The 2017 Film Independent Spirit Award Nominations

By Matt Neglia

The 2017 Film Independent Spirit Awards have announced their full list of nominations for 2017 which can be read in full below!

​Click below to see the list of nominations. BEST FEATURE
Call Me By Your Name
Get Out
Lady Bird
The Florida Project
The Rider

BEST FIRST FEATURE
Columbus
Ingrid Goes West
Menashe        
Oh Lucy!
Patti Cake$

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD
Dayveon      
A Ghost Story         
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
Jordan Peele – Get Out
Benny Safdie & Josh 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  
Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani – The Big Sick
Ingrid Jungermann – Women Who Kill
Kogonada – Columbus
David Branson Smith, Matt Spicer – Ingrid Goes West
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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, 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
Bennie Safdie – Good Time

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD
Mudbound

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
BPM (Beats Per Minute)
A Fantastic Woman
I’m Not A Witch
Lady Macbeth
Loveless

BEST DOCUMENTARY
The Departure
Faces Places
Last Men in Aleppo
Motherland
Quest So what do you all think? Were your favorite independent films included? What surprised you the most? Any films you have not seen yet that got mentioned here? The awards will be handed out the day before the Oscars on March 3rd and can be voted on by the public provided you’re a Film Independent member. Please let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
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