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