Film Independent Spirit Awards

Best Cinematography:
CARY JOJI FUKUNAGA – Beasts of No Nation
MICHAEL GIOULAKIS – It Follows
ED LACHMAN –Carol
REED MORANO – Meadowland
JOSHUA JAMES RICHARDS – Songs My Brothers Taught Me
Best First Screenplay:
JESSE ANDREWS – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
JONAS CARPIGNANO – Mediterranea
EMMA DONOGHUE – Room
MARIELLE HELLER – The Diary of a Teenage Girl
JOHN MAGARY, RUSSELL HARBAUGH (story by), MYNA JOSEPH (story by) – The Mend
Best Director:
SEAN BAKER - Tangerine 
CARY JOJI FUKUNAGA – Beasts of No Nation 
TODD HAYNES – Carol 
DUKE JOHNSON, CHARLIE KAUFMAN – Anomalisa 
TOM MCCARTHY - Spotlight 
DAVID ROBERT MITCHELL – It Follows 

Best Documentary:
(T)ERROR DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS: Lyric R. Cabral, David Felix Sutcliffe PRODUCER: Christopher St. John 
BEST OF ENEMIES DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS: Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville 
HEART OF A DOG DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Laurie Anderson PRODUCER: Dan Janvey 
THE LOOK OF SILENCE DIRECTOR: Joshua Oppenheimer PRODUCER: Signe Byrge Sørensen MERU DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi PRODUCER: Shannon Ethridge 
THE RUSSIAN WOODPECKER DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Chad Gracia PRODUCERS: Ram Devineni, Mike Lerner
Best Editing:
RONALD BRONSTEIN, BENNY SAFDIE – Heaven Knows What
TOM MCARDLE – Spotlight
NATHAN NUGENT – Room
JULIO C. PEREZ IV – It Follows
KRISTAN SPRAGUE – Manos Sucias
Best Feature:
ANOMALISA PRODUCERS: Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman, Dino Stamatopoulos, Rosa Tran

BEASTS OF NO NATION PRODUCERS: Daniel Crown, Idris Elba, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Amy Kaufman, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Riva Marker

CAROL PRODUCERS: Elizabeth Karlsen, Christine Vachon, Stephen Woolley

SPOTLIGHT PRODUCERS: Blye Pagon Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin, Michael Sugar

TANGERINE PRODUCERS: Sean Baker, Karrie Cox, Marcus Cox, Darren Dean, Shih-Ching Tsou

Best Female Lead:
CATE BLANCHETT – Carol 
BRIE LARSON – Room
 ROONEY MARA – Carol
 BEL POWLEY – The Diary of a Teenage Girl 
KITANA KIKI RODRIGUEZ – Tangerine

Best First Feature:
THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL DIRECTOR: Marielle Heller
PRODUCERS: Miranda Bailey, Anne Carey, Bert Hamelinck, Madeline Samit
JAMES WHITE DIRECTOR: Josh Mond
PRODUCERS: Max Born, Antonio Campos, Sean Durkin, Melody Roscher, Eric Schultz MANOS SUCIAS DIRECTOR: Josef Kubota Wladyka
PRODUCERS: Elena Greenlee, Márcia Nunes
MEDITERRANEA DIRECTOR: Jonas Carpignano
PRODUCERS: Jason Michael Berman, Chris Columbus, Jon Coplon, Christoph Daniel, Andrew Kortschak, John Lesher, Ryan Lough, Justin Nappi, Alain Peyrollaz, Gwyn Sannia, Marc Schmidheiny, Victor Shapiro, Ryan Zacarias
SONGS MY BROTHERS TAUGHT ME DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Chloé Zhao
PRODUCERS: Mollye Asher, Nina Yang Bongiovi, Angela C. Lee, Forest Whitaker

Best International Film:
EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT (Colombia) DIRECTOR: Ciro Guerra 
GIRLHOOD (France) DIRECTOR: Céline Sciamma 
MUSTANG (France, Turkey) DIRECTOR: Deniz Gamze Ergüven 
A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE (Sweden) DIRECTOR: Roy Andersson 
SON OF SAUL (Hungary) DIRECTOR: László Nemes

Best Male Lead:
CHRISTOPHER ABBOTT – James White 
ABRAHAM ATTAH – Beasts of No Nation 
BEN MENDELSOHN – Mississippi Grind 
JASON SEGEL – The End of the Tour 
KOUDOUS SEIHON - Mediterranea

Best Screenplay:
CHARLIE KAUFMAN – Anomalisa
DONALD MARGULIES – The End of the Tour
TOM MCCARTHY, JOSH SINGER – Spotlight
PHYLLIS NAGY – Carol S.
CRAIG ZAHLER – Bone Tomahawk

Best Supporting Female:
ROBIN BARTLETT – H. MARIN 
IRELAND – Glass Chin 
JENNIFER JASON LEIGH – Anomalisa 
CYNTHIA NIXON - James White 
MYA TAYLOR – Tangerine
Best Supporting Male:
KEVIN CORRIGAN – Results 
PAUL DANO – Love & Mercy 
IDRIS ELBA – Beasts of No Nation 
RICHARD JENKINS – Bone Tomahawk 
MICHAEL SHANNON – 99 Homes
John Cassavettes Award:
ADVANTAGEOUS WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Jennifer Phang WRITER/PRODUCER: Jacqueline Kim PRODUCERS: Robert Chang, Ken Jeong, Moon Molson, Theresa Navarro 

CHRISTMAS, AGAIN WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Charles Poekel 

HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT DIRECTORS: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie WRITERS: Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie PRODUCERS: Oscar Boyson, Sebastian Bear McClard 

KRISHA WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Trey Edward Shults PRODUCERS: Justin R. Chan, Chase Joliet, Wilson Smith 

OUT OF MY HAND WRITER/DIRECTOR: Takeshi Fukunaga WRITER/PRODUCER: Donari Braxton PRODUCER: Mike Fox
Robert Altman Award:
SPOTLIGHT DIRECTOR: Tom McCarthy CASTING DIRECTORS: Kerry Barden, Paul Schnee ENSEMBLE CAST: Billy Crudup, Michael Cyril Creighton, Paul Guilfoyle, Neal Huff, Brian d’Arcy James, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo, Liev Schreiber, Jamey Sheridan, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci




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