- Winter's Bone
- Black Swan
- Blue Valentine
- The Kids Are All Right
- Let Me In
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- 12th & Delaware
- Inside Job
- Public Speaking
- Sweetgrass
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- Kevin Asch – Holy Rollers
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| Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You |
- Winter's Bone – Kevin Breznahan, Dale Dickey, Garret Dillahunt, John Hawkes, Jennifer Lawrence, and Lauren Sweetser
- The Kids Are All Right – Annette Bening, Josh Hutcherson, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, and Mia Wasikowska
- Life During Wartime – Shirley Henderson, Ciarán Hinds, Allison Janney, Michael Lerner, Chris Marquette, Rich Pecci, Paul Reubens, Charlotte Rampling, Ally Sheedy, Dylan Riley Snyder, Renée Taylor, and Michael K. Williams
- Please Give – Ann Guilbert, Rebecca Hall, Catherine Keener, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Lois Smith, and Sarah Steele
- Tiny Furniture – David Call, Grace Dunham, Lena Dunham, Sarah Sophie Flicker, Rachel Howe, Garland Hunter, Isen Hunter, Alex Karpovsky, Jemima Kirke, Amy Seimetz, Laurie Simmons, and Merritt Wever
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