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  • Here Are the 2016 Independent Spirit Awards Nominees

    carol, cate blanchett, carol movieThe nominations for the 2016 Film Independent Spirit Awards were announced Tuesday, giving boosts to several films’ Oscars chances.

    “Carol” led the pack with six nominations, including nods in most of the major categories (Best Feature, Best Director, Best Screenplay), and two Best Lead Actress nominations for its headlining duo, Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. It was followed by Netflix flick “Beasts of No Nation,” which scored five nominations in the big categories (Best Feature, Best Director, Best Lead Male) as well as the technical ones (Best Cinematography, Best Editing).

    As TheWrap notes, “Beasts” nominations have helped secure it some serious consideration come Oscars time. But another big surprise was the small number of nominations for “Room,” considered by many to be a Best Picture contender at the Academy Awards. It was left off the Spirit Awards’s Best Feature list, though it did score a Best Female Lead nomination for Best Actress Oscar frontrunner Brie Larson. “Spotlight,” meanwhile, also shored up its Oscar hopes, thanks to three Spirit Awards nominations, as well as its selection as the winner of the Robert Altman Award for Best Ensemble.

    Check out the full list of nominees below. The Independent Spirit Awards take place on February 27, 2016.

    Best Feature
    Anomalisa
    Beasts of No Nation
    Carol
    Spotlight
    Tangerine

    Best Director
    Sean Baker, Tangerine
    Cary Joji Fukunaga, Beasts of No Nation
    Todd Haynes, Carol
    Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson, Anomalisa
    Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
    David Robert Mitchell, It Follows

    Best Screenplay
    Charlie Kaufman, Anomalisa
    Donald Margulies, The End of the Tour
    Phyllis Nagy, Carol
    Tom McCarthy & Josh Singer, Spotlight
    S. Craig Zahler, Bone Tomahawk

    Best First Feature
    The Diary of a Teenage Girl
    James White
    Manos Sucias
    Mediterranea
    Songs My Brothers Taught Me

    Best First Screenplay
    Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
    Joseph Carpignano, Mediterranea
    Emma Donoghue, Room
    Marielle Heller, The Diary of a Teenage Girl
    John Magary, Russell Harbaugh, Myna Joseph, The Mend

    Best Male Lead
    Christopher Abbott, James White
    Abraham Attah, Beasts of No Nation
    Ben Mendelsohn, Mississippi Grind
    Jason Segel, The End of the Tour
    Koudous Seihon, Mediterranea

    Best Female Lead
    Cate Blanchett, Carol
    Brie Larson, Room
    Rooney Mara, Carol
    Bel Powley, The Diary of A Teenage Girl
    Kitana Kiki Rodriquez, Tangerine

    Best Supporting Male
    Kevin Corrigan, Results
    Paul Dano, Love & Mercy
    Idris Elba, Beasts of No Nation
    Richard Jenkins, Bone Tomahawk
    Michael Shannon, 99 Homes

    Best Supporting Female
    Robin Bartlett, H.
    Marin Ireland, Glass Chin
    Jennifer Jason Leigh, Anomalisa
    Cynthia Nixon, James White
    Mya Taylor, Tangerine

    Best Documentary
    (T)error
    Best of Enemies
    Heart of Dog
    The Look of Silence
    Meru
    The Russian Woodpecker

    Best International Film
    Embrace the Serpent
    Girlhood
    Mustang
    Son of Saul

    Best Cinematography
    Beasts of No Nation
    Carol
    It Follows
    Meadlowland
    Songs My Brothers Taught Me

    Best Editing
    Beasts of No Nation
    Heaven Knows What
    It Follows
    Room
    Spotlight

    John Cassavetes Award (Best Feature Under $500,000)
    Advantageous
    Christmas, Again
    Heaven Knows What
    Krisha
    Out of My Hand

    Robert Altman Award (Best Ensemble)
    Spotlight

    Kiehl’s Someone to Watch Award
    Chloe Zhoa
    Felix Thompson
    Robert Machoian & Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck

    [via: Spirit Awards, h/t TheWrap]

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  • How ‘Carol’ Writer Turned a Scandalous Book Into an Oscar-Buzz Movie

    Books take many paths to the big screen, but none quite like this one.

    Published in 1952, Patricia Highsmith’s second novel, “The Price of Salt,” about an unlikely love affair between two women in New York City, generated so much controversy that the author, then only in her 20s, wrote it under a fake name.

    But it wasn’t until this year that the book would be released as a movie, now named “Carol,” starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara — with the screenplay written by Highsmith’s longtime friend, Phyllis Nagy.

    “I met the author when I was a kid working at the New York Times and I suggested her to the magazine editors as someone who could do a walking tour of Greenwood Cemetery,” recalled Nagy, in an interview Nov. 8 at the AFI Fest in Los Angeles, where the film screened. “She happened to be in town — Patricia Highsmith — and as a sort of a reward, or punishment, I’m not sure which, I was sent with her to the cemetery. And that very strange visit resulted in a decade-long friendship that ended only when she died.”

    Highsmith would become famous for “The Talented Mr. Ripley” — adapted into a movie starring Matt Damon — and other books. Nagy also would pursue a successful career writing for the stage, television and movies.

    But Nagy never read “The Price of Salt” when Highsmith was alive, believing the book was too personal.

    “I read it after she died” — in 1995 — “and then a couple of years later I was approached by a producer completely unrelated to Pat,” says Nagy.

    The producer wanted her to adapt the book for the screen. The result is what critics are calling one of the best movies of the year, on the short list for a possible Best Picture Academy Award.

    So how did Nagy go about creating an Oscar-buzz script from a book by a friend?

    “I tend to read something, read it again, read it obsessively, make obsessive notes, not so much about plot, but how to preserve a tone,” she says.

    Then she just lets it all sink in. “I don’t really write for a long time,” she says, “and then it will all come together in a couple of weeks.”

    Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett in "Carol"
    Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett in “Carol”
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