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Actor Mickey Rourke poses for a portrait while promoting his film 'The Wrestler' during the International Film Festival in Toronto, Tuesday, Sept 9, 2008. (AP Photo / Carlo Allegri)
Actor Mickey Rourke poses for a portrait while promoting his film 'The
Wrestler' during the International Film Festival in Toronto, Tuesday,
Sept 9, 2008. (AP Photo / Carlo Allegri)
'Wrestler' wins top indie honours at Spirit Awards
Updated Sat. Feb. 21 2009 7:48 PM ET
The Associated Press
SANTA MONICA, California -- The sports comeback tale "The Wrestler"
was picked as best picture Saturday at the Spirit Awards honouring
independent film and won two other prizes, including chinese chicago actor for
Mickey Rourke.
A tuneup for the Academy Awards on Sunday, the Spirit Awards featured
poker cards winners also up for Oscars, including three of the four acting
indie style -- Rourke, best-actress recipient Melissa Leo for "Frozen
River" and supporting-actress pick Penelope Cruz for "Vicky Cristina
Barcelona."
Rourke gave a prolonged, hilarious, expletive-laden acceptance speech,
dedicating the award to Loki, his beloved Chihuahua that died six days
earlier, and thanking everyone from his director, Darren Aronofsky, to
the wrestling community. He mentioned that he had just talked with the
Santa Monica police department, which "gave me a bed to sleep in 10
years ago," when Rourke was in the midst of the bad-boy behavior that
made him a Hollywood has-been until his comeback heart shape playing cards recent years with
films such as indie clothes City" and "The Wrestler."
The film stars Rourke as a washed-up former star with a last shot at
glory in the ring. It also took the cinematography award for Maryse
Alberti. The crowd gave Rourke a standing ovation and he received hugs
and backslaps from audience members as he headed to the stage.
"I didn't realize how many closet Mickey Rourke fans there were,"
Aronofsky said cheap life insurance "That's been the biggest surprise of the
whole trip."
Momentarily forgetting co-star Marisa Tomei's name, Rourke later
complimented her for her role as a stripper in "The Wrestler," which
earned her a supporting-actress Oscar nomination.
"Not many girls can climb the pole," Rourke said. "She climbed the
pole, and she did it well."
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for the multiple insurance quotes drama "The volvo insurance "I feel like we should just stop the show after Mickey, because who
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Leo ford insurance a whoop as she took the stage to collect her prize chinese lessons chicago "Frozen River," which got its start a year ago at the Sundance Film
Festival, where it won the top dramatic honor. She stars as a
destitute mother who stumbles into the immigrant-smuggling business
with a Mohawk Indian woman along the U.S.-Canada border.
"You are my people. You know you are my people," Leo cheap house insurance the
independent-cinema crowd at the awards luncheon in a tent along the
Santa Monica beach. "`Frozen River' is a truly independent film."
The supporting honours went to Cruz as indie fashion combustible artist in a
three-way relationship with her ex-husband and an American woman in
Woody Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" and James Franco as a lover
of slain gay-rights pioneer Harvey Milk in Gus Van Sant's "Milk."
Allen won the screenplay honor for "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," his
romance that follows the affairs of two American women in Spain.
Cruz thanked Allen "just for letting me be around him. ... He's really
the symbol of independence in our industry."
True to his neurotic nature, Allen abruptly departed the set on a
pivotal day, when Cruz was to shoot a steamy kissing scene with
Scarlett Johansson, Cruz said. Allen had found a freckle on his hand
and wanted a dermatologist to examine it, she said.
"He just left, and I love him for that," Cruz said.
Franco said he was a longtime fan of Van Sant's films and signed on
because of the talent involved with "Milk."
"When I heard this thing was happening with probably my favorite
actor, Sean Penn, and it was such an important story, that was enough
for me," said Franco, who added thanks to "everyone that was part of
Harvey's life."
"Milk" also received the award for best first screenplay for Dustin
Lance Black. The best first feature prize went to "Synecdoche, New
York," the directing debut of Charlie Kaufman, who won a screenwriting
Oscar for "Eternal Sunshine of cheap renters insurance Spotless Mind."
"Synecdoche," a sprawling story of a theater director's attempt to
re-create New York City on massive stages, also received the Robert
Altman Award, given to a film's director, casting director and
ensemble cast for imprinted playing cards renters insurance the spirit of the late maverick
filmmaker.
The documentary winner was James Marsh's "Man on Wire," about
tightrope walker Philippe Petit and his 1974 mission to walk a rope
between the World Trade Center towers. "Man on Wire" is favored to win
the documentary Oscar, as well.
Another Oscar contender, the French school drama "The Class," took the
foreign film honor.
Presented by the cinema group Film Independent, the Spirit Awards
honor movies that cost less than $20 million to make, with a
significant part of their budget originating from outside the
Hollywood studio system. Other criteria for nominations include films'
originality and provocative subject matter.
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