27th Independent Spirit Awards (2012)
Best Feature
The Artist
50/50
Beginners
The Descendants
Drive
Take Shelter
Best Director
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Mike Mills - Beginners
Jeff Nichols - Take Shelter
Alexander Payne - The Descendants
Nicolas Winding Refn - Drive
Best Male Lead
Jean Dujardin - The Artist
Demián Bichir - A Better Life
Ryan Gosling - Drive
Woody Harrelson - Rampart
Michael Shannon - Take Shelter
Best Female Lead
Michelle Williams - My Week with Marilyn
Lauren Ambrose - About Sunny
Rachael Harris - Natural Selection
Adepero Oduye - Pariah
Elizabeth Olsen - Martha Marcy May Marlene
Best Supporting Male
Christopher Plummer - Beginners
Albert Brooks - Drive
John Hawkes - Martha Marcy May Marlene
John C. Reilly - Cedar Rapids
Corey Stoll - Midnight in Paris
Best Supporting Female
Shailene Woodley - The Descendants
Jessica Chastain - Take Shelter
Anjelica Huston - 50/50
Janet McTeer - Albert Nobbs
Harmony Santana - Gun Hill Road
Best Screenplay
Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash - The Descendants
Joseph Cedar - Footnote
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Tom McCarthy - Win Win
Mike Mills - Beginners
Best Cinematography
Guillaume Schiffman - The Artist
Joel Hodge - Bellflower
Benjamin Kasulke - The Off Hours
Darius Khondji - Midnight in Paris
Jeffrey Waldron - The Dynamiter
Best International Film
A Separation • Iran
The Kid with a Bike • Belgium / France / Italy
Melancholia • Denmark / France / Germany / Sweden
Shame • UK
Tyrannosaur • UK
Best Documentary Feature
The Interrupters
An African Election
Bill Cunningham New York
The Redemption of General Butt Naked
We Were Here
Best First Feature
Margin Call
Another Earth
In the Family
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Natural Selection
Best First Screenplay
Will Reiser - 50/50
Mike Cahill and Brit Marling - Another Earth
J. C. Chandor - Margin Call
Patrick deWitt - Terri
Phil Johnston - Cedar Rapids