SPIRIT AWARDS 2010: ‘PRECIOUS’ DOMINATES
LOS ANGELES — The Harlem fool around “Precious” took a most appropriate design esteem as it dominated a Spirit Awards, winning 4 alternative honors which enclosed trophies for stars Gabourey Sidibe as excellent as Mo’Nique. Jeff Bridges won most appropriate singer for a country-music tale “Crazy Heart” during Friday’s eventuality honoring eccentric film, as excellent as Woody Harrelson won ancillary singer for a war-on-terror fool around “The Messenger.” Sidibe won most appropriate singer for “Precious: Based upon a Novel `Push’ by Sapphire,” personification an ignoramus teenager pulling herself out of an endless hole of slight as excellent as abuse. Mo’Nique warranted a supporting-actress respect as a girl’s antipathetic mother. All 4 behaving winners have been up for a same honors during Sunday’s Academy Awards, where Bridges as excellent as Mo’Nique have been a front-runners as excellent as visitor Sidibe was nominated for her shade debut. “Gabby, we have been indeed a special present to a universe, baby,” Mo’Nique said. “For people to get to know we as excellent as be in your presence, they have been all honored.” Though she has dominated her difficulty during progressing movie honors, Mo’Nique pronounced backstage she had not rebuilt a debate for a Oscars, “because we consider a star would say, `You have a lot of nerve.’” “Precious” swept any difficulty for which it was nominated, together with directing honors for Lee Daniels as excellent as most appropriate screenplay by a first-time bard for Geoffrey Fletcher. He as excellent as Daniels additionally have been nominated during a Oscars, where “Precious” is between a best-picture contenders. Sidibe pronounced her mom used to give her dual dollars to go to propagandize as excellent as which she saved a income to see an eccentric film, “Welcome to a Dollhouse,” during a fool around her train would expostulate past. “Hey, we could do that,” Sidibe said. “To be corny, we could contend that’s when my eccentric suggestion was born.” Accepting a directing award, Daniels wisecracked, “Kathryn Bigelow’s not here tonight. we am,” referring to a builder of “The Hurt Locker,” a a a single preferred to win most appropriate executive during a Oscars. Another best-picture Oscar nominee, Lone Scherfig’s British fool around “An Education,” was selected as most appropriate unfamiliar film. Bridges, a best-actor a a single preferred during a Oscars for his purpose as a boozy nation star perplexing to spin his hold up around, achieved a single of a tunes he sings in “Crazy Heart” during a Spirit Awards progressing in a uncover prior to usurpation his behaving prize. “Crazy Heart” additionally won for most appropriate entrance movie for first-time executive Scott Cooper. “He never destined a tall propagandize fool around before, though he did a excellent job,” pronounced “Crazy Heart” co-star Robert Duvall, who assimilated Cooper upon stage. Bridges thanked Duvall, a bard upon a movie who got a plot rolling after celebration of a mass a script. “We couldn’t have finished this though you, man,” Bridges told Duvall. “Thank we for a gig.” Borrowing a line from a Dude, a laidback bowler he played in “The Huge Lebowski,” Bridges hold his Spirit Award higher as excellent as told his mom in a audience, “This is unequivocally starting to tie a room together, baby.” Harrelson won for his purpose as a infantryman violation headlines to subsequent of family which a adore a single has died in action. He had kind difference for a alternative nominees, who enclosed associate Oscar contender Christopher Plummer for a Leo Tolstoy fool around “The Last Station.” “You’re all better,” Harrelson told his competitors. “Really, we do not know how we heed a single opening from another. It’s never felt right to me to acknowledgement a winner. We’re all only actors as excellent as propitious to be we do this. Of course, straight away it feels a small some-more right.” Joel as excellent as Ethan Coen’s “A Serious Man,” following a troubles of a Jewish highbrow whose hold up is unraveling, won a Robert Altman Award presented for a movie in a suggestion of a garb drive-in theatre of a late director. “A Serious Man” additionally warranted a cinematography endowment for Roger Deakins. Other winners: _ Screenplay: Scott Neustadter as excellent as Michael H. Weber. _ Documentary: “Anvil! The Tale of Anvil,” destined by Sacha Gervasi. _ John Cassavetes Award for a movie finished for reduction than $500,000: “Humpday,” destined by Lynn Shelton. The Iraq War fool around “The Hurt Locker,” scored equally with blockbuster “Avatar” for a Oscar lead with 9 nominations each, is absent from this season’s Spirit Awards. “The Hurt Locker” premiered during movie festivals in 2008 as excellent as was authorised for a Spirit Awards a year ago, when it warranted nominations for actors Jeremy Renner as excellent as Anthony Mackie. The Spirit Awards routinely have been handed out during an afternoon rite along a beach in Santa Monica a day prior to a Oscars. With a eventuality imprinting a 25th year, organizers finished it a Friday night whack in downtown Los Angeles. Presented by a motion design organisation Film Independent, a Spirit Awards respect motion picture which price reduction than $20 million to make, with a poignant partial of their bill imagining outward a Hollywood college of music system. Other criteria for nominations embody newness as excellent as provocative theme matter. ___ On a Net: http://www.spiritawards.com
LOS ANGELES — The Harlem fool around “Precious” took a most appropriate design esteem as it dominated a Spirit Awards, winning 4 alternative honors which enclosed trophies for stars Gabourey Sidibe as excellent as Mo’Nique.
Jeff Bridges won most appropriate singer for a country-music tale “Crazy Heart” during Friday’s eventuality honoring eccentric film, as excellent as Woody Harrelson won ancillary singer for a war-on-terror fool around “The Messenger.”
Sidibe won most appropriate singer for “Precious: Based upon a Novel `Push’ by Sapphire,” personification an ignoramus teenager pulling herself out of an endless hole of slight as excellent as abuse. Mo’Nique warranted a supporting-actress respect as a girl’s antipathetic mother.
All 4 behaving winners have been up for a same honors during Sunday’s Academy Awards, where Bridges as excellent as Mo’Nique have been a front-runners as excellent as visitor Sidibe was nominated for her shade debut.
“Gabby, we have been indeed a special present to a universe, baby,” Mo’Nique said. “For people to get to know we as excellent as be in your presence, they have been all honored.”
Though she has dominated her difficulty during progressing movie honors, Mo’Nique pronounced backstage she had not rebuilt a debate for a Oscars, “because we consider a star would say, `You have a lot of nerve.’”
“Precious” swept any difficulty for which it was nominated, together with directing honors for Lee Daniels as excellent as most appropriate screenplay by a first-time bard for Geoffrey Fletcher. He as excellent as Daniels additionally have been nominated during a Oscars, where “Precious” is between a best-picture contenders.
Sidibe pronounced her mom used to give her dual dollars to go to propagandize as excellent as which she saved a income to see an eccentric film, “Welcome to a Dollhouse,” during a fool around her train would expostulate past.
“Hey, we could do that,” Sidibe said. “To be corny, we could contend that’s when my eccentric suggestion was born.”
Accepting a directing award, Daniels wisecracked, “Kathryn Bigelow’s not here tonight. we am,” referring to a builder of “The Hurt Locker,” a a a single preferred to win most appropriate executive during a Oscars.
Another best-picture Oscar nominee, Lone Scherfig’s British fool around “An Education,” was selected as most appropriate unfamiliar film.
Bridges, a best-actor a a single preferred during a Oscars for his purpose as a boozy nation star perplexing to spin his hold up around, achieved a single of a tunes he sings in “Crazy Heart” during a Spirit Awards progressing in a uncover prior to usurpation his behaving prize. “Crazy Heart” additionally won for most appropriate entrance movie for first-time executive Scott Cooper.
“He never destined a tall propagandize fool around before, though he did a excellent job,” pronounced “Crazy Heart” co-star Robert Duvall, who assimilated Cooper upon stage.
Bridges thanked Duvall, a bard upon a movie who got a plot rolling after celebration of a mass a script.
“We couldn’t have finished this though you, man,” Bridges told Duvall. “Thank we for a gig.”
Borrowing a line from a Dude, a laidback bowler he played in “The Huge Lebowski,” Bridges hold his Spirit Award higher as excellent as told his mom in a audience, “This is unequivocally starting to tie a room together, baby.”
Harrelson won for his purpose as a infantryman violation headlines to subsequent of family which a adore a single has died in action. He had kind difference for a alternative nominees, who enclosed associate Oscar contender Christopher Plummer for a Leo Tolstoy fool around “The Last Station.”
“You’re all better,” Harrelson told his competitors. “Really, we do not know how we heed a single opening from another. It’s never felt right to me to acknowledgement a winner. We’re all only actors as excellent as propitious to be we do this. Of course, straight away it feels a small some-more right.”
Joel as excellent as Ethan Coen’s “A Serious Man,” following a troubles of a Jewish highbrow whose hold up is unraveling, won a Robert Altman Award presented for a movie in a suggestion of a garb drive-in theatre of a late director. “A Serious Man” additionally warranted a cinematography endowment for Roger Deakins.
Other winners:
_ Screenplay: Scott Neustadter as excellent as Michael H. Weber.
_ Documentary: “Anvil! The Tale of Anvil,” destined by Sacha Gervasi.
_ John Cassavetes Award for a movie finished for reduction than $500,000: “Humpday,” destined by Lynn Shelton.
The Iraq War fool around “The Hurt Locker,” scored equally with blockbuster “Avatar” for a Oscar lead with 9 nominations each, is absent from this season’s Spirit Awards. “The Hurt Locker” premiered during movie festivals in 2008 as excellent as was authorised for a Spirit Awards a year ago, when it warranted nominations for actors Jeremy Renner as excellent as Anthony Mackie.
The Spirit Awards routinely have been handed out during an afternoon rite along a beach in Santa Monica a day prior to a Oscars. With a eventuality imprinting a 25th year, organizers finished it a Friday night whack in downtown Los Angeles.
Presented by a motion design organisation Film Independent, a Spirit Awards respect motion picture which price reduction than $20 million to make, with a poignant partial of their bill imagining outward a Hollywood college of music system. Other criteria for nominations embody newness as excellent as provocative theme matter.
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