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Indie Spirit Awards Tonight!

post #1 of 13
2/28/04 at 12:42pm
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Anyone else pumped about this show?
I find it much more enjoyable and laid back than the Oscars!
Go Peter Dinklage and Sofie Coppola!!!!
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post #2 of 13
2/28/04 at 1:53pm
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I find it much more enjoyable and laid back than the Oscars!
Agreed on that; at last year's awards, presenters burst into song when introducing the Best Picture nominees, Derek Luke (winning for Antwone Fisher) brought his wife up onstage, and when Emily Mortimer won for Walking and Talking, her husband Alessandro Nivola accepted her award for her and thanked the audience for liking her full-frontal scene. Hardly things you would see at the stuffy Oscars.

And on top of that, this is one of the few award shows that are genuinely, insanely hard to correctly guess who will win, since the nominees are a diverse lot and most have an equal shot at getting the award.

I'm pulling for Agnes Bruckner to win Best Female Lead (Blue Car), Peter Saarsgard for Supporting Male (Shattered Glass) and American Splendor to take home Best Picture.

Show is broadcasting live on IFC in 10 minutes!
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post #3 of 13
2/28/04 at 4:02pm
For those who don't get Bravo or IFC, here are the winners:

BEST FEATURE
Lost in Translation
BEST FIRST FEATURE
Monster
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD (BEST FEATURE MADE UNDER $500,000)
The Station Agent
BEST DIRECTOR
Sofia Coppola, Lost in Translation
BEST MALE LEAD
Bill Murray, Lost in Translation
BEST FEMALE LEAD
Charlize Theron, Monster
BEST SUPPORTING MALE
Djimon Honsou, In America
BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
Shohreh Aghadshloo, House of Sand and Fog
BEST DEBUT PERFORMANCE
Nikki Reed, Thirteen
BEST SCREENPLAY
Sofia Coppola, Lost in Translation
BEST FOREIGN FILM
Whale Rider
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Declan Quinn, In America
BEST DOCUMENTARY
The Fog of War
PRODUCER's AWARD
Mary Jane Skalski, producer of The Station Agent
SPECIAL DISTINCTION AWARD
21 Grams
TURNING LEAF "SOMEONE TO WATCH" AWARD
Andrew Bujalski, director of Funny Ha-Ha
"TRUER THAN FICTION" AWARD
The Lost Boys of Sudan

Great show as usual. The highlights for me:

--Jennifer Aniston and Mike White's onstage banter
--The singalongs were cute as always, especially the one for In America
--Jim Sheridan's acceptance speech...funny and sweet
--Waters' rant on people's reluctance towards foreign films: "'Oh, I'm not seeing foreign films, they have subtitles!' These people deserve to die." Truer words have never been spoken, John
--Jake Gyllenhaal's and Emily Mortimer's reasoning of why home screeners are important.
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post #4 of 13
2/28/04 at 4:07pm
Great show!

Gotta love John Waters' closer - "Next time you go to a movie and they show a commercial, BOO!"

Not much love for my personal favorite underdogs - Raising Victor Vargas and American Splendor - but I was tickled to see Whale Rider take a prize. I have no fuss with LiT wins - it's a wonderful movie.
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post #5 of 13
2/28/04 at 4:37pm
Great show.
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post #6 of 13
2/28/04 at 11:23pm
The luckiest person under the tent tonight? Stuart Townsend. Lucky Bastard. Charlize looked as good as ever. The scary thing is, she'll look even better tonight.
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post #7 of 13
2/29/04 at 4:18am
Wishing death upon people who don't like subtitled movies?



A little perspective here please. Reverse snobbery in action here!
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post #8 of 13
2/29/04 at 7:11am
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Stuart Townsend. Lucky Bastard. Charlize looked as good as ever.
I'd like to know his thoughts on coming to these award shows especially since LOTR's the juggernaut this year. If you don't remember, he was originally cast to play Aragorn but was subsequently fired. I wonder if the situation's cooled down between him and LOTR since then.
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post #9 of 13
2/29/04 at 8:43am
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Wishing death upon people who don't like subtitled movies?



A little perspective here please. Reverse snobbery in action here!



Oh come on Lou, It was a joke.
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post #10 of 13
3/1/04 at 10:16am
Good lawd, Keisha Castle-Hughes...

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/...ghes,%20Keisha

Turn 18 already! :wink:
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post #11 of 13
3/1/04 at 2:05pm
I enjoyed John Waters opening monologue about being responsible for rampant piracy of Pieces of April, especially when Jack Valenti came out, handcuffed him, and hauled him away.

Rob
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post #12 of 13
2/22/09 at 7:21am

Re: Indie Spirit Awards Tonight!

In the middle of watching yesterday's Independent Spirit Awards.
This is my third year in a row to see the awards program and it is one of the most entertaining shows on TV.
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post #13 of 13
2/22/09 at 8:30am

Re: Indie Spirit Awards Tonight!

I didn't like the host as much as the previous ones.

Congrats to The Wrestler for all the awards.

~T
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