28th Independent Spirit Awards explained

Number:	28
Award:	Independent Spirit Awards
Awarded For:	Best in independent film
Date:	February 23, 2013
Site:	Santa Monica Pier Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Host:	Andy Samberg
Free Award Type:	Best Feature
Free Award:	Silver Linings Playbook
Most Wins:	Silver Linings Playbook (4)
Most Nominations:	Silver Linings Playbook and Moonrise Kingdom (5)
Last:	27th
Next:	29th

The 28th Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best independent films of 2012, were presented on February 23, 2013.^[1] The nominations were announced on November 27, 2012.^[2] The ceremony was hosted by Andy Samberg.^[3]

Winners and nominees

Best Feature	Best Director
Silver Linings Playbook Beasts of the Southern Wild Bernie Keep the Lights On Moonrise Kingdom	David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook Wes Anderson – Moonrise Kingdom Julia Loktev – The Loneliest Planet Ira Sachs – Keep the Lights On Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild
Best Male Lead	Best Female Lead
John Hawkes – The Sessions Jack Black – Bernie Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook Thure Lindhardt – Keep the Lights On Matthew McConaughey – Killer Joe Wendell Pierce – Four	Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook Linda Cardellini – Return Emayatzy Corinealdi – Middle of Nowhere Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild Mary Elizabeth Winstead – Smashed
Best Supporting Male	Best Supporting Female
Matthew McConaughey – Magic Mike David Oyelowo – Middle of Nowhere Michael Peña – End of Watch Sam Rockwell – Seven Psychopaths Bruce Willis – Moonrise Kingdom	Helen Hunt – The Sessions Rosemarie DeWitt – Your Sister's Sister Ann Dowd – Compliance Brit Marling – Sound of My Voice Lorraine Toussaint – Middle of Nowhere
Best Screenplay	Best First Screenplay
David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola – Moonrise Kingdom Zoe Kazan – Ruby Sparks Martin McDonagh – Seven Psychopaths Ira Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias – Keep the Lights On	Derek Connolly – Safety Not Guaranteed Rama Burshtein – Fill the Void Christopher Ford – Robot & Frank Rashida Jones and Will McCormack – Celeste and Jesse Forever Jonathan Lisecki – Gayby
Best First Feature	Best Documentary Feature
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Fill the Void Gimme the Loot Safety Not Guaranteed Sound of My Voice	The Invisible War The Central Park Five How to Survive a Plague Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present The Waiting Room
Best Cinematography	Best International Film
Ben Richardson – Beasts of the Southern Wild Yoni Brook – Valley of Saints Lol Crawley – Here Roman Vasyanov – End of Watch Robert Yeoman – Moonrise Kingdom	Amour • Austria / France / Germany Once Upon a Time in Anatolia • Bosnia and Herzegovina / Turkey Rust and Bone • Belgium / France Sister • France / Switzerland War Witch • Canada

Films with multiple nominations and awards

Films that received multiple nominations!Nominations!Film

5	Moonrise Kingdom
	Silver Linings Playbook
4	Beasts of the Southern Wild
	Keep the Lights On
3	Middle of Nowhere
2	Bernie
	End of Watch
	Fill the Void
	Safety Not Guaranteed
	The Sessions
	Seven Psychopaths
	Sound of My Voice

Films that won multiple awards!Awards!Film

4	Silver Linings Playbook
2	The Sessions

Special awards

John Cassavetes Award

Middle of Nowhere

• Breakfast with Curtis
• The Color Wheel
• Mosquita y Mari
• Starlet

Truer Than Fiction Award

Peter Nicks – The Waiting Room

• Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel – Leviathan
• Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims – Only the Young

Piaget Producers Award

Mynette Louie – Stones in the Sun

• Derrick Tseng – Prince Avalanche
• Alicia Van Couvering – Nobody Walks

Someone to Watch Award

Adam Leon – Gimme the Loot

• David Fenster – Pincus
• Rebecca Thomas – Electrick Children

Robert Altman Award

• Starlet – Sean Baker, Julia Kim, Dree Hemingway, Besedka Johnson, Karren Karagulian, Stella Maeve, and James Ransone

Special Distinction Award

• Harris Savides

Find Your Audience Award

Laura Colella – Breakfast with Curtis

• Sara Lamm and Mary Wigmore –
• John Mitchell and Jeremy Kipp Walker – The History of Future Folk

External links

• 2013 Awards at IMDb

Notes and References

1. Web site: Independent Spirit Awards 2013: Winners List . THR Staff . February 23, 2013 . . February 23, 2013.
2. Web site: 'Silver Linings,' 'Moonrise Kingdom' Lead Spirit Award Nominations . Knegt . Peter . November 27, 2012 . . November 27, 2012.
3. Web site: Andy Samberg to host 2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards . Kaufman . Amy . December 11, 2012 . . December 11, 2012.