Juno Wins Best Feature At Indie Spirit Awards

Apparently, the Spirit Awards wanted more joy and fun this year, as Juno won big time in the awards. The Hollywood Reporter has more:

The breakout hit “Juno” continued its winning ways at the 2008 Spirit Awards, where it was hailed as best feature and also picked up trophies for lead actress Ellen Page and screenwriter Diablo Cody.

“This was new territory for us,” admitted Lianne Halfon, one of the producers of the Fox Searchlight release. “This was our first film with a happy ending and a movie about family that our families could actually see.”

Presented by Los Angeles-based Film Independent, the laid-back, free-wheeling ceremonies, held in a tent on the beach in Santa Monica on Saturday afternoon, focused its spotlight on independent-minded features, produced on budgets of less than $20 million. Rainn Wilson, taking a day off from “The Office,” joked that two of the past year’s most celebrated indie films, “No Country for Old Men” and “There Will Be Blood,” didn’t make the cut because “they were too light-hearted.”

Still, there was overlap between the Spirits and the Academy Awards. The diminutive Page, who also earned an Oscar nomination for playing “Juno’s” title character, stood above the crowd as the afternoon’s best actress. She expressed her thanks to director Jason Reitman and Cody, who “created an incredible character, a teenage lead I think we’ve never seen before.”

Source: The Movie Fanatic

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