The Independent Spirit Awards

The Independent Spirit Awards formerly called as the FINDIE (Friends of Independents Awards), founded in 1984, are awards devoted to directors who are work on their own. Winners were normally honoured with acrylic glass pyramids holding balanced shoestrings demonstrating the worthless budgets of independent movies.


In 1986, the incident was renamed the Independent Spirit Awards. The Independent Spirit Awards are given by Film Independent, an institution dedicated to independent movie and independent filmmakers. In 2007, the ceremony was somewhat changed to Film Independent's Spirit Awards. Since 2006, every individual who bags this award has received a trophy representing a bird sitting at the peak of a pole with the shoestrings from the former design surrounded around the pole.

The awards show was earlier organized inside a exhibition area on the beach in Santa Monica, California, generally on the day before the Academy Awards. Since 1994, the show has been telecasted on the Independent Film Channel. The 2009 awards took place on February 21, 2009. Independent Spirit Awards 2010 were held on March 5, 2010 inside a porch in Los Angeles. The categories under which this award is given away are as follows- Best Film, Best Director, Best First Feature, Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead, Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead, Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female, Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male, Best Screenplay, Best First Screenplay, Best Foreign Film, Best Documentary Feature, Best Cinematography John Cassavetes Award, Robert Altman Award, Acura Someone to Watch Award, Piaget Producers Award, Truer than Fiction Award and so on.

On the other hand , the Indian screen magazine Filmfare begin the first Filmfare Awards in 1953. These awards were to titled as the Bollywood's version of the Academy Awards. Regular Magazine readers put forward their votes and the awards are demonstrated at a sensational, star-studded event. Alike Oscars, these awards are commonly charged under favoritism towards commercial success relatively than merit. Stardust magazine, Zee TV and others later stepped into the award business. Some of the other popular awards are as under- Zee Cine Awards, Star Screen Awards, Stardust Awards, IIFA Awards.

Since the year 1973, the Indian government has organized the National Film Awards, awarded by the government-supported Directorate of Film Festivals. The DFF screens not only Bollywood movies, but flicks from all the other regional film fraternity and independent or art movies.

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