26th Independent Spirit Awards

The 26th Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best independent films of 2010, were presented on February 26, 2011.^[1][2][3] The nominations were announced on November 30, 2010.^[4][5][6] The ceremony was hosted by Joel McHale.^[7]

26th Independent Spirit Awards
Awarded for	Best in independent film
Date	February 26, 2011
Site	Santa Monica Pier Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Hosted by	Joel McHale
Highlights
Best Feature	Black Swan
Most awards	Black Swan (4)
Most nominations	Winter's Bone (7)
Television coverage
Channel	IFC
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Winners and nominees

Darren Aronofsky, Best Director winner.

James Franco, Best Male Lead winner.

Natalie Portman, Best Female Lead winner.

John Hawkes, Best Supporting Male winner.

Dale Dickey, Best Supporting Female winner.

Best Feature	Best Director
Black Swan 127 Hours Greenberg The Kids Are All Right Winter's Bone	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 Male Lead	Best Female Lead
James Franco – 127 Hours Ronald Bronstein – Daddy Longlegs Aaron Eckhart – Rabbit Hole John C. Reilly – Cyrus Ben Stiller – Greenberg	Natalie Portman – Black Swan Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right Greta Gerwig – Greenberg Nicole Kidman – Rabbit Hole Jennifer Lawrence – Winter's Bone Michelle Williams – Blue Valentine
Best Supporting Male	Best Supporting Female
John Hawkes – Winter's Bone Samuel L. Jackson – Mother and Child Bill Murray – Get Low John Ortiz – Jack Goes Boating Mark Ruffalo – The Kids Are All Right	Dale Dickey – Winter's Bone Ashley Bell – The Last Exorcism Allison Janney – Life During Wartime Daphne Rubin-Vega – Jack Goes Boating Naomi Watts – Mother and Child
Best Screenplay	Best First Screenplay
Stuart Blumberg and Lisa Cholodenko – The Kids Are All Right Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini – Winter's Bone Nicole Holofcener – Please Give David Lindsay-Abaire – Rabbit Hole Todd Solondz – Life During Wartime	Lena Dunham – Tiny Furniture Diane Bell – Obselidia Nik Fackler – Lovely, Still Robert Glaudini – Jack Goes Boating Dana Adam Shapiro and Evan M. Wiener – Monogamy
Best First Feature	Best Documentary Feature
Get Low Everything Strange and New The Last Exorcism Night Catches Us Tiny Furniture	Exit Through the Gift Shop Marwencol Restrepo Sweetgrass Thunder Soul
Best Cinematography	Best Foreign Film
Matthew Libatique – Black Swan Adam Kimmel – Never Let Me Go Jody Lee Lipes – Tiny Furniture Michael McDonough – Winter's Bone Harris Savides – Greenberg	The King's Speech • United Kingdom Kisses • Ireland Mademoiselle Chambon • France Of Gods and Men • France Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives • Thailand

Films with multiple nominations and awards

Films that received multiple nominations

Nominations	Film
7	Winter's Bone
5	The Kids Are All Right
4	Black Swan
	Greenberg
	Rabbit Hole
3	127 Hours
	Jack Goes Boating
	Tiny Furniture
2	Daddy Longlegs
	Get Low
	The Last Exorcism
	Life During Wartime
	Marwencol
	Mother and Child
	Obselidia
	Sweetgrass

Films that won multiple awards

Awards	Film
4	Black Swan
2	Winter's Bone

Special awards

John Cassavetes Award

Daddy Longlegs

• The Exploding Girl
• Lbs.
• Lovers of Hate
• Obselidia

Truer Than Fiction Award

Jeff Malmberg – Marwencol

• Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor – Sweetgrass
• Lynn True and Nelson Walker III – Summer Pasture

Piaget Producers Award

Anish Savjani – Meek's Cutoff

• In-Ah Lee – Au Revoir Taipei
• Adele Romanski – The Myth of the American Sleepover

Someone to Watch Award

Mike Ott – Littlerock

• Hossein Keshavarz – Dog Sweat
• Laurel Nakadate – The Wolf Knife

Robert Altman Award

• Please Give – Nicole Holofcener, Jeanne McCarthy, Ann Guilbert, Rebecca Hall, Catherine Keener, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Lois Smith, and Sarah Steele