While nowhere near as prestigious as the Academy Awards, the Spirit Awards have carved themselves out a well-respected niche by consistently giving statues to worthy independent films and actors overlooked by the bigger awards shows. Now the nominations for this year have been named by Film Independent and as usual, there’s a lot of great movies included that you really need to check out.
The fantastic Call Me By Your Name leads the pack with six nominations including Best Feature, Best Director, Best Male Lead (Timothee Chalamet), and Best Supporting Male (Armie Hammer). Good Time received five nominations including a Best Male Lead nod to former Twilight star Robert Pattinson. Get Out also continues to reap much-deserved nominations with five more here, including Best Feature, and Greta Gerwig’s excellent Lady Bird also received Best Feature consideration along with Best Female Lead (Saoirse Ronan) and Best Supporting Female (Laurie Metcalf) nominations.
The Spirit Awards go down on March 3rd, 2018. Here’s the full list of nominations:
BEST FEATURE
Call Me by Your Name
The Florida Project
Get Out
Lady Bird
The Rider
BEST FIRST FEATURE
Columbus
Ingrid Goes West
Menashe
Oh Lucy!
Patti Cake$
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD (Best feature with a budget under $500,000)
Dayveon
A Ghost Story
Life and nothing more
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)
Benny Safdie & Josh Safdie (Good Time)
Chloe Zhao (The Rider)
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 CINEMATOGRAPHY
Thimios Bakatakis (The Killing of a Sacred Deer)
Elisha Christian (Columbus)
Helene Louvart (Beach Rats)
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom (Call Me by Your Name)
Joshua James Richards (The Rider)
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 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
Timothee Chalamet (Call Me by Your Name)
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)
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 Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Benny Safdie (Good Time)
ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD (for best ensemble cast in a film)
Mudbound (Jonathan Banks, Mary J. Blige, Jason Clarke, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Mitchell, Rob Morgan, Carey Mulligan)
BEST DOCUMENTARY
The Departure
Faces Places
Last Men in Aleppo
Motherland
Quest
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
BPM Beats Per Minute (France)
A Fantastic Woman (Chile)
I Am Not a Witch (Zambia)
Lady Macbeth (UK)
Loveless (Russia)
AMERICAN AIRLINES BONNIE AWARD (a $50,000 grant for female directors)
So Yong Kim
Lynn Shelton
Chloé Zhao
JEEP TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD (a $25,000 grant for emerging non-fiction directors)
Shevaun Mizrahi (Distant Constellation)
Jonathan Olshefski (Quest)
Jeff Unay (The Cage Fighter)
KIEHL’S SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD (a $25,000 grant for unrecognized filmmakers)
Amman Abbasi (Dayveon)
Justin Chon (Gook)
Kevin Phillips (Super Dark Times)
PIAGET PRODUCERS AWARD (a $25,000 grant for emerging producers)
Giulia Caruso & Ki Jin Kim
Ben LeClair
Summer Shelton
