It was no surprise that Juno, the little indie flick about a pregnant teen, took home top honours at the Film Independent’s 2008 Spirit Awards.

The picture walked away with three major awards, including the nod for Best Feature.

Canada’s sweetheart Ellen Page was there to accept her Best Lead Actress award and humbly thanked Best First Screenplay winner Diablo Cody.

“This is so, so special, but this is pretty much all Diablo Cody’s fault,” Page said. E! Online reports. “She wrote one of the best screenplays I have ever read and created a teenage female lead I feel like we’ve never seen before.”

Cody was just as praise giving to the director and cast but also to the ceremony itself.

“This is the coolest award in the coolest category,” she said. “There is nothing like writing a first screenplay.”

Other winners included Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Javier Bardem and Cate Blanchett.






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