Spirit Awards honour Get Out

Jordan Peele takes Best Film and Best Director

by Amber Wilkinson

Get Out won Best Director and Best Film at the Independent Spirit Awards
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)

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

Best Screenplay

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

Best Editing

Best Female Lead

Best Male Lead

Best Supporting Female

Best Supporting Male

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

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

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