2018 FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS – Winners

Nick Kroll and John Mulaney returned as hosts of the 2018 FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS on March 3, in Santa Monica (and broadcast live on IFC). As always, SAGindie was in attendance to celebrate, but you can see who came out victorious by checking out the full list of winners below. Congrats to all of this year’s winning filmmakers and performers!

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2018 Spirit Award Nominees & Winners:

Best Feature

• Call Me By Your Name
• The Florida Project
• Get Out – WINNER
• Lady Bird
• The Rider

Best First Feature

• Columbus
• Ingrid Goes West – WINNER
• Menashe
• Oh Lucy!
• Patti Cake$

John Cassavetes Award (for best film made for under $500,000)

• Dayveon
• A Ghost Story
• Life and Nothing More – WINNER
• 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) – WINNER
• Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie (Good Time)
• Chloé Zhao (The Rider)

Best Female Lead

• Salma Hayek (Beatriz at Dinner)
• Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) – WINNER
• Margot Robbie (I, Tonya)
• Saiorse Ronan (Lady Bird)
• Shinobu Terajima (Oh Lucy!)
• Regina Williams (Life and Nothing More)

Best Male Lead

• Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) – WINNER
• 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) – WINNER
• 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 Outisde Ebbing, Missouri) – WINNER
• Benny Safdie (Good Time)

Best Screenplay

• Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) – WINNER
• Azazel Jacobs (The Lovers)
• Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outisde Ebbing, Missouri)
• Jordan Peele (Get Out)
• Mike White (Beatriz at Dinner)

Best First Screenplay

• Kris Avedisian, Kyle Espeleta (story by), and Jesse Wakeman (story by) (Donald Cried)
• Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick) – WINNER
• Ingrid Jungermann (Women Who Kill)
• Kogonada (Columbus)
• David Branson Smith and Matt Spicer (Ingrid Goes West)

Best Cinematography

• Thimios Bakatakis (The Killing of a Sacred Deer)
• Elisha Christian (Columbus)
• Hélène Louvart (Beach Rats)
• Sayombhu Mukdeeprom (Call Me By Your Name) – WINNER
• Joshua James Richards (The Rider)

Best Editing

• Ronald Bronstein and 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) – WINNER

Best International Feature

• BPM (Beats Per Minute) (France)
• A Fantastic Woman (Chile) – WINNER
• I Am Not a Witch (UK)
• Lady Macbeth (UK)
• Loveless (Russia)

Best Documentary

• The Departure
• Faces Places – WINNER
• Last Men in Aleppo
• Motherland
• Quest

Robert Altman Award (for best ensemble casting)

• Mudbound – WINNER

Kiehl’s Someone to Watch Award

• Amman Abbasi (Dayveon)
• Justin Chon (Gook) – WINNER
• Kevin Phillips (Super Dark Times)

Piaget Producers Award

• Giulia Caruso and Ki Jin Kim (Columbus)
• Ben LeClair (The Lovers, Woodshock)
• Summer Shelton (Keep the Change) – WINNER

Jeep Truer Than Fiction Award

• The Cage Fighter
• Distant Constellation
• Quest – WINNER

American Airlines Bonnie Award

• So Yong Kim
• Lynn Shelton
• Chloé Zhao – WINNER

Seattle Story Award

• Matty Brown – WINNER

WHAT WERE YOUR FAVORITE MOMENTS FROM THE 2018 SPIRIT AWARDS?

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