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| Get Out won Best Director and Best Film at the Independent Spirit Awards |
Get Out has been named the best feature at the 33rd Independent Spirit Awards, while Jordan Peele also won Best Director. The ceremony is held the day before the Oscars, where Peele's horror satire on racism and white privilege has also been nominated by Best Picture.
The Best First Feature award wen tot Matt Spicer's Ingrid Goes West, which focuses on a social media stalker. The John Cassavetes Award, which honours films on a rock bottom budget, went to Life And Nothing More, which maps out the relationship between a single mum and her teenage son.
In a night, which saw awards spread among the big-hitters of the year, Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird took home the Best Screenplay Award, while The Big Sick was named Best First Screenplay.
Timothée Chalamet was named best lead actor for his role in Call Me By Your Name, which also took home the cinematography prize, while Frances McDorman was named Best Actor for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Her co-star Sam Rockwell won Best Supporting Actor, while the Best Supporting Actress prize went to Allison Janney in I, Tonya.
The full list of winners and nominees is below:
Best Feature
Best First Feature (Award Given To The Director And Producer)
- Columbus
- WINNER: Ingrid Goes West
- Menashe
- Oh Lucy!
- Patti Cake$
John Cassavetes Award – Given To The Best Feature Made For Under $500,000
- Dayveon
- A Ghost Story
- WINNER: Life And Nothing More
- Most Beautiful Island
- The Transfiguration
Best Director
- Sean Baker, The Florida Project
- Jonas Carpignano, A Ciambra
- Luca Guadagnino, Call Me By Your Name
- WINNER: Jordan Peele, Get Out
- Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, Good Time
- Chloé Zhao, The Rider
Best Screenplay
- WINNER:: 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, Story By: Kyle Espeleta, Jesse Wakeman, Donald Cried
- WINNER: Emily V Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick
- Ingrid Jungermann, Women Who Kill
- Kogonada, Columbus
- David Branson Smith, Matt Spicer, Ingrid Goes West
Best Cinematography
- Thimios Bakatakis, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer
- Elisha Christian, Columbus
- Hélène Louvart, Beach Rats
- WINNER: Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Call Me By Your Name
- Joshua James Richards, The Rider
Best Editing
- Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie, Good Time
- Walter Fasano, Call Me By Your Name
- Alex O’flinn, The Rider
- Gregory Plotkin, Get Out
- WINNER: Tatiana S Riegel, I, Tonya
Best Female Lead
- Salma Hayek, Beatriz At Dinner
- WINNER: 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
- WINNER: 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
- WINNER: 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
- WINNER: 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
Best Documentary
- The Departure, Lana Wilson
- WINNER: Faces Places, Directed By Agnés Varda, Jr, Produced By Rosalie Varda
- Last Men In Aleppo, Directed By Feras Fayyad, Produced By Kareem Abeed, Søeren Steen Jespersen, Stefan Kloos
- Motherland, Directed By Ramona S. Diaz, Produced By Rey Cuerdo
- Quest, Directed By Jonathan Olshefski, Produced By Sabrina Schmidt Gordon
Best International Film
- 120 BPM (Beats Per Minute), Robin Campillo, France
- WINNER: A Fantastic Woman, Sebastián Lelio, Chile
- I Am Not A Witch, Rungano Nyoni, Zambia
- Lady Macbeth, William Oldroyd, UK
- Loveless, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia
Bonnie Award – The Inaugural Bonnie Award Will Recognize A Mid-Career Female Director With A $50,000 Unrestricted Grant
- So Yong Kim
- Lynn Shelton
- WINNER: 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, Director Of Distant Constellation
- WINNER: Jonathan Olshefski, Director Of Quest
- Jeff Unay, Director Of The Cage Fighter
Kiehl’s Someone To Watch Award – Recognises A Talented Filmmaker Of Singular Vision Who Has Not Yet Received Appropriate Recognition.
- Amman Abbasi, Director Of Dayveon
- WINNER: Justin Chon, Director Of Gook
- Kevin Phillips, Director Of Super Dark Times
Piaget Producers Award
- Giulia Caruso & Ki Jin Kim
- Ben Leclair
- WINNER: Summer Shelton
