Independent Spirit Awards

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BEST FEATURE 
All of Us Strangers
American Fiction
May December
Passages
Past Lives
We Grown Now

BEST FIRST FEATURE
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Chronicles of a Wandering Saint
Earth Mama
A Thousand and One
Upon Entry
 
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD – Given to the best feature made for under $1 million
The Artifice Girl
Cadejo Blanco
Fremont
Rotting in the Sun
The Unknown Country
 
BEST DIRECTOR
Andrew Haigh - All of Us Strangers
Todd Haynes - May December
William Oldroyd - Eileen
Ira Sachs - Passages
Celine Song - Past Lives

BEST SCREENPLAY
David Hemingson - The Holdovers
Cord Jefferson - American Fiction
Laura Moss, Brendan J. O'Brien - Birth/Rebirth
Emma Seligman, Rachel Sennott - Bottoms
Celine Song - Past Lives

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Samy Burch; Story by Samy Burch, Alex Mechanik - May December
Noah Galvin, Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman, Ben Platt - Theater Camp
Tomás Gómez Bustillo - Chronicles of a Wandering Saint
Laurel Parmet - The Starling Girl
Alejandro Rojas, Juan Sebastián Vásquez - Upon Entry

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Jessica Chastain - Memory
Greta Lee - Past Lives
Trace Lysette - Monica
Natalie Portman - May December
Judy Reyes - Birth/Rebirth
Franz Rogowski - Passages
Andrew Scott - All of Us Strangers
Teyana Taylor - A Thousand and One
Jeffrey Wright - American Fiction
Teo Yoo - Past Lives

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Erika Alexander - American Fiction
Sterling K. Brown - American Fiction
Noah Galvin - Theater Camp
Anne Hathaway - Eileen
Glenn Howerton - BlackBerry
Marin Ireland - Eileen
Charles Melton - May December
Da'Vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers
Catalina Saavedra - Rotting in the Sun
Ben Whishaw - Passages

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Marshawn Lynch -Bottoms
Atibon Nazaire - Mountains
Tia Nomore - Earth Mama
Dominic Sessa - The Holdovers
Anaita Wali Zada - Fremont

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Chronicles of a Wandering Saint
The Holdovers
Monica
We Grown Now
 
BEST EDITING
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Rotting in the Sun
Theater Camp
Upon Entry
We Grown Now

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD – Given to one film's director, casting director and ensemble cast
Showing Up
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Casting Director: Gayle Keller
Ensemble Cast: André Benjamin, Hong Chau, Judd Hirsch, Heather Lawless, James Le Gros, John Magaro, Matt Malloy, Amanda Plummer, Maryann Plunkett, Denzel Rodriguez, Michelle Williams

BEST DOCUMENTARY 
Bye Bye Tiberias
Four Daughters
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
Kokomo City
The Mother of All Lies
 
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
Anatomy of a Fall (France)
Godland (Denmark0
Mami Wata (Nigeria)
Tótem (Mexico)
The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom, Poland, USA)

 SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD
Joanna Arnow - Director of The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
Laura Moss - Director of Birth/Rebirth
Monica Sorelle - Director of Mountains

TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD 
Set Hernandez - Director of Unseen
Jesse Short Bull, Laura Tomaselli - Director of Lakota Nation vs. United States
Sierra Urich - Director of Joonam