By Matt Neglia
The Film Independent Spirit Awards have handed out their awards for the best in independent film for 2017.
Click below to see the winners.
BEST FEATURE
Call Me By Your Name
Get Out
Lady Bird
The Florida Project
The Rider
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 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 DOCUMENTARY
The Departure
Faces Places
Last Men in Aleppo
Motherland
Quest
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
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
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 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 INTERNATIONAL FILM
BPM (Beats Per Minute)
A Fantastic Woman
I’m Not A Witch
Lady Macbeth
Loveless
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD
Dayveon
A Ghost Story
Life And Nothing More
Most Beautiful Island
The Transfiguration
BEST FIRST FEATURE
Columbus
Ingrid Goes West
Menashe
Oh Lucy!
Patti Cake$
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
THE ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD
Mudbound
THE BONNIE AWARD
Chloe Zhao
So what do you think of the winners? Apologies once again for no contest for this one but be sure to enter into our “Predict The Oscars” contest here before the Oscars tomorrow night. Let us know what you thought about the 2018 Independent Spirit Awards in the comments below.
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