The 23rd Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 2007, were announced on February 23, 2008. It was hosted by Rainn Wilson.
Winners and nominees
{| class="wikitable" !Best Feature !Best Director |- |Juno
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly I'm Not There A Mighty Heart Paranoid Park |Julian Schnabel – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Todd Haynes – I'm Not There Tamara Jenkins – The Savages Jason Reitman – Juno Gus Van Sant – Paranoid Park |- !Best Male Lead !Best Female Lead |- |Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Savages
Pedro Castaneda – August Evening Don Cheadle – Talk to Me Frank Langella – Starting Out in the Evening Tony Leung – Lust, Caution |Elliot Page – Juno
Angelina Jolie – A Mighty Heart Sienna Miller – Interview Parker Posey – Broken English Tang Wei – Lust, Caution |- !Best Supporting Male !Best Supporting Female |- |Chiwetel Ejiofor – Talk to Me
Marcus Carl Franklin – I'm Not There Kene Holliday – Great World of Sound Irrfan Khan – The Namesake Steve Zahn – Rescue Dawn |Cate Blanchett – I'm Not There
Anna Kendrick – Rocket Science Jennifer Jason Leigh – Margot at the Wedding Tamara Podemski – Four Sheets to the Wind Marisa Tomei – Before the Devil Knows You're Dead |- !Best Screenplay !Best First Screenplay |- |The Savages – Tamara JenkinsThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly – Ronald Harwood Starting Out in the Evening – Fred Parnes and Andrew Wagner Waitress – Adrienne Shelly Year of the Dog – Mike White |Juno – Diablo CodyBefore the Devil Knows You're Dead – Kelly Masterson Broken English – Zoe Cassavetes A Mighty Heart – John Orloff Rocket Science – Jeffrey Blitz |- !Best First Feature !Best Documentary |- |The Lookout
2 Days in Paris Great World of Sound Rocket Science Vanaja |Crazy Love
Lake of Fire Manufactured Landscapes The Monastery The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair |- !Best Cinematography !Best Foreign Film |- |The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – Janusz KamińskiLust, Caution – Rodrigo Prieto The Savages – W. Mott Hupfel III Vanaja – Milton Kam Youth Without Youth – Mihai Mălaimare Jr. | Once • Ireland4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days • Romania The Band's Visit • Israel Lady Chatterley • France Persepolis • France
Films with multiple nominations and awards +Films that received multiple nominationsNominationsFilm4JunoThe Diving Bell and the ButterflyI'm Not ThereThe Savages3A Mighty HeartLust, Caution2Before the Devil Knows You're DeadBroken EnglishGreat World of SoundParanoid ParkRocket ScienceStarting Out in the EveningTalk to Me +Films that won multiple awardsAwardsFilm3Juno2The Diving Bell and the ButterflyThe Savages
Special awards
John Cassavetes AwardAugust Evening Owl and the Sparrow The Pool Quiet City Shotgun Stories
Truer Than Fiction Award The Unforeseen Helvetica Running Stumbled
Producers Award Neil Kopp – Paranoid Park and Old Joy Alexis Ferris – Cthulhu and Police Beat Anne Clements – Ping Pong Playa and Quinceañera
Someone to Watch Award Ramin Bahrani – Chop Shop Ronald Bronstein – Frownland Lee Isaac Chung – Munyurangabo
Robert Altman Award (*Note: This award is given to its director, casting director, and ensemble cast)
I'm Not There (Todd Haynes, Laura Rosenthal, Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Richard Gere, Bruce Greenwood, Heath Ledger and Ben Whishaw)
External links 2007 Spirit Awards at IMDb Full official show on YouTube
References