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2012 Twenty-Seven Years of Nominees & Winners FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY 2012 NOMINEES (Winners in bold) * 50/50 BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer(s)) & *The Artist Thomas Langmann J.C. Chandor Margin Call 50/50 , Ben Karlin, Patrick DeWitt Terri Beginners Miranda de Pencier, Lars Knudsen, Phil Johnston Cedar Rapids Leslie Urdang, Dean Vanech, Jay Van Hoy Drive Michel Litvak, John Palermo, BEST FEMALE LEAD Marc Platt, Gigi Pritzker, Adam Siegel *Michelle Williams My Week with Marilyn Take Shelter Tyler Davidson, Sophia Lin Lauren Ambrose Think of Me Jim Burke, , Rachael Harris Natural Selection Adepero Oduye Pariah BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director and producer) Elizabeth Olsen Martha Marcy May Marlene *Margin Call Director: J.C. Chandor Producers: Robert Ogden Barnum, BEST MALE LEAD Michael Benaroya, Neal Dodson, Joe Jenckes, Corey Moosa, Zachary Quinto *Jean Dujardin The Artist Another Earth Director: Mike Cahill Demián Bichir A Better Life Producers: Mike Cahill, Hunter Gray, Brit Marling, Drive Nicholas Shumaker Rampart In The Family Director: Patrick Wang Take Shelter Producers: Robert , Andrew van den Houten, Patrick Wang BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE Martha Marcy May Marlene Director: Sean Durkin Producers: Campos, Patrick Cunningham, * The Descendants Chris Maybach, Josh Mond Take Shelter Natural Selection Director: Robbie Pickering 50/50 Producers: Brion Hambel, Paul Jensen Janet Mcteer Albert Nobbs

Harmony Santana Gun Hill Road AWARD (Given to the best feature made for under $500,000; writer, director, and producer) *Pariah Writer/Director: BEST SUPPORTING MALE Producer: Nekisa Cooper * Beginners Bellflower Writer/Director: Evan Glodell Drive Producers: Evan Glodell, Vincent Grashaw Martha Marcy May Marlene Circumstance Writer/Director: Maryam Keshavarz John C. Reilly Cedar Rapids Producers: Karin Chien, Maryam Keshavarz, Corey Stoll Melissa Lee Hello Lonesome Writer/Director/ Producer: Adam Reid BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY The Dynamiter Writer: Brad Inglesby * The Artist Director: Matthew Gordon Joel Hodge Bellflower Producers: Kevin Abrams, Matthew Gordon, Merrilee Holt, Art Jones, Mike Jones, Nate Tuck, Benjamin Kasulke The Off Hours Amile Midnight in Paris Jeffrey Waldron The Dynamiter BEST DIRECTOR * The Artist BEST DOCUMENTARY (Award given to the director and producer) Beginners *The Interrupters Director/Producer: Steve James Take Shelter Producer: Alex Kotlowitz Alexander Payne The Descendants An African Election Director/Producer: Jarreth Merz Drive Bill Cunningham Director: Richard Press Producer: Philip Gefter BEST SCREENPLAY The Redemption Of General Butt Naked Directors/Producers: Eric Strauss, *Alexander Payne, Daniele Anastasion & The Descendants We Were Here Director/Producer: David Weissman Footnote Michel Hazanavicius The Artist Tom Mccarthy Win Win Mike Mills Beginners

2 | 2012 NOMINEES FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM (Award given to the director) * () Melancholia (, Sweden, , Germany) Shame (UK) Steve McQueen (Belgium, France, Italy) Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne Tyrannosaur (UK) Paddy Considine

AUDI SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD (Award given to the director) *Mark Jackson Without Simon Arthur Silver Tongues Nicholas Ozeki Mamitas

NOKIA TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD *Heather Courtney Where Soldiers Come From Danfung Dennis Hell And Back Again Alma Har’el Bombay Beach

PIAGET PRODUCERS AWARD *Sophia Lin Take Shelter Chad Burris Mosquita Y Mari Josh Mond Martha Marcy May Marlene

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD (Given to one film’s director, casting director and its ensemble cast) *sMargin Call Director: J.C. Chandor Casting Directors: Tiffany Little Canfield, Bernard Telsey Ensemble Cast: Penn Badgley, Simon Baker, Paul Bettany, , Mary McDonnell, , Zachary Quinto, ,

2012 NOMINEES | 3 FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

2011 NOMINEES (Winners in bold)

BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer(s)) BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY *Black Swan Scott Franklin, , * Tiny Furniture Arnold W. Messer, Brian Oliver Diane Bell Obselidia , Christian Colson, Nik Fackler Lovely, Still John Smithson Bob Glaudini Jack Goes Boating Greenberg , Dana Adam Shapiro & The Kids Are All Right Gary Gilbert, Philippe Hellmann, Evan M. Wiener Monogamy Horowitz, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, Celine Rattray, Daniela Taplin Lundberg BEST FEMALE LEAD Winter’s Bone Alix Madigan-Yorkin, Anne Rosellini * Black Swan The Kids Are All Right BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director and producer) Greenberg *Get Low Director: Aaron Schneider Producers: David Gundlach, Dean Zanuck Rabbit Hole Everything Strange and New Director: Frazer Bradshaw Winter’s Bone Producers: A.D. Liano, Laura Techera Francia Michelle Williams Blue Valentine Catches Us Director: Producers: Sean Costello, Jason Orans, BEST MALE LEAD Ronald Simons * 127 Hours The Last Exorcism Director: Daniel Stamm Daddy Longlegs Producers: Marc Abraham, Tom Bliss, Eric Newman, Eli Roth Rabbit Hole Tiny Furniture Director: Lena Dunham John C. Reilly Cyrus Producers: Kyle Martin, Alicia Van Couvering Greenberg

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE (Given to the best feature made for under $500,000; writer, director, and producer) * Winter’s Bone *Daddy Longlegs Writers/Directors: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie Ashley Bell The Last Exorcism Producers: , Tom Scott Life During Wartime Lbs. Director: Matthew Bonifacio Writers/Producers: Matthew Bonifacio, Daphne Rubin-Vega Jack Goes Boating Carmine Famiglietti Mother and Child Lovers Of Hate Writer/Director: Bryan Poyser Producer: Megan Gilbride BEST SUPPORTING MALE Obselidia Writer/Director: Diane Bell *John Hawkes Winter’s Bone Producers: Chris Byrne, Matthew Medlin Samuel L. Jackson Mother and Child The Exploding Girl Writer/Director: Bradley Rust Gray Get Low Producers: Karin Chien, Ben Howe, So Yong Kim John Ortiz Jack Goes Boating

Mark Ruffalo The Kids Are All Right BEST DIRECTOR * Black Swan BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Danny Boyle 127 Hours * Black Swan The Kids Are All Right Adam Kimmel Never Let Me Go Winter’s Bone Jody Lee Lipes Tiny Furniture Rabbit Hole Michael McDonough Winter’s Bone Greenberg Best Screenplay BEST DOCUMENTARY (Award Given To The Director) * & Lisa Cholodenko The Kids Are All Right *Exit Through The Gift Shop Banksy Debra Granik & Marwencol Jeff Malmberg Anne Rosellini Winter’s Bone Sweetgrass Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor Restrepo & David Lindsay-Abaire Rabbit Hole Thunder Soul Mark Landsman Life During Wartime

4 | 2011 NOMINEES FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director) *The King’s Speech () Kisses (() Lance Daly Mademoiselle Chambon Stéphane Brizé (France) Of Gods and Men Xavier Beauvois (France) Uncle Boonmee Who Can Apichatpong Weerasethakul Recall His Past Lives (Thailand)

ACURA SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD (Award Given To The Director) *Mike Ott Littlerock Hossein Keshavarz Dog Sweat Laurel Nakadate The Wolf Knife

AVEENO® TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD *Jeff Malmberg Marwencol Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor Sweetgrass Lynn True & Nelson Walker Summer Pasture

PIAGET PRODUCERS AWARD *Anish Savjani Meek’s Cutoff In-Ah Lee Au Revoir The Myth of the American Sleepover

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD (Given to one film’s director, casting director and its ensemble cast) *Please Give Director: Nicole Holofcener Casting Director: Jeanne McCarthy Ensemble Cast: Ann Guilbert, , , , , ,

2011 NOMINEES | 5 FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

(Winners in bold) 2010 NOMINEES BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY *Geoffrey Fletcher Precious BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer(s)) *Precious , Sarah Siegel-Magness, Cold Souls Gary Magness Scott Cooper Crazy Heart (500) Days Of Summer Jessica Tuchinsky, Mark Waters, Mason Novick, Steven J. Wolfe Tom Ford and David Scearce Amreeka Christina Piovesan, Paul Barkin The Last Station Chris Curling, Jens Meurer, Bonnie Arnold BEST FEMALE LEAD Sin Nombre Amy Kaufman * Precious Downloading Nancy BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director, and producer) Nisreen Faour Amreeka *Crazy Heart Director: Scott Cooper The Last Station Producers: Scott Cooper, , Two Lovers Rob Carliner, Judy Cairo, T Bone Burnett A Single Man Director: Tom Ford BEST MALE LEAD Producers: Tom Ford, Chris Weitz, Andrew Miano, * Crazy Heart Robert Salerno A Single Man Easier with Practice Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez Producers: Cookie Carosella Joseph Gordon-Levitt (500) Days Of Summer The Messenger Director: Adam Scott The Vicious Kind Producers: Mark Gordon, Lawrence Inglee, Souléymane Sy Savané Goodbye Solo Zach Miller Paranormal Activity Director: Oren Peli BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE Producers: Oren Peli, *Mo’Nique Precious

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD Dina Korzun Cold Souls (Given to the best feature made for under $500,000; writer, director, and producer) The Messenger *Humpday Writers/Director/Producer: Lynn Shelton Natalie Press Fifty Dead Men Walking Big Fan Writer/Director: Robert Siegel That Evening Sun Producers: Jean Kouremetis, Elan Bogarin The New Year Parade Writer/Director: Tom Quinn BEST SUPPORTING MALE Producers: Steve Beal, Tom Quinn *Woody Harrelson The Messenger Treeless Mountain Writer/Director: So Yong Kim Gentlemen Broncos Producers: Bradley Rust Gray, Ben Howe, Christian McKay Me and Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy, So Yong Kim Raymond McKinnon That Evening Sun Zero Bridge Writer/Director: Tariq Tapa Christopher Plummer The Last Station Producers: Hilal Ahmed Langoo, Josée Lajoie, Tariq Tapa BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY BEST DIRECTOR * A Serious Man *Lee Daniels Precious Adriano Goldman Sin Nombre Joel Coen and Ethan Coen A Serious Man Anne Misawa Treeless Mountain Two Lovers Cold Souls Michael Hoffman The Last Station Peter Zeitlinger Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Sin Nombre BEST DOCUMENTARY (Award given to the director) *Anvil! The Story of Anvil Sacha Gervasi BEST SCREENPLAY Food, Inc. * and More Than A Game Kristopher Belman Michael H. Weber (500) Days Of Summer October Country Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher Alessandro Camon and Which Way Home Rebecca Cammisa Oren Moverman The Messenger Michael Hoffman The Last Station Adventureland Lee Toland Krieger The Vicious Kind

6 | 2010 NOMINEES FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director) *An Education (UK/France) (France) Jacques Audiard Everlasting Moments (Sweden) La Nana (The Maid) (Chile) Sebastián Silva Mother (South Korea) Bong Joon-Ho

ACURA SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD (Award given to the director) *Kyle Patrick Alvarez Easier With Practice Asiel Norton Redland Tariq Tapa Zero Bridge

CHAZ and TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD *Bill Ross and Turner Ross 45365 Natalia Almada El General Jessica Oreck Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo

PIAGET PRODUCERS AWARD *Karin Chien The Exploding Girl, Santa Mesa Larry Fessenden I Sell , The House Of The Devil Dia Sokol Beeswax, And Weekends

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD (Given to one film’s director, casting director, and its ensemble cast) A Serious Man Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Casting Directors: Ellen Chenoweth, Rachel Tenner Ensemble Cast: Richard Kind, Sari Lennick, Jessica McManus, Fred Melamed, Michael Stuhlbarg, Aaron Wolff

2010 NOMINEES | 7 FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY 2009 NOMINEES (Winners in bold) * Milk BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer(s)) Ballast *The Wrestler Darren Aronofsky, Scott Franklin Ballast Lance Hammer, Nina Parikh The Wackness Frozen River Chip Hourihan, Rachel Getting Married Rachel Getting Married Neda Armian, , Marc Platt BEST FEMALE LEAD * Frozen River Wendy and Lucy Larry Fessenden, Neil Kopp, Summer Bishil Towelhead Anish Savjani Rachel Getting Married BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director, and producer) Tarra Riggs Ballast *Synecdoche, New York Director: Michelle Williams Wendy and Lucy Producers: Bregman, , Charlie Kaufman, Sidney Kimmel BEST MALE LEAD Afterschool Director: Antonio Campos * The Wrestler Producers: Sean Durkin, Josh Mond Director: The Visitor Producer: Justin Barber Milk Sangre De Mi Sangre Director: Christopher Zalla Producers: Per Melita, Benjamin Odell Sleep Dealer Director: Alex Rivera Producer: Anthony Bregman BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE *Penélope Cruz Vicky Cristina Barcelona JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD Rosemarie DeWitt Rachel Getting Married (Given to the best feature made for under $500,000; writer, director, and producer) The Take *In Search of a Misty Upham Frozen River Midnight Kiss Writer/Director: Alex Holdridge Producers: Seth Caplan, Scoot McNairy Rachel Getting Married Prince of Broadway Director: Writers: Sean Baker, Darren Dean BEST SUPPORTING MALE Producer: Darren Dean *James Franco Milk The Signal Writer/Directors: David Bruckner, Dan Bush, Anthony Mackie The Hurt Locker Jacob Gentry Charlie McDermott Frozen River Producers: Jacob Gentry, Alexander Motlagh JimMyron Ross Ballast Take Out Writer/Director/ Producers: Sean Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou Haaz Sleiman The Visitor Turn the River Writer/Director: Chris Eigeman Producer: Ami Armstrong BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY * The Wrestler BEST DIRECTOR Lol Crawley Ballast *Tom McCarthy The Visitor Medicine for Melancholy Ramin Bahrani Chop Shop Harris Savides Milk Jonathan Demme Rachel Getting Married Michael Simmonds Chop Shop Lance Hammer Ballast Courtney Hunt Frozen River BEST DOCUMENTARY (Award given to the director) *Man on Wire BEST SCREENPLAY The Betrayal & Thavisouk Phrasavath * Vicky Cristina Barcelona Encounters at the Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck Sugar End of the World Charlie Kaufman Synecdoche, New York The Order of Myths Margaret Brown Howard A. Rodman Savage Grace Up the Yangtze Yung Chang Christopher Zalla Sangre De Mi Sangre

8 | 2009 NOMINEES FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director) *The Class (France) Laurent Cantet Gomorra (Italy) Matteo Garrone Hunger (UK/Ireland) Steve McQueen Secret of the Grain (France) Abdellatif Kechiche (Mexico/France/ Netherlands/Germany) Carlos Reygadas

ACURA SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD (Award given to the director) *Lynn Shelton My Effortless Brilliance Barry Jenkins Medicine for Melancholy Nina Paley Sita Sings the Blues

LACOSTE TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD *Margaret Brown The Order of Myths Sacha Gervasi Anvil! The Story of Anvil Darius Marder Loot

PIAGET PRODUCERS AWARD *Heather Rae Frozen River and Ibid Lars Knudsen and Jay Van Hoy Treeless Mountain and I’ll Come Running Jason Orans Goodbye Solo and Year of the Fish

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD (Given to one film’s director, casting director, and its ensemble cast) Synecdoche, New York Director: Charlie Kaufman Casting Director: Jeanne McCarthy Ensemble Cast: , , Jennifer Jason Leigh, Catherine Keener, Samantha Morton, , , , Michelle Williams

2009 NOMINEES | 9 FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

(Winners in bold) 2008 NOMINEES BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY * Juno BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer(s)) *Juno Lianne Halfon, , Jeffrey Blitz Rocket Science Mason Novick, Russell Smith Zoe Cassavetes Broken English The Diving Bell Kelly Masterson Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead and the Butterfly Kathleen Kennedy, Jon Kilik John Orloff A Mighty Heart I’m Not There , John Sloss, John Goldwyn, James D. Stern BEST FEMALE LEAD A Mighty Heart , Andrew Eaton, *Ellen Page Juno Paranoid Park Neil Kopp, David Cress A Mighty Heart Interview BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director, and producer) Broken English *The Lookout Director: Lust, Caution Producers: Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, , Walter Parkes BEST MALE LEAD 2 Days In Paris Director: *Philip Seymour Hoffman The Savages Producers: Julie Delpy, Christophe Mazodier, Thierry Potok Pedro Castaneda August Evening Great World Of Sound Director: Talk To Me Producers: Melissa Palmer, , Starting Out In The Evening Richard Wright, Craig Zobel Tony Leung Lust, Caution Rocket Science Director: Jeffrey Blitz Producers: Effie T. Brown, Sean Welch BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE Vanaja Director: Rajnesh Domalpalli * I’m Not There Producer: Latha R. Domalapalli Rocket Science JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD Jennifer Jason Leigh Margot At The Wedding (Given to the best feature made for under $500,000; writer, director, and producer) Tamara Podemski Four Sheets To The Wind *August Evening Writer/Director: Chris Eska Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead Producers: Connie Hill, Jason Wehling Owl And The Sparrow Writer/Director: Stephane Gauger BEST SUPPORTING MALE Producers: Nguyen Van Quan, Doan Nhat Nam, * Talk To Me Stephane Gauger Marcus I’m Not There The Pool Director: Chris Smith Kene Holliday Great World Of Sound Producer: Kate Noble Writers: Chris Smith & Randy Russell The Namesake Quiet City Director: Aaron Katz Rescue Dawn Producers: Brendan McFadden, Ben Stambler Writers: Aaron Katz, Erin Fisher, Chris Lankenau BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Shotgun Stories Writer/Director: Jeff Nichols *Janusz Kaminski The Diving Bell And The Butterfly Producers: David Gordon Green, , Mott Hupfel The Savages Jeff Nichols Milton Kam Vanaja BEST DIRECTOR Mihai Malaimare, Jr. Youth Without Youth * The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Lust, Caution I’m Not There The Savages BEST DOCUMENTARY (Award given to the director) Juno *Crazy Love Dan Klores Paranoid Park Lake Of Fire Tony Kaye Manufactured Landscapes Jennifer Baichwal BEST SCREENPLAY The Monastery Pernille Rose Grønkjær *Tamara Jenkins The Savages Or: How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair Petra Epperlein & Michael Tucker The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Fred Parnes & Andrew Wagner Starting Out In The Evening

Mike White Year Of The Dog

10 | 2008 NOMINEES FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director) *Once (Ireland) John Carney 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days (Romania) Cristian Mungiu The Band’s Visit (Israel) Eran Kolirin Lady Chatterley (France) Pascale Ferran Persepolis (France) Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi

IFC/ACURA SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD (Award given to the director) *Ramin Bahrani Chop Shop Ronnie Bronstein Frownland Munyurangabo

TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD *Laura Dunn The Unforeseen Gary Hustwit Helvetica John Maringouin Running Stumbled

PRODUCERS AWARD *Neil Kopp Paranoid Park and Old Joy Anne Clements Ping Pong Playa and Quinceañera Alexis Ferris Cthulhu and Police Beat

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD (Given to one film’s director, casting director, and its ensemble cast) I’m Not There Director: Todd Haynes Casting Director: Laura Rosenthal Ensemble Cast: Cate Blanchett, , , Marcus Carl Franklin, , , , , Ben Whishaw, Michelle Williams

2008 NOMINEES | 11 FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST SCREENPLAY 2007 NOMINEES (Winners in bold) *Jason Reitman Thank You For Smoking BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer(s)) Neil Burger The Illusionist * Marc Turtletaub, David T. Friendly, Nicole Holofcener Peter Saraf, Albert Berger & Ron Yerxa The Painted Veil American Gun Ted Kroeber Jeff Stanzler Sorry, Haters The Dead Girl Tom Rosenberg, Henry Winterstern, Gary Lucchesi, Richard Wright, Eric Karten, BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY Kevin Turen * Little Miss Sunshine Half Nelson Jamie Patricof, Alex Orlovsky, Lynette Howell, Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck Half Nelson Anna Boden,Rosanne Korenberg Goran Dukic Wristcutters: A Love Story Pan’s Labyrinth Bertha Navarro, Alfonso Cuarón, Frida Torresblanco, Alvaro Augustin, Dito Montiel A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints Gabrielle Zevin Conversations With Other Women BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director, and producer) *Sweet Land Director: Selim BEST FEMALE LEAD Producers: , James Bigham, * Half Nelson Ali Selim Catherine O’Hara For Your Consideration Day Night Day Night Director: Julia Loktev Elizabeth Reaser Sweet Land Producers: Julia Loktev, Melanie Judd, Jessica Levin Michelle Williams Land Of Plenty Man Push Cart Director: Ramin Bahrani Producers: Ramin Bahrani, Pradip Ghosh, Robin Wright Penn Sorry, Haters Bedford T. Bentley III The Motel Director: Michael Kang BEST MALE LEAD Producers: Matthew Greenfield, , *Ryan Gosling Half Nelson Gina Kwon, Karin Chien Aaron Eckhart Thank You For Smoking Wristcutters: A Love Story Director: Goran Dukic The Painted Veil Producers: Adam Sherman, Chris Coen, Tatiana Kelly, Mikal P. Lazarev Ahmad Razvi Man Push Cart American Gun JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD (Given to the best feature made for under $500,000; writer, director, and producer) BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE *Quinceañera Writers/Directors: & *Frances McDormand Friends With Money A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints Producer: Anne Clements American Gun Chalk Director: Mike Akel Writers: Chris Mass & Maike Akel Mary Beth Hurt The Dead Girl Producers: Mike Akel, Angela Alvarez, Graham Stephanie Daley Davidson, Chris Mass Four Eyed Monsters Writer/Director/Producers: Arin Crumley & BEST SUPPORTING MALE Susan Buice * Little Miss Sunshine Old Joy Director: Kelly Reichardt Raymond J. Barry Steel City Writers: Jon Raymond & Kelly Reichardt Infamous Producers: Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy, Anish Savjani, Neil Kopp Little Miss Sunshine A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints Twelve and Holding Director: Michael Cuesta Writer: Anthony S. Cipriano Producers: Leslie Urdang, Michael Cuesta, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Brian Bell, Jenny Schweitzer * Pan’s Labyrinth

Arin Crumley Four Eyed Monsters BEST DIRECTOR Brothers Of The Head *Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris Little Miss Sunshine Aaron Platt Wild I Have Known Robert Altman A Prairie Home Companion Michael Simmonds Man Push Cart Ryan Fleck Half Nelson (Award given to the director) The Dead Girl BEST DOCUMENTARY *The Road To Bubble Guantanamo , A Lion In The House & My Country, My Country The Trials Of Darryl Hunt Sundberg & Ricki Stern You’re Gonna Miss Me Keven Mcalester 12 | 2007 NOMINEES FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director) * (Germany) Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck 12:08 East Of Bucharest (Romania) Corneliu Porumboiu The Blossoming Of Maximo Oliveros (Philippines) Auraeus Solito Chronicle Of An Escape (Argentina) Israel Adrián Caetano Days Of Glory (France/Morocco/Algeria/Belgium) Rachid Bouchareb

IFC/ACURA SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD (Award given to the director) *Julia Loktev Day Night Day Night So Yong Kim In Between Days Richard Wong Colma: The Musical

TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD *Adele Horne The Tailenders Eric Daniel Metzgar The Chances Of The World Changing AJ Schnack Kurt Cobain About A Son

AXIUM PRODUCERS AWARD *Howard Gertler and Tim Perell Shortbus and Pizza Alex Orlovsky and Jamie Patricof Half Nelson and Point & Shoot Julie Lynn Nine Lives and 10 Items Or Less

2007 NOMINEES | 13 FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY 2006 NOMINEES (Winners in bold) * Transamerica BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer(s)) Kenneth Hanes Fixing Frank * , Miranda July Me and You and Everyone We Know Capote Caroline Baron, William Vince, Angus MacLachlan Junebug Michael Ohoven Sabina Murray The Beautiful Country Good Night, and Good Luck. , Peter Newman, Charles Corwin, BEST FEMALE LEAD Clara Markowicz * Transamerica The Three Burials of Dina Korzun For Your Consideration Melquiades Estrada Michael Fitzgerald, , The Squid and the Whale Luc Besson, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam S. Epatha Merkerson Lackawanna Blues BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director, and producer) Cyndi Williams Room *Crash Director: Producers: Cathy Schulman, Don Cheadle, BEST MALE LEAD Bob Yari, Mark R. Harris, Bobby Moresco, and *Philip Seymour Hoffman Capote Paul Haggis The Squid and the Whale Lackawanna Blues Director: George C. Wolfe Hustle & Flow Producers: Nellie Nugiel, , Shelby Stone, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, and Vincent Cirrincione Heath Ledger Brokeback Mountain Me and You and Good Night, and Good Luck. Everyone We Know Director: Miranda July Producer: Gina Kwon BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE Thumbsucker Director: Mike Mills * Junebug Producers: Anthony Bregman and Bob Stephenson Happy Endings Transamerica Director: Duncan Tucker Allison Janney Our Very Own Producers: Rene Bastian, , and Linda Moran Michelle Williams Brokeback Mountain Robin Wright Penn Nine Lives JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD (Given to the best feature made for under $500,000; writer, director, and producer) BEST SUPPORTING MALE *Conventioneers Director: Mora Stephens * Crash Producer: Joel Viertel Firdous Bamji The War Within Writers: Mora Stephens and Joel Viertel The Squid and the Whale Brick Writer/Director: Barry Pepper The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Producers: Ram Bergman and Mark G. Mathis Broken Flowers Jellysmoke Writer/Director/Producer: Mark Banning Producers: Cliff Charles and Mad Matthewz BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY The Puffy Chair Director: Jay Duplass Producer: Mark Duplass * Good Night, and Good Luck. Writers: Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass John Foster Keane Room Writer/Director: Kyle Henry Adam Kimmel Capote Producers: Allen Bain, Darren Goldberg The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and Jesse Scolaro Harris Savides Last Days

BEST DIRECTOR (Award given to the director) * Brokeback Mountain BEST DOCUMENTARY *Enron: The Smartest Good Night, and Good Luck. Guys In the Room Gregg Araki Mysterious Skin Grizzly Man Werner Herzog Rodrigo García Nine Lives La Sierra Scott Dalton & Margarita Martinez The Squid and the Whale Romántico Mark Becker Sir! No Sir! David Zeiger BEST SCREENPLAY

* Capote Ayad Akhtar, Joseph Castelo & Tom Glynn The War Within

Guillermo Arriaga The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Noah Baumbach The Squid and the Whale Rodrigo García Nine Lives

14 | 2006 NOMINEES FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director) *Paradise Now (Palestine/Netherlands/ Germany/France) Hany Abu-Assad The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Romania) Cristi Puiu Duck Season (Mexico) Fernando Eimbcke Head-On (Germany/Turkey) Fatih Akin Tony Takitani (Japan) Jun Ichikawa

IFC/ACURA SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD (Award given to the director) *Ian Gamazon and Neill Dela Llana Cavite Robinson Devor Police Beat Jay Duplass The Puffy Chair

TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD *Garrett Scott and Ian Olds Occupation: Dreamland Rachel Boynton Our Brand is Crisis Mark Becker Romántico Thomas Allen Harris Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela

AMC/AMERICAN EXPRESS PRODUCERS AWARD *Caroline Baron Capote and Ram Bergman Brick and Conversations with Other Women Mike S. Ryan Junebug and Palindromes

2006 NOMINEES | 15 FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY 2005 NOMINEES (Winners in bold) * BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer(s)) Rodney Evans Brother to Brother * Michael Garden State Baadasssss! Shane Carruth Primer Kinsey Gail Mutrux Mario F. de La Vega Robbing Peter Maria Full of Grace Paul Mezey Primer Shane Carruth BEST FEMALE LEAD * Maria Full of Grace BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director, and producer) Woman Thou Art Loosed *Garden State Director: Zach Braff Down to the Bone Producers: Pamela Abdy, Gary Gilbert, Judy Marte On the Outs Dan Halsted, Richard Klubeck Cavedweller Brother to Brother Director: Rodney Evans Producers: Rodney Evans, Jim McKay, BEST MALE LEAD Isen Robbins, Aimee Schoof * Sideways Director: Jared Hess Producers: Jeremy Coon, Sean C. Covel, The Woodsman Chris Wyatt Jeff Bridges Saints and Soldiers Director: Ryan Little Redemption Producers: Adam Abel, Ryan Little Kinsey The Woodsman Director: Producers: Lee Daniels BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD * Sideways (Given to the best feature made for under $500,000; writer, director, and producer) Cate Blanchett *Mean Creek Writer/Director: Jacob Aaron Estes Loretta Devine Woman Thou Art Loosed Producers: Susan Johnson, Robin Simmons Robbing Peter Rick Rosenthal, Hagai Shaham Yenny Paola Vega Maria Full of Grace Down to the Bone Director: Debra Granik Writers: Debra Granik, Richard Lieske Producers: Susan Leber, Anne Rosellini BEST SUPPORTING MALE * Sideways On the Outs Directors: Lori Silverbush, Michael Skolnik Writer: Lori Silverbush Jon Gries Napoleon Dynamite Producers: Lori Silverbush, Michael Skolnik Cavedweller Robbing Peter Writer/Director: Mario F. de la Vega Brother to Brother Producers: T. Todd Flinchum, Lisa Y. Kinsey Garibay, Mario F. de la Vega Unknown Soldier Writer/Director: Ferenc Toth BEST DEBUT PERFORMANCE Producers: Sean Bachrodt, Seth Eisman, ( in their first significant role in a feature film) Chachi Senior, Ferenc Totho *Rodrigo de la Serna The Motorcycle Diaries

Anthony Mackie Brother to Brother BEST DIRECTOR Louie Olivos, Jr. Robbing Peter *Alexander Payne Sideways Hannah Pilkes The Woodsman Shane Carruth Primer David Sullivan Primer Joshua Marston Maria Full of Grace

Walter Salles The Motorcycle Diaries BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Mario Van Peebles Baadasssss! *Eric Gautier The Motorcycle Diaries BEST SCREENPLAY Dandelion Redemption *Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor Sideways Ryan Little Saints and Soldiers Mario Van Peebles and Maryse Alberti We Don’t Live Here Anymore Dennis Haggerty Baadasssss! , Julie Delpy, and Tod Williams The Door in the Floor Kinsey

16 | 2005 NOMINEES FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST DOCUMENTARY (Award given to the director) *: Some Kind of Monster Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky Bright Leaves Ross McElwee Chisholm ‘72: Unbought & Unbossed Shola Lynch Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Menachem Daum, Oren Rudavsky Tarnation Jonathan Caouette

BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director) * (Spain) Alejandro Amenábar Bad Education (Spain) Pedro Almodóvar Oasis (South Korea) Lee Chang-Dong Red Lights (France) Cédric Kahn Yesterday () Darrell James Roodt

TURNING LEAF SOMEONE SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD (Award given to the director) *Jem Cohen Chain Bryan Poyser Dear Pillow Jennifer Reeves The We Killed

DIRECTV/IFC TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD *Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman Born Into Brothels Shola Lynch Chisholm ‘72: Unbought & Unbossed Control Room Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini Farmingville

BRAVO/AMERICAN EXPRESS PRODUCERS AWARD *Gina Kwon The Good Girl and Me and You and Everyone We Know Danielle Renfrew November and Groove Sean C. Covel and Chris Wyatt Napoleon Dynamite and Think Tank

SPECIAL DISTINCTION *Ensemble Cast: Mean Creek Rory Culkin Ryan Kelley Scott Mechlowicz Trevor Morgan Josh Peck Carly Schroeder

2005 NOMINEES | 17 FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST SCREENPLAY 2004 NOMINEES (Winners in bold) * Lost in Translation BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer(s)) Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini American Splendor *Lost in Translation Sofia Coppola & Ross Katz Christopher Guest, American Splendor , & the cast In America & Arthur Lappin of A Mighty Wind A Mighty Wind Raising Victor Vargas Alain de la Mata, Robin O’Hara, Peter Hedges Pieces of April Scott Macaulay, Peter Sollett Shattered Glass Shattered Glass Craig Baumgarten, , Gaye Hirsch, Adam Merims BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY *Thomas McCarthy The Station Agent BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director, and producer) Monster *Monster Director: Patty Jenkins Producers: , Donald Kushner, Karen Moncrieff Blue Car Clark Peterson, , Peter Sollett and Eva Vives Raising Victor Vargas Brad Wyman Catherine Hardwicke Bomb the System Director: Adam Bhala Lough & Nikki Reed Thirteen Producers: Ben Rekhi & Sol Tryon House of Sand and Fog Director: BEST FEMALE LEAD Producers: Michael London, Vadim Perelman *Charlize Theron Monster Quattro Noza Director: Joey Curtis Agnes Bruckner Blue Car Producer: Fredric King Thirteen Director: Catherine Hardwicke Producers: Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, Michael London Samantha Morton In America Elisabeth Moss Virgin JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD (Given to the best feature made for under $500,000; writer, director, and producer) BEST MALE LEAD *The Station Agent Writer/Director: Thomas McCarthy *Bill Murray Lost in Translation Producers: Mary Jane Skalski, The Station Agent Robert May, Kathryn Tucker Paul Giamatti American Splendor Anne B. Real Director: Lisa France Writers: Lisa France and Antonio Macia Sir House of Sand and Fog Producers: Luis Moro, Jeanine Rohn, Soldier’s Girl Josselyne Herman Saccio Better Luck Tomorrow Director: BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE Writers: Ernesto M. Foronda, Justin Lin & * House of Sand and Fog Fabian Marquez Producers: Julie Asato, Ernesto M. Foronda, Sarah Bolger In America Justin Lin Pieces of April Pieces of April Writer/Director: Peter Hedges Hope Davis The Secret Lives of Dentists Producers: Alexis Alexanian, John S. Lyons, Frances McDormand Laurel Canyon Gary Winick Virgin Writer/Director: Deborah Kampmeier Producer: Sarah Schenck BEST SUPPORTING MALE * In America BEST DIRECTOR Judah Friedlander American Splendor *Sofia Coppola Lost in Translation Troy Garity Soldier’s Girl Alessandro Nivola Laurel Canyon Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini American Splendor Peter Sarsgaard Shattered Glass Jim Sheridan In America Peter Sollett Raising Victor Vargas BEST DEBUT PERFORMANCE (Actors in their first significant role in a feature film) Gus Van Sant Elephant *Nikki Reed Thirteen Anna Kendrick Camp Judy Marte Raising Victor Vargas Victor Rasuk Raising Victor Vargas Janice Richardson Anne B. Real

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BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY * In America Quattro Noza M. David Mullen Northfork Harris Savides Elephant Shattered Glass

BEST DOCUMENTARY (Award Given To The Director) *The Fog of War Errol Morris Mayor of the Sunset Strip My Architect OT: our town Scott Hamilton Kennedy Power Trip Paul Devlin

BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director) *Whale Rider (New Zealand) Director: City of God (Brazil) Fernando Meirelles Lilya 4-Ever (Sweden) Lukas Moodysson (/Ireland) The Triplets of Belleville (South Africa) Sylvain Chomet

TURNING LEAF SOMEONE SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD (Award given to the director) *Andrew Bujalski Funny Ha Ha Ben Coccio Zero Day Ryan Eslinger Madness and Genius

DIRECTV/IFC TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD *Megan Mylan and Jon Shenk Lost Boys of Sudan Nathaniel Kahn My Architect Robb Moss The Same River Twice Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras Flag Wars

PRODUCERS AWARD *Mary Jane Skalski The Station Agent and You and The Jimmy Show Callum Greene and Anthony Katagas Happy Here and Now and Homework Lauren Moews Cabin Fever and Briar Patch

SPECIAL DISTINCTION *21 Grams Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu Writer: Guillermo Arriaga Producer: Robert Salerno : Actor: Naomi Watts Actor: Sean Penn

2004 NOMINEES | 19 FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST FEMALE LEAD 2003 NOMINEES (Winners in bold) *Julianne Moore BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer(s)) The Good Girl *Far From Heaven Jody Patton, Christine Vachon Maggie Gyllenhaal Secretary The Good Girl Matthew Greenfield Catherine Keener Lovely & Amazing Lovely & Amazing Anthony Bregman, Eric d’Arbeloff, Parker Posey Personal Velocity Ted Hope Secretary Andrew Fierberg, Amy Hobby, BEST MALE LEAD Steven Shainberg * Tully Hilary Birmingham, Annie Sundberg Graham Greene Skins . BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director) Jeremy Renner Dahmer *The Dangerous Lives Roger Dodger of Altar Boys Peter Care Interview with the Assassin Neil Burger BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE Manito * Lovely & Amazing Paid In Full Charles Stone III Antwone Fisher Roger Dodger Jacqueline Kim Charlotte Sometimes

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD Hysterical Blindness (Given to the best feature made for under $500,000; writer, director, and producer) Tully *Personal Velocity Writer/Director: Producers: Alexis Alexanian, BEST SUPPORTING MALE Lemore Syvan, Gary Winick * Far From Heaven Charlotte Sometimes Writer/Director: Eric Byler Alan Arkin Thirteen Conversations About One Thing Producers: Marc Ambrose, Eric Byler Narc Dahmer Writer/Director: David Jacobson John C. Reilly The Good Girl Producer: Larry Rattner Peter Weller ivans xtc. ivans xtc. Director: Writers: Lisa Enos and Bernard Rose BEST DEBUT PERFORMANCE Producer: Lisa Enos (Actors in their first significant role in a feature film)

BEST DIRECTOR * My Big Fat Greek Wedding Bob Burrus Tully *Todd Haynes Far From Heaven America Ferrera Joe Carnahan Narc Raven Goodwin Lovely & Amazing Nicole Holofcener Lovely & Amazing Artel Kayaru Dahmer Bernard Rose ivans xtc.

Gus Van Sant Gerry BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY BEST SCREENPLAY * Far From Heaven * The Good Girl Harris Savides Gerry Nicole Holofcener Lovely & Amazing Richard Rutkowski Interview with the Assassin Dylan Kidd Roger Dodger Narc Ellen Kuras Personal Velocity and Karen Sprecher Thirteen Conversations About One Thing BEST DOCUMENTARY (Award given to the director) Hilary Birmingham and *Bowling for Columbine Matt Tully The Cockettes Bill Weber and David Weissman Devil’s Playground Lucy Walker BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY How to Draw a Bunny John Walter * Secretary Stevie Steve James Laura Cahill Hysterical Blindness Burr Steers Igby Goes Down Neil Burger Interview with the Assassin Heather Juergensen and Kissing Jessica Stein Jennifer Westfeldt

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BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director) *Y Tu Mamá También (Mexico) Alfonso Cuarón Bloody Sunday (Ireland) The Fast Runner–Atanarjuat (Canada) Zacharias Kunuk The Piano Teacher– La Pianiste (France/Austria) Time Out–L’Emploi du temps (France) Laurent Cantet

TURNING LEAF COASTAL RESERVE SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD (Award given to the director) *Przemyslaw Reut Paradox Lake Eric Eason Manito Eitan Gorlin The Holy Land

DIRECTV/IFC TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD *Jennifer Dworkin Love & Diane Jeffrey Blitz Spellbound Eugene Jarecki The Trials of Henry Kissinger Mark Moskowitz Stone Reader

MOTOROLA PRODUCERS AWARD *Effie T. Brown Real Women Have Curves and Stranger Inside Jesse Scolaro and Allen Bain Manito and Cry Funny Happy Eden H. Wurmfeld Kissing Jessica Stein and Fanci’s Persuasion

2003 NOMINEES | 21 FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST FEMALE LEAD 2002 NOMINEES (Winners in bold) * BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer(s)) *Memento and The Center of the World Hedwig and the Angry Inch Christine Vachon, Katie Roumel, The Deep End and Pamela Koffler Lift L.I.E. Rene Bastian, Linda Moran, and Michael Cuesta BEST MALE LEAD Things Behind The Sun Daniel Hassid, Doug Mankoff, and * In The Bedroom Robin Alper L.I.E. Waking Life Anne Walker-McBay, Tommy Pallotta, Ryan Gosling The Believer Palmer West, and Jonah Smith BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director) John Cameron Mitchell Hedwig and the Angry Inch *In The Bedroom BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming *Carrie-Anne Moss Memento The Believer Davenia McFadden Stranger Inside Donnie Darko Richard Kelly Summer Phoenix The Believer Tamara Tunie The Caveman’s Valentine JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD Tape (Given to the best feature made for under $500,000; writer, director, and producer) *Jackpot Director: Michael Polish BEST SUPPORTING MALE Producers/Writers: Mark Polish * Ghost World and Michael Polish Don Cheadle Things Behind the Sun Acts of Worship Writer/Director: Rosemary Rodriguez Billy Kay L.I.E. Producers: Nadia Leonelli, Fredrick Sundwall, Garrett Morris Jackpot and Rosemary Rodriguez John C. Reilly The Anniversary Party Kaaterskill Falls Directors/Producers: Josh Apter and Peter Olsen Punks Writer/Director: Patrik-Ian Polk BEST DEBUT PERFORMANCE Producers: Patrik-Ian Polk, Tracey E. Edmonds, (Actors in their first significant role in a feature film) and Michael McQuarn *Paul Franklin Dano L.I.E Virgil Bliss Writer/Director: Joe Maggio Producers: Joe Maggio and John Maggio Ana Reeder Acts of Worship Clint Jordan Virgil Bliss BEST DIRECTOR Yolanda Ross Stranger Inside * Memento Ensemble: Kaaterskill Falls Michael Cuesta L.I.E. Hilary Howard Cheryl Dunye Stranger Inside Anthony Leslie Richard Linklater Waking Life Mitchell Riggs John Cameron Mitchell Hedwig and the Angry Inch BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY BEST SCREENPLAY *Peter Deming Mulholland Drive *Christopher Nolan Memento Frank G. DeMarco Hedwig and the Angry Inch Milo Addica and Will Rokos Monster’s Ball W. Mott Hupfel III The American Henry Bean The Believer The Deep End Rob Festinger and Todd Field In The Bedroom Memento Richard Linklater Waking Life BEST DOCUMENTARY (Award given to the director) BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY *Dogtown and Z-Boys Stacy Peralta * and Go Tigers! Kenneth A. Carlson Terry Zwigoff Ghost World Lalee’s Kin: Richard Kelly Donnie Darko The Legacy of Cotton , Deborah Dickson, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Albert Maysles Alan Cumming The Anniversary Party Promises Justine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldberg, Carlos Bolado John Cameron Mitchell Hedwig and the Angry Inch Scratch Doug Pray Stephen M. Ryder, Michael Cuesta,and Gerald Cuesta L.I.E.

22 | 2002 NOMINEES FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director) *Amélie Jean-Pierre Jeunet Amores Perros Alejandro González Iñárritu Lumumba Raoul Peck Sexy Beast Jonathan Glazer Together Lukas Moodysson

TURNING LEAF COASTAL RESERVE SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD (Award given to the director) *Debra Eisenstadt Daydream Believer Demane Davis and Khari Streeter Lift Michael Gilio Kwik Stop David Maquiling Too Much Sleep

DIRECTV/IFC TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD *Monteith McCollum Hybrid Edet Belzberg Children Underground Sandi Simcha Dubowski Trembling Before G-d B.Z. Goldberg, Carlos Bolado and Justine Shapiro Promises Alix Lambert The Mark of

MOTOROLA PRODUCERS AWARD *René Bastian and Linda Moran Martin & Orloff and L.I.E. Adrienne Gruben Treasure Island and Olympia Jasmine Kosovic Just One Time and The Adventures of Sebastian Cole Nadia Leonelli Acts of Worship and Perfume

2002 NOMINEES | 23 FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

(Winners in bold) 2001 NOMINEES BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY *Gina Prince-Bythewood Love & Basketball BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer(s)) *Crouching , David Gordon Green Hidden Dragon Bill Kong, Hsu Kong, and Ang Lee Ross Klavan and George Washington David Gordon Green, Sacha W. Mueller, Michael McGruther Tigerland and Lisa Muskat Ben Younger Boiler Room Before Night Falls Jon Kilik Jordan Walker-Pearlman The Visit Eric Watson and Palmer West Ghost Dog: BEST FEMALE LEAD The Way of the Samurai and Richard Guay * Requiem for a Dream Sanaa Lathan Love & Basketball BEST FIRST FEATURE Laura Linney You Can Count on Me *You Can Count On Me Director: The Contender Producers: John N. Hart, Jeffrey Sharp, Kelly MacDonald Two Family House Barbara Defina, and Larry Meistrich Girlfight Director: ; Producers: Maggie Renzi, BEST MALE LEAD Sarah Green, and Martha Green *Javier Bardem Before Night Falls Love & Basketball Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood Hill Harper The Visit Producers: and Sam Kitt You Can Count On Me Boiler Room Director: Ben Younger Billy Crudup Jesus’ Son Producers: Suzanne Todd and Jennifer Todd Restaurant The Visit Director/Producer: Jordan Walker-Pearlman

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE BEST FEATURE UNDER $500,000 (Given to the best feature made for under $500,000; writer, director, and producer) * Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon *Chuck & Buck Director: Miguel Arteta Pat Carroll Songcatcher Producer: Matthew Greenfield Requiem for a Dream Writer: Mike White Marcia Gay Harden Pollock Everything Put Together Director: Marc Forster; Producer: Sean Furst; Chuck & Buck Writers: Catherine Lloyd Burns, Adam Forgash, and Marc Forster BEST SUPPORTING MALE Bunny Writer/Director: Mia Trachinger Producers: Rebecca Sonnenshine and Mia Trachinger * Shadow of the Vampire The Contender Our Song Writer/Director: Jim McKay; Producers: Jim McKay, Paul Mezey, and Diana E. Williams The Visit Groove Writer/Director: Greg Harrison Cole Hauser Tigerland Producer: Danielle Renfrew The Gift

BEST DIRECTOR BEST DEBUT PERFORMANCE *Ang Lee Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon * Girlfight Julian Schnabel Before Night Falls Mike White Chuck & Buck Darren Aronofsky Requiem for a Dream Songcatcher Miguel Arteta Chuck & Buck Rory Culkin You Can Count On Me Christopher Guest Best in Show Ensemble: George Washington Curtis Cotton III BEST SCREENPLAY Candace Evanofski *Kenneth Lonergan You Can Count On Me Rachael Handy Mike White Chuck & Buck Donald Holden Valerie Breiman Love & Sex Damian Jewan Lee Raymond De Felitta Two Family House Robert Dillon Waking The Dead BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY *Matthew Libatique Requiem for a Dream Xavier Perez Grobet and Guillermo Rosas Before Night Falls Tim Orr George Washington John De Borman Lou Bogue Shadow of the Vampire

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BEST DOCUMENTARY (Award given to the director) *Dark Days Marc Singer The Eyes of Tammy Faye Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey Long Night’s Journey Into Day Frances Reid and Deborah Hoffmann Sound and Fury Josh Aronson Paragraph 175 Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman

BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director) * Lars Von Trier A Time for Drunken Horses Bahman Ghobadi Kar-wai Wong The Terrorist Santosh Sivan The War Zone

MOVADO SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD (Award given to the director) *Marc Forster Everything Put Together Dan McCormack Other Voices Mia Trachinger Bunny

DIRECTV/IFC TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD *David Shapiro and Laurie Gwen Shapiro Keep The River On Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale Shelly Dunn Fremont and Vincent Fremont Pie In The Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story James Ronald Whitney Just, Melvin Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen Benjamin Smoke

MOTOROLA PRODUCERS AWARD *Paul S. Mezey Our Song and Spring Forward Jim McKay Stranger Inside and Our Song Tim Perell Jump Tomorrow and The Opportunist Diana E. Williams Love Machine and Our Song

2001 NOMINEES | 25 FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY 2000 NOMINEES (Winners in bold) *Charlie Kaufman BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer(s)) Tod Williams The Adventures of Sebastian Cole *Election Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa, David Gale, and and Keith Samples Andy Bienen Boys Don’t Cry The Limey John Hardy and Scott Kramer Anne Rapp Cookie’s Fortune The Straight Story Mary Sweeney and Neal Edelstein John Roach and Mary Sweeney The Straight Story Sugar Town Daniel Hassid Cookie’s Fortune Robert Altman and Etchie Stroh BEST FEMALE LEAD * Boys Don’t Cry BEST FIRST FEATURE over $500,000 A Walk on the Moon *Being John Malkovich Director: Spike Jonze Producers: Michael Stipe, , Janet McTeer Tumbleweeds Steve Golin, and Vincent Landay Susan Traylor Valerie Flake Boys Don’t Cry Director: Kimberly Peirce; Producers: Jeffrey Sharp, Election John Hart, Eva Kolodner, and Christine Vachon Three Seasons Director: Tony Bui BEST MALE LEAD Producers: Tony Bui, Jason Kliot, and Joana Vicente * The Straight Story Twin Falls Idaho Director: Michael Polish; Producers: Marshall The Visit Persinger, Rena Ronson, Steven J. Wolfe The Limey Xiu Xiu the Sent Down Girl Director: David Strathairn Limbo Producers: Alice Chan and Joan Chen Noble Willingham The Corndog Man BEST FIRST FEATURE under $500,000 *The Blair Witch Project Directors: Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE Producers: Robin Cowie and Gregg Hale *Chloe Sevigny Boys Don’t Cry La Ciudad Director: Barbara Barrie Judy Berlin Producers: Paul S. Mezey and David Riker Vanessa Martinez Limbo Compensation Director: Zeinabu Irene Davis Go Producers: Marc Arthur Chery and Zeinabu Irene Davis Guinevere Judy Berlin Director: Eric Mendelsohn Producer: Rocco Caruso Treasure Island Director: Scott King BEST SUPPORTING MALE Producer: Adrienne Gruben *Steve Zahn Happy, Texas Charles S. Dutton Cookie’s Fortune BEST DIRECTOR Luis Guzman The Limey *Alexander Payne Election Terrence Howard The Best Man Julien Donkey-Boy The Adventures of Sebastian Cole Steven Soderbergh The Limey The Straight Story BEST DEBUT PERFORMANCE *Kimberly J. Brown Tumbleweeds Go Jessica Campbell Election BEST SCREENPLAY Jade Gordon Sugar Town *Alexander Payne Toby Smith Drylongso and Jim Taylor Election Chris Stafford Edge of Seventeen Dogma Audrey Wells Guinevere BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Lem Dobbs The Limey *Lisa Rinzler Three Seasons James Merendino SLC Punk! M. David Mullen Twin Falls Idaho Anthony Dod Mantle Julien Donkey-Boy Jeffrey Seckendorf Judy Berlin La Ciudad Harlan Bosmajian

BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director) *Run Lola Run Pedro Almodovar My Son the Fanatic Udayan Prasad Topsy-Turvy Rosetta Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne 26 | 2000 NOMINEES FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

MOVADO SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD (Award given to the director) *Cauleen Smith Drylongso Dan Clark The Item Julian Goldberger Trans Lisanne Skyler Getting To Know You

DLJ DIRECT TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD *Owsley Brown Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles and Brett Morgen On The Ropes Michael Camerini and Shari Robertson Well-Founded Fear Rory Kennedy American Hollow

MOTOROLA PRODUCERS AWARD *Pam Koffler I’m Losing You and Office Killer Eva Kolodner Boys Don’t Cry and Hide and Seek Paul S. Mezey La Ciudad Christine Walker Backroads and Homo Heights

2000 NOMINEES | 27 FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST MALE LEAD 1999 NOMINEES (Winners in bold) *Ian McKellan Gods and Monsters BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer(s)) Affliction *Gods and Monsters Paul Colichman, Gregg Fienberg, Sean Penn Hurlyburly and Mark R. Harris Happiness Affliction Linda Reisman Courtney B. Vance Blind Faith Claire Dolan Ann Ruark and Marin Karmitz Christine Vachon BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE A Soldier’s Daughter * Gods and Monsters Never Cries Ismail Merchant Patricia Clarkson High Art The Opposite of Sex BEST FIRST FEATURE Stockard Channing The Baby Dance *The Opposite of Sex Director: ; Producers: David Under Heaven Kirkpatrick and Michael Besman Buffalo 66 Director: ; Producer: Chris Hanley BEST SUPPORTING MALE High Art Director: Lisa Cholodenko *Bill Murray Rushmore Producers: Dolly Hall, Jeff Levy-Hinte, and Philip S. Hoffman Happiness Susan A. Stover Charles S. Dutton Blind Faith Pi Director: Darren Aronofsky; Producer: Eric Watson James Coburn Affliction Gary Farmer Smoke Signals Slums of Beverly Hills Director: Tamara Jenkins Producers: Michael Nozik and Stan Wlodkowski BEST DEBUT PERFORMANCE BEST DIRECTOR *Evan Adams Smoke Signals *Wes Anderson Rushmore Slam Todd Haynes Velvet Goldmine Anthony Roth Costanzo A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries Affliction Slam Todd Solondz Happiness Andrea Hart Miss Monday Lodge Kerrigan Claire Dolan BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY BEST SCREENPLAY *Maryse Alberti Velvet Goldmine *Don Roos The Opposite of Sex Matthew Libatique Pi The Spanish Prisoner Malik Sayeed and Bob Salerno Belly Paul Schrader Affliction Paul Sarossy Affliction Bill Condon Gods and Monsters Tami Reiker High Art Frank Military Blind Faith

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director) *The *Darren Aronofsky Pi The Eel Shohei Imamura Matthew Weiss Niagara, Niagara The General Lisa Cholodenko High Art Central Station Walter Salles Sherman Alexie Smoke Signals Fireworks (Hana-Bi) Takeshi Kitano Tamara Jenkins Slums of Beverly Hills MOVADO SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD BEST FEMALE LEAD (Award given to the director) * High Art *David Williams 13 The Opposite of Sex Tony Barbieri One Down in the Delta Lynn Hershman Leeson Conceiving Ada Niagara, Niagara Eric Tretbar Snow Claire Dolan TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD *Barbara Sonneborn Regret to Inform Vicki Funari Paulina Tim Kirkman Dear Jesse Julia Loktev Moment of Impact Kyra Thompson Dying

28 | 1999 NOMINEES FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

RALPH LAUREN PRODUCERS AWARD *Susan Stover The Sticky Fingers of Time and High Art Margot Bridger Arresting Gena and The Delta Gill Holland Hurricane Streets and Spring Forward Andrea Sperling Nowhere and Doom Generation

1999 NOMINEES | 29 FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE 1998 NOMINEES (Winners in bold) * Eve’s Bayou BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer(s)) Farrah Fawcett The Apostle *The Apostle Rob Carliner Loved Chasing Amy Scott Mosier The Apostle Loved Philippe Caland Patricia Richardson Ulee’s Gold Ulee’s Gold Sam Gowan, Victor Nunez, and Peter Saraf Waiting for Guffman Karen Murphy BEST SUPPORTING MALE * Chasing Amy BEST FIRST FEATURE under $500,000 Efrain Figueroa Star Maps *Eve’s Bayou Director: ; Producers: Samuel L. Jackson Hard Eight Caldecot Chubb, and Samuel L. Jackson Ajay Naidu SubUrbia In the of Men Director: Neil LaBute The Myth of Fingerprints Producers: Mark Archer and Stephen Pevner The and Gun Club Director/Producer: Daniel J. Harriss BEST DEBUT PERFORMANCE Hard Eight Director: *Aaron Eckhart In the Company of Men Producers: Robert Jones and John Lyons Lysa Flores Star Maps Star Maps Director: Miguel Arteta; Producer: Darling Narita Matthew Greenfield Douglas Spain Star Maps

BEST DIRECTOR Ensemble: Squeeze *Robert Duvall The Apostle Tyrone Burton Larry Fessenden Habit Eddie Cutanda Victor Nunez Ulee’s Gold Phuong Duong Paul Schrader Touch The End of Violence BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY *Declan Quinn Kama Sutra BEST SCREENPLAY Michael Barrow and John Foster Sunday *Kevin Smith Chasing Amy Frank DeMarco Habit Robert Duvall The Apostle Robert Elswit Hard Eight Paul Schrader Touch Alex Vendler The Bible and Gun Club Victor Nunez Ulee’s Gold Christopher Guest and (Award given to the director) Eugene Levy Waiting for Guffman BEST FOREIGN FILM *The Sweet Hereafter BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY Happy Together Wong Kar-Wai *Neil LaBute In the Company of Men Nenette et Boni Claire Denis Daniel J. Harris The Bible and Gun Club Mouth to Mouth (Boca a Boca) Manuel Gómez Pereira Steven S. Schwartz Critical Care Underground Paul Thomas Anderson Hard Eight Miguel Arteta Star Maps SWATCH SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD (Award given to the director) BEST FEMALE LEAD *Scott Saunders The Headhunter’s Sister * Afterglow Erin Dignam Loved Stacy Edwards In the Company of Men Eye of God Alison Folland All Over Me Lisa Harrow Sunday Robin Wright Penn Loved

BEST MALE LEAD *Robert Duvall The Apostle Peter Fonda Ulee’s Gold Philip Baker Hall Hard Eight John Turturro Christopher Guest Waiting for Guffman

30 | 1998 NOMINEES FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD *Errol Morris Fast, Cheap & Out of Control Kirby Dick Sick Danielle Gardner Soul in the Hole Macky Alston Family Name Michele Ohayon Colors Straight Up

RALPH LAUREN PRODUCERS AWARD *Scott Macauley and Robin O’Hara First Love, Last Rites and What Happened Was… Margot Bridger Arresting Gena and The Delta Lisa Onodera Picture Bride and Forbidden City USA Richard Raddon Shooting Lily and …And God Spoke Susan Stover High Art and River of Grass

1998 NOMINEES | 31 FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE 1997 NOMINEES (Winners in bold) *Elizabeth Peña Lone Star BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer(s)) Queen Latifah Set Off *Fargo Ethan Coen Manny & Lo Demetra J. Macbride Girls Town The Funeral Mary Kane Flirting with Disaster Lone Star R. Paul Miller and Maggie Renzi Welcome to the Dollhouse Todd Solondz BEST SUPPORTING MALE *Benicio Del Toro Basquiat BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director(s)) Kevin Corrigan *Sling Blade Matthew Faber Welcome to the Dollhouse Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci Gary Farmer Dead Man I Shot Richard Jenkins Flirting with Disaster Manny & Lo Lisa Krueger Trees Lounge Steve Buscemi BEST DEBUT PERFORMANCE *Heather Matarazzo Welcome to the Dollhouse BEST DIRECTOR Bastard Out of Carolina *Joel Coen Fargo Brendan Sexton III Welcome to the Dollhouse Abel Ferrera The Funeral Arie Verveen Caught David O. Russell Flirting with Disaster Jeffrey Wright Basquiat Todd Solondz Welcome to the Dollhouse Robert M. Young Caught BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY *Roger Deakins Fargo BEST SCREENPLAY Ken Kelsch The Funeral *Joel Coen and Ethan Coen Fargo Robby Müller Dead Man Jim Jarmusch Dead Man Bill Pope Bound David O. Russell Flirting with Disaster Rob Sweeney Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day Lone Star Nicholas St. John The Funeral BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director) *Secrets & Lies Mike Leigh BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY Lars Von Trier *Joseph Tropiano and Wong Kar-Wai Stanley Tucci Big Night Gianni Amelio Steve Buscemi Trees Lounge Trainspotting Danny Boyle Lisa Krueger Manny & Lo Michael Scott Myers The Whole Wide World Suzan-Lori Parks Girl 6 SWATCH SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD (Award given to the director) BEST FEMALE LEAD *Larry Fessenden Habit Joe Brewster The Keeper *Frances McDormand Fargo Chris Smith American Job Maria Conchita Alonso Caught Manny & Lo DIRECTV/IFC TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD Catherine Keener Walking and Talking *Director: Leon Gast When We Were Kings Reneé Zellweger The Whole Wide World Producers: Leon Gast, DavidSonenberg, BEST MALE LEAD and Taylor Hackford *William H. Macy Fargo Director/Producers/Writers: Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern Lone Star Jeanne Jordan and Steven Ascher Chris Penn The Funeral Directors/Producers: Celluloid Closet Big Night Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Stanley Tucci Big Night Friedman; Writers: Sharon Wood, Armistead Maupin, Rob Epstein, and Jeffrey Friedman Writer/Director: Looking for Richard Producers: Al Pacino and Michael Hadge Directors/Producers: Paradise Lost 32 | 1997 NOMINEES Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

1996 NOMINEES (Winners in bold) BEST SUPPORTING MALE *Benicio Del Toro BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer(s)) James Le Gros *Leaving Lila Cazes and Annie Stewart David Morse The Addiction Denis Hann and Fernando Sulichin Georgia Living in Oblivion Michael Griffiths and Marcus Viscidi Harold Perrineau Smoke Safe Christine Vachon and Lauren Zalaznick The Secret of Roan Inish Sarah Green and Maggie Renzi BEST DEBUT PERFORMANCE *Justin Pierce Kids BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director(s)) Jason Andrews Rhythm Thief *The Brothers McMullen Lisa Bowman River of Grass Kids Gabriel Casseus New Jersey Drive Little Odessa James Gray Rose McGowan The Doom Generation Picture Bride Kayo Hatta

River of Grass Kelly Reichardt BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY BEST DIRECTOR *Declan Quinn Leaving Las Vegas * Leaving Las Vegas Elliot Davis The Underneath Nadja Jim Denault Nadja Ulu Grosbard Georgia Tom Richmond Little Odessa Todd Haynes Safe Newton Thomas Sigel The Usual Suspects John Sayles The Secret of Roan Inish BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director) BEST SCREENPLAY *Before The Rain Milcho Manchevski *Christopher McQuarrie The Usual Suspects The City of Lost Children and Jean-Pierre Jeunet Tom Di Cillo Living In Oblivion Exotica Atom Egoyan Mike Figgis Leaving Las Vegas I Am Cuba Mikhail Kalatozov Todd Haynes Safe Through the Olive Trees Abbas Kiarostami John Sayles The Secret of Roan Inish SWATCH SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD

(Award given to the director) BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY *Christopher Münch Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day * Smoke Tim McCann Desolation Angels James Gray Little Odessa Jennifer Montgomery Art for Teachers of Children Harmony Korine Kids Kelly Reichardt River of Grass Steve McLean Postcards from America Rafael Zelinsky Fun Kelly Reichardt River of Grass

BEST FEMALE LEAD *Elizabeth Shue Leaving Las Vegas Jennifer Jason Leigh Georgia Elina Lowensohn Nadja Julianne Moore Safe Lili Taylor The Addiction

BEST MALE LEAD *Sean Penn Dead Man Walking Leaving Las Vegas Tim Roth Little Odessa My Family Kevin Spacey Swimming With Sharks

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE * Georgia My Family Little Odessa Chloe Sevigny Kids Celia Weston Dead Man Walking 1996 NOMINEES | 33 FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST MALE LEAD 1995 NOMINEES (Winners in bold) *Samuel L. Jackson Pulp Fiction BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer(s)) *Pulp Fiction Lawrence Bender William H. Macy Oleanna Robert Greenhut Campbell Scott Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle Eat Drink Man Woman Ted Hope, Li Kong Hsu, Jon Seda I Like It Like That and James Schamus Mrs. Parker and the BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE Vicious Circle Robert Altman *Dianne Wiest Bullets Over Broadway Wes Craven’s V.S. Brodie Go Fish New Nightmare Marianne Maddalena Carla Gallo Spanking the Monkey Kelly Lynch The Beans of Egypt, Maine BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director(s)) Brooke Smith Vanya on 42nd Street *Spanking the Monkey David O. Russell Clean, Shaven Lodge Kerrigan BEST SUPPORTING MALE Clerks Kevin Smith * Bullets Over Broadway I Like It Like That Fresh Suture David Siegel and Scott McGehee Vanya on 42nd Street BEST DIRECTOR Pulp Fiction Nicholas Turturro Federal Hill * Pulp Fiction John Dahl Red Rock West BEST DEBUT PERFORMANCE Ang Lee Eat Drink Man Woman *Sean Nelson Fresh Death and the Maiden Jeff Anderson Clerks Alan Rudolph Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle Jeremy Davies Spanking The Monkey BEST SCREENPLAY Fun Reneé Zellweger Love and a .45 *Quentin Tarantino; stories Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino and BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Woody Allen and Bullets Over Broadway *John Thomas Barcelona Doug McGrat Greg Gardiner Suture Hui-Ling Wang, Flirting with Disaster Alexander Gruzynski I Like It Like That James Schamus, and Ang Lee Stevan Larner The Beans of Egypt, Maine Alan Rudolph and Lone Star Randy Sue Coburn Jong Lin Eat Drink Man Woman John Dahl and Rick Dahl Red Rock West (Award given to the director) BEST FOREIGN FILM BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY *Red Marin Karmitz and Gerard Ruey *David O. Russell Spanking the Monkey Blue Kite Tian Zhuangzhuang Paul Zehrer Blessing The Boys of St. Vincent Sam Grana and Claudio Luca Kevin Smith Clerks Ladybird, Ladybird Sally Hibbin James Bosley Fun Thirty-Two Short Films Niv Fichman About Glenn Gould Tom Noonan What Happened Was…

BEST FEMALE LEAD SPECIAL DISTINCTION * The Last Seduction *Hoop Dreams Producers: Steve James, Jennifer Jason Leigh Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle Frederick Marx, and Peter Gilbert Karen Sillas What Happened Was... SWATCH SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD Lauren Veléz I Like It Like That (Award given to the director) Chien-Lien Wu Eat Drink Man Woman *Lodge Kerrigan Clean, Shaven

34 | 1995 NOMINEES FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST SUPPORTING MALE 1994 NOMINEES (Winners in bold) * Twenty Bucks BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer(s)) Tate Donovan Inside Monkey Zetterland * Producer: Cary Brokaw Todd Field Ruby In Paradise Executive Producer: Scott Bushnell American Heart Equinox Producer: David Blocker David Chung The Ballad of Little Jo Executive Producers: Nicolas Stiliadis, Syd Cappe, and Sandy Stern BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Producers: Stephen Evans, *Lisa Rinzler Menace II Society David Parfitt, and Elliot Davis Equinox Ruby In Paradise Executive Producer: Sam Gowan James R. Bagdonas American Heart Producers: James Schamus, Ted Hope, and Ang Lee Executive Producer: Jiang Feng-Chyi Nancy Schreiber Chain Of Desire Alex Vlacos Ruby In Paradise BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director(s)) *El Mariachi BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director) American Heart Martin Bell *The Piano Combination Platter Tony Chan Like Water For Chocolate Alfonso Arau Mac John Tuturro Orlando Sally Potter Menace II Society Albert and Allen Hughes The Story of Qui Ju Yimou Zhang Naked Mike Leigh BEST DIRECTOR *Robert Altman Short Cuts Ang Lee The Wedding Banquet

Victor Nuñez Ruby In Paradise Robert Rodriquez El Mariachi John Turturro Mac

BEST SCREENPLAY *Short Cuts Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt The Wedding Banquet Ang Lee, Neil Peng, James Schamus Combination Platter Edwin Baker and Tony Chan Household Saints Nancy Savoca and Richard Guay Ruby In Paradise Victor Nuñez

BEST FEMALE LEAD * Ruby In Paradise May Chin The Wedding Banquet Ariyan Johnson Just Another Girl On The I.R.T. Much Ado About Nothing Suzy Amis The Ballad of Little Jo

BEST MALE LEAD *Jeff Bridges American Heart Vincent D’Onofrio Household Saints The Wedding Banquet Equinox Tyrin Turner Menace II Society

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE *Lili Taylor Household Saints Equinox Lucinda Jenney American Heart Ah-Leh Gua The Wedding Banquet Julianne Moore Short Cuts

1994 NOMINEES | 35 FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST MALE LEAD 1993 NOMINEES (Winners in bold) * Bad Lieutenant BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer(s)) Craig Chester Swoon *The Player Producers: David Brown, William H. Macy Oleanna , and Nich Wechsler Campbell Scott Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle Executive Producer: Cary Brokaw Jon Seda I Like It Like That Bad Lieutenant Producers: Mary Kane, Edward R. Pressman, and Randall Sabusawa BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE Executive Producers: Patrick Wachsberger, Ronna B. Wallace *Alfre Woodard Passion Fish Producers: William Ewart, Daniel Hassid, Brooke Adams Gas Food Lodging and Seth M.Willenson; Executive Sara Gilbert Poison Ivy Producers: Christoph Henkel and Karen Sillas Simple Men Carl-Jan Colpaert Danitra Vanese Jumpin’ At The Boneyard Masala Producers: and Michael Nozick Co-Producer: Mitch Epstein Executive Producer: Cherie Rodgers BEST SUPPORTING MALE One False Move Producers: Jesse Beaton and Ben Myron *Steve Buscemi Executive Producers: Miles A. Copeland III, William Forsythe The Waterdance Paul Colichman, and Harold Welb Deep Cover The Waterdance BEST FIRST FEATURE David Strathairn Passion Fish *The Waterdance Directors: Neal Jiminez and Michael Steinberg Producers: Gail Anne Hurd and Marie Cantin Executive Producer: Guy Riedel BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Laws of Gravity Director: * Producers: Larry Meistrich and Bob Gosse Jon Jost All The Vermeers In New York My New Gun Director: Stacy Cochran Producer: Michael Flynn Laws of Gravity Executive Producers: Miles A. Copeland III, Paul Ed Lachman Light Sleeper Colichman, and Harold Welb Ellen Kuras Swoon Reservoir Dogs Director: Quentin Tarantino Producers: Lawrence Bender and Harvey Keitel BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director) Executive Producer: Richard N. Gladstein, *The Crying Game Ronna B. Wallace, and Monte Hellman Close to Eden Swoon Director: Producers: Tom Kalin and Peter Wentworth Danzon Maria Novaro Executive Producers: Lauren Zalaznick, James Howards End Schamus, and Christine Vachon Raise The Red Lantern Yimou Zhang

BEST DIRECTOR SPECIAL DISTINCTION *Carl Franklin One False Move *Hoop Dreams Producers: Steve James, Gas Food Lodging Frederick Marx, and Peter Gilbert Able Ferrara Bad Lieutenant BEST ORIGINAL SCORE Tom Kalin Swoon *: Angelo Badalamenti Quentin Tarantino Reservoir Dogs Fire Walk With Me All the Vermeers in New York Jon A. English BEST SCREENPLAY One False Move Terry Plumeri, Peter Haycock, and Derek Holt * The Waterdance The Tune Maureen McElheron Keith Gordon A Midnight Clear Zebrahead Taj Mahal Allison Anders Gas Food Lodging Paul Schrader Light Sleeper Billy Bob Thorton One False Move and Tom Epperson

BEST FEMALE LEAD * Gas Food Lodging Laws of Gravity Catherine Keener Sheryl Lee Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Cynda Williams One False Move 36 | 1993 NOMINEES FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE 1992 NOMINEES (Winners in bold) * Rambling Rose BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer(s)) Sheila McCarthy Bright Angel *Rambling Rose Producer: Renny Harlin Deirdre O’Connell Pastime Executive Producers: Mario Kassar Emma Thompson Impromptu and Edgar J. Scherick Mary B. Ward Hangin’ with the Homeboys City of Hope Producers: Sara Green and Maggi Renzi Executive Producers: John Sloss and BEST SUPPORTING MALE Harold Welb *David Strathairn City of Hope Hangin’ with the Homeboys Producer: Richard Brick Executive Producer: Janet Grillo William H. Macy Homicide Homicide Producers: Michael Hausman and Edward R. John Malkovich Queen’s Logic Pressman Executive Producer: Ron Rotholtz George T. Odom Straight out of My Own Private Idaho Producer: Laurie Parker Glenn Plummer Pastime Executive Producer: Gus Van Sant BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY BEST FIRST FEATURE *Walt Lloyd Kafka *Straight out of Brooklyn Director/Producer: Matty Rich Roger Deakins Homicide Executive Producers: Lindsay Law and Ira Deutchman Eric Alan Edwards My Own Private Idaho and John Campbell Chameleon Street Director: Wendell B. Harris Producer: Dan Lawton Johnny E. Jensen Rambling Rose Executive Producer: Helen B. Harris Tom Richmond Pastime Poison Director: Todd Haynes Producer: Christine Vachon BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director) Executive Producers: James Schamus and *An Angel at My Table Jane Campion Brian Greenbaum The Double Life of The Rapture Director: Michael Tolkin Veronique Krzysztof Kieslowski Producers: Nick Wechsler, Nancy Tennenbaum, and Karen Koch Life Is Sweet Mike Leigh Executive Producer: Laurie Parker Requiem For Dominic Robert Dornhelm Slacker Director/Producer: Richard Linklater Taxi Blues Pavel Lungin

BEST DIRECTOR BEST FILM MUSIC * Rambling Rose *My Own Private Idaho Gus Van Sant Todd Haynes Poison Hangin’ with the David Chackler and Joel Sill Richard Linklater Slacker Homeboys Gus Van Sant My Own Private Idaho Kiss Me A Killer Marcos Loya and Nigel Holton Joseph B. Vasquez Hangin’ with the Homeboys Matter Of Degrees Jim Dunbar and Randall Poster Straight Out Of Brooklyn Harold Wheeler BEST SCREENPLAY *Gus Van Sant My Own Private Idaho Floyd Byars and Fritjof Capra Mindwalk Lem Dobbs Kafka Michael Tolkin The Rapture Joseph B. Vasquez Hangin’ with the Homeboys

BEST FEMALE LEAD * Impromptu Patsy Kensit Twenty-One Mimi Rogers The Rapture Lili Taylor Bright Angel Lily Tomlin The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe BEST MALE LEAD * My Own Private Idaho Doug E. Doug Hangin’ with the Homeboys Robert Duvall Rambling Rose Gary Oldman Rosencrantz & Guildstern Are Dead William Russ Pastime 1992 NOMINEES | 37 FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE 1991 NOMINEES (Winners in bold) * To Sleep With Anger BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer(s)) Tracy Arnold Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer *The Grifters , Robert Harris, and Ethel Ayler To Sleep With Anger James Painten House Party The Plot Against Harry Robert Young and Michael Roemer A.J. Johnson House Party Pump Up The Volume Rupert Harvey and Sandy Stern To Sleep With Anger Caldecott Chubb, Thomas Byrnes, BEST SUPPORTING MALE and Darin Scott * Henry, Portrait of Willem Dafoe Wild At Heart a Serial Killer John McNaughton, Lisa Dedmond, Robin Harris House Party and Steven A. Jones Ben Lang The Plot Against Henry Tom Towles Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer BEST FIRST FEATURE *Metropolitan Producer/Director: BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY House Party Producer: Warrington Hudlin *Fred Elmes Wild At Heart Director: Reginald Hudlin Bojan Bazelli King of New York Lightning Over Braddock Producer/Director: Tony Buba Peter Deming House Party The Natural History Of Parking Lots Producer: Aziz Ghazal Amir Mokri Life Is Cheap, But Toilet Paper Is Expensive Director: Everett Lewis Robert Young The Plot Against Harry Twister Producer: Wieland Schulz-Keil Director: Michael Almereyda BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director) *Sweetie Jane Campion BEST DIRECTOR Black Rain Shohei Imamura *Charles Burnett One False Move City of Sadness Hsiao-Hsien Hou Reginald Hudlin House Party The Cook, The Thief, Peter Greenaway John McNaughton Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer His Wife, And Her Lover Allan Moyle Pump Up The Volume Freeze, Die, Come to Life Vitali Kanevsky Michael Roemer The Plot Against Harry

BEST SCREENPLAY *Charles Burnett To Sleep With Anger John McNaughton Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer and Richard Fire Allan Moyle Pump Up The Volume Michael Roemer The Plot Against Harry Whit Stillman Metropolitan

BEST FEMALE LEAD *Anjelica Huston The Grifters Mary Alice To Sleep With Anger Eszter Balint Bail Jumper Carolyn Farina Metropolitan Mr. and Mrs. Bridge

BEST MALE LEAD * To Sleep With Anger Martin Priest The Plot Against Harry Chris Reid House Party Michael Rooker Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer Pump Up The Volume

38 | 1991 NOMINEES FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST SUPPORTING MALE 1990 NOMINEES (Winners in bold) *Max Perlich Drugstore Cowboy BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer(s)) Steve Buscemi Mystery Train *Sex, Lies and Robert Newmeyer and John Hardy Scott Coffey Shag Videotape Gary Farmer Powwow Highway Drugstore Cowboy Nick Wechsler and Karen Murphy Screamin’ Jay Hawkins Mystery Train Heat and Sunlight Steve Burns Mystery Train Jim Stark BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY True Love Richard Guay and Shelley Houis * Drugstore Cowboy Powwow Highway BEST FIRST FEATURE Robby Müller Mystery Train *Heathers Michael Lehmann Earth Girls Are Easy 84 Charlie Mopic Patrick Duncan Robert Tregenza Talking To Strangers Powwow Highway Jonathan Wacks Sidewalk Stories Charles Lane BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director) Talking To Strangers Robert Tregenza *My Left Foot Producer: Noel Pearson Director: Jim Sheridan BEST DIRECTOR Distant Voices, Still Lives Producer: Jennifer Howarth *Steven Soderbergh Sex, Lies and Videotape Director: Jim Jarmusch Mystery Train Hanussen Producer: Artur Brauner Director: István Szabó Charles Lane Sidewalk Stories High Hopes Producers: Victor Glynn and Nancy Savoca True Love Simon Channing-Williams Gus Van Sant, Jr. Drugstore Cowboy Director: Mike Leigh Rouge (Yin Ji Kau) Producer: BEST SCREENPLAY Director: *Gus Van Sant, Jr. Drugstore Cowboy and Daniel Yost Steve De Jarnatt Miracle Mile Patrick Duncan 84 Charlie Mopic

Jim Jarmusch Mystery Train Daniel Waters Heathers

BEST FEMALE LEAD *Andie McDowell Sex, Lies and Videotape Youki Kudoh Mystery Train Kelly Lynch Drugstore Cowboy Heathers Annabella Sciorra True Love

BEST MALE LEAD *Matt Dillon Drugstore Cowboy Nicolas Cage Vampire’s Kiss Charles Lane Sidewalk Stories Parents James Spader Sex, Lies and Videotape

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE * Sex, Lies and Videotape Shag Drugstore Cowboy Mare Winningham Miracle Mile Mary Woronov Scenes From The Class Struggle In Beverly Hills

1990 NOMINEES | 39 FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST SUPPORTING MALE 1989 NOMINEES (Winners in bold) * Stand and Deliver BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer(s)) Spike of Bensonhurst *Stand and Deliver Tom Musca Hairspray Hairspray Rachel Talalay John Lone Patti Rocks Gregory M. Cummins and Gwen Field John Turturro Five Corners The Thin Blue Line Mark Lipson Howard Gottfried BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY * The Unbearable Lightness of Being BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director(s)) Gregory M. Cummins Patti Rocks *Mystic Pizza Donald Petrie Toyomichi Kurita House Party Allison Anders, Dean Lent, and Kurt Voss Robert Richardson Talk Radio Prince of Ron Nyswaner Tom Richmond Stand and Deliver The Chocolate War Keith Gordon The Wash Michael Uno BEST FOREIGN FILM *Wings of Desire Producer: Anatole Dauman BEST DIRECTOR Director: Wim Wenders *Ramón Menéndez Stand and Deliver A World Apart Producer: Sarah Radclyffe Director: Chris Menges David Burton Morris Patti Rocks Bagdad Cafe Producers: Percy Adlon and Eleonore Adlon Errol Morris The Thin Blue Line Director: Percy Adlon Talk Radio Brightness Producer/Director: Soulemane Cisse Hairspray The Kitchen Producer: Ann Skinner Director: Harry Hook BEST SCREENPLAY *Ramón Menéndez Stand and Deliver and Tom Musca Alan Rulolph and The Moderns Jon Bradshaw Five Corners John Waters Hairspray John Jenkins, Karen Landry, Metropolitan David Burton Morris, and Chris Mulkey

BEST FEMALE LEAD * Five Corners Ricki Lake Hairspray Nobu McCarthy The Wash Mystic Pizza Promised Land

BEST MALE LEAD * Stand and Deliver Talk Radio Torch Song Trilogy Chris Mulkey Patti Rocks The Boost

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE *Rosanna De Soto Stand and Deliver Bonnie Bedelia Prince of Pennsylvania Hairspray Amy Madigan Prince of Pennsylvania Patti Yasutake The Wash

40 | 1989 NOMINEES FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

BEST SUPPORTING MALE 1988 NOMINEES (Winners in bold) * Street Smart BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer(s)) Wings Hauser Tough Guys Don’t Dance *River’s Edge Sarah Pillsbury and Midge Sanford Matewan Matewan Peggy Rajski and Maggie Renzi Vincent Price The Whales of August Swimming To Cambodia Renee Shafransky David Strathairn Matewan The Big Easy Stephen Friedman Tough Guys Don’t Dance Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY * Matewan The Dead Wieland Schulz-Keil and Chris Sievernich John Bailey Tough Guys Don’t Dance BEST FIRST FEATURE Amir Mokri Slamdance *Dirty Dancing Robby Müller Barfly Anna Yurek Bogayevicz Fred Murphy The Dead Hollywood Shuffle Robert Townsend (Award given to the director) Siesta Mary Lambert BEST FOREIGN FILM *My Life As A Dog Producer: Waldemar Bergendahl Waiting For The Moon Jill Godmilow Director: Lasse Hallström BEST DIRECTOR Producer/Director: * The Dead Hope And Glory Producer/Director: John Boorman Jonathan Demme Swimming To Cambodia Prick Up Your Ears Producer: Andrew Brown Director: Tim Hunter River’s Edge Tampopo Producers: Juzo Itami, Yasushi Tamaoki, Jim McBride The Big Easy and Seigo Hosogoe John Sayles Matewan

BEST SCREENPLAY *Neal Jiminez River’s Edge

Spalding Gray Swimming To Cambodia Agnieszka Holland Anna Tony Huston The Dead John Sayles Matewan

BEST FEMALE LEAD * Anna Lillian Gish The Whales of August Louise Smith Working Girls Debra Sandlund Tough Guys Don’t Dance Joanne Woodward

BEST MALE LEAD *Dennis Quaid The Big Easy Swimming To Cambodia Terry O’Quinn The Stepfather Mickey Rourke Barfly James Woods Best Seller

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE *Anjelica Huston The Dead Karen Allen The Glass Menagerie Street Smart Shy People Ann Sothern The Whales of August

1988 NOMINEES | 41 FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

SPECIAL DISTINCTION (BEST FOREIGN FILM) 1987 NOMINEES (Winners in bold) *A Room With A View Director: James Ivory Producer: Ismail Merchant BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer(s)) Men Director: Doris Dorrie *Platoon Arnold Kopelson Producer: Harold Kugler Blue Velvet Fred Caruso Mona Lisa Director: Neil Jordan Down By Law Alan Kleinberg Producers: Stephen Woolley On Valentine’s Day Lillian Foote and Calvin Skaggs and Patrick Cassavetti Salvador Gerald Green and Oliver Stone My Beautiful Launderette Director: Stephen Frears Producers: Sarah Radclyffe and Tim Bevan Stand By Me Andrew Scheinman, Raynold Gideon, and Bruce Evans 28-Up Producer/Director:

BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director(s)) *She’s Gotta Have It Spike Lee A Great Wall Peter Wang Belizaire The Cajun Glen Pitre Hoosiers David Anspaugh True Stories David Byrne

BEST DIRECTOR *Oliver Stone Platoon Jim Jarmusch Down By Law David Lynch Blue Velvet Stand By Me Oliver Stone Salvador

BEST SCREENPLAY *Oliver Stone Platoon Peter Wang and Shirley Sun A Great Wall David Lynch Blue Velvet Oliver Stone and Richard Boyle Salvador Raynold Gideon and Stand By Me Bruce Evans

BEST FEMALE LEAD * Blue Velvet Elpidia Carillo Salvador Patti Charbonneau Desert Hearts Blue Velvet Tracy Camila Johns She’s Gotta Have It

BEST MALE LEAD *James Woods Salvador Down By Law Willem Dafoe Platoon Blue Velvet Victor Love Native Son

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY *Bob Richardson Platoon Frederick Elmes Blue Velvet Ed Lachman True Stories Robby Müller Down By Law Bob Richardson Salvador

42 | 1987 NOMINEES FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

1986 NOMINEES (Winners in bold)

BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer(s)) *After Hours Amy Robinson, Robert F. Colesberry, and Griffin Dunne Blood Simple Ethan Coen Smooth Talk Martin Rosen The Trip To Bountiful Sterling Van Wagenen and

BEST DIRECTOR *Martin Scorsese After Hours (tie) *Joel Coen Blood Simple (tie) Joyce Chopra Smooth Talk Peter Masterson The Trip To Bountiful

BEST SCREENPLAY *Horton Foote The Trip To Bountiful Ethan and Joel Coen Blood Simple Tom Cole Smooth Talk Joseph Minion After Hours

BEST FEMALE LEAD * The Trip To Bountiful After Hours Laura Dern Smooth Talk Lori Singer Trouble In Mind

BEST MALE LEAD *M. Emmet Walsh Blood Simple Ruben Blades Crossover Dreams Tom Bower Wild Rose Treat Williams Smooth Talk

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY *Toyomichi Kurita Trouble In Mind After Hours Michael G. Chin Dim Sum Blood Simple

SPECIAL DISTINCTION (BEST FOREIGN FILM) (Award given to director) *Kiss of the Spider Woman Hector Babenco Dreamchild Gavin Millar The Hit Stephen Frears Ran

1986 NOMINEES | 43