Nominasi untuk Spirit Awards ke-26 sudah dibacakan kemarin, pengumuman pemenangnya sendiri akan berlangsung pada Sabtu, 26 Februari 2011, sebelum acara Oscar dengan komedian Joel McHale dipercaya membawakan acara tersebut. Setelah memenangkan kategori film terbaik di Gotham Awards, Winter’s Bone kembali memimpin di Spirit Awards dengan 7 nominasi, diantara lain: Best Film, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress dan Best Cinematography. Kategori untuk film terbaik juga diramaikan oleh 127 Hours, Greenberg, The Kids Are All Right dan Black Swan. Berikut daftar lengkap nominasinya.

Best Film
127 Hours
Black Swan
Greenberg
The Kids Are All Right
Winter’s Bone

Best Director
Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
Danny Boyle – 127 Hours
Lisa Cholodenko – The Kids Are All Right
Debra Granik – Winter’s Bone
John Cameron Mitchell – Rabbit Hole

Best Actor
Aaron Eckhart – Rabbit Hole
Ben Stiller – Greenberg
James Franco – 127 Hours
John C. Reilly – Cyrus
Ronald Bronstein – Daddly Longlegs

Best Actress
Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right
Greta Gerwig – Greenberg
Jennifer Lawrence – Winter’s Bone
Natalie Portman – Black Swan
Nicole Kidman – Rabbit Hole
Michelle Williams – Blue Valentine

Best Supporting Actor
John Hawkes – Winter’s Bone
Samuel L. Jackson – Mother and Child
Bill Murray – Get Low
John Ortiz – Jack Goes Boating
Mark Ruffalo – The Kids Are All Right

Best Supporting Actress
Ashley Bell – The Last Exorcism
Dale Dickey – Winter’s Bone
Allison Janney – Life During Wartime
Daphne Rubin-Vega – Jack Goes Boating
Naomi Watts – Mother and Child

Best Foreign Film
The King’s Speech
Kisses
Mademoiselle Chambon
Of Gods and Men
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Best Documentary
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Marwencol
Restrepo
Sweetgrass
Thunder Soul

Best First Feature
Everything Strange and New
Get Low
The Last Exorcism
Night Catches Us
Tiny Furniture

John Cassavetes Award
Daddy Longlegs
The Exploding Girl
Lbs.
Lovers of Hate
Obselidia

Best Screenplay
Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg – The Kids Are All Right
Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini – Winter’s Bone
Nicole Holofcener – Please Give
David Lindsay-Abaire – Rabbit Hole
Todd Solondz – Life During Wartime

Best First Screenplay
Diane Bell – Obselidia
Lena Dunham – Tiny Furniture
Nik Fackler – Lovely, Still
Robert Glaudini – Jack Goes Boating
Dana Adam Shapiro, Evan M. Wiener – Monogamy

Best Cinematography
Adam Kimmel – Never Let Me Go
Matthew Libatique – Black Swan
Jody Lee Lipes – Tiny Furniture
Michael McDonough – Winter’s Bone
Harris Savides – Greenberg

Robert Altman Award
Please Give

Piaget Producers Award
In-Ah Lee – Au Revoir Taipei
Adele Romanski – The Myth of the American Sleepover
Anish Savjani – Meek’s Cutoff

Acura Someone to Watch Award
Mike Ott – Littlerock
Laurel Nakadate – The Wolf Knife
Hossein Keshavarz – Dog Sweat

AVEENO Truer than Fiction Award
Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor – Sweetgrass
Jeff Malmberg – Marwencol
Lynn True, Nelson Walker – Summer Pasture