Spirit Awards: Complete Winners List

The awards are being handed out Saturday in Santa Monica, with John Mulaney and Nick Kroll returning as hosts.


The 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards were being handed out Saturday in a tent on the beach in Santa Monica.


Get Out was the day's big winner, taking home best feature and best director for Jordan Peele.


Greta Gerwig won the award for best screenplay for Lady Bird, while the acting trophies went to Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Allison Janney for I, Tonya and Timothée Chalamet for Call Me by Your Name.


John Mulaney and Nick Kroll returned as hosts of the 33rd edition of the show.


A full list of winners follows.


Best Feature


Award given to the producer. Executive Producers are not awarded.


Get Out (WINNER)
Producers: Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr., Sean McKittrick, Jordan Peele
Call Me by Your Name
Producers: Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Rodrigo Teixeira, Marco Morabito, James Ivory, Howard Rosenman
The Florida Project
Producers: Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch, Kevin Chinoy, Andrew Duncan, Alex Saks, Francesca Silvestri, Shih-Ching Tsou
Lady Bird
Producers: Eli Bush, Evelyn O’Neill, Scott Rudin
The Rider
Producers: Mollye Asher, Bert Hamelinck, Sacha Ben Harroche, Chloé Zhao


Best First Feature


Award given to the director and producer.


Ingrid Goes West (WINNER)
Director: Matt Spicer
Producers: Jared Ian Goldman, Adam Mirels, Robert Mirels, Aubrey Plaza, Tim White, Trevor White
Columbus
Director: Kogonada
Producers: Danielle Renfrew Behrens, Aaron Boyd, Giulia Caruso, Ki Jin Kim,Andrew Miano, Chris Weitz
Menashe
Director/Producer: Joshua Z. Weinstein
Producers: Yoni Brook, Traci Carlson, Daniel Finkelman, Alex Lipschultz
Oh Lucy!
Director/Producer: Atsuko Hirayanagi
Producers: Jessica Elbaum, Yukie Kito, Han West
Patti Cake$
Director: Geremy Jasper
Producers: Chris Columbus, Michael Gottwald, Dan Janvey, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Noah Stahl, Rodrigo Teixeira


John Cassavetes Award


Given to the best feature made for under $500,000. (Award given to the writer, director and producer. Executive Producers are not awarded.)


Life and Nothing More (WINNER)
Writer/Director: Antonio Mendez Esparza
Producers: Amadeo Hernandez Bueno, Alvaro Portanet Hernandez, Pedro Hernandez Santos
Dayveon
Writer/Director/Producer: Amman Abbasi
Writer: Steven Reneau
Producers: Lachion Buckingham, Alexander Uhlmann
A Ghost Story
Writer/Director: David Lowery
Producers: Adam Donaghey, Toby Halbrooks, James M. Johnston
Most Beautiful Island
Writer/Director/Producer: Ana Asensio
Producers: Larry Fessenden, Noah Greenberg, Chadd Harbold, Jenn Wexler
The Transfiguration
Writer/Director: Michael O'Shea
Producer: Susan Leber


Best Director


Jordan Peele, Get Out(WINNER)
Sean Baker, The Florida Project
Jonas Carpignano, A Ciambra
Luca Guadagnino, Call Me by Your Name
Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, Good Time
Chloe Zhao, The Rider


Best Screenplay


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


Best First Screenplay


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


Best Cinematography


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


Best Editing


Tatiana S. Riegel, I, Tonya (WINNER)
Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie, Good Time
Walter Fasano, Call Me by Your Name
Alex O'Flinn, The Rider
Gregory Plotkin, Get Out


Best Female Lead


Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (WINNER)
Salma Hayek, Beatriz at Dinner
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Saoirse 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


Allison Janney, I, Tonya (WINNER)
Holly Hunter, The Big Sick
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Lois Smith, Marjorie Prime
Taliah Lennice Webster, Good Time


Best Supporting Male


Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri(WINNER)
Nnamdi Asomugha, Crown Heights
Armie Hammer, Call Me by Your Name
Barry Keoghan, The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Benny Safdie, Good Time




Robert Altman Award


Given to one film’s director, casting director and ensemble cast.


Mudbound
Director: Dee Rees
Casting Directors: Billy Hopkins, Ashley Ingram
Ensemble Cast: Jonathan Banks, Mary J. Blige, Jason Clarke, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Mitchell, Rob Morgan, Carey Mulligan


Best Documentary


Award given to the director and producer.


Faces Places (WINNER)
Directors: Agnes Varda, JR
Producer: Rosalie Varda
The Departure
Director/Producer: Lana Wilson

Last Men in Aleppo
Director: Feras Fayyad
Producers: Kareem Abeed, Soeren Steen Jespersen, Stefan Kloos

Motherland
Director/Producer: Ramona S. Diaz
Producer: Rey Cuerdo

Quest
Director: Jonathan Olshefski
Producer: Sabrina Schmidt Gordon


Best International Film


Award given to the director


A Fantastic Woman, Chile (WINNER)
Director: Sebastian Lelio
BPM (Beats Per Minute), France
Director: Robin Campillo

I Am Not a Witch, Zambia
Director: Rungano Nyoni

Lady Macbeth, U.K.
Director: William Oldroyd

Loveless, Russia
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev


Inaugural Bonnie Award


Bonnie Tiburzi Caputo joined American Airlines in 1973 at age 24, becoming the first female pilot to fly for a major U.S. airline. In her honor, the inaugural Bonnie Award will recognize a mid-career female director with a $50,000 unrestricted grant, sponsored by American Airlines.


Chloé Zhao (WINNER)
So Yong Kim
Lynn Shelton


22nd Jeep Truer Than Fiction Award


The 23rd annual Truer Than Fiction Award, funded by the Jeep brand, is presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features who has not yet received significant recognition. The award includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant funded by the Jeep brand.


Jonathan Olshefski, Director of Quest (WINNER)


Shevaun Mizrahi, Director of Distant Constellation
Jeff Unay, Director of The Cage Fighter


23rd Annual Kiehl's Someone to Watch Award


The 24th annual Someone to Watch Award, funded by Kiehl’s Since 1851, recognizes a talented filmmaker of singular vision who has not yet received appropriate recognition. The award includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant funded by Kiehl’s Since 1851.


Justin Chon, Director of Gook (WINNER)
Amman Abbasi, Director of Dayveon
Kevin Phillips, Director of Super Dark Times


20th Annual Piaget Producers Award


The 21st annual Producers Award, funded by Piaget, honors emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity and vision required to produce quality, independent films. The award includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant funded by Piaget.


Summer Shelton (WINNER)
Giulia Caruso & Ki Jin Kim
Ben LeClair



Roger and Chaz Ebert Foundation Fellowship


The 2018 Roger and Chaz Ebert Foundation Fellowship annually selects an outstanding filmmaker and participant in Project Involve, Film Independent’s longest running diversity and mentorship program, now in its 25th year. The fellowship includes an unrestricted cash grant of $10,000 and was awarded to writer-director Faren Humes, a "a distinct and bold new voice."