The U.S. Fiction Award, U.S.
Fiction Cinematography Award presented by Aputure, World Fiction Award, Documentary Award, L.A. Muse Awards, and Nightfall Award, as well as the Short Fiction Award and the Short Documentary Award, comprised the festival's ceremony.
Best Feature: «The Wrestler» Best Director: Tom McCarthy, «The Visitor» Best Male Lead: Mickey Rourke, «The Wrestler» Best Female Lead: Melissa Leo, «Frozen River» Best Supporting Male: James Franco, «Milk» Best Supporting Female: Penelope Cruz, «Vicky Cristina Barcelona» Best Screenplay: «Vicky Cristina Barcelona» Best
Cinematography: «The Wrestler» Best First Feature: «Synecdoche, New York» Best First Screenplay: «Milk» Best Foreign Film: «The Class» Best Documentary: «Man on Wire» Robert Altman
Award: «Synecdoche, New York» John Cassavetes
Award: «In Search of a Midnight Kiss» Lacoste Truer Than
Fiction Award: Margaret Brown, «The Order of Myths» Piaget Producers
Award: Heather Rae, «Frozen River» Someone to Watch
Award: Lynn Shelton, «My Effortless Brilliance»
Operating on several levels at once — as
fiction, as documentary, as investigation into the documentary form, as historical excavation and as exploration of the process of a talented and committed actor --» Kate Plays Christine» which won Greene the Documentary Writing
award, even finds time to be beautiful, with Sean Price Williams «
cinematography giving the film an aesthetic that is as unique as its premise.