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With the Oscars and the Golden Globes overlooking female directors this year, it was the Independent Spirit Awards who outdid them by handing its Best Feature award to Lulu Wang’s The Farewell, Best First Feature to Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart and Best Documentary to Julia Reichert’s American Factory. “We’re so much…

Good morning! Wake up!! As time is reckoned in Hollywood, this is "O-minus 38"—that is, 38 days to the Oscar ceremony. The nominations balloting begins today. Also beginning is what might be the roughest, toughest, most tangled, and fastest five-and-a-half weeks in the living memory of the American mass media. In the…

UPDATE with response At the 2014 Independent Spirit Awards, a woman named Laurie Woods was among the volunteers scrambling to keep the food coming and drinks flowing while stars from Nebraska, 12 Years a Slave and Dallas Buyers Club wined, dined and hoped for a trophy. But Woods now says the word “volunteer” doesn’t…

Film Independent announced the winners of its trio of Spirit Awards Filmmaker Grants today at the annual Spirit Awards Nominee Brunch at the BOA Steakhouse in West Hollywood. Mel Eslyn received the Piaget Producers Award which goes to emerging producers who overcome highly limited resources to demonstrate the…

It is hard to believe that on Saturday the Independent Spirit Awards will be celebrating their 30th anniversary in that giant tent erected each year on the Santa Monica beach. I remember as a young producer of movie coverage at Entertainment Tonight attending one of the earliest Spirits gatherings in 1988 at the 385…

After months of speculation, maneuvering, campaigning, champagning, Q&Aing and ever so much more, the 2013-14 awards season is done, done, done, and in this week's podcast, Deadline Awards Columnist Pete Hammond and host David Bloom wrap up the winners and notable moments from this years Academy Awards ceremony…

Dallas Buyers Club‘s Jared Leto and Matthew McConaughey, 12 Years A Slave‘s Lupita Nyong'o and director Steve McQueen, and Blue Jasmine‘s Cate Blanchett were among the winners of tonight’s 2014 Indie Spirit Awards. Check out Deadline’s Spirit Awards gallery for pics from the ceremony held in Santa Monica, CA: Related:…

In this week's podcast, Deadline Awards Columnist Pete Hammond and host David Bloom do their annual Oscar preview ahead of the weekend’s festivities, to help you fill out that Oscar ballot with Pete's choices and dark-horse candidates in all the major categories. David and Pete also preview Hollywood's favorite beach…

Listen to (and share) episode 52 of our audio podcast “Deadline Awards Watch, with Pete Hammond." Deadline's awards columnist talks with host David Bloom about the Independent Spirit Awards nominations, which feature plenty of Oscar contenders, and perhaps not enough truly spirited indie films; a Q&A with Oscar Isaac…

On-scene coverage by Deadline’s Pete Hammond and Dominic Patten, Awardsline’s Anthony D’Alessandro, and contributor Diane Haithman. Written by Nikki Finke: Refresh For Latest… SANTA MONICA – The always fun (and usually comic) 28th Annual Film Independent Spirit Awards from Film Independent, the nonprofit arts…

Listen to (and share) episode 13 of our audio podcast Deadline Awards Watch With Pete Hammond. Awards Columnist Hammond and host David Bloom sift through Pete's picks for Oscar favorites following this past weekend's big BAFTA Film Awards and those from the ASC, where cinematographers showed some love for Roger…

Listen to the second episode of our audio podcast Deadline Awards Watch With Pete Hammond. Deadline Awards Columnist Hammond and host David Bloom discuss the impacts on the Oscar race of the just-announced nominations for the Independent Spirit Awards; the strong receptions for awards screenings of hot contenders Les M…