Film Independent has released its nominations for the upcoming 33rd Independent Spirit Awards, with Call Me by Your Name topping all other movies with six nominations.
Top leaders at Film Independent decide the nominations by committee, while the entire membership can vote for the winners. Membership is open to filmmakers and film enthusiasts alike; all you need is to pay around $100 to become a member of the group and make your voice heard. In fact, I happen to be a voting member of Film Independent so I am thrilled to have the opportunity to help decide the winners once again.
While this broad membership would suggest that the winners would be different from the Oscars, which are solely decided by active members of the film community, they have actually lined up with Best Picture five out of the last six years, including The Artist in 2011, 12 Years a Slave in 2013, Birdman in 2014, Spotlight in 2015 and Moonlight in 2016. So will this pattern continue for 2017? Only time will tell, but Best Feature nominees Call Me by Your Name, The Florida Project, Get Out and Lady Bird are all in the conversation for the Best Picture Oscar so it could happen again. Notably missing from Best Feature is one of the foremost films in consideration for Best Picture, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Here are the full nominations for the 2017 Independent Spirit Awards, airing live on IFC on Saturday, March 3.
BEST FEATURE
Call Me by Your Name
The Florida Project
Get Out
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
Salma Hayek – Beatriz at Dinner
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie – I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
Shinobu Terajima – Oh Lucy!
Regina Williams – Life and Nothing More
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
Benny Safdie – Good Time
BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
Holly Hunter – The Big Sick
Allison Janney – I, Tonya
Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird
Lois Smith – Marjorie Prime
Taliah Lennice Webster – Good Time
BEST DIRECTOR
Sean Baker – The Florida Project
Jonas Carpignano – A Ciambra
Luca Guadagnino – Call Me by Your Name
Jordan Peele – Get Out
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
Columbus
Ingrid Goes West
Menashe
Oh Lucy!
Patty Cake$
BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Kris Avedisian, Kyle Espeleta and Jesse Wakeman – Donald Cried
Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani – The Big Sick
Ingrid Jungermann – Women Who Kill
Koganda – Columbus
David Smith and Matt Spicer – Ingrid Goes West
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Thimios Bakatakis – The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Elisha Christian – Columbus
Hélène Louvart – Beach Rats
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom – Call Me by Your Name
Joshua James Richards – The Rider
BEST EDITING
Ronald Bronstein and 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
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Departure
Faces Places
Last Men in Aleppo
Motherland
Quest
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
BPM (Beats per Minute)
A Fantastic Woman
I Am Not a Witch
Lady Macbeth
Loveless
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD (Film made for under $500,000)
Dayveon
A Ghost Story
Life and Nothing More
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
The Cage Fighter (Jeff Unay)
Distant Constellation (Shevaun Mizrahi)
Quest (Jonathan Olshefski)
KIEHL’s SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD
Dayveon (Amman Abbasi)
Gook (Justin Chon)
Super Dark Times (Kevin Phillips)
PIAGET PRODUCERS AWARD
Giulia Caruso & Ki Jin Kim
Ben LeClair
Summer Shelton
AMERICAN AIRLINES BONNIE AWARD
So Yong Kim
Lynn Shelton
Chloé Zhao