer Chess)
• Paolo Calamita, Jem Cohen, Gabriele Kranzelbinder (Museum Hours)
• Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín, Sebastián Silva (Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus)
• Jonathan Duffy, James M. Johnston, David Lowery, Eric Steele, Yen Tan, Kelly Williams (Pit Stop)

Robert Altman Award

• Mud (Joe Don Baker, Jacob Lofland, Francine Maisler, Matthew McConaughey, Ray McKinnon, Jeff Nichols, Sarah Paulson, Michael Shannon, Sam Shepard, Tye Sheridan, Paul Sparks, Bonnie Sturdivant, Reese Witherspoon)

Truer than Fiction Award

• Let the Fire Burn (Jason Osder)
• Manakamana (Stephanie Spray, Pacho Velez)
• A River Changes Course (Kalyanee Mam)

Someone to Watch Award

• Shaka King (Newlyweeds)
• Aaron Douglas Johnston (My Sister's Quinceanera)
• Madeleine Olnek (The Foxy Merkins)

Producers Award

• Toby Halbrooks, James M. Johnston
• Andrea Roa
• Jacob Jaffke
• Frederick Thornton

Best Feature

• Silver Linings Playbook (Bruce Cohen, Donna Gigliotti, Jonathan Gordon)
• Beasts of the Southern Wild (Michael Gottwald, Dan Janvey, Josh Penn)
• Keep the Lights On (Marie Therese Guirgis, Lucas Joaquin, Ira Sachs)
• Bernie (Liz Glotzer, Richard Linklater, David McFadzean, Dete Meserve, Judd Payne, Celine Rattray, Martin Shafer, Ginger Sledge, Matt Williams)
• Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, Jeremy Dawson, Steven Rales, Scott Rudin)

Best First Feature

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky, Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich, Russell Smith)
• Gimme the Loot (Dominic Buchanan, Natalie Difford, Adam Leon, Jamund Washington)
• Safety Not Guaranteed (Derek Connolly, Stephanie Langhoff, Peter Saraf, Colin Trevorrow, Marc Turtletaub)
• Fill the Void (Assaf Amir, Rama Burshtein)
• Sound of My Voice (Zal Batmanglij, Brit Marling, Hans Ritter, Shelley Surpin)

Best Director

• David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)
• Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
• Julia Loktev (The Loneliest Planet)
• Ira Sachs (Keep the Lights On)
• Wes Anderson (Moonrise Kingdom)

Best Male Lead

• John Hawkes (The Sessions)
• Jack Black (Bernie)
• Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook)
• Matthew McConaughey (Killer Joe)
• Thure Lindhardt (Keep the Lights On)
• Wendell Pierce (Four)

Best Female Lead

• Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)
• Emayatzy Corinealdi (Middle of Nowhere)
• Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Smashed)
• Linda Cardellini (Return)
• Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

Best Supporting Male

• Matthew McConaughey (Magic Mike)
• Bruce Willis (Moonrise Kingdom)
• Michael Peña (End of Watch)
• David Oyelowo (Middle of Nowhere)
• Sam Rockwell (Seven Psychopaths)

Best Supporting Female

• Helen Hunt (The Sessions)
• Ann Dowd (Compliance)
• Lorraine Toussaint (Middle of Nowhere)
• Brit Marling (Sound of My Voice)
• Rosemarie DeWitt (Your Sister's Sister)

Best Screenplay

• David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)
• Ira Sachs, Mauricio Zacharias (Keep the Lights On)
• Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola (Moonrise Kingdom)
• Zoe Kazan (Ruby Sparks)
• Martin McDonagh (Seven Psychopaths)

Best First Screenplay

• Derek Connolly (Safety Not Guaranteed)
• Rashida Jones, Will McCormack (Celeste and Jesse Forever)
• Rama Burshtein (Fill the Void)
• Jonathan Lisecki (Gayby)
• Christopher Ford (Robot and Frank)

Best Cinematography

• Ben Richardson (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
• Peter Zuccarini (All Is Lost)
• Roman Vasyanov (End of Watch)
• Lol Crawley (Here)
• Robert D. Yeoman (Moonrise Kingdom)
• Yoni Brook (Valley of Saints)

Best Documentary Feature

• The Invisible War (Kirby Dick, Tanner King Barklow, Amy Ziering)
• How to Survive a Plague (David France, Howard Gertler)
• Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (Matthew Akers, Maro Chermayeff, Jeff Dupre)
• The Central Park Five (Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon)
• The Waiting Room (Linda Davis, William Hirsch, Peter Nicks)

Best International Film

• Amour (Michael Haneke)
• War Witch (Kim Nguyen)
• Sister (Ursula Meier)
• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
• Rust and Bone (Jacques Audiard)

Special Distinction Award

• Harris Savides

John Cassavetes Award

• Howard Barish, Ava DuVernay, Paul Garnes (Middle of Nowhere)
• Laura Colella (Breakfast with Curtis)
• Chad Burris, Aurora Guerrero (Mosquita y Mari)
• Carlen Altman, Alex Ross Perry (The Color Wheel)
• Blake Ashman, Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch, Kevin Chinoy, Patrick Cunningham, Chris Maybach, Francesca Silvestri (Starlet)

Robert Altman Award

• Starlet (Sean Baker, Dree Hemingway, Besedka Johnson, Karren Karagulian, Julia Kim, Stella Maeve, James Ransone)

Truer than Fiction Award

• The Waiting Room (Peter Nicks)
• Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel)
• Only the Young (Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet)

Someone to Watch Award

• Adam Leon (Gimme the Loot)
• David Fenster (Pincus)
• Rebecca Thomas (Electrick Children)

Producers Award

• Mynette Louie
• Alicia Van Couvering
• Derrick Tseng

FIND Your Audience Award

• Breakfast with Curtis (Laura Colella)
• The History of Future Folk (John Mitchell, Jeremy Kipp Walker)

Best Feature

• The Artist (Thomas Langmann)
• 50/50 (Evan Goldberg, Ben Karlin, Seth Rogen)
• The Descendants (Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor)
• Beginners (Miranda de Pencier, Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen, Leslie Urdang, Dean Vanech)
• Take Shelter (Tyler Davidson, Sophia Lin)
• Drive (Michel Litvak, John Palermo, Marc Platt, Gigi Pritzker, Adam Siegel)

Best First Feature

• Margin Call (Michael Benaroya, J.C. Chandor, Neal Dodson, Joe Jenckes, Corey Moosa, Robert Ogden Barnum, Zachary Quinto)
• In the Family (Robert Tonino, Andrew van den Houten, Patrick Wang)
• Another Earth (Mike Cahill, Hunter Gray, Brit Marling, Nick Shumaker)
• Martha Marcy May Marlene (Antonio Campos, Patrick Cunningham, Sean Durkin, Chris Maybach, Josh Mond)
• Natural Selection (Brion Hambel, Paul Jensen, Robbie Pickering)

Best Director

• Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)
• Alexander Payne (The Descendants)
• Mike Mills (Beginners)
• Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter)
• Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive)

Best Male Lead

• Jean Dujardin (The Artist)
• Demián Bichir (A Better Life)
• Ryan Gosling (Drive)
• Michael Shannon (Take Shelter)
• Woody Harrelson (Rampart)

Best Female Lead

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

Best Supporting Male

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

Best Supporting Female

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

Best Screenplay

• Nat Faxon, Alexander Payne, Jim Rash (The Descendants)
• Mike Mills (Beginners)
• Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)
• Joseph Cedar (Footnote)
• Tom McCarthy (Win Win)

Best First Screenplay

• Will Reiser (50/50)
• Phil Johnston (Cedar Rapids)
• J.C. Chandor (Margin Call)
• Mike Cahill, Brit Marling (Another Earth)
• Patrick deWitt (Terri)

Best Cinematography

• Guillaume Schiffman (The Artist)
• Joel Hodge (Bellflower)
• Darius Khondji (Midnight in Paris)
• Jeffrey Waldron (The Dynamiter)
• Benjamin Kasulke (The Off Hours)

Best Documentary Feature

• Frontline - The Interrupters (Steve James, Alex Kotlowitz)
• An African Election (Jarreth J. Merz)
• Bill Cunningham New York (Philip Gefter, Richard Press)
• The Redemption of General Butt Naked (Daniele Anastasion, Eric Strauss)
• We Were Here (David Weissman)

Best International Film

• A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
• The Kid with a Bike (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
• Shame (Steve McQueen)
• Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
• Tyrannosaur (Paddy Considine)

John Cassavetes Award

• Nekisa Cooper, Dee Rees (Pariah)
• Evan Glodell, Vincent Grashaw (Bellflower)
• Adam Reid (Hello Lonesome)
• Karin Chien, Maryam Keshavarz, Melissa M. Lee (Circumstance)
• Kevin Abrams, Matthew Gordon, Merrilee Holt, Brad Ingelsby, Art Jones, Mike Jones, Nate Tuck, Amile Wilson (The Dynamiter)

Robert Altman Award

• Margin Call (Penn Badgley, Simon Baker, Paul Bettany, J.C. Chandor, Jeremy Irons, Tiffany Little Canfield, Mary McDonnell, Demi Moore, Zachary Quinto, Kevin Spacey, Bernard Telsey, Stanley Tucci)

Truer than Fiction Award

• Where Soldiers Come From (Heather Courtney)
• Bombay Beach (Alma Har'el)
• Hell and Back Again (Danfung Dennis)

Someone to Watch Award

• Mark Jackson (Without)
• Nicholas Ozeki (Mamitas)
• Simon Arthur (Silver Tongues)

Producers Award

• Sophia Lin (Take Shelter)
• Josh Mond (Martha Marcy May Marlene)
• Chad Burris (Mosquita y Mari)

FIND Your Audience Award

• Unfinished Spaces (Benjamin Murray, Alysa Nahmias)

Best Feature

• Black Swan (Scott Franklin, Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Brian Oliver)
• 127 Hours (Danny Boyle, Christian Colson, John Smithson)
• Winter's Bone (Alix Madigan, Anne Rosellini)
• The Kids Are All Right (Gary Gilbert, Philippe Hellmann, Jordan Horowitz, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, Celine Rattray, Daniela Taplin Lundberg)
• Greenberg (Jennifer Jason Leigh, Scott Rudin)

Best First Feature

• Get Low (David Gundlach, Aaron Schneider, Dean Zanuck)
• Everything Strange and New (Frazer Bradshaw, Laura Techera Francia, A.D. Liano)
• Night Catches Us (Sean Costello, Tanya Hamilton, Jason Orans, Ron Simons)
• The Last Exorcism (Marc Abraham, Thomas A. Bliss, Eric Newman, Eli Roth, Daniel Stamm)
• Tiny Furniture (Alicia Van Couvering, Lena Dunham, Kyle Martin)

Best Director

• Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)
• Danny Boyle (127 Hours)
• John Cameron Mitchell (Rabbit Hole)
• Debra Granik (Winter's Bone)
• Lisa Cholodenko (The Kids Are All Right)

Best Male Lead

• James Franco (127 Hours)
• Aaron Eckhart (Rabbit Hole)
• John C. Reilly (Cyrus)
• Ben Stiller (Greenberg)
• Ronald Bronstein (Daddy Longlegs)

Best Female Lead

• Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
• Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right)
• Greta Gerwig (Greenberg)
• Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone)
• Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole)
• Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine)

Best Supporting Male

• John Hawkes (Winter's Bone)
• Bill Murray (Get Low)
• Mark Ruffalo (The Kids Are All Right)
• John Ortiz (Jack Goes Boating)
• Samuel L. Jackson (Mother and Child)

Best Supporting Female

• Dale Dickey (Winter's Bone)
• Allison Janney (Life During Wartime)
• Daphne Rubin-Vega (Jack Goes Boating)
• Ashley Bell (The Last Exorcism)
• Naomi Watts (Mother and Child)

Best Screenplay

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

Best First Screenplay

• Lena Dunham (Tiny Furniture)
• Robert Glaudini (Jack Goes Boating)
• Dana Adam Shapiro, Evan M. Wiener (Monogamy)
• Nicholas Fackler (Lovely, Still)
• Diane Bell (Obselidia)

Best Cinematography

• Matthew Libatique (Black Swan)
• Michael McDonough (Winter's Bone)
• Harris Savides (Greenberg)
• Adam Kimmel (Never Let Me Go)
• Jody Lee Lipes (Tiny Furniture)

Best Documentary Feature

• Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
• Marwencol (Jeff Malmberg)
• Sweetgrass (Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
• Restrepo (Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger)
• Thunder Soul (Mark Landsman)

Best International Film

• The King's Speech (Tom Hooper)
• Of Gods and Men (Xavier Beauvois)
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
• Kisses (Lance Daly)
• Mademoiselle Chambon (Stéphane Brizé)

John Cassavetes Award

• Casey Neistat, Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, Tom Scott (Daddy Longlegs)
• Matthew Bonifacio, Carmine Famiglietti (Lbs.)
• Megan Gilbride, Bryan Poyser (Lovers of Hate)
• Diane Bell, Chris Byrne, Matthew Medlin (Obselidia)
• Karin Chien, Bradley Rust Gray, Ben Howe, So-yong Kim (The Exploding Girl)

Robert Altman Award

• Please Give (Rebecca Hall, Nicole Holofcener, Catherine Keener, Jeanne McCarthy, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Lois Smith, Sarah Steele)

Truer than Fiction Award

• Marwencol (Jeff Malmberg)
• Summer Pasture (Lynn True, Nelson Walker III)
• Sweetgrass (Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor)

Someone to Watch Award

• Mike Ott (Littlerock)
• Hossein Keshavarz (Dog Sweat)
• Laurel Nakadate (The Wolf Knife)

Producers Award

• Anish Savjani (Meek's Cutoff)
• Adele Romanski (The Myth of the American Sleepover)
• In-Ah Lee (Au revoir Taipei)

FIND Your Audience Award

• Marwencol (Jeff Malmberg, Chris Shellen)

Best Feature

• Precious (Lee Daniels, Gary Magness, Sarah Siegel-Magness)
• (500) Days of Summer (Mason Novick, Jessica Tuchinsky, Mark Waters, Steven J. Wolfe)
• Amreeka (Paul Barkin, Christina Piovesan)
• Sin Nombre (Amy Kaufman)
• The Last Station (Bonnie Arnold, Chris Curling, Jens Meurer)

Best First Feature

• Crazy Heart (T Bone Burnett, Judy Cairo, Rob Carliner, Scott Cooper, Robert Duvall)
• A Single Man (Tom Ford, Andrew Miano, Robert Salerno, Chris Weitz)
• Paranormal Activity (Jason Blum, Oren Peli)
• Easier With Practice (Kyle Patrick Alvarez, Cookie Carosella)
• The Messenger (Mark Gordon, Lawrence Inglee, Zach Miller, Oren Moverman)

Best Director

• Lee Daniels (Precious)
• Cary Joji Fukunaga (Sin Nombre)
• James Gray (Two Lovers)
• Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (A Serious Man)
• Michael Hoffman (The Last Station)

Best Male Lead

• Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
• Adam Scott (The Vicious Kind)
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt ((500) Days of Summer)
• Colin Firth (A Single Man)
• Souleymane Sy Savane (Goodbye Solo)

Best Female Lead

• Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)
• Gwyneth Paltrow (Two Lovers)
• Maria Bello (Downloading Nancy)
• Helen Mirren (The Last Station)
• Nisreen Faour (Amreeka)

Best Supporting Male

• Woody Harrelson (The Messenger)
• Christian McKay (Me and Orson Welles)
• Jemaine Clement (Gentlemen Broncos)
• Christopher Plummer (The Last Station)
• Ray McKinnon (That Evening Sun)

Best Supporting Female

• Mo'Nique (Precious)
• Дина Корзун (Cold Souls)
• Natalie Press (50 Dead Men Walking)
• Mia Wasikowska (That Evening Sun)
• Samantha Morton (The Messenger)

Best Screenplay

• Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber ((500) Days of Summer)
• Michael Hoffman (The Last Station)
• Lee Toland Krieger (The Vicious Kind)
• Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman (The Messenger)
• Greg Mottola (Adventureland)

Best First Screenplay

• Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious)
• Tom Ford, David Scearce (A Single Man)
• Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls)
• Cherien Dabis (Amreeka)
• Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart)

Best Cinematography

• Roger Deakins (A Serious Man)
• Andrij Parekh (Cold Souls)
• Adriano Goldman (Sin Nombre)
• Anne Misawa (Treeless Mountain)
• Peter Zeitlinger (Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans)

Best Documentary Feature

• Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Sacha Gervasi)
• Food, Inc. (Robert Kenner)
• October Country (Donal Mosher, Michael Palmieri)
• Which Way Home (Rebecca Cammisa)
• More Than a Game (Kristopher Belman)

Best International Film

• An Education (Lone Scherfig)
• The Maid (Sebastián Silva)
• Mother (Joon-ho Bong)
• Everlasting Moments (Jan Troell)
• A Prophet (Jacques Audiard)

John Cassavetes Award

• Lynn Shelton (Humpday)
• Elan Bogarin, Jean Kouremetis, Robert Siegel (Big Fan)
• Bradley Rust Gray, Ben Howe, Jay Van Hoy, So-yong Kim, Lars Knudsen (Treeless Mountain)
• Steve Beal, Tom Quinn (The New Year Parade)
• Josée Lajoie, Hilal Ahmed Langoo, Tariq Tapa (Zero Bridge)

Robert Altman Award

• A Serious Man (Ellen Chenoweth, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Richard Kind, Sari Lennick, Jessica McManus, Fred Melamed, Michael Stuhlbarg, Rachel Tenner, Aaron Wolff)

Truer than Fiction Award

• 45365 (Turner Ross, Bill Ross IV)
• Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo (Jessica Oreck)
• El general (Natalia Almada)

Someone to Watch Award

• Kyle Patrick Alvarez (Easier With Practice)
• Asiel Norton (Redland)
• Tariq Tapa (Zero Bridge)

Producers Award

• Karin Chien (Santa Mesa)
• Karin Chien (The Exploding Girl)
• Larry Fessenden (I Sell the Dead)
• Larry Fessenden (The House of the Devil)
• Dia Sokol Savage (Beeswax)
• Dia Sokol Savage (Nights and Weekends)

Best Feature

• The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky, Scott Franklin)
• Ballast (Lance Hammer, Nina Parikh)
• Frozen River (Chip Hourihan, Heather Rae)
• Rachel Getting Married (Neda Armian, Jonathan Demme, Marc Platt)
• Wendy and Lucy (Larry Fessenden, Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani)

Best First Feature

• Synecdoche, New York (Anthony Bregman, Spike Jonze, Charlie Kaufman, Sidney Kimmel)
• Medicine for Melancholy (Justin Barber, Barry Jenkins)
• Padre Nuestro (Per Melita, Ben Odell, Christopher Zalla)
• Afterschool (Antonio Campos, Sean Durkin, Josh Mond)
• Sleep Dealer (Anthony Bregman, Alex Rivera)

Best Director

• Tom McCarthy (The Visitor)
• Jonathan Demme (Rachel Getting Married)
• Courtney Hunt (Frozen River)
• Lance Hammer (Ballast)
• Ramin Bahrani (Chop Shop)

Best Male Lead

• Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)
• Javier Bardem (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
• Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)
• Richard Jenkins (The Visitor)
• Sean Penn (Milk)

Best Female Lead

• Melissa Leo (Frozen River)
• Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married)
• Summer Bishil (Towelhead)
• Michelle Williams (Wendy and Lucy)
• Tarra Riggs (Ballast)

Best Supporting Male

• James Franco (Milk)
• Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker)
• Haaz Sleiman (The Visitor)
• Charlie McDermott (Frozen River)
• JimMyron Ross (Ballast)

Best Supporting Female

• Penélope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
• Debra Winger (Rachel Getting Married)
• Rosemarie DeWitt (Rachel Getting Married)
• Misty Upham (Frozen River)
• Rosie Perez (The Take)

Best Screenplay

• Woody Allen (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
• Christopher Zalla (Padre Nuestro)
• Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck (Sugar)
• Howard A. Rodman (Savage Grace)
• Charlie Kaufman (Synecdoche, New York)

Best First Screenplay

• Dustin Lance Black (Milk)
• Lance Hammer (Ballast)
• Jenny Lumet (Rachel Getting Married)
• Courtney Hunt (Frozen River)
• Jonathan Levine (The Wackness)

Best Cinematography

• Maryse Alberti (The Wrestler)
• Lol Crawley (Ballast)
• James Laxton (Medicine for Melancholy)
• Michael Simmonds (Chop Shop)
• Harris Savides (Milk)

Best Documentary Feature

• Man on Wire (James Marsh)
• Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog)
• The Order of Myths (Margaret Brown)
• The Betrayal - Nerakhoon (Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath)
• Up the Yangtze (Yung Chang)

Best International Film

• The Class (Laurent Cantet)
• Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone)
• The Secret of the Grain (Abdellatif Kechiche)
• Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
• Hunger (Steve McQueen)

John Cassavetes Award

• Seth Caplan, Alex Holdridge, Scoot McNairy (In Search of a Midnight Kiss)
• Sean Baker, Darren Dean (Prince of Broadway)
• Sean Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou (Take Out)
• David Bruckner, Dan Bush, Jacob Gentry, Alexander Motlagh (The Signal)
• Ami Armstrong, Chris Eigeman (Turn the River)

Robert Altman Award

• Synecdoche, New York (Hope Davis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Kaufman, Catherine Keener, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jeanne McCarthy, Samantha Morton, Tom Noonan, Emily Watson, Dianne Wiest, Michelle Williams)

Truer than Fiction Award

• The Order of Myths (Margaret Brown)
• Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Sacha Gervasi)
• Loot (Darius Marder)

Someone to Watch Award

• Lynn Shelton (My Effortless Brilliance)
• Barry Jenkins (Medicine for Melancholy)
• Nina Paley (Sita Sings the Blues)

Producers Award

• Heather Rae (Frozen River)
• Heather Rae (Ibid)
• Jason Orans (Year of the Fish)
• Jason Orans (Goodbye Solo)
• Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen (Treeless Mountain)
• Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen (I'll Come Running)

Best Feature

• Juno (Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich, Mason Novick, Russell Smith)
• A Mighty Heart (Andrew Eaton, Dede Gardner, Brad Pitt)
• Paranoid Park (David Allen Cress, Neil Kopp)
• I'm Not There (John Goldwyn, John Sloss, James D. Stern, Christine Vachon)
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Kathleen Kennedy, Jon Kilik)

Best First Feature

• The Lookout (Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum, Scott Frank, Laurence Mark, Walter F. Parkes)
• 2 Days in Paris (Julie Delpy, Christophe Mazodier, Thierry Potok)
• Rocket Science (Jeffrey Blitz, Effie Brown, Sean Welch)
• Great World of Sound (David Gordon Green, Missy Palmer, Richard A. Wright, Craig Zobel)
• Vanaja (Latha R. Domalapalli, Rajnesh Domalpalli)

Best Director

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

Best Male Lead

• Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Savages)
• Don Cheadle (Talk to Me)
• Pedro Castaneda (August Evening)
• Frank Langella (Starting Out in the Evening)
• Tony Chiu-wai Leung (Lust, Caution)

Best Female Lead

• Elliot Page (Juno)
• Angelina Jolie (A Mighty Heart)
• Sienna Miller (Interview)
• Parker Posey (Broken English)
• Wei Tang (Lust, Caution)

Best Supporting Male

• Chiwetel Ejiofor (Talk to Me)
• Irrfan Khan (The Namesake)
• Steve Zahn (Rescue Dawn)
• Marcus Carl Franklin (I'm Not There)
• Kene Holiday (Great World of Sound)

Best Supporting Female

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

Best Screenplay

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

Best First Screenplay

• Diablo Cody (Juno)
• John Orloff (A Mighty Heart)
• Kelly Masterson (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead)
• Zoe R. Cassavetes (Broken English)
• Jeffrey Blitz (Rocket Science)

Best Cinematography

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

Best Documentary Feature

• Crazy Love (Dan Klores)
• Lake of Fire (Tony Kaye)
• The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun (Pernille Rose Grønkjær)
• Manufactured Landscapes (Jennifer Baichwal)
• The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair (Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker)

Best International Film

• Once (John Carney)
• 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
• Lady Chatterley (Pascale Ferran)
• The Band's Visit (Eran Kolirin)
• Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi)

John Cassavetes Award

• Chris Eska, Connie Hill, Jason Wehling (August Evening)
• Stephane Gauger, Doan Nhat Nam, Van Quan Nguyen (Owl and the Sparrow)
• Erin Fisher, Aaron Katz, Cris Lankenau, Brendan McFadden, Ben Stambler (Quiet City)
• David Gordon Green, Lisa Muskat, Jeff Nichols (Shotgun Stories)
• Kate Noble, Randy Russell, Chris Smith (The Pool)

Robert Altman Award

• I'm Not There (Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Richard Gere, Bruce Greenwood, Todd Haynes, Heath Ledger, Laura Rosenthal, Ben Whishaw)

Truer than Fiction Award

• The Unforeseen (Laura Dunn)
• Helvetica (Gary Hustwit)
• Running Stumbled (John Maringouin)

Someone to Watch Award

• Ramin Bahrani (Chop Shop)
• Ronald Bronstein (Frownland)
• Lee Isaac Chung (Munyurangabo)

Producers Award

• Neil Kopp (Old Joy)
• Neil Kopp (Paranoid Park)
• Anne Clements (Ping Pong Playa)
• Anne Clements (Quinceañera)
• Alexis Ferris (Cthulhu)
• Alexis Ferris (Police Beat)

Best Feature

• Little Miss Sunshine (Albert Berger, David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub, Ron Yerxa)
• American Gun (Ted Kroeber)
• Pan's Labyrinth (Álvaro Augustín, Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro, Bertha Navarro, Frida Torresblanco)
• Half Nelson (Anna Boden, Lynette Howell Taylor, Rosanne Korenberg, Alex Orlovsky, Jamie Patricof)
• The Dead Girl (Eric Karten, Gary Lucchesi, Tom Rosenberg, Kevin Turen, Henry Winterstern, Richard S. Wright)

Best First Feature

• Sweet Land (Jim Bigham, Alan Cumming, Ali Selim)
• Day Night Day Night (Melanie Judd, Jessica Levin, Julia Loktev)
• Man Push Cart (Ramin Bahrani, Bedford T. Bentley, Pradip Ghosh)
• The Motel (Miguel Arteta, Karin Chien, Matthew Greenfield, Michael Kang, Gina Kwon)
• Wristcutters: A Love Story (Chris Coen, Goran Dukic, Tatiana Kelly, Mikal P. Lazarev, Adam Sherman)

Best Director

• Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine)
• Karen Moncrieff (The Dead Girl)
• Ryan Fleck (Half Nelson)
• Robert Altman (A Prairie Home Companion)
• Steven Soderbergh (Bubble)

Best Male Lead

• Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson)
• Aaron Eckhart (Thank You for Smoking)
• Edward Norton (The Painted Veil)
• Ahmad Razvi (Man Push Cart)
• Forest Whitaker (American Gun)

Best Female Lead

• Shareeka Epps (Half Nelson)
• Catherine O'Hara (For Your Consideration)
• Michelle Williams (Land of Plenty)
• Elizabeth Reaser (Sweet Land)
• Robin Wright (Sorry, Haters)

Best Supporting Male

• Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine)
• Daniel Craig (Infamous)
• Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine)
• Channing Tatum (A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints)
• Raymond J. Barry (Steel City)

Best Supporting Female

• Frances McDormand (Friends with Money)
• Amber Tamblyn (Stephanie Daley)
• Mary Beth Hurt (The Dead Girl)
• Marcia Gay Harden (American Gun)
• Melonie Diaz (A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints)

Best Screenplay

• Jason Reitman (Thank You for Smoking)
• Nicole Holofcener (Friends with Money)
• Neil Burger (The Illusionist)
• Jeff Stanzler (Sorry, Haters)
• Ron Nyswaner (The Painted Veil)

Best First Screenplay

• Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine)
• Dito Montiel (A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints)
• Gabrielle Zevin (Conversations with Other Women)
• Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck (Half Nelson)
• Goran Dukic (Wristcutters: A Love Story)

Best Cinematography

• Guillermo Navarro (Pan's Labyrinth)
• Anthony Dod Mantle (Brothers of the Head)
• Michael Simmonds (Man Push Cart)
• Arin Crumley (Four Eyed Monsters)
• Aaron Platt (Wild Tigers I Have Known)

Best Documentary Feature

• The Road to Guantanamo (Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom)
• A Lion in the House (Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert)
• My Country, My Country (Laura Poitras)
• You're Gonna Miss Me (Keven McAlester)
• The Trials of Darryl Hunt (Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg)

Best International Film

• The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
• 12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu)
• Buenos Aires 1977 (Adrián Caetano)
• The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (Auraeus Solito)
• Days of Glory (Rachid Bouchareb)

Special Distinction Award

• Laura Dern, David Lynch (for their collaborative work)
• Independence (David Brocca)

John Cassavetes Award

• Anne Clements, Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland (Quinceañera)
• Brian Bell, Anthony Cipriano, Michael Cuesta, Jenny Schweitzer, Leslie Urdang (Twelve and Holding)
• Mike Akel, Angie Alvarez, Graham Davidson, Chris Mass (Chalk)
• Susan Buice, Arin Crumley (Four Eyed Monsters)
• Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen, Neil Kopp, Jonathan Raymond, Kelly Reichardt, Anish Savjani (Old Joy)

Robert Altman Award

• Robert Altman

Truer than Fiction Award

• P.O.V. (Adele Horne) (The Tailenders)
• Kurt Cobain About a Son (AJ Schnack)
• The Chances of the World Changing (Eric Daniel Metzgar)

Someone to Watch Award

• Julia Loktev (Day Night Day Night)
• Richard Wong (Colma: The Musical)
• So-yong Kim (In Between Days)

Producers Award

• Howard Gertler, Tim Perell (Pizza)
• Howard Gertler, Tim Perell (Shortbus)
• Alex Orlovsky, Jamie Patricof (Half Nelson)
• Alex Orlovsky, Jamie Patricof (Point&Shoot)
• Julie Lynn (Nine Lives)
• Julie Lynn (10 Items or Less)

Best Feature

• Brokeback Mountain (Diana Ossana, James Schamus)
• Capote (Caroline Baron, Michael Ohoven, William Vince)
• Good Night, and Good Luck. (Grant Heslov)
• The Squid and the Whale (Wes Anderson, Charlie Corwin, Clara Markowicz, Peter Newman)
• The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Luc Besson, Michael Fitzgerald, Tommy Lee Jones, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam)

Best First Feature

• Crash (Don Cheadle, Paul Haggis, Mark R. Harris, Bobby Moresco, Cathy Schulman, Bob Yari)
• Lackawanna Blues (Halle Berry, Vincent Cirrincione, Nellie Nugiel, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Shelby Stone, George C. Wolfe)
• Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July, Gina Kwon)
• Thumbsucker (Anthony Bregman, Mike Mills, Bob Stephenson)
• Transamerica (Rene Bastian, Sebastian Dungan, Linda Moran, Duncan Tucker)

Best Director

• Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)
• George Clooney (Good Night, and Good Luck.)
• Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale)
• Gregg Araki (Mysterious Skin)
• Rodrigo García (Nine Lives)

Best Male Lead

• Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote)
• David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck.)
• Jeff Daniels (The Squid and the Whale)
• Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain)
• Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow)

Best Female Lead

• Felicity Huffman (Transamerica)
• Cyndi Williams (Room)
• Laura Linney (The Squid and the Whale)
• Дина Корзун (Forty Shades of Blue)
• S. Epatha Merkerson (Lackawanna Blues)

Best Supporting Male

• Matt Dillon (Crash)
• Barry Pepper (The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada)
• Jeffrey Wright (Broken Flowers)
• Firdous Bamji (The War Within)
• Jesse Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale)

Best Supporting Female

• Amy Adams (Junebug)
• Allison Janney (Our Very Own)
• Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain)
• Maggie Gyllenhaal (Happy Endings)
• Robin Wright (Nine Lives)

Best Screenplay

• Dan Futterman (Capote)
• Rodrigo García (Nine Lives)
• Guillermo Arriaga (The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada)
• Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale)
• Ayad Akhtar, Joseph Castelo, Tom Glynn (The War Within)

Best First Screenplay

• Duncan Tucker (Transamerica)
• Angus MacLachlan (Junebug)
• Ken Hanes (Fixing Frank)
• Miranda July (Me and You and Everyone We Know)
• Sabina Murray (The Beautiful Country)

Best Cinematography

• Robert Elswit (Good Night, and Good Luck.)
• Adam Kimmel (Capote)
• Harris Savides (Last Days)
• John Foster (Keane)
• Chris Menges (The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada)

Best Documentary Feature

• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Alex Gibney)
• Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
• Romántico (Mark Becker)
• La sierra (Scott Dalton, Margarita Martinez)
• Sir! No Sir! (David Zeiger)

Best International Film

• Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad)
• Head-On (Fatih Akin)
• Duck Season (Fernando Eimbcke)
• The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
• Tony Takitani (Jun Ichikawa)

John Cassavetes Award

• Mora Stephens, Joel Viertel (Conventioneers)
• Ram Bergman, Rian Johnson, Mark G. Mathis (Brick)
• Allen Bain, Darren Goldberg, Kyle Henry, Jesse Scolaro (Room)
• Mark Banning, Cliff Charles, Mad Matthewz (Jellysmoke)
• Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass (The Puffy Chair)

Truer than Fiction Award

• Occupation: Dreamland (Ian Olds, Garrett Scott)
• Our Brand Is Crisis (Rachel Boynton)
• Romántico (Mark Becker)
• Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela (Thomas Allen Harris)

Someone to Watch Award

• Neill Dela Llana, Ian Gamazon (Cavite)
• Robinson Devor (Police Beat)
• Jay Duplass (The Puffy Chair)

Producers Award

• Caroline Baron (Capote)
• Caroline Baron (Monsoon Wedding)
• Ram Bergman (Brick)
• Ram Bergman (Conversations with Other Women)
• Mike S. Ryan (Junebug)
• Mike S. Ryan (Palindromes)

Best Feature

• Sideways (Michael London)
• How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass (Mario Van Peebles)
• Maria Full of Grace (Paul Mezey)
• Kinsey (Gail Mutrux)
• Primer (Shane Carruth)

Best First Feature

• Garden State (Pamela Abdy, Zach Braff, Gary Gilbert, Dan Halsted, Rich Klubeck)
• Brother to Brother (Rodney Evans, Jim McKay, Isen Robbins, Aimee Schoof)
• Saints and Soldiers (Adam Abel, Ryan Little)
• Napoleon Dynamite (Jeremy Coon, Sean Covel, Jared Hess, Chris Wyatt)
• The Woodsman (Lee Daniels, Nicole Kassell)

Best Director

• Alexander Payne (Sideways)
• Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace)
• Shane Carruth (Primer)
• Mario Van Peebles (How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass)
• Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries)

Best Male Lead

• Paul Giamatti (Sideways)
• Jeff Bridges (The Door in the Floor)
• Jamie Foxx (Redemption)
• Kevin Bacon (The Woodsman)
• Liam Neeson (Kinsey)

Best Female Lead

• Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full of Grace)
• Judy Marte (On the Outs)
• Kyra Sedgwick (Cavedweller)
• Kimberly Elise (Woman Thou Art Loosed)
• Vera Farmiga (Down to the Bone)

Best Supporting Male

• Thomas Haden Church (Sideways)
• Jon Gries (Napoleon Dynamite)
• Aidan Quinn (Cavedweller)
• Peter Sarsgaard (Kinsey)
• Roger Robinson (Brother to Brother)

Best Supporting Female

• Virginia Madsen (Sideways)
• Cate Blanchett (Coffee and Cigarettes)
• Robin Simmons (Robbing Peter)
• Loretta Devine (Woman Thou Art Loosed)
• Yenny Paola Vega (Maria Full of Grace)

Best Debut Performance

• Rodrigo de la Serna (The Motorcycle Diaries)
• Anthony Mackie (Brother to Brother)
• Hannah Pilkes (The Woodsman)
• David Sullivan (Primer)
• Louie Olivos Jr. (Robbing Peter)

Best Screenplay

• Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor (Sideways)
• Tod Williams (The Door in the Floor)
• Bill Condon (Kinsey)
• Dennis Haggerty, Mario Van Peebles (How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass)
• Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater (Before Sunset)

Best First Screenplay

• Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace)
• Rodney Evans (Brother to Brother)
• Shane Carruth (Primer)
• Zach Braff (Garden State)
• Mario F. de la Vega (Robbing Peter)

Best Cinematography

• Eric Gautier (The Motorcycle Diaries)
• Tim Orr (Dandelion)
• Ryan Little (Saints and Soldiers)
• David Greene (Redemption)
• Maryse Alberti (We Don't Live Here Anymore)

Best Documentary Feature

• Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky)
• Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed (Shola Lynch)
• Bright Leaves (Ross McElwee)
• Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust (Menachem Daum, Oren Rudavsky)
• Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette)

Best International Film

• The Sea Inside (Alejandro Amenábar)
• Red Lights (Cédric Kahn)
• Oasis (Chang-dong Lee)
• Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar)
• Yesterday (Darrell Roodt)

Special Distinction Award

• Mean Creek (Rory Culkin, Ryan Kelley, Scott Mechlowicz, Trevor Morgan, Josh Peck, Carly Schroeder)

John Cassavetes Award

• Jacob Aaron Estes, Susan Johnson, Rick Rosenthal, Hagai Shaham (Mean Creek)
• Debra Granik, Susan Leber, Richard Lieske, Anne Rosellini (Down to the Bone)
• Mario F. de la Vega, T. Todd Flinchum, Lisa Y. Garibay (Robbing Peter)
• Lori Silverbush, Michael Skolnik (On the Outs)
• Sean Bachrodt, Seth Eisman, Chachi Senior, Ferenc Tóth (Unknown Soldier)

Truer than Fiction Award

• Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids (Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman)
• Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed (Shola Lynch)
• Farmingville (Carlos Sandoval, Catherine Tambini)
• Control Room (Jehane Noujaim)

Someone to Watch Award

• Jem Cohen (Chain)
• Bryan Poyser (Dear Pillow)
• Jennifer Todd Reeves (The Time We Killed)

Producers Award

• Gina Kwon (The Motel)
• Gina Kwon (The Good Girl)
• Gina Kwon (Me and You and Everyone We Know)
• Sean Covel, Chris Wyatt (Napoleon Dynamite)
• Sean Covel, Chris Wyatt (Think Tank)
• Danielle Renfrew Behrens (November)
• Danielle Renfrew Behrens (Groove)