2018 Independent Spirit Awards Winners: ‘Get Out’, ‘Lady Bird,’ ‘Call Me By Your Name’
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Saturday, March 3rd, 2018 at 8:58 pm
The 33rd Annual Film Independent Spirit Awards were held on a Saturday afternoon in Santa Monica, CA. Recognizing the best in independent filmmaking, films like Get Out, Lady Bird, and Call Me By Your Name were all honored with awards for feature, writing, directing, and acting.
Get Out won two awards for Best Feature and Best Director; Call Me By Your Name earned awards for Best Male Lead and Best Cinematography; I, Tonya won for Best Supporting Actress and Best Editing; while Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, won Best Female Lead and Best Supporting Male; and Lady Bird, which won Best Screenplay.
Other winners went to some first-timers. Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani won Best First Screenplay for The Big Sick, while Ingrid Goes West won for Best First Feature. Check out the full list of winners here below.
Winners are posted in bold.
BEST FEATURE
Call Me by Your Name
The Florida Project Get Out (WINNER)
Lady Bird
The Rider
BEST FIRST FEATURE
(Award given to the director and producer)
Columbus Ingrid Goes West (WINNER)
Menashe
Oh Lucy!
Patti Cake$
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD – Given to the best feature made for under $500,000. (Award given to the writer, director and producer. Executive Producers are not awarded.)
Dayveon
A Ghost Story Life and Nothing More (WINNER)
Most Beautiful Island
The Transfiguration
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird (WINNER)
Azazel Jacobs, The Lovers
Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Jordan Peele, Get Out
Mike White, Beatriz at Dinner
BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Kris Avedisian, Story By: Kyle Espeleta, Jesse Wakeman, Donald Cried Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick (WINNER)
Ingrid Jungermann, Women Who Kill
Kogonada, Columbus
David Branson Smith, Matt Spicer, Ingrid Goes West
Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie, Good Time
Walter Fasano, Call Me by Your Name
Alex O’Flinn, The Rider
Gregory Plotkin, Get Out Tatiana S. Riegel, I, Tonya (WINNER)
BEST FEMALE LEAD
Salma Hayek, Beatriz at Dinner Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (WINNER)
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Shinobu Terajima, Oh Lucy!
Regina Williams, Life and Nothing More
Holly Hunter, The Big Sick Allison Janney, I, Tonya (WINNER)
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Lois Smith, Marjorie Prime
Taliah Lennice Webster, Good Time
BEST SUPPORTING MALE
Nnamdi Asomugha, Crown Heights
Armie Hammer, Call Me by Your Name
Barry Keoghan, The Killing of a Sacred Deer Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (WINNER)
Benny Safdie, Good Time
ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD – Given to one film’s director, casting director and ensemble cast
Mudbound
Director: Dee Rees
Casting Directors: Billy Hopkins, Ashley Ingram
Ensemble Cast: Jonathan Banks, Mary J. Blige, Jason Clarke, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Mitchell, Rob Morgan, Carey Mulligan
BEST DOCUMENTARY (Award given to the director and producer)
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM (Award given to the director)
BPM (Beats Per Minute), Robin Campillo, France A Fantastic Woman, Sebastián Lelio, Chile (WINNER)
I Am Not a Witch, Rungano Nyoni, Zambia
Lady Macbeth, William Oldroyd, U.K.
Loveless, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia
BONNIE AWARD – The inaugural Bonnie Award will recognize a mid-career female director with a $50,000 unrestricted grant, sponsored by American Airlines.
JEEP TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD – The 23rd annual Truer Than Fiction Award, funded by the Jeep brand, is presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features who has not yet received significant recognition.
Shevaun Mizrahi, Director of Distant Constellation Jonathan Olshefski, Director of Quest (WINNER)
Jeff Unay, Director of The Cage Fighter
KIEHL’S SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD – The 24th annual Someone to Watch Award, funded by Kiehl’s Since 1851, recognizes a talented filmmaker of singular vision who has not yet received appropriate recognition.
Amman Abbasi, Director of Dayveon Justin Chon, Director of Gook (WINNER)
Kevin Phillips, Director of Super Dark Times
PIAGET PRODUCERS AWARD – The 21st annual Producers Award, funded by Piaget, honors emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity and vision required to produce quality, independent films.
Giulia Caruso & Ki Jin Kim
Ben LeClair
Summer Shelton
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