39th Annual Film Independent Spirit Awards

 

 BEST FEATURE  

 Past Lives (WINNER)
Producers: David Hinojosa, Pamela Koffler, Christine Vachon

BEST FIRST FEATURE

A Thousand and One (WINNER)
Director: A.V. Rockwell
Producers: Julia Lebedev, Rishi Rajani, Eddie Vaisman, Lena Waithe, Brad Weston

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD

Fremont (WINNER)
Director/Writer: Babak Jalali
Writer: Carolina Cavalli
Producers: Rachael Fung, Chris Martin, Marjaneh Moghimi, George Rush, Sudnya Shroff, Laura Wagner

BEST DIRECTOR  

 Celine Song, Past Lives (WINNER)

BEST SCREENPLAY 

Cord Jefferson, American Fiction (WINNER)

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY  

Samy Burch; Story by Samy Burch, Alex Mechanik, May December (WINNER)

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE 

Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction (WINNER)

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE  

Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers (WINNER)

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE 

Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers (WINNER)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Eigil Bryld, The Holdovers (WINNER)

BEST EDITING

Daniel Garber, How to Blow Up a Pipeline (WINNER)

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD

Showing Up (WINNER)
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Casting Director: Gayle Keller
Ensemble Cast: André Benjamin, Hong Chau, Judd Hirsch, Heather Lawless, James Le Gros, John Magaro, Matt Malloy, Amanda Plummer, Maryann Plunkett, Denzel Rodriguez, Michelle Williams

BEST DOCUMENTARY  

Four Daughters (WINNER)
Director: Kaouther Ben Hania
Producer: Nadim Cheikhrouha

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

 Anatomy of a Fall (WINNER)
France
Director: Justine Triet

PRODUCERS AWARD

Monique Walton (WINNER)

SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD

 Monica Sorelle, Director of Mountains (WINNER)

TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD 

Set Hernandez, director of unseen (WINNER)

TELEVISION CATEGORIES

BEST NEW NON-SCRIPTED OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES

Dear Mama (WINNER)
Executive Producers: Lasse Järvi, Quincy ‘QD3’ Jones III, Staci Robinson, Nelson George, Charles D. King, Peter Nelson, Adel ‘Future’ Nur, Jamal Joseph, Ted Skillman, Allen Hughes, Steve Berman, Marc Cimino, Jody Gerson, John Janick, Nicholas Ferrall, Nigel Sinclair 

BEST NEW SCRIPTED SERIES

Beef (WINNER)
Creator/Executive Producer: Lee Sung Jin
Executive Producers: Steven Yeun, Ali Wong, Jake Schreier, Ravi Nandan, Alli Reich
Co-Executive Producers: Alice Ju, Carrie Kemper

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES 

Ali Wong, Beef (WINNER)

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES 

Nick Offerman, The Last of Us (WINNER)

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES 

Keivonn Montreal Woodard, The Last of Us (WINNER)

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES

Jury Duty (WINNER)
Ensemble Cast: Alan Barinholtz, Susan Berger, Cassandra Blair, David Brown, Kirk Fox, Ross Kimball, Pramode Kumar, Trisha LaFache, Mekki Leeper, James Marsden, Edy Modica, Kerry O’Neill, Rashida Olayiwola, Whitney Rice, Maria Russell, Ishmel Sahid, Ben Seaward, Ron Song, Evan Williams