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2008 Spirit Award Nominations

2008 Spirit Award Nominations

Actors Lisa Kudrow and Zach Braff announced the 2008 Film Independent’s Spirit Award nominations at Sofitel LA on Tuesday in Los Angeles.

Best feature nominations: “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” “I’m Not There,” “Juno,” “A Mighty Heart” and “Paranoid Park.”

Best actress nominations: Angelina Jolie ( “A Mighty Heart”), Sienna Miller (”Interview”), Ellen Page (”Juno”), Parker Posey (”Broken English”) and Tang Wei (”Lust, Caution”).

Best actor nominations: Pedro Castaneda (”August Evening”), Don Cheadle (”Talk to Me”), Philip Seymour Hoffman (”The Savages”), Frank Langella (”Starting Out in the Evening”) and Ton Leung (”Lust, Caution”).

Besides the two aforementioned nominations for A Mighty Heart, John Orloff was also nominated for Best first screenplay.

Complete list of nominees and more pictures inside…

2008 Spirit Award Nominations

Best feature
“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
“I’m Not There”
“Juno”
“A Mighty Heart”
“Paranoid Park”

Best director
Todd Haynes, “I’m Not There”
Tamara Jenkins, “The Savages”
Jason Reitman, “Juno”
Julian Schnabel, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
Gus Van Sant, “Paranoid Park”

Best first feature
“2 Days in Paris”
“Great World of Sound”
“The Lookout”
“Rocket Science”
“Vanaja”

John Cassavetes Award
“August Evening”
“Owl and the Sparrow”
“The Pool”
“Quiet City”
“Shotgun Stories”

Best screenplay
Ronald Harwood, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
Tamara Jenkins, “The Savages”
Fred Parnes & Andrew Wagner, “Starting Out in the Evening”
Adrienne Shelly, “Waitress”
Mike White, “Year of the Dog”

Best first screenplay
Jeffrey Blitz, “Rocket Science”
Zoe Cassavetes, “Broken English”
Diablo Cody, “Juno”
Kelly Masterson, “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead”
John Orloff, “A Mighty Heart”

Best female lead
Angelina Jolie, “A Mighty Heart”
Sienna Miller, “Interview”
Ellen Page, “Juno”
Parker Posey, “Broken English”
Tang Wei, “Lust, Caution”

Best male lead
Pedro Castaneda, “August Evening”
Don Cheadle, “Talk to Me”
Philip Seymour Hoffman, “The Savages”
Frank Langella, “Starting Out in the Evening”
Tony Leung, “Lust, Caution”

Best supporting female
Cate Blanchett, “I’m Not There”
Anna Kendrick, “Rocket Science”
Jennifer Jason Leigh, “Margot at the Wedding”
Tamara Podemski, “Four Sheets to the Wind”
Marisa Tomei, “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead”

Best supporting male
Chiwetel Ejiofor, “Talk to Me”
Marcus Carl Franklin, “I’m Not There”
Kene Holliday, “Great World of Sound”
Irrfan Khan, “The Namesake”
Steve Zahn, “Rescue Dawn”

Best cinematography
Mott Hupfel, “The Savages”
Janusz Kaminski, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
Milton Kam, “Vanaja”
Mihai Malaimare, Jr., “Youth Without Youth”
Rodrigo Prieto, “Lust, Caution”

Best documentary
“Crazy Love”
“Lake of Fire”
“Manufactured Landscapes”
“The Monastery”
“The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair”

Best foreign film
“4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” Romania
“The Band’s Visit,” Israel
“Lady Chatterley,” France
“Once,” Ireland
“Persepolis,” France

Robert Altman Award
“I’m Not There,” Todd Haynes (director); Laura Rosenthal (casting director); Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Ben Whishaw, Marcus Carl Franklin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bruce Greenwood (ensemble cast)

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i am very happy of the nom.but i love it if vajenjen did the announcemennnnnnt.both from “FREAKS”

http://filmindependent.org/spiritawards/register_to_vote.php

if you watched A Mighty Heart and if you liked it you can vote for it here!

200 losers :

And that is as close as she will ever get to him, on a yellow page underneath Celeberity Babies. Give it up. Peace.

#200…freaktard!wers anjies name?

200 losers : 11/27/2007 at 7:34 pm

:lol: To a loser like you, obviously, any connection, just any connection, no matter how wispy, to the true stars, will do … :lol:

Observer2 @ 11/27/2007 at 7:50 pm

201
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And Angelina is on top of Brad, riding him hard. Wonder what Brad prefers? Oh, that’s right, he prefers Angelina.

Jolie-Pitt @ 11/27/2007 at 7:56 pm

Satellite Award Nominations Coming Out Nov.30(Friday)!!

Congrads to all the nominees,especially Angelina and Brad,and everyone involved im making one of the best films of the year IMHO.

THINK POSITIVE! @ 11/27/2007 at 8:08 pm

205 lylian : 11/27/2007 at 7:49 pm

200 losers : 11/27/2007 at 7:34 pm

:lol: To a loser like you, obviously, any connection, just any connection, no matter how wispy, to the true stars, will do … :lol:
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206 Observer2 : 11/27/2007 at 7:50 pm

201
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And Angelina is on top of Brad, riding him hard. Wonder what Brad prefers? Oh, that’s right, he prefers Angelina.
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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

They are gonna show a Daily Show with Jon Stewart repeat that had Angelina Jolie on as a guest.

Passing Through @ 11/27/2007 at 8:18 pm

173 broadcastinglive : 11/27/2007 at 5:54 pm

Get Lisa away from Zach right now! Before he ruins her!

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If working with X for 10 years didn’t ruin her, then nothing will. So chill.

http://www.beliefnet.com/mipy/2007/vote.html

Prof. Liviu Librescu
40%

Wesley Autrey
6%

Angelina Jolie
29%

Maj. Scott Southworth
3%

Luma Mufleh
10%

Majora Carter
2%

Don Cheadle
1%

Dr. Catherine Hamlin
4%

Tony Dungy
4%

Barbara Morgan
0%
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Keep voting for Angie.

what i love about angelina is that no matter how bad the media potrays her, she always win. i do pray she wins this award so that she could shut off the haters

Congratulations to Angie !

vickifromtexas @ 11/27/2007 at 8:28 pm

i just saw AMH the other night and i thought angelina did such a wonderful job. she captured marianne’s quiet dignity and portrayed the anguish so vividly it was palpable. congrats to angie and brad and everyone who was a part of this very timely snd incredibly moving film.

Passing Through @ 11/27/2007 at 8:29 pm

194 Jolie-Pitt : 11/27/2007 at 7:19 pm
Isn’t it ironic that Lisa Kudrow, a Team Aniston is announcing Jolie and AMH’s nominations.

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Ummmm….it’s not quite so cut-and-dried as that. You will notice who is always absent from X’s life post-Friends. There have been photos of X on several occasions with Matthew Perry & Matt LeBlanc going to lunch or on the beach or wherever. Now ask yourself where are similar photos of her with Lisa Kudrow or David Schwimmer.

Don’t believe the Faniston myth about how the 6 of them are such great “friends”. 2 of them are great friends. 4 of them a really good friends. And the other 2 distance themselves from X-related events for a good reason - they think she’s a neurotic phony. Don’t know how they could’ve ever come to that conclusion…

Now watch a Faniston come along and throw a hissy…and whoever you are? You’d better have photographic evidence to make your case. Lots of nice friendly photos of X with Kudrow and/or Schwimmer post-Friends. Happy snipe hunting.

My bad, my bad, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Sorry, but this is so hilarious

I just had to bring this over from the old thread. Guess who has been impersonating jill?

1006 jill : 11/27/2007 at 8:14 pm
sorry to say but most of brad pitt movies sucked.a bomb at the box office.now i know why.the guy has no taste for the common people.all the movies he done recently is for the elite for the intellect only.he lose the taste of the common people.

Lynn Campbell @ 11/27/2007 at 8:30 pm

I am happy for everyone involved with A Mighty Heart for their nominations. This was quite a collaberation between Brad and Angelina, and a very risky one, too, IMO. If it had not turned out well, the critics would not have been kind. But it is a wonderful movie, with great acting and great directing, filmed under very difficult circumstances. Brad and Angelina can be proud of a job well done on a project that meant a great deal to both of them. Most of all, they did well on behalf of Daniel, Marianne, and Adam.

Passing Through @ 11/27/2007 at 8:32 pm

196 THINK POSITIVE! : 11/27/2007 at 7:24 pm

Just because Lisa played on Friends it doesn’t mean that she’s team anything. She has never said anything like that and she has been barely seen with X throughout all the years of Friends. There is no drama.

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TP has brought up a point that I didn’t even consider - how Kudrow didn’t hang out with X during the show either. Hmmmm…maybe it was because she had a family of her own? Nahhhh…so did Courteney and X still leached onto her like a barnacle to a wrecked ship.

200 losers : 11/27/2007 at 7:34 pm
209 THINK POSITIVE! : 11/27/2007 at 8:08 pm
I have to say I never noticed (I did scroll up to look)
Let it go, does not promote a good vibration (endless pity, victimization) for JA. Her fans need to forget about the marriage and the divorce and stop collectively seeing her as anyone’s victim to be pitied. Not a good vibration to put out there about anyone you profess to admire.

Passing Through @ 11/27/2007 at 8:36 pm

200 losers : 11/27/2007 at 7:34 pm
did u loons notice how jennifer’s name is right next to brads,under just jared . com,,awwwwwww thats so cute,, da way it should be. ,,jen will never let aj win ,,jen will win for her old movies be4 dat happens.

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Somebody help me out…WTF is this person trying to say? My Gibberish interpretation skills are rusty.

213 kay : 11/27/2007 at 8:20 pm

what i love about Angelina is that no matter how bad the media portrays her, she always win. i do pray she wins this award so that she could shut off the haters
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Angelina inspires her fans to have a positive vibrations about her
so sticks and stones, just fall away or beat her detractors. I don’t believe winning the award will stop her detractors, but the fans, we will rejoice!!! and like the the lady said before, we may just gloat a teeny bit.

Never thought Kudrow’s a close friend of X. In all the years of Friends never saw pix of her hanging out with X and CC. Anyway she’s always my fave “Friend” partly becos she never seem close to X and CC both on and off-screen. She appeared very independent.

200 losers : 11/27/2007 at 7:34 pm
did u loons notice how jennifer’s name is right next to brads,

Yeah, isn’t that pathetic? Aniston is only remembered as “a woman who failed Brad Pitt”. She is defined by her failure in marriage, not by her work or talent. Really sad and to be pitied. Miss Aniston = Miss Pity.

221 Passing Through : 11/27/2007 at 8:36 pm
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I think this person is talking about JA being one of the academy award voters, the not letting AJ win part and she is thrilled at JA name being next to Brads at the beginning of this site. Unbelievable!

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