
Hollywood’s big awards weekend kicked off yesterday with the Film Independent Spirit Awards. The more fun, laid-back precursor to the Oscars, the Film Independent Spirit Awards tend to award edgier, more controversial films and performers than the Oscars which traditionally has gone down the safer route with their winners. This certainly proved true last night with Get Out taking home both Best Feature and Best Director for Jordan Peele.
While the top acting honours stuck pretty close to script, apart from Call Me By Your Name’s Timothée Chalamet winning Best Male Lead, the rest of the winners came from a wide range of films and it was fantastic to see that 13 of the 20 awards handed out were won by women or people of colour.
Whether last night’s winners will also be winners at tonight’s Oscars ceremony is not necessarily a difficult race to predict, especially in the Acting categories. Whether Get Out will repeat Moonlight’s success from last year is hard to say. There is a chance it will topple Three Billboards winning run, but I can’t really see it.
Check out the list of winners below.
BEST FEATURE
Get Out
BEST FEMALE LEAD
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
BEST MALE LEAD
Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
BEST DIRECTOR
Jordan Peele, Get Out
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Faces Places
BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
Allison Janney, I, Tonya
BEST SUPPORTING MALE
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
BEST SCREENPLAY
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
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 FIRST SCREENPLAY
Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick
BEST EDITING
Tatiana S. Riegel, I, Tonya
BONNIE AWARD
Chloé Zhao
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
A Fantastic Woman
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD
Life and nothing more
BEST FIRST FEATURE
Ingrid Goes West
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Call Me By Your Name
KIEHL’S SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD
Justin Chon
PIAGET PRODUCERS AWARD
Summer Shelton
SEATTLE STORY AWARD
Matty Brown
JEEP BRAND TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD
Jonathan Olshefski
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