The Nominees Of The 2012 Independent Spirit Awards. I Want THE ARTIST To Win!

Via indiewire, The 27th Film Independent Spirit Awards has unleashed their nominees, announced today by Anthony Mackie and Kate Beckinsale. This usually makes good indicator for what the Oscars will be considering.
Tough competition, I think the contenders for the top categories (Best Feature, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress) are all worthy but I’d have to go with THE ARTIST, I hope it gets the most win, that film just absolutely blew my mind, it was the most original thing I’ve seen this year.

Check out the list of nominees below, which ones are your favorite to win?..

BEST FEATURE

50/50
Beginners
Drive
Take Shelter
The Artist
The Descendants

BEST DIRECTOR

Mike Mills – “Beginners”
Nicolas Winding Refn – “Drive”
Jeff Nichols – “Take Shelter”
Michel Hazanavicius – “The Artist”
Alexander Payne – “The Descendants”

BEST FIRST FEATURE

“Another Earth”
“In The Family”
“Margin Call”
“Martha Marcy May Marlene”
“Natural Selection”

BEST MALE LEAD

Demian Bichir – “A Better Life”
Jean Dujardin – “The Artist”
Ryan Gosling – “Drive”
Woody Harrelson – “Rampart”
Michael Shannon – “Take Shelter”

BEST FEMALE LEAD

Lauren Ambrose – “Think Of Me”
Rachel Harris – “Natural Selection”
Adepero Oduye – “Pariah”
Elizabeth Olsen – “Martha Marcy May Marlene”
Michelle Williams – “My Week With Marilyn”

BEST SUPPORTING MALE

Albert Brooks – “Drive”
John Hawkes – “Martha Marcy May Marlene”
Christopher Plummer – “Beginners”
John C. Reilly – “Cedar Rapids”
Corey Stoll – “Midnight In Paris”

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE

Jessica Chastain – “Take Shelter”
Angelica Huston – “50/50″
Janet McTeer – “Albert Nobbs”
Harmony Santana – “Gun Hill Road”
Shaileen Woodley – “The Descendants”

JOHN CASSAVETTES AWARD

“Bellflower”
“Circumstance”
“Hello Lonesome”
“Pariah”
“The Dynamiter

BEST DOCUMENTARY

“An African Election”
“Bill Cunningham New York”
“The Interrupters”
“The Redemption of General Butt Naked”
“We Were Here”

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

“A Separation”
“Melancholia”
“Shame”
“The Kid With A Bike”
“Tyrannosaur”

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Joel Hodge – “Bellflower”
Benjamin Kuh-Sulk – “The Off Hours”
Darius Khondji – “Midnight In Paris”
Guillaume Shiffman “The Artist”
Jeffrey Waldron – “The Dynamiter”

BEST SCREENPLAY

Joseph Cedar – “Footnote”
Michel Hazanivicius – “The Artist”
Tom McCarthy – “Win Win”
Mike Mills – “Beginners”
Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash – “The Descendants”

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY

Mike Cahill & Brit Marling – “Another Earth”
J.C. Chandor – “Margin Call”
Patreck DeWitt – “Terri”
Phil Johnston – “Cedar Rapids”
Will Reiser – “50/50″

TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD

Heather Courtney
Danfung Dennis
Alma Har’El

PIAGET PRODUCER AWARD

Chad Burris
Sophia Lin
Josh Mond

SOMEONE TO WATCH

Simon Arthur
Mark Jackson
Nicholas Ozeki

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD – “Margin Call”