The nominees for the 25th annual Independent Spirit Awards are in. There is a wide selection to make your pics from. There are even some genre releases nominated!

And the nominees are:

Best Feature

* 500 Days Of Summer
* Amreeka
* Precious
* Sin Nombre
* The Last Station

Best Director(s)

* Ethan and Joel Coen – A Serious Man
* Lee Daniels – Precious
* Cary Fukunaga – Sin Nombre
* James Gray – Two Lovers
* Michael Hoffman – The Last Station

Best First Feature

* A Single Man – Tom Ford, dir; Tom Ford, Andrew Miano, Robert Salerno, Chris Weitz, prds.
* Crazy Heart – Scott Cooper, dir; T Bone Burnett, Judy Cairo, Rob Carliner, Scott Cooper, Robert Duvall, prds.
* Easier With Practice – Kyle Patrick Alvarez, dir; Cookie Carosella, pdr.
* Paranormal Activity – Oren Peli, dir. Jason Blum, Oren Peli, prds.
* The Messenger – Oren Moverman, dir. Mark Gordon, Lawrence Inglee, Zack Miller, prds.

Best Screenplay

* Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman – The Messenger
* Michael Hoffman – The Last Station
* Lee Toland Krieger – The Vicious Kind
* Greg Mottola – Adventureland
* Scott Neustadter, Michael H Weber – 500 Days of Summer

Best First Screenplay

* Sophie Barthes – Cold Souls
* Scott Cooper – Crazy Heart
* Cherien Dabis – Amreeka
* Geoffrey Fletcher – Precious
* Tom Ford, David Scearce – A Single Man

Best Female Lead

* Maria Bello – Downloading Nancy
* Nisreen Faour – Amreeka
* Helen Mirren – The Last Station
* Gwyneth Paltrow – Two Lovers
* Gabourey Sidibe – Precious

Best Male Lead

* Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
* Colin Firth – A Single Man
* Joseph Gordon-Levitt – 500 Days of Summer
* Souleymane Sy – Goodbye Solo
* Adam Scott – The Vicious Kind

Best Supporting Female

* Dina Korzun – Cold Souls
* Mo’Nique – Precious
* Samantha Morton – The Messenger
* Natalie Press – Fifty Dead Men Walking
* Mia Wasikowska – That Evening Sun

Best Supporting Male

* Jermaine Clement – Gentleman Broncos
* Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
* Christian McKay – Me And Orson Welles
* Raymond McKinnon – That Evening Sun
* Christopher Plummer – The Last Station

Best Foreign Film

* A Prophet (France) – Jacques Audiard
* An Education (UK/France) – Lone Scherfig
* Everlasting Moments (Sweden) – Jan Troell
* Mother (South Korea) Bong Joon-ho
* The Maid (Chile) – Sebastian Silva

Best Documentary

* Anvil! The Story Of Anvil – Sacha Gervasi
* Food, Inc – Robert Kenner
* More Than A Game – Kristopher Bellman
* October Country – Donal Mosher, Michael Palmieri
* Which Way Home – Rebecca Cammisa

Best Cinematography

* Roger Deakins – A Serious Man
* Adriano Goldman – Sin Nombre
* Anne Misawa – Treeless Mountain
* Andrij Parekh – Cold Souls
* Peter Zeitlinger – Bad Lieutenant: Post Of Call New Orleans

John Cassavetes Award (best feature made for under $500,000)

* Big Fan – Robert Siegel, dir. Elan Bogarin, Jean Kouremetis, prds.
* Humpday – Lynn Shelton, dir/prd.
* The New Year Parade – Tom Quinn, dir. Steve Beal, Tom Quinn, prds.
* Treeless Mountain – Kim So Yong, dir. Bradley Rust Gray, Ben Howe, Kim So Yong, Lars Knusden, Jay Van Hoy, prds.
* Zero Bridge – Tariq Tapa, dir. Josee Lajoie, Hilal Ahmed Langoo, Tariq Tapa, prds.

Acura Someone To Watch Award (presented to a film-maker of singular vision who has not yet received appropriate recognition. The award includes as $25,000 unrestricted grant funded by Acura.)

* Kyle Patrick Alvarez – Easier With Practice
* Asiel Norton – Redland
* Tariq Tapa – Zero Bridge

Truer Than Fiction Award (presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features who has not yet received appropriate recognition. The award includes as $25,000 unrestricted grant.)

* Natalie Almada – El General
* Jessica Oreck – Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
* Bill Ross, Turner Ross – 45356

Piaget Producers Award (presented to emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity and vision required to produce quality independent films. The award includes as $25,000 unrestricted grant funded by Piaget.)

* Karin Chien – The Exploding Girl, Santa Mesa
* Larry Fessenden – I Sell The Dead, The House Of The Devil
* Dia Sokol – Beeswax, Nights & Weekends

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

* A Serious Man
Dirs, Ethan and Joel Coen
Casting directors, Ellen Chenoweth and Rachel Tenner
Ensemble cast: Richard Kind, Sari Lennick, Jessica McManus, Fred Melamed, Michael Stuhlbarg, Aaron Wolff

You can visit the Independent Spirit Awards website here.