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"Winter's Bone" back in the hunt.

Debra Granik's gripping Ozarks thriller with a star-making turn from Jennifer Lawrence wins its first year-end awards -- and gets a haul of Indie Spirit Award nominations, too.

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“Winter’s Bone” back in the hunt.

POSTED: Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 1:29 PM
Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Columnist and Critic

Good news for Winter’s Bone fans, and for Debra Granik, its director, and Jennifer Lawrence, its star: the Gotham Independent Film Awards, juried by New York-based writers and filmmakers, and one of the first year-end kudo groups out of the gate, gave the taut Missouri Ozarks mystery its best feature prize, and another for best ensemble acting, on Monday night.

A gripping, chilling, beautifully observed thriller, adapted from the novel by Daniel Woodrell about a teenager who goes looking for her missing father and falls into a world of meance and meth dealers, was released in June to strong reviews and art house box office. But titles released in the first half of the year are typically at a disadvantage come awards time: short-term memories, and a late-year glut of high profile pics often render the early contenders also-rans.
 
Happily, with the Gotham nods, and the announcement of nominations today from the Film Independent Spirit Awards, Winter’s Bone is back in the hunt. In fact, it received more Spirit Award nominations than any 2010 indie: seven nominations, including best feature, director, screenplay, lead actress (the amazing Lawrence), supporting actress (Dale Dickey) and supporting actor John Hawkes. Cinematographer Michael McDonough was also nominated. The other Spirit Award feature contenders are 127 Hours, Black Swan, Greenberg and The Kids Are All Right.
 
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Steven Rea has been an Inquirer movie critic since 1992. He was born in London, raised in New York City, and has lived in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Iowa City, Iowa. His column, "On Movies," appears Sundays in Arts & Entertainment, his reviews appear in the Weekend section on Fridays, and his blog, On Movies Online, can be found here. He is a member of the National Society of Film Critics.

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