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Independent Spirit Awards 2017 Winners: ‘Get Out’ Wins Top Prize [FULL LIST]

The Film Independent Spirit Awards (of which I am a voting member!) took place Saturday, handing out awards to the best in independent film from 2017. Get Out won the top prize, Best Feature, in addition to Best Director for Jordan Peele. The acting winners included Timothée Chalamet, Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell and Allison Janney.

Below is the full list of winners from this year’s Film Independent Spirit Awards, with winners listed at the top and in bold.

BEST FEATURE

Get Out

Call Me by Your Name
The Florida Project
Lady Bird
The Rider

BEST MALE LEAD

Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name

Harris Dickinson – Beach Rats
James Franco – The Disaster Artist
Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out
Robert Pattinson – Good Time

BEST FEMALE LEAD

Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Salma Hayek – Beatriz at Dinner
Margot Robbie – I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
Shinobu Terajima – Oh Lucy!
Regina Williams – Life and Nothing More

BEST SUPPORTING MALE

Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Nnamdi Asomugha – Crown Heights
Armie Hammer – Call Me by Your Name
Barry Keoghan – The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Benny Safdie – Good Time

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE

Allison Janney – I, Tonya

Holly Hunter – The Big Sick
Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird
Lois Smith – Marjorie Prime
Taliah Lennice Webster – Good Time

BEST DIRECTOR

Jordan Peele – Get Out

Sean Baker – The Florida Project
Jonas Carpignano – A Ciambra
Luca Guadagnino – Call Me by Your Name
Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie – Good Time
Chloé Zhao – The Rider

BEST SCREENPLAY

Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird

Azazel Jacobs – The Lovers
Martin McDonagh – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Jordan Peele – Get Out
Mike White – Beatriz at Dinner

BEST FIRST FEATURE

Ingrid Goes West

Columbus
Menashe
Oh Lucy!
Patty Cake$

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY

Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani – The Big Sick

Kris Avedisian, Kyle Espeleta and Jesse Wakeman – Donald Cried
Ingrid Jungermann – Women Who Kill
Kogonada – Columbus
David Smith and Matt Spicer – Ingrid Goes West

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Sayombhu Mukdeeprom – Call Me by Your Name

Thimios Bakatakis – The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Elisha Christian – Columbus
Hélène Louvart – Beach Rats
Joshua James Richards – The Rider

BEST EDITING

Tatiana S. Riegel – I, Tonya

Ronald Bronstein and Benny Safdie – Good Time
Walter Fasano – Call Me by Your Name
Alex O’Flinn – The Rider
Gregory Plotkin – Get Out

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Faces Places

The Departure
Last Men in Aleppo
Motherland
Quest

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

A Fantastic Woman

BPM (Beats per Minute)
I Am Not a Witch
Lady Macbeth
Loveless

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD (Film made for under $500,000)

Life and Nothing More

Dayveon
A Ghost Story
Most Beautiful Island
The Transfiguration

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD (Best Ensemble)

Mudbound 

Director: Dee Rees
Casting Directors: Billy Hopkins and Ashley Ingram
Ensemble Cast: Jonathan Banks, Mary J. Blige, Jason Clarke, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Mitchell, Rob Morgan and Carey Mulligan

JEEP TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD 

Quest (Jonathan Olshefski)

The Cage Fighter (Jeff Unay)
Distant Constellation (Shevaun Mizrahi)

KIEHL’s SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD

Gook (Justin Chon)

Dayveon (Amman Abbasi)
Super Dark Times (Kevin Phillips)

PIAGET PRODUCERS AWARD

Summer Shelton

Giulia Caruso & Ki Jin Kim
Ben LeClair

AMERICAN AIRLINES BONNIE AWARD

Chloé Zhao

So Yong Kim
Lynn Shelton