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I’m No There, the movie about the life of legendary folk
artist Bob Dylan was nominated for four Spirit Awards.
According to the Spirit Awards’ website, I’m Not There, which
features Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere and four others playing incarnations of
the enigmatic singer, was nominated for Best Feature, Supporting Actress, Supporting
actor for child performer Marcus Carl Franklin and Best Director for Todd
Haynes.
In the category Best Film the nominations went to A Mighty
Heart, with Angelina Jolie as the wife of slain reporter Daniel Pearl, The
Diving Bell and the Butterfly, about paralyzed French author Jean-Dominique
Bauby, Juno, a comedy about a pregnant teenager and to Paranoid Park
about a teenage skateboarder. The latter three films also earned nominations
for best director.
Angelina Jolie was nominated for Best Actress for her role
in A Mighty Heart and she will compete against Ellen Page (Juno), Sienna Miller
(Interview), Parker Posey (Broken English) and China's Tang Wei (Lust, Caution).
In the category Best Actor Don Cheadle was nominated for his
role as a radio disc jockey in Talk To Me. Also nominated were Philip Seymour
Hoffman (The Savages), Frank Langella (Starting Out in the Evening), Hong Kong veteran Tony Leung (Lust, Caution) and Pedro
Castaneda (August Evening).
The Spirit Awards are open to movies that cost less than 20
million dollars to make and which played in theaters for a week or at a top
festival.
The Spirit Awards will be given out February 23 in a
ceremony that will air on the Independent Film Channel.
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