Follow along for live updates on all the winners at Saturday’s 2019 Independent Spirit Awards.
The 2019 Independent Spirit Awards celebrate the businesses best independent films and filmmakers. “We the Animals” leads this year’s list of nominees with an outstanding five nominations.
Known commodities up for Saturday’s awards include Glenn Close for “The Wife”, Regina Hall for “Support the Girls”, Ethan Hawke for “First Reformed” and Joaquin Phoenix for “You Were Never Really Here”.
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Best Feature:
“Eighth Grade”
“First Reformed”
WINNER: “If Beale Street Could Talk”
“Leave No Trace”
“You Were Never Really Here”
Best First Feature:
“Hereditary”
WINNER: “Sorry to Bother You”
“The Tale”
“We the Animals”
“Wildlife”
Best Female Lead:
WINNER: Glenn Close, “The Wife”
Toni Collette, “Hereditary”
Elsie Fisher, “Eighth Grade”
Regina Hall, “Support the Girls”
Helena Howard, “Madeline’s Madeline”
Carey Mulligan, “Wildlife”
Best Male Lead:
John Cho, “Searching”
Daveed Diggs, “Blindspotting”
WINNER: Ethan Hawke, “First Reformed”
Christian Malheiros, “Sócrates”
Joaquin Phoenix, “You Were Never Really Here”
Best Director:
Debra Granik, “Leave No Trace”
WINNER: Barry Jenkins, “If Beale Street Could Talk”
Tamara Jenkins, “Private Life”
Lynne Ramsay, “You Were Never Really Here”
Paul Schrader, “First Reformed”
Best Cinematography:
Ashley Connor, “Madeline’s Madeline”
Diego Garcia, “Wildlife”
Benjamin Loeb,” Mandy”
WINNER: Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, “Suspiria”
Zak Mulligan, “We the Animals”
Best Supporting Female:
Kayli Carter, “Private Life”
Tyne Daly, “A Bread Factory”
WINNER: Regina King, “If Beale Street Could Talk”
Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, “Leave No Trace”
J. Smith-Cameron, “Nancy”
Best Supporting Male:
Raúl Castillo, “We the Animals”
Adam Driver, “BlacKkKlansman”
WINNER: Richard E. Grant, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
Josh Hamilton, “Eighth Grade”
John David Washington, “Monsters and Men”
Best Documentary:
“Hale County This Morning, This Evening”
“Minding the Gap”
“Of Fathers and Sons”
“On Her Shoulders”
“Shirkers”
WINNER: “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
Producers Award:
Jonathan Duffy and Kelly Williams
Gabrielle Nadig
WINNER: Shrihari Sathe
Best International Film:
“Burning” (South Korea)
“The Favourite” (United Kingdom)
“Happy as Lazzaro” (Italy)
WINNER: “Roma” (Mexico)
“Shoplifters” (Japan)
Best Screenplay:
Richard Glatzer, Rebecca Lenkiewicz & Wash Westmoreland, “Colette”
WINNER: Nicole Holofcener & Jeff Whitty, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
Tamara Jenkins, “Private Life”
Boots Riley, “Sorry to Bother You”
Paul Schrader, “First Reformed”
Best First Screenplay:
WINNER: Bo Burnham, “Eighth Grade”
Christina Choe, “Nancy”
Cory Finley, “Thoroughbreds”
Jennifer Fox, “The Tale”
Quinn Shephard and Laurie Shephard, “Blame”
Best Editing:
WINNER: Joe Bini, “You Were Never Really Here”
Keiko Deguchi, Brian A. Kates & Jeremiah Zagar, “We the Animals”
Luke Dunkley, Nick Fenton, Chris Gill & Julian Hart, “American Animals”
Anne Fabini, Alex Hall and Gary Levy, “The Tale”
Nick Houy, “Mid90s”
Bonnie Award:
WINNER: Debra Granik
Tamara Jenkins
Karyn Kusama
Someone to Watch Award:
WINNER: Alex Moratto, director of “Socrates”
Ioana Uricaru, director of “Lemonade”
Jeremiah Zagar, director of “We the Animals”
John Cassavetes Award:
“A Bread Factory”
WINNER: “En el Septimo Dia”
“Never Goin’ Back”
“Socrates”
“Thunder Road”
Robert Altman Award:
WINNER: “Suspiria”
Truer Than Fiction Award:
Alexandria Bombach, director of “On Her Shoulders”
WINNER: Bing Liu, director of “Minding the Gap”
RaMell Ross, director of “Hale County This Morning, This Evening”
