Indie Spirits: 'Juno' wins best feature

February 24, 2008 The breakout hit "Juno" continued its winning ways at the 2008 Spirit Awards, where it was hailed as best feature and also picked up trophies for lead actress Ellen Page and screenwriter Diablo Cody. Presented by Los Angeles-based Film Independent, the laid-back, free-wheeling ceremonies, held in a tent on the beach in Santa Monica on Saturday afternoon, focused its spotlight on independent-minded features, produced on budgets of less than $20 million. Rainn Wilson, taking a day off from "The Office," joked that two of the past year's most celebrated indie films, "No Country for Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood," didn't make the cut because "they were too light-hearted."

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