"Nothing will come from this if you win!? joked Seth Rogen as he opened his hosting gig at the 2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards. ?Absolutely nothing. This won't help you get paid anymore -- if anything, it proves you'll work for nothing.? That may be painfully true for many of the indie film nominees honored today at the annual Spirit Awards, held in a tent on the beach in balmy Santa Monica. But what does it mean that the night?s big winner was the Harvey Weinstein-backed awards season juggernaut The Artist?
The Oscar frontrunner swept the Spirit Awards Saturday in a precursor to what most pundits expect will transpire Sunday night at the Academy Awards; the black and white silent film took home four awards, including Best Feature, Best Director (Michel Hazanavicius), Best Actor (Jean Dujardin), and Best Cinematography, further sealing its grip on the 2012 awards race.
Along the road to Spirit Awards victory, the $15 million The Artist went up against the likes of more conventional indies. (Rules of eligibility includes films made for no more than $20 million.) In the Best Cinematography category, the Weinstein-backed favorite competed against, for example, Evan Glodell?s Bellflower, a film shot on a production budget of $17,000; for Best Feature it vied with 50/50, Beginners, Drive, Take Shelter, and The Descendants.
Additional winners on the night included Dee Rees? Pariah, Alexander Payne?s The Descendants (which won Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Shailene Woodley), Asgar Farhadi?s A Separation, Michelle Williams for My Week with Marilyn, and Christopher Plummer for Beginners. (Full winners list here.) In other words ? on the whole, not quite so different from the field competing tomorrow at…
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