Independent Spirit Noms

Bill Murray, Frances MacDormand, Edward Norton, and
Independent Spirit nominee Bruce Willis in Moonrise Kingdom 

Just to complete the list of film awards and nominations, I added the Independent Spirit Awards nominations which were announced just after Thanksgiving. The winners will be presented the night before the Oscars. Maybe I wasn't paying attention that day, but they didn't get as much press as the Critics Choice, SAG or GG nominations this week. There is some overlap between the indie world and the general-release studio world with Moonrise Kingdom, Silver Linings Playbook, Beasts of the Southern Wild, and The Sessions receiving recognition from both.I haven't heard of a lot of these pictures including Keep the Lights On, The Middle of Nowhere, and End of Watch. Moonrise was one of my favorite pictures of the year and it is kind of weird and wonderful to see Bruce Willis and Matthew MaConaughey nominated alongside of hard-working non-big name people like Ann Dowd, Lorraine Toussaint, and Michael Pena. There's still the BAFTA Awards, the British equivalent of the Oscars.

Picture: Argo (AFI, cc, gg)
Amour (LAFCA)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (AFI, cc, is)
Bernie (is)
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (gg)
The Dark Knight Rises (AFI)
Django Unchained (AFI, cc, gg)
Keep the Lights On (is)
Les Miserables (AFI, cc, gg)
Life of Pi (AFI, cc, gg, LV)
Lincoln (AFI, cc, gg)
The Master (cc)
Moonrise Kingdom (AFI, cc, gg, is)
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (gg)
Silver Linings Playbook (AFI, cc, gg, is)
Zero Dark Thirty (AFI, Bos, cc, DC, gg, NBR, NYFCC, NYO) 

Actor: Jack Black, Bernie (gg, is)
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook (cc, gg, is, NBR, sag)
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln (Bos, cc, DC, gg, LV, NYFCC, NYO, sag)
Richard Gere, Arbitrage (gg)
John Hawkes, The Sessions (cc, gg, is, sag)
Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables (cc, gg, sag)
Thure Lindhardt, Keep the Lights On (is)
Matthew MacConaughey, Killer Joe (is)
Ewan McGregor, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (gg)
Bill Murray, Hyde Park on Hudson (gg)
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master (cc, gg, LAFCA)
Wendell Pierce, Four (is)
Denzel Washington, Flight (cc, gg, sag)

Actress: Emily Blunt, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (gg) 
Linda Cartellini, Return (is)
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty (cc, DC, gg, NBR, sag)
Emayatzy Corinealdi, Middle of Nowhere (is)
Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone (cc, gg, sag)
Judi Dench, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (gg)
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook (cc, gg, is, LAFCA-tie, LV, sag)
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour (Bos, cc, LAFCA-tie, NYO)
Helen Mirren, Hitchcock (gg, sag)
Maggie Smith, Quartet (gg)
Meryl Streep, Hope Springs (gg)
Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild (cc, is)
Naomi Watts, The Impossible (cc, gg, sag)
Rachel Weisz, The Deep Blue Sea (gg, NYFCC)
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Smashed (is)

Supp. Actor: Alan Arkin, Argo (cc, gg, sag)
Javier Bardem, Skyfall (cc, sag)
Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook (cc, sag)
Leonardo DiCaprio, Django Unchained (gg, NBR)
Dwight Henry, Beasts of the Southern Wild (LAFCA)
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, The Master (cc, DC, gg, sag)
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln (cc, gg, LV, NYO, sag)
Matthew Maconaughey, Bernie and Magic Mike (cc, is, NYFCC)
Ezra Miller, The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Bos)
David Oyelowo, Middle of Nowhere (is)
Michael Pena, End of Watch (is)
Sam Rockwell, Seven Psychopaths (is)
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained (gg)
Bruce Willis, Moonrise Kingdom (is)

Supp. Actress: Amy Adams, The Master (cc, gg, LAFCA)
Judi Dench, Skyfall (cc)
Rosemarie DeWItt, Your Sister's Sister (is)
Ann Dowd, Compliance (cc, is, NBR)
Sally Field, Lincoln (Bos, cc, gg, NYFCC, sag)
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables (cc, DC, gg, LV, NY, sag)
Helen Hunt, The Sessions (cc, gg, is, sag)
Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy (gg, sag)
Brit Marling, Sound of My Voice (is)
Maggie Smith, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (sag)
Lorraine Toussaint, Middle of Nowhere (is)

Director: Ben Affleck, Argo (cc, gg)
Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master (LAFCA)
Wes Anderson, Moonrise Kingdom (is)
Katheryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty (Bos, cc, DC, gg, LV, NBR, NYFCC)
Tom Hooper, Les Miserables (cc)
Ang Lee, Life of Pi (cc, gg)
Julia Loktev, The Loneliest Planet (is)
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook (cc, is)
Ira Sachs, Keep the Lights On (is)
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln (cc, gg)
Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained (gg)
Bein Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild (is)

AFI=American Film Institute Bos=Boston Society of Film Critics; cc=Critics Choice Award nomination; DC=Washington DC Film Critics Association; gg=Golden Globe nomination; is=Independent Spirit Awards nomination; LAFCA=Los Angeles Film Critics Assoc.; LV=Las Vegas Film Critics Society; NBR=National Board of Review; NYFCC=New York Film Critics Circle; NYO=New York Film Critics Online; sag=SAG Award nomination