The Spirit Award Winners

the winners....

Best Feature: The Wrestler

Best Director: Tom McCarthy, The Visitor

Best Male Lead: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

Best Female Lead: Melissa Leo, Frozen River

Best Supporting Male: James Franco, Milk

Best Supporting Female: Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Best Foreign Film: The Class

Best Documentary: Man on Wire

Best Screenplay: Woody Allen, Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Best First Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black, Milk

Best First Feature: Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York

Best Cinematography: Maryse Alberti, The Wrestler

Piaget Producers Award: Heather Rae, Frozen River

John Cassavetes Award: In Search of a Midnight Kiss

Acura Someone to Watch Award: Lynn Shelton, My Effortless Brilliance

Lacoste Truer Than Fiction Award: Margaret Brown, The Order of Myths

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, Diane Weist, Michelle Williams, Synecdoche, New York