23rd Independent Spirit Awards

The 23rd Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 2007, were announced on February 23, 2008. It was hosted by Rainn Wilson.^{[1][2] [3][4][5]}

23rd Independent Spirit Awards
Date	February 23, 2008
Site	U.S.
Hosted by	Rainn Wilson
Highlights
Best Film	Juno
Most awards	Juno (3)
Most nominations	Juno (4) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (4) I'm Not There (4) The Savages (4)
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Winners and nominees

Julian Schnabel, Best Director winner

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Best Male Lead winner

Elliot Page, Best Female Lead winner

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Best Supporting Male winner

Cate Blanchett, Best Supporting Female winner

Best Feature	Best Director
Juno The Diving Bell and the Butterfly I'm Not There A Mighty Heart Paranoid Park	Julian Schnabel – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Todd Haynes – I'm Not There Tamara Jenkins – The Savages Jason Reitman – Juno Gus Van Sant – Paranoid Park
Best Male Lead	Best Female Lead
Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Savages Pedro Castaneda – August Evening Don Cheadle – Talk to Me Frank Langella – Starting Out in the Evening Tony Leung – Lust, Caution	Elliot Page – Juno Angelina Jolie – A Mighty Heart Sienna Miller – Interview Parker Posey – Broken English Tang Wei – Lust, Caution
Best Supporting Male	Best Supporting Female
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	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 Screenplay	Best First Screenplay
The Savages – Tamara Jenkins The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – Ronald Harwood Starting Out in the Evening – Fred Parnes and Andrew Wagner Waitress – Adrienne Shelly Year of the Dog – Mike White	Juno – Diablo Cody Before the Devil Knows You're Dead – Kelly Masterson Broken English – Zoe Cassavetes A Mighty Heart – John Orloff Rocket Science – Jeffrey Blitz
Best First Feature	Best Documentary
The Lookout 2 Days in Paris Great World of Sound Rocket Science Vanaja	Crazy Love Lake of Fire Manufactured Landscapes The Monastery The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair
Best Cinematography	Best Foreign Film
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – Janusz Kamiński Lust, Caution – Rodrigo Prieto The Savages – W. Mott Hupfel III Vanaja – Milton Kam Youth Without Youth – Mihai Mălaimare Jr.	Once • Ireland 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days • Romania The Band's Visit • Israel Lady Chatterley • France Persepolis • France

Films with multiple nominations and awards

Films that received multiple nominations

Nominations	Film
4	Juno
	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
	I'm Not There
	The Savages
3	A Mighty Heart
	Lust, Caution
2	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
	Broken English
	Great World of Sound
	Paranoid Park
	Rocket Science
	Starting Out in the Evening
	Talk to Me

Films that won multiple awards

Awards	Film
3	Juno
2	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
	The Savages

Special awards

John Cassavetes Award

August Evening

• Owl and the Sparrow
• The Pool
• Quiet City
• Shotgun Stories

Truer Than Fiction Award

The Unforeseen

• Helvetica
• Running Stumbled

Producers Award

Neil Kopp – Paranoid Park and Old Joy

• Alexis Ferris – Cthulhu and Police Beat
• Anne Clements – Ping Pong Playa and Quinceañera

Someone to Watch Award

Ramin Bahrani – Chop Shop

• Ronald Bronstein – Frownland
• Lee Isaac Chung – Munyurangabo

Robert Altman Award

(*Note: This award is given to its director, casting director, and ensemble cast)

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

External links

• 2007 Spirit Awards at IMDb
• Full official show on YouTube