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24th Annual Spirit Award Winners Announced

Mickey Rourke Spirit Awards

The winners of the Spirit Awards have been announced. The Wrestler won three awards including Best Feature, Best Male Lead (Mickey Rourke) and Best Cinematography. Best Female Lead went to Melissa Leo for Frozen River. Tom McCarthy won Best Director for The Visitor. Screenplay awards went to Woody Allen and Dustin Lance Black. Here's a list of the winners.

Best Feature: The Wrestler, Darren Aronofsky, Scott Franklin
Best Director: Tom McCarthy, The Visitor
Best First Feature: Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Kaufman, Anthony Bregman, Spike Jonze, Sidney Kimmel
John Cassavetes Award: In Search of a Midnight Kiss, Alex Holdridge, Seth Caplan, Scoot McNairy
Best Screenplay: Woody Allen, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best First Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black, Milk
Best Female Lead: Melissa Leo, Frozen River
Best Male Lead: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Best Supporting Female: Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best Supporting Male: James Franco, Milk
Best Foreign Film: The Class, Laurent Cantet
Best Documentary: Man on Wire, James Marsh
Best Cinematography: Maryse Alberti, The Wrestler Robert Altman Award: Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York
Acura Someone to Watch Award: Lynn Shelton, My Effortless Brilliance

You can see a list of winners with all the nominees included here.

Photo: copyright © Film Indendepent

Posted on February 21, 2009
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Mickey Rourke and Sam Rockwell Possible Iron Man 2 Villains

Every superhero movie needs a good villain and Iron Man 2 may have found two good villains with Mickey Rourke and Sam Rockwell. The Hollywood Reporter says Rourke is being considered to play Whiplash and Rockwell would play Justin Hammer, a multibillionaire businessman rival of Tony Stark.

Rourke is making the best of the accolades he is receiving for his heart-wrenching turn in "The Wrestler." On top of this big-budget movie, the actor, who will next be seen in "The Informers," just joined the cast of "The Expendables," an action movie starring Sylvester Stallone, Jet Li, Jason Statham and Dolph Lundgren.

Rockwell is best known for his indie dramas. He recently starred as a sex-addicted con man in "Choke" and as an estranged husband in "Snow Angels." He can currently be seen in the political drama "Frost/Nixon," playing David Frost's researcher, writer James Reston, Jr.

They both sound like good casting choices for the villain roles.

Posted on January 7, 2009
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