2009 Film Independent Spirit Awards Winners

Best Picture

The Wrestler

Best Director

Tom McCarthy (The Visitor)

Best Screenplay

Woody Allen (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)

Cinematographer

Maryse Alberti (The Wrestler)

Male lead

Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)

Female lead

Melissa Leo (Frozen River)

Supporting female

Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)

Supporting male

James Franco (Milk)

Foreign film

 The Class

Documentary

Man on Wire

First feature

Charlie Kaufman (Synecdoche, New York)

First screenplay

Dustin Lance Black (Milk)

John Cassavetes Award (for best feature made for less than $500,000)

Alex Holdridge (In Search of a Midnight Kiss)

Acura Someone to Watch Award

Lynn Shelton (My Effortless Brilliance)

Piaget Producers Award

Heather Rae (Frozen River)

Lacoste Truer Than Fiction Award

Margaret Brown (The Order of Myths)

Robert Altman Award (for film’s director, casting director and its ensemble cast)

Synecdoche, New York

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