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The Independent Spirit Awards 2007 announced its nominees in November 2007. The ceremony was broadcast live on Independent Film Channel on February 23, 2008 and hosted by actor Rainn Wilson. The Writers Guild of America had given the event a waiver, granting union writers permission to write for it during the writers strike (but the strike ended before it was held).

Winners and nominees

Best Actor (Male 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 (Sè, jiè)

Best Actress (Female Lead)

Ellen Page - Juno

• Angelina Jolie - A Mighty Heart
• Sienna Miller - Interview
• Parker Posey - Broken English
• Tang Wei - Lust, Caution (Sè, jiè)

Best Cinematography

Janusz Kaminski - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)

• Mott Hupfel - The Savages
• Milton Kam - Vanaja
• Mihai Malaimare, Jr. - Youth Without Youth
• Rodrigo Prieto - Lust, Caution (Sè, jiè)

Best Director

Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)

• Todd Haynes - I'm Not There
• Tamara Jenkins - The Savages
• Jason Reitman - Juno
• Gus Van Sant - Paranoid Park

Best Documentary Feature

Crazy Love

• Lake of Fire
• Manufactured Landscapes
• The Monastery
• The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair

Best Film (Feature)

Juno

• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)
• I'm Not There
• A Mighty Heart
• Paranoid Park

Best First Film (Feature)

The Lookout

• 2 Days in Paris
• Great World of Sound
• Rocket Science
• Vanaja

Best Foreign Language Film

Once, Ireland

• 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile), Romania
• The Band's Visit (Bikur Ha-Tizmoret), France/Israel/USA
• Lady Chatterley, Belgium/France/UK
• Persepolis, France/USA

Best Screenplay

The Savages - Tamara Jenkins

• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) - Ronald Harwood
• Starting Out in the Evening - Fred Parnes and Andrew Wagner
• Waitress - Adrienne Shelly
• Year of the Dog - Mike White

Best First Screenplay

Juno - Diablo Cody

• Rocket Science - Jeffrey Blitz
• Broken English - Zoe Cassavetes
• Before the Devil Knows You're Dead - Kelly Masterson
• A Mighty Heart - John Orloff

Best Supporting Actor (Supporting Male)

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

Best Supporting Actress (Supporting Female)

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

John Cassavetes Award

August Evening

• Owl and the Sparrow
• The Pool
• Quiet City
• Shotgun Stories

Truer Than Fiction Award

The Unforeseen

• Helvetica
• Running Stumbled

Someone to Watch Award

Ramin Bahrani - Chop Shop

• Lee Isaac Chung - Munyurangabo
• Ronald Bronstein - Frownland

Producers Award

Neil Kopp - Paranoid Park and Old Joy

• Anne Clements - Ping Pong Playa and Quinceanera
• Alexis Ferris - Cthulhu and Police Beat

Robert Altman Award

I'm Not There

• Director - Todd Haynes
• Casting Director - Laura Rosenthal
• Ensemble Cast - Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Ben Whishaw, Marcus Carl Franklin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bruce Greenwood, David Cross, Julianne Moore, and Michelle Williams