Halifax's Ellen Page and Toronto's Tamara Podemski are in the running for the Film Independent's Spirit Awards, where they will face off against top Hollywood talent including Angelina Jolie and Cate Blanchett.

Director Jennifer Baichwal, meanwhile, is up for best documentary honors for her 2006 hit Manufactured Landscapes.

Page, seen previously in X-Men: The Last Stand and indie hit Hard Candy, is nominated for her title role in the Jason Reitman-directed comedy Juno. She shares the best female lead category with Jolie, up for her role in A Mighty Heart, Posey for Broken English, Tang Wei for Ang Lee's Lust, Caution and Sienna Miller, nominated for Interview.

Podemski is up for best supporting female for Four Sheets to the Wind. The film by U.S. director Sterlin Harjo features Podemski as a native American woman who helps her brother discover life outside the reservation -- a role that earned her a special jury prize earlier this year at Sundance. She faces Cate Blanchett, one of seven actors who play Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, Anna Kendrick for Rocket Science, Jennifer Jason Leigh for Margot at the Wedding and Marisa Tomei for her turn as Philip Seymour Hoffman's trophy wife in Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.

Manufactured Landscapes -- which already has a Genie and Sundance prize under its belt -- faces Crazy Love, Lake of Fire, The Monastery and The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair.

The awards, organized by L.A.-based Film Independent, will be handed out on Feb. 23.