While the masses wolfed down Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" on its opening day to the tune of $45 million dollars (further lowering my respect of the human race), the Independent Spirit Awards got the final award weekend for the 2009 movie season off and running last night in California. With Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" out of competition (it was nominated for the 2008 award ceremony), Lee Daniels' Oscar-nominated "Precious" had the field pretty much to itself. The widely-praised drama (which hits home video this upcoming Tuesday) took home Best Picture, Director, Actress (Gabourey Sidibe, who I am secretly praying will 'blindside' Sandra Bullock for Best Actress), Supporting Actress (Mo'Nique, no doubt giving her Oscar speech a nice warmup here) and Best First Screenplay for Geoffrey Fletcher.
Jeff Bridges took home Best Actor for "Crazy Heart" (no doubt warming up
his Oscar acceptance speech for Sunday night). The movie also scored Best First Film award. The film's producer-director Scott Cooper stated "If not for Fox Searchlight, this (film) would have gone straight to radio". The terrific British drama "An Education" scored Best Foreign Film and Woody Harrelson won for Best Supporting Actor for his work on the drama "The Messenger". Both "An Education" and Harrelson are up for Oscars tomorrow night.
Not to be undone by the Spirit and Academy Awards ceremonies, Saturday night brings us a ceremony that should be more heavily promoted and telecast: The Razzie Awards, celebrating the absolute worst in cinema from 2009.
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