Johnny Rollerfeet's Echo Chamber

The full slate of nominees for the 2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards is as follows:

Best Feature (Award given to the Producer)

• 50/50 
• Beginners 
• Drive 
• Take Shelter 
• The Artist 
• The Descendants 

Best Director

• Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist 
• Mike Mills, Beginners
•  Jeff Nichols, Take Shelter 
• Alexander Payne, The Descendants 
• Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive 

Best First Feature (Award given to the director and producer)

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

John Cassavetes Award (Given to the best feature made for under $500,000; award given to the writer, director, and producer)

• Bellflower 
• Circumstance 
• Hello [Lonesome] 
• Pariah 
• The Dynamiter 

Best Screenplay 

• Beginners 
• The Descendants 
• Footnote 
• The Artist 
• Win Win 

Best First Screenplay 

• Another Earth 
• Terri 
• Cedar Rapids 
• 50/50 
• Margin Call 

Best Female Lead 

• Elizabeth Olsen [Martha Marcy May Marlene]
• Michelle Williams [My Week with Marilyn]
• Rachael Harris [Natural Selection]
• Adepero Oduye [Pariah]
• Lauren Ambrose [Think of Me]

Best Male Lead 

• Michael Shannon [Take Shelter]
• Woody Harrelson [Rampart]
• Ryan Golsing [Drive]
• Jean Dujardin [The Artist]
• Demian Bichir [A Better Life]

Best Supporting Female 

• Jessica Chastain [Take Shelter]
• Anjelica Huston [50/50]
• Janet McTeer [Albert Nobbs]
• Harmony Santana [Gun Hill Road]
• Shailenne Woodley [The Descendants]

Best Supporting Male 

• Albert Brooks [Drive]
• John Hawkes [Martha Marcy May Marlene] 
• Christopher Plummer [Beginners]
• Corey Stahl [Midnight in Paris]
• John C. Reilly [Cedar Rapids]

Best Cinematography 

• Bellflower 
• Midnight in Paris 
• The Artist 
• The Off-Hours 
• The Dynamiter 

Best Documentary (Award given to the director) 

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

Best Foreign Film (Award given to the director)

• A Separation 
• Melancholia 
• Shame 
• The Kid With a Bike 
• Tyrannosaur 

Robert Altman Award (Given to one film’s director, casting director, and its ensemble cast) 

• [Margin] Call 

Piaget Producers Award 

• Chad Burris (Mosquito y Mari) 
• Sophia Lynn (Take Shelter) 
• Josh Bond (Martha Marcy May Marlene) 

Someone to Watch Award 

• Simon Arthur (Silver Tongues) 
• Mark Jackson (Without) 
• Nicholas Ozeki (Mamitas) 

Truer Than Fiction Award 

• Where Soldiers Come From 
• Hell and Back Again 
• Bombay Beach

This is as good a place as any to keep my list(s) of award season movies I need to see. Sourced from Indiewire.