LIVE: Watch the Spirit Awards Nomination Announcement
Eva Mendes and Jeremy Renner will present the nominees for the 2011 Independent Spirit Awards at 8 a.m. PST on Tuesday at the London West Hollywood Hotel.
The show's producers are broadcasting a live webcast, below:
Community and The Soup’s Joel McHale will host the award festivities Feb. 26, 2011, which will air on IFC exclusively that night at 10 p.m. The ceremony will be held at the beach in Santa Monica at 2 p.m.
Mendes’ latest project Last Night, also stars Sam Worthington and Keira Knightley. Renner is a two-time Spirit nominee for The Hurt Locker and Dahmer.
McHale recently finished filming Robert Rodriguez’s Spy Kids 4, opposite Jessica Alba, and can be seen next summer in What’s Your Number? and The Big Year. He recently co-starred in Steven Soderberg’s The Informant!.
Covering The Race
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Scott Feinberg
Lead Awards Blogger & Analyst
Scott, whose THR coverage appears both in print and online, is one of the film industry's most experienced and trusted awards analysts, and possesses one of the strongest track records at forecasting the Oscars. His best showings came in 2006 (when he called 21 of 24 winners) and 2004 (when he called 20 of 24 winners); he was also the only pundit to project long-shot best picture nominations for The Reader (2008), The Blind Side (2009) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011). An alumnus of Brandeis University, he previously ran "The Feinberg Files" blog for the Los Angeles Times. He is now a voting member of both the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association, and is writing a book about film history for young people for which he has interviewed more than 350 high-profile Hollywood figures.
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Gregg Kilday
Film Editor
Gregg contributes awards news, features online, and "The Race" column in print.
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Tim Appelo
Film Reporter
Tim contributes awards news and features, both in print and online.
