Film Independent Spirit Awards

Best Feature

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Michael Gottwald, Dan Janvey and Josh Penn

Bernie

Liz Glotzer, Richard Linklater, David McFadzean, Dete Meserve , Judd Payne, Celine Rattray, Martin Shafer, Ginger Sledge and Matt Williams

Keep the Lights On

Marie Therese Guirgis, Lucas Joaquin and Ira Sachs

Moonrise Kingdom

Wes Anderson, Jeremy Dawson, Steven Rales and Scott Rudin

Silver Linings Playbook

Bruce Cohen, Donna Gigliotti and Jonathan Gordon

Best Director

Wes Anderson

Moonrise Kingdom

Julia Loktev

The Loneliest Planet

David O. Russell

Silver Linings Playbook

Ira Sachs

Keep the Lights On

Benh Zeitlin

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Female Lead

Linda Cardellini

Return

Emayatzy Corinealdi

Middle of Nowhere

Jennifer Lawrence

Silver Linings Playbook

Quvenzhané Wallis

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Smashed

Best Male Lead

Jack Black

Bernie

Bradley Cooper

Silver Linings Playbook

John Hawkes

The Sessions

Thure Lindhardt

Keep the Lights On

Matthew McConaughey

Killer Joe

Wendell Pierce

Four

Best Supporting Female

Rosemarie DeWitt

Your Sister’s Sister

Ann Dowd

Compliance

Helen Hunt

The Sessions

Brit Marling

Sound of My Voice

Lorraine Toussaint

Middle of Nowhere

Best Supporting Male

Matthew McConaughey

Magic Mike

David Oyelowo

Middle of Nowhere

Michael Peña

End of Watch

Sam Rockwell

Seven Psychopaths

Bruce Willis

Moonrise Kingdom

Best Screenplay

Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola

Moonrise Kingdom

Zoe Kazan

Ruby Sparks

Martin McDonagh

Seven Psychopaths

David O. Russell

Silver Linings Playbook

Ira Sachs, Mauricio Zacharias

Keep the Lights On

Best Cinematography

Yoni Brook

Valley of the Saints

Lol Crawley

Here

Ben Richardson

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Roman Vasyanova

End of Watch

Robert Yeoman

Moonrise Kingdom

Best Documentary

How to Survive a Plague

David France, Howard Gertler

Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present

Matthew Akers, Maro Chermayeff, Jeff Dupre

The Central Park Five

Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon

The Invisible War

Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering and Tanner King Barklow

The Waiting Room

Peter Nicks, Linda Davis and William B. Hirsch

Best First Feature

Fill the Void

Rama Burshtein, Assaf Amir

Gimme the Loot

Adam Leon
, Dominic Buchanan, Natalie Difford and Jamund Washington

Safety Not Guaranteed

Colin Trevorrow, Derek Connolly, Stephanie Langhoff, Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub

Sound of My Voice

Zal Batmanglij, Brit Marling, Hans Ritter and Shelley Surpin

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky, Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich and Russell Smith

Best First Screenplay

Rama Burshtein

Fill the Void

Derek Connolly

Safety Not Guaranteed

Christopher Ford

Robot & Frank

Rashida Jones & Will McCormack

Celeste and Jesse Forever

Jonathan Lisecki

Gayby

Best International Film

Amour

Michael Haneke

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Rust and Bone

Jacques Audiard

Sister

Ursula Meier

War Witch

Kim Nguyen

John Cassavetes Award

Breakfast with Curtis

Laura Colella

Middle of Nowhere

Ava DuVernay, Howard Barish, Paul Garnes

Mosquita y Mari

Aurora Guerrero, Chad Burris

Starlet

Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch, Blake Ashman-Kipervaser, Kevin Chinoy, Patrick Cunningham, Chris Maybach and Francesca Silvestri

The Color Wheel

Alex Ross Perry, Carlen Altman

Robert Altman Award

Starlet

Sean Baker, Julia Kim, Dree Hemingway,Besedka Johnson, Karren Karagulian, Stella Maeve, James Ransone

Someone to Watch Award

David Fenster

Pincus

Adam Leon

Gimme the Loot

Rebecca Thomas

Electrick Children

Piaget Producers Award

Mynette Louie

Derrick Tseng

Alicia Van Couvering

Stella Artois Truer Than Fiction Award

Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel

Leviathan

Peter Nicks

The Waiting Room

Jason Tippet & Elizabeth Mims

Only the Young