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| Best Feature winner The Farewell |
The Independent Spirit Awards have once again taken an independent direction, showing support for the underdogs in this year's awards race. Lulu Wang was over the moon when her film The Farewell took Best Feature. She used her speech to call out the idea that women need encouragement to make films, saying that in fact what they need is to be hired.
Uncut Gems was the night's other big winner, taking Best Director for Benny and Josh Safdie and Best Actor for Adam Sandler. In a speech that delighted the audience, Sandler compared being snubbed by the Oscars as being left out of the Best Looking category in his high school yearbook but winning Best Personality instead.
Those awards in full:-
Best Feature
Best Director
- Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie, Uncut Gems
Best Female Lead
- Renée Zellweger, Judy
Best Male Lead
- Adam Sandler, Uncut Gems
Best Supporting Female
- Zhao Shuzhen, The Farewell
Best Supporting Male
- Willem Dafoe, The Lighthouse
Best Screenplay
- Noah Baumbach, Marriage Story
Best Editing
- Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie, Uncut Gems
Best Documentary Feature
Best Cinematography
- Jarin Blaschke, The Lighthouse
Best First Feature
Best First Screenplay
- Fredrica Bailey, Stefon Bristol, See You Yesterday
John Cassavetes Award
Robert Altman Award
Best International Film
- Parasite, South Korea
Producers Award
- Mollye Asher
Someone to Watch Award
- Rashaad Ernesto Green, Premature
Truer than Fiction award
- Nadia Shihab, Jaddoland
Bonnie Award
- Kelly Reichardt
