BEST FEATURE
Baadasssss!
Kinsey
Maria Full of Grace
Primer
Sideways

BEST FIRST FEATURE
Brother to Brother
Garden State
Napoleon Dynamite
Saints and Soldiers
The Woodsman

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD (Given to the best feature made for under $500,000)
Down to the Bone
Mean Creek
On the Outs
Robbing Peter
Unknown Soldier

BEST DIRECTOR
Shane Carruth, Primer
Joshua Marston, Maria Full of Grace
Alexander Payne, Sideways
Walter Salles, The Motorcycle Diaries
Mario Van Peebles, Baadasssss!

BEST SCREENPLAY
Mario Van Peebles & Dennis Haggerty, Baadasssss!
Richard Linklater & Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke, Before Sunset
Tod Williams, The Door in the Floor
Bill Condon, Kinsey
Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor, Sideways

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Rodney Evans, Brother to Brother
Zach Braff, Garden State
Joshua Marston, Maria Full of Grace
Shane Carruth, Primer
Mario F. De La Vega, Robbing Peter

BEST FEMALE LEAD
Kimberly Elise, Woman Thou Art Loosed
Vera Farmiga, Down to the Bone
Judy Marte, On the Outs
Catalina Sandino Moreno, Maria Full of Grace
Kyra Sedgwick, Cavedweller

BEST MALE LEAD
Kevin Bacon, The Woodsman
Jeff Bridges, The Door in the Floor
Jamie Foxx, Redemption
Paul Giamatti, Sideways
Liam Neeson, Kinsey

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
Cate Blanchett, Coffee and Cigarettes
Loretta Devine, Woman Thou Art Loosed
Virginia Madsen, Sideways
Robin Simmons, Robbing Peter
Yenny Paola Vega, Maria Full of Grace

BEST SUPPORTING MALE
Thomas Haden Church, Sideways
Jon Gries, Napoleon Dynamite
Aidan Quinn, Cavedweller
Roger Robinson, Brother to Brother
Peter Sarsgaard, Kinsey

BEST DEBUT PERFORMANCE (Actors in their first significant role in a feature film)
Anthony Mackie, Brother to Brother
Louie Olivos, Jr., Robbing Peter
Hannah Pilkes, The Woodsman
Rodrigo de la Serna, The Motorcycle Diaries
David Sullivan, Primer

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Tim Orr, Dandelion
Eric Gautier, The Motorcycle Diaries
David Greene, Redemption
Ryan Little, Saints and Soldiers
Maryse Alberti, We Don't Live Here Anymore

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Bright Leaves
Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed
Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Tarnation

BEST FOREIGN FILM
Bad Education (Spain)
Oasis (South Korea)
Red Lights (France)
The Sea Inside (Spain)
Yesterday (South Africa)

SPECIAL DISTINCTION

Ensemble Cast: Mean Creek

Rory Culkin
Ryan Kelley
Scott Mechlowicz
Trevor Morgan
Josh Peck
Carly Schroeder

TURNING LEAF SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD
Jem Cohen, director of Chain
Bryan Poyser, director of Dear Pillow
Jennifer Reeves, director of The Time We Killed

DIRECTV/IFC TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD
Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman for Born Into Brothels
Shola Lynch for Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed
Jehane Noujaim for Control Room
Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini for Farmingville

BRAVO/AMERICAN EXPRESS PRODUCERS AWARD
Gina Kwon, producer of The Good Girl and Me and You and Everyone We Know
Danielle Renfrew, producer of November and Groove
Sean C. Covel and Chris Wyatt, producers of Napoleon Dynamite and Think Tank

Nice to see Kinsey and Sideways keep gaining profile.

I predict Paul Giamatti, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Sideways and Garden State to win.

Surprised that Before Sunset only got a screenplay nomination. Vera Drake wasn't eligible, while Eternal Sunshine's budget is over 20M and thus ineligible as well. Look like Sideways has a leg up to be this year's Far From Heaven. Also they must really love Jamie Foxx and want to give him something to nominate him for such a obscure made-for-TV film.

My predictions:

BEST FEATURE
Sideways

BEST FIRST FEATURE
Garden State

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD (Given to the best feature made for under $500,000)
Mean Creek

BEST DIRECTOR
Alexander Payne, Sideways

BEST SCREENPLAY
Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor, Sideways

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Zach Braff, Garden State

BEST FEMALE LEAD
Catalina Sandino Moreno, Maria Full of Grace

BEST MALE LEAD
Liam Neeson, Kinsey

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
Virginia Madsen, Sideways

BEST SUPPORTING MALE
Peter Sarsgaard, Kinsey

BEST DEBUT PERFORMANCE (Actors in their first significant role in a feature film)
Hannah Pilkes, The Woodsman

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Eric Gautier, The Motorcycle Diaries

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Tarnation

BEST FOREIGN FILM
The Sea Inside (Spain)

Why was Vera Drake not eligible?

I believe that Sideways will sweep.


BEST FEATURE


Sideways

BEST FIRST FEATURE


Garden State


JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD (Given to the best feature made for under $500,000)


Mean Creek


BEST DIRECTOR


Alexander Payne, Sideways



BEST SCREENPLAY


Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor, Sideways

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY


Zach Braff, Garden State


BEST FEMALE LEAD


Catalina Sandino Moreno, Maria Full of Grace


BEST MALE LEAD


Paul Giamatti, Sideways


BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE


Virginia Madsen, Sideways


BEST SUPPORTING MALE


Peter Sarsgaard, Kinsey

BEST DEBUT PERFORMANCE (Actors in their first significant role in a feature film)


Rodrigo de la Serna, The Motorcycle Diaries


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY


Eric Gautier, The Motorcycle Diaries


BEST DOCUMENTARY


Metallica: Some Kind of Monster


BEST FOREIGN FILM


The Sea Inside (Spain)

Agh. I spent like 10 minutes looking to see if the other nominees had been announced yet...and in that time you posted this thread!

Good start for Catalina SAndino Moreno, she stays in my top 5 best actress Oscar contenders.

Sideways...this year's Lost in Translation? Or this year's Far From Heaven?

BEfore Sunset (Julie Deply mainly) being snubbed for the most part is pretty surprising.

This is always lots of fun to watch!

the ISAs definition of a U.S. film:

"A U.S. film is defined as (a) having at least one U.S. citizen or Permanent Resident credited in two or more of the following categories of responsibility: writer, director, producer; or (b) the film is set in the United States and [is] fully financed by a company whose principal office is in the United States."

So Maria Full of Grace is considered a U.S. film since the writer/director is an American, while Vera Drake is considered too foreign. Go figure. :wink:

That's weird.

On the other hand, I am surprised now that it wasn't nominated for Best Foreign either...

Sideways deserves every nomination it got, and it should win them, too.

Here's to it being rewarded at the NBR announcements tomorrow.

No Passion of the christ.

Atleast badass was recognised.

Well, as a matter of fact The Passion's budget was around $25 million making it ilegible.

Im not suprised TPOTC didnt get any noms.The ISA are a very left leaning awards show.

:? Uh, did you just reply to Lecter without reading a single thing he told you?

It didn't get any nominations because...

Well, as a matter of fact The Passion's budget was around $25 million making it ilegible.

Dang Christian Bale got shutout for Machinist in the best actor category. I never heard of the movie Redemption. Whats the movie about?

A biopic about a gang leader, made for TV.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388367/

I thought ilegible meaned that it could have been nominated.Maybe he ment inelegible?

Yeah, that's what Lecter meant. To be eligible, the film's budget has to be under $20M, and they also have a specific category for films that under $500,000.

One complaint I have is that they like to spread the wealth too much. There are 15 slots for Best Feature, Best First Feature, and Best Feature under $500,000, and they chose 15 unique films. Considering the first category is a super-set of the other two, shouldn't there be a film that deserves to be nominated in two or even all three categories?

Lots of love for Maria Full of Grace and Sidways. That doesn't come as much of a surprise, though (I still need to see both of them!).

Also nice to see the even smaller films like Badass and Primer getting some recognition, too (still need to see both of those, too!).

But...

No love for Before Sunset? Screenplay was a given, but I would have at least expected a director nomination.

Where to start...


Of course the ISA has to throw in a film like Primer, one that nobody has seen. But good for Primer. Even though my friend saw it and said it was awful.

I'm not a fan of Baadaasss! being here. It was okay but it was nothing special to me. It's a love letter to his father, so in a way its sentimental.

Where is Fahrenheit 9/11? Surely, with a $6 million budget, it qualified.

Sideways will probably win this.


People are quick to pick Garden State, but which film has had more impact? Most interesting award of the night.


JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD (Given to the best feature made for under $500,000)
Mean Creek

BEST DIRECTOR
Alexander Payne, Sideways

BEST SCREENPLAY
Richard Linklater & Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke, Before Sunset

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Zach Braff, Garden State

BEST FEMALE LEAD
Catalina Sandino Moreno, Maria Full of Grace

BEST MALE LEAD
Paul Giamatti, Sideways

Jamie Foxx gets nominated for a non-Ray and non-Collateral movie? He will not win this award but the Oscar is his.

WOW.

I am stunned and shocked to my utter core that Before Sunset was shutout.
robbed of Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Picture nominations. I'd say cinematography and Best Actor as well, but they arent as strong as the other three and having not seen the other nominees (most of them) I couldn't say!

Nice for Sideways....
I have heard Badaaaasss was amazing, great to see some recognition to a small and mostly unnoticed film. Primer appeared a bunch of times in the nods....

-Bump-

I thought Robbing Peter said rubbing Peter when i read it

4 hours!

WINNERS:
Best Feature
Sideways (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Producer: Michael London

Best Director
Alexander Payne
Sideways (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Best Screenplay
Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor
Sideways (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Best First Feature
Garden State (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Director: Zach Braff
Producers: Pamela Abdy, Gary Gilbert, Dan Halsted, Richard Klubeck

Best First Screenplay
Joshua Marston
Maria Full of Grace (HBO Films/Fine Line Features)

John Cassavetes Award
(For the Best Feature made for under $500,000)
Mean Creek (Paramount Classics)
Writer/Director: Jacob Aaron Estes
Producers: Susan Johnson, Rick Rosenthal, Hagai Shaham

Best Debut Performance*
Rodrigo de la Serna
The Motorcycle Diaries (Focus Features)
*Actors making their first appearance in a feature film

Best Supporting Female
Virginia Madsen
Sideways (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Best Supporting Male
Thomas Haden Church
Sideways (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Best Female Lead
Catalina Sandino Moreno
Maria Full of Grace (HBO Films/Fine Line Features)

Best Male Lead
Paul Giamatti
Sideways (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Best Cinematography
Eric Gautier
The Motorcycle Diaries (Focus Features)

Best Foreign Film
The Sea Inside (Fine Line Features)
Director: Alejandro Amenábar

Best Documentary
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (IFC Films)
Directors: Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky

Gina Kwon, producer of Me and You and Everyone We Know and The Motel, received the eighth annual Bravo/American Express Producers Award, which honors producers who, despite highly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity, and vision required to produce quality independent films. The winner of the Producers Award received an unrestricted grant of $20,000 funded by Bravo and American Express.

Jem Cohen, director of Chain, won the eleventh annual Turning Leaf Someone To Watch Award, a $20,000 grant created to honor a director of singular vision who has not yet received appropriate recognition. The award is funded by Turning Leaf Vineyards.

Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, directors of Born Into Brothels, won the eighth annual DIRECTV/IFC Truer Than Fiction Award, presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features. The award is accompanied by a $20,000 unrestricted grant funded by DIRECTV and IFC.

A Special Distinction Award was given to the ensemble cast of Mean Creek: Rory Culkin, Ryan Kelley, Scott Mechlowicz, Trevor Morgan, Josh Peck, and Carly Schroeder. The nominating committee was struck by these young actors who turned in performances so uniformly unselfish and so intricately in tune with each other that it became impossible to single any one of them out from their extraordinary achievement together.

And sure enough, Sideways sweeped! Congrats Sideways!

PEACE, Mike

Obviously, I'm happy about the Sideways sweep, but I think it was pretty expected.

I'm happy about Garden State edging Napoleon Dynamite for First Feature, though.