‘Black Swan’ dominated the Independent Spirit Awards last night. Best film, best director and best actress all went to the psychological thriller. Is that an indication of how tonight’s Oscars are going to go?

Could Natalie Portman be any cuter?

According the the NY Mag, the awards ceremony was held on the beach – and everyone absolutely FROZE.

The Film Independent Spirit Awards, held in a beachside tent Saturday during unusually cold Santa Monica weather, were dominated by wins by Black Swan. And for all the travails the nominated filmmakers might have experienced on the path here (lack of funding, last-minute casting, no trailers to protect Nicole Kidman from the paparazzi, as Rabbit Hole director John Cameron Mitchell told us), these troubles seemed overshadowed by the day’s frigid wind. When asked how it felt to win the Best Director award, Black Swan’s Darren Aronofsky said, “F’in cold.” The weather got lots of mentions during the telecast, hosted by Joel McHale, and even more attention as the shivering winners made their way to the billowy press tent. It was so cold that Natalie Portman was seen sporting not one, but two jackets over her knee-length, summer-y dress during the show. “I’m from New York, so I was expecting to come here like, ‘It’s bikini time,’” said Lena Dunham, a winner for Best First Screenplay for Tiny Furniture. “It’s not bikini time.”

See the complete list of Independent Spirit Awards winners here!

Who’s excited for tonight!? I am!!

Pictured: Michelle Trachtenberg, Vera Fermiga, Dana Delany, Zoe Saldana, Jennifer Lawrence, Anne Heche and John Tupper, Melissa Leo, Kate Walsh, Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts, Mia Wasikowska, Mark Ruffalo, Erica Christensen, Eva Mendes, Greta Gerwig, Amanda Peet, Keri Washington, Deigo Luna, Nicole Kidman, Natalie Portman, Rosario Dawson, Amber Tamblyn, Jon Hamm and Jeremy Renner.

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Cute!

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Couple Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber enjoyed a day out with kids Alexander Pete Schreiber and Samuel Kai Schreiber in Los Angeles. They have the cutest kids!

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She is just the cutest little thing! I adore her! Her partner, and father of her boys is fellow actor Liev Schreiber. He’s not too hard on the eyes either!

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Pictured: Kate Beckinsale, Naomi Campbell with her billionaire boyfriend, Marion Cotillard, The Hilton family, Naomi Watts and Billy Zane!

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Here is the first promo pic (taken at Cannes Film Fest) of Naomi Watts as Marilyn Monroe for the upcoming biopic, Blonde, which will be directed by Andrew Dominik. It’s an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ imaginary Marilyn Monroe memoir that will start shooting in January 2011.

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Naomi Watts has been chosen to play screen icon Marilyn Monroe in a new biopic.

The King Kong star will tackle the lead role in Blonde, an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ imaginary Marilyn Monroe memoir which will be directed by Andrew Dominik, the moviemaker behind The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

The $20 million production will begin filming in January 2011, and Dominik is delighted to have found his Monroe.

He tells ScreenDaily.com, “Why is Marilyn Monroe the great female icon of the 20th Century? For men she is an object of sexual desire that is desperately in need of rescue. For women, she embodies all the injustices visited upon the feminine, a sister, a Cinderella, consigned to live among the ashes. I want to tell the story of Norma Jeane as a central figure in a fairytale; an orphan child lost in the woods of Hollywood, being consumed by that great icon of the twentieth century.”

Monroe, born Norma Jeane Mortenson, died in 1962 at the age of 36 following a drug overdose.

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