2018 Independent Spirit Award Nominations
The nominations for the Film Independent Spirit Awards have been announced, and Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name leads with six. Jordan Peele’s Get Out and Josh and Benny Safdie’s Good Time follow with five each, and earning four each are Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird and Chloé Zhao’s The Rider. As always, the awards will be presented in the early evening before Oscar Night, and this year, that’s March 3. Nick Kroll and John Mulaney are returning to host the festivities for a second year in a row.
Best Feature
Best First Feature
The award’s given to the director and producer
Ingrid Goes West
Oh Lucy!
John Cassavetes Award
Given to the best feature made for under $500,000
Life and Nothing More
Most Beautiful Island
Best Director
Sean Baker, The Florida Project
Jonas Carpignano, A Ciambra
Luca Guadagnino, Call Me by Your Name
Jordan Peele, Get Out
Josh and Benny 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 Screenplay
Kris Avedisian, Donald Cried, story by Kyle Espeleta and Jesse Wakeman
Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick
Ingrid Jungermann, Women Who Kill
Kogonada, Columbus
David Branson 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 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 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 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 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
Robert Altman Award
Given to one film’s director, casting director and ensemble cast
Mudbound, directed by 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.
Best Documentary
Given to the director and producer
The Departure
Motherland
Best International Film
Given to the director
Bonnie Award
The inaugural Bonnie Award will recognize a mid-career female director with a $50,000 unrestricted grant
So Yong Kim
Lynn Shelton
Chloé Zhao
Jeep Truer Than Fiction Award
Presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features who has not yet received significant recognition
Shevaun Mizrahi, Distant Constellation
Jonathan Olshefski, Quest
Jeff Unay, The Cage Fighter
Kiel’s Someone to Watch Award
Recognizes a talented filmmaker of singular vision who has not yet received appropriate recognition
Amman Abbasi, Dayveon
Justin Chon, Gook
Kevin Phillips, Super Dark Times
Piaget Producers Award
Honors emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity and vision required to produce quality, independent films
Giulia Caruso and Ki Jin Kim
Ben LeClair
Summer Shelton
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