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Category: Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead winners

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Heathers brought director Michael Lehmann and producer Denise Di Novi the 1990 Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature.

" Bacon was again acclaimed for a dark starring role playing an offending pedophile on parole in the 2004 film The Woodsman ; he was nominated best actor receiving the Independent Spirit Award.

He was nominated for Chlotrudis Award for Encounters at the End of the World in 2007 and for Independent Spirit Award for Bad Lieutenant.

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Bridges at the 25th Independent Spirit Awards | 2010 Independent Spirit Awards.

Kelly was nominated for " Best First Feature " and " Best First Screenplay " with Donnie Darko, as well as Jake Gyllenhaal being nominated for " Best Male Lead ," at the Independent Spirit Awards.

The film won two awards at the 1998 Independent Spirit Awards ( Best Screenplay for Smith and Best Supporting Actor for Jason Lee ).

* Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Language Film ( nominee )

Rossellini received a 1987 Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her role in Blue Velvet.

* 1993: Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature: Mississippi Masala

Donovan was nominated as best supporting male at the 1994 Independent Spirit Awards ; the film was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize ( dramatic ) at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival.

She received vast critical acclaim for her performance and won the Best Actress Award from the National Society of Film Critics and the Online Film Critics Society, a first Golden Globe nomination and an Independent Spirit Award nomination.

The film was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay as well as a Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America honor for Best Screenplay.

His portrayal of a depressed writer vacationing in the Santa Barbara wine country garnered him a Golden Globe nomination and an Independent Spirit Award.

For his role in My Own Private Idaho, Phoenix won Best Actor honors at the Venice Film Festival, the National Society of Film Critics and the Independent Spirit Awards.

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He has also been presented the " Spirit of Enterprise Award " by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, the " Guardian of Small Business Award " by the National Federation of Independent Business, and the " Friend of the Taxpayer Award " by the Americans for Tax Reform.

Category: Independent Spirit Award winners

The low-budget, $ 60, 000 production, starring Sean Gullette, was sold to Artisan Entertainment for $ 1 million, and grossed over $ 3 million ; Aronofsky won the Directing Award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival and an Independent Spirit Award for best first screenplay.

Ice-T was also a judge for the 7th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists.

Kurt was a judge for the 8th annual Independent Music Awards.

Hart was also a judge for the 3rd annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists ' careers.

Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated was nominated in the category of Best Independent Production ( film, documentary or short ) for the 8th Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards, but lost to American Scary, a documentary on television horror movie hosts.

** British Independent Film Awards nomination for Best Achievement in Production

That same year, Waits was also a judge for the 2nd annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists ' careers.

Waits was also a judge for the 10th annual Independent Music Awards.

The first couple of issues contained work from now-professional comics creators Rufus Dayglo, Boo Cook, Henry Flint and PJ Holden and won the best Self Published / Independent Comic Award at the 1999 National Comics Awards.

Cook was a judge for the 6th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists ' careers.

In 2003, Baez was also a judge for the third annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists ' careers.

Emily Watson received best actress nominations at the British Independent Film Awards and the London Film Critics Circle Awards.

Gabriel was a judge for the 6th and 8th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists.

* Boston Society of Film Critics Awards: BSFC Award ; Best Independent Film ; 1981.

Lauper was also a judge for the 6th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists ' careers.

Hanson also joined the 9th annual Independent Music Awards judging panel to assist independent musicians ' careers.

In November 2010, Wakeman was awarded the Spirit of Prog award at the annual Marshall Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards.

Singer and McQuarrie collaborated again on the 1995 film The Usual Suspects, for which McQuarrie received best screenplay awards from Premiere magazine, The Texas Board of Review, and the Chicago Critics as well as the Edgar Award, The Independent Spirit Award, and the British and American Academy Awards.

Tom Ford was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards in 2009 including Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay.

* 2009: Independent Spirit Awards – Best First Screenplay for A Single Man ( Nominee )

* 2009: Independent Spirit Awards – Best First Feature for A Single Man ( Nominee )

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* 1998 Independent Spirit Awards

On September 8, 2008, The Conrad Foundation announced the launch of their 2008 Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Awards.

Clerks won the " Award of the Youth " and the " Mercedes-Benz Award " at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, tied with Fresh for the " Filmmakers Trophy " at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards ( Best First Feature, Best First Screenplay and Jeff Anderson for Best Debut Performance ).

For his performance, Stamp received nominations for Best Male Lead at the 2000 Independent Spirit Awards and for Best British Actor at the London Film Critics ' Circle ( ALFS ) Awards.

The 1982 Broadway production won him two Tony Awards, for Best Play and Best Actor in a Play, two Drama Desk Awards, for Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Actor in a Play, and the Theatre World Award, and the film adaptation earned him an Independent Spirit Award nomination as Best Male Lead.

The film was critically lauded and commercially successful, winning six National Film Awards, Filmfare Award for Best Direction in Tamil, In the Spirit of Freedom Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival and an award at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles.