Mary-Kate Olsen Presents at the Spirit Awards

Mary-Kate Olsen was a presenter at the 24th annual Independent Spirit Awards on February 21. The casual indie ceremony was held in a tent on the beach in Santa Monica and honored the best in independent filmmaking in 2008.

Mary-Kate presented the award for “Best First Screenplay” with her The Wackness costar, Ben Kingsley. The Award was won by Dustin Lance Black for his film, Milk, which chronicled the life and times of America’s first elected gay official, Harvey Milk. Dustin beat out Jonathan Levine for The Wackness.

Many great films, filmmakers and actors were honored. You can see the list of nominees and winners here.

I think MK looked beautiful at the awards. I love that she was asked to present – it shows how she’s been embraced by the independent film community. In her interview with FASHION she said she has a couple projects on the table for 2009 – I wonder if any of them will be independent films!