25th Independent Spirit Awards

The 25th Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best independent films of 2009, were presented on March 5, 2010.^[1][2][3] The nominations were announced on December 1, 2009.^[4] The ceremony was hosted by Eddie Izzard.^[5]

25th Independent Spirit Awards
Awarded for	Best in independent film
Date	March 5, 2010
Site	Santa Monica Pier Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Hosted by	Eddie Izzard
Highlights
Best Feature	Precious
Most awards	Precious (5)
Most nominations	Precious (5) The Last Station (5)
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Winners and nominees

Lee Daniels, Best Director winner

Jeff Bridges, Best Male Lead winner

Gabourey Sidibe, Best Female Lead winner

Woody Harrelson, Best Supporting Male winner

Mo'Nique, Best Supporting Female winner

Scott Neustadter, Best Screenplay co-winner

Best Feature	Best Director
Precious (500) Days of Summer Amreeka The Last Station Sin nombre	Lee Daniels – Precious Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – A Serious Man Cary Joji Fukunaga – Sin nombre James Gray – Two Lovers Michael Hoffman – The Last Station
Best Male Lead	Best Female Lead
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart Colin Firth – A Single Man Joseph Gordon-Levitt – (500) Days of Summer Souléymane Sy Savané – Goodbye Solo Adam Scott – The Vicious Kind	Gabourey Sidibe – Precious Maria Bello – Downloading Nancy Nisreen Faour – Amreeka Helen Mirren – The Last Station Gwyneth Paltrow – Two Lovers
Best Supporting Male	Best Supporting Female
Woody Harrelson – The Messenger Jemaine Clement – Gentlemen Broncos Christian McKay – Me and Orson Welles Ray McKinnon – That Evening Sun Christopher Plummer – The Last Station	Mo'Nique – Precious Dina Korzun – Cold Souls Samantha Morton – The Messenger Natalie Press – Fifty Dead Men Walking Mia Wasikowska – That Evening Sun
Best Screenplay	Best First Screenplay
Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber – (500) Days of Summer Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman – The Messenger Michael Hoffman – The Last Station Lee Toland Krieger – The Vicious Kind Greg Mottola – Adventureland	Geoffrey Fletcher – Precious Sophie Barthes – Cold Souls Scott Cooper – Crazy Heart Cherien Dabis – Amreeka Tom Ford and David Scearce – A Single Man
Best First Feature	Best Documentary
Crazy Heart Easier with Practice The Messenger Paranormal Activity A Single Man	Anvil! The Story of Anvil Food, Inc. More than a Game October Country Which Way Home
Best Cinematography	Best Foreign Film
Roger Deakins – A Serious Man Adriano Goldman – Sin nombre Anne Misawa – Treeless Mountain Andrij Parekh – Cold Souls Peter Zeitlinger – Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans	An Education • France / UK Everlasting Moments • Sweden The Maid • Chile Mother • South Korea A Prophet • France

Films with multiple nominations and awards

Films that received multiple nominations

Nominations	Film
5	The Last Station
	Precious
4	The Messenger
3	(500) Days of Summer
	Amreeka
	Cold Souls
	Crazy Heart
	Sin nombre
	A Single Man
2	A Serious Man
	That Evening Sun
	Two Lovers
	The Vicious Kind

Films that won multiple awards

Awards	Film
5	Precious
2	Crazy Heart

Special awards

John Cassavetes Award

Humpday

• Big Fan
• The New Year Parade
• Treeless Mountain
• Zero Bridge

Truer Than Fiction Award

45365

• Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
• El General

Piaget Producers Award

Karin Chien – The Exploding Girl and Santa Mesa

• Larry Fessenden – The House of the Devil and I Sell the Dead
• Dia Sokol Savage – Beeswax and Nights and Weekends

Someone to Watch Award

Kyle Patrick Alvarez – Easier with Practice

• Asiel Norton – Redland
• Tariq Tapa – Zero Bridge

Robert Altman Award

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