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Nominees
Best Feature
Ballast
Lance Hammer, Nina Parikh
Frozen River
Chip Hourihan, Heather Rae
Rachel Getting Married
Neda Armian, Jonathan Demme, Marc Platt
Wendy and Lucy
Larry Fessenden, Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani
The Wrestler
Darren Aronofsky, Scott Franklin
Best Director
Ramin Bahrani
Chop Shop
Jonathan Demme
Rachel Getting Married
Lance Hammer
Ballast
Courtney Hunt
Frozen River
Tom McCarthy
The Visitor
Best First Feature
Afterschool
Antonio Campos, Sean Durkin, Josh Mond
Medicine for Melancholy
Barry Jenkins, Justin Barber
Sangre De Mi Sangre
Christopher Zalla, Per Melita, Benjamin Odell
Sleep Dealer
Alex Rivera, Anthony Bregman
Synecdoche, New York
Charlie Kaufman, Anthony Bregman, Spike Jonze, Sidney Kimmel
John Cassavetes Award
In Search of a Midnight Kiss
Alex Holdridge, Seth Caplan, Scoot McNairy
Prince of Broadway
Sean Baker, Darren Dean
The Signal
David Bruckner, Dan Bush, Jacob Gentry, Alexander Motlagh
Take Out
Sean Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou
Turn the River
Chris Eigeman, Ami Armstrong
Best Screenplay
Woody Allen
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck
Sugar
Charlie Kaufman
Synecdoche, New York
Howard A. Rodman
Savage Grace
Christopher Zalla
Sangre De Mi Sangre
Best First Screenplay
Dustin Lance Black
Milk
Lance Hammer
Ballast
Courtney Hunt
Frozen River
Jonathan Levine
The Wackness
Jenny Lumet
Rachel Getting Married
Best Female Lead
Summer Bishil
Towelhead
Anne Hathaway
Rachel Getting Married
Melissa Leo
Frozen River
Tarra Riggs
Ballast
Michelle Williams
Wendy and Lucy
Best Male Lead
Javier Bardem
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Richard Jenkins
The Visitor
Sean Penn
Milk
Jeremy Renner
The Hurt Locker
Mickey Rourke
The Wrestler
Best Supporting Female
Penélope Cruz
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Rosemarie DeWitt
Rachel Getting Married
Rosie Perez
The Take
Misty Upham
Frozen River
Debra Winger
Rachel Getting Married
Best Supporting Male
James Franco
Milk
Anthony Mackie
The Hurt Locker
Charlie McDermott
Frozen River
JimMyron Ross
Ballast
Haaz Sleiman
The Visitor
Best Foreign Film
The Class
Laurent Cantet
Gomorra
Matteo Garrone
Hunger
Steve McQueen
Secret of the Grain
Abdellatif Kechiche
Silent Light
Carlos Reygadas
Best Documentary
The Betrayal
Ellen Kuras & Thavisouk Phrasavath
Encounters at the End of the World
Werner Herzog
Man on Wire
James Marsh
The Order of Myths
Margaret Brown
Up the Yangtze
Yung Chang
Best Cinematography
Maryse Alberti
The Wrestler
Lol Crawley
Ballast
James Laxton
Medicine for Melancholy
Harris Savides
Milk
Michael Simmonds
Chop Shop
Robert Altman Award
Charlie Kaufman (Director), Jeanne McCarthy (Casting Director), Hope Davis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Catherine Keener, Samantha Morton, Tom Noonan, Emily Watson, Dianne Wiest, Michelle Williams
Synecdoche, New York
Piaget Producers Award
Lars Knudsen and Jay Van Hoy
Treeless Mountain
,
I'll Come Running
Jason Orans
Goodbye Solo
,
Year of the Fish
Heather Rae
Frozen River
,
Ibid
Acura Someone to Watch Award
Barry Jenkins
Medicine for Melancholy
Nina Paley
Sita Sings the Blues
Lynn Shelton
My Effortless Brilliance
Lacoste Truer Than Fiction Award
Margaret Brown
The Order of Myths
Sacha Gervasi
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Darius Marder
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