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2016 Nominees

BEST FEATURE BEST DIRECTOR BEST SUPPORTING MALE (Award given to the producer) SEAN BAKER - Tangerine KEVIN CORRIGAN – Results * Executive Producers are not awarded. CARY JOJI FUKUNAGA – Beasts of No Nation PAUL DANO – Love & Mercy – Carol – Beasts of No Nation PRODUCERS: , , – Anomalisa – Bone Tomahawk , Rosa Tran DUKE JOHNSON, CHARLIE KAUFMAN TOM MCCARTHY - Spotlight MICHAEL SHANNON – 99 Homes BEASTS OF NO NATION – Follows PRODUCERS: Daniel Crown, Idris Elba, Cary Joji BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE Fukunaga, Amy Kaufman, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, BEST SCREENPLAY ROBIN BARTLETT – H. Riva Marker CHARLIE KAUFMAN – Anomalisa MARIN IRELAND – Glass Chin CAROL PRODUCERS: Elizabeth Karlsen, Christine Vachon, DONALD MARGULIES – The End of the Tour – Anomalisa TOM MCCARTHY, – Spotlight - James White SPOTLIGHT – Carol MYA TAYLOR – Tangerine PRODUCERS: Blye Pagon Faust, , Nicole – Bone Tomahawk S. CRAIG ZAHLER BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM Rocklin, Michael Sugar BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT (Colombia) TANGERINE DIRECTOR: Ciro Guerra PRODUCERS: Sean Baker, Karrie Cox, Marcus Cox, JESSE ANDREWS – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Darren Dean, Shih-Ching Tsou JONAS CARPIGNANO – Mediterranea GIRLHOOD (France) DIRECTOR: Céline Sciamma – BEST FIRST FEATURE MUSTANG (France, Turkey) MARIELLE HELLER – The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Award given to the director and producer) DIRECTOR: Deniz Gamze Ergüven THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL JOHN MAGARY, RUSSELL HARBAUGH (story by), A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING DIRECTOR: Marielle Heller MYNA JOSEPH (story by) – The Mend ON EXISTENCE (Sweden) PRODUCERS: Miranda Bailey, Anne Carey, Bert Hamelinck, AWARD DIRECTOR: Madeline Samit (Award given to the best feature made for under SON OF SAUL (Hungary) JAMES WHITE $500,000; award given to the writer, director, DIRECTOR: László Nemes DIRECTOR: and producer) PRODUCERS: Max Born, Antonio Campos, Sean * Executive Producers are not awarded. BEST DOCUMENTARY Durkin, Melody Roscher, Eric Schultz (Award given to the director and producer) ADVANTAGEOUS MANOS SUCIAS WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Jennifer Phang DIRECTOR: Josef Kubota Wladyka WRITER/PRODUCER: Jacqueline Kim DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS: Lyric R. Cabral, David Felix PRODUCERS: Elena Greenlee, Márcia Nunes PRODUCERS: Robert Chang, Ken Jeong, Moon Sutcliffe MEDITERRANEA Molson, Theresa Navarro PRODUCER: Christopher St. John DIRECTOR: Jonas Carpignano CHRISTMAS, AGAIN BEST OF ENEMIES PRODUCERS: Jason Michael Berman, Chris Columbus, WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Charles Poekel DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS: Robert Gordon, Morgan Jon Coplon, Christoph Daniel, Andrew Kortschak, John Neville HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT Lesher, Ryan Lough, Justin Nappi, Alain Peyrollaz, Gwyn DIRECTORS: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie HEART OF A DOG Sannia, Marc Schmidheiny, Victor Shapiro, Ryan Zacarias WRITERS: , Josh Safdie DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Laurie Anderson SONGS MY BROTHERS TAUGHT ME PRODUCERS: Oscar Boyson, Sebastian Bear McClard PRODUCER: Dan Janvey DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Chloé Zhao KRISHA THE LOOK OF SILENCE PRODUCERS: Mollye Asher, Nina Yang Bongiovi, WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: DIRECTOR: Joshua Oppenheimer Angela C. Lee, Forest Whitaker PRODUCERS: Justin R. Chan, Chase Joliet, Wilson Smith PRODUCER: Signe Byrge Sørensen BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY OUT OF MY HAND MERU CARY JOJI FUKUNAGA – Beasts of No Nation WRITER/DIRECTOR: Takeshi Fukunaga DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi MICHAEL GIOULAKIS – It Follows WRITER/PRODUCER: Donari Braxton PRODUCER: Mike Fox PRODUCER: Shannon Ethridge ED LACHMAN – Carol THE RUSSIAN WOODPECKER – Meadowland BEST MALE LEAD DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Chad Gracia JOSHUA JAMES RICHARDS – Songs My Brothers – James White PRODUCERS: Ram Devineni, Mike Lerner Taught Me ABRAHAM ATTAH – Beasts of No Nation AWARD – Mississippi Grind BEST EDITING BEN MENDELSOHN (Award given to one film’s director, casting director RONALD BRONSTEIN, BENNY SAFDIE – Heaven JASON SEGEL – The End of the Tour and ensemble cast) Knows What KOUDOUS SEIHON - Mediterranea SPOTLIGHT DIRECTOR: Tom McCarthy TOM MCARDLE – Spotlight BEST FEMALE LEAD NATHAN NUGENT – Room CASTING DIRECTORS: Kerry Barden, Paul Schnee – Carol ENSEMBLE CAST: , Michael Cyril Creighton, JULIO C. PEREZ IV – It Follows – Room Paul Guilfoyle, Neal Huff, Brian d’Arcy James, M ichael Keaton, KRISTAN SPRAGUE – Manos Sucias – Carol Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo, Liev Schreiber, BEL POWLEY – The Diary of a Teenage Girl Jamey Sheridan, John Slattery, KITANA KIKI RODRIGUEZ – Tangerine

Premier Sponsors FILMMAKER GRANT NOMINEES AWARD PRODUCERS PIAGET announced at the Spirit Awards Filmmaker Grant &Nominee Brunch onSaturday, January 9, 2016. All the winners of our filmmaker grants willbehighlighted at the Spirit Awards ceremony and CHLOÉ ZHAO FELIX THOMPSON MACHOIAN OJEDA-BECKROBERT RODRIGO & funded by Kiehl’s Since 1851. The finalists are: who has not yet received appropriate recognition. The award includes a$25,000 unrestricted grant The Someone to Watch Award, now inits 22st year, recognizes atalented filmmaker of singular vision KIEHL’S SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD ELIZABETH GIAMATTI AND ALEX SICHEL VASARHELYI CHAI ELIZABETH TRIVEDI NAQVI ALI HEMAL AND MOHAMMED grant. The finalists are: features who has not yet received significant recognition. The award includes a$25,000 unrestricted The Truer Than Fiction Award, now inits 21th year, is presented to an emerging director of non-fiction TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD REBECCA GREEN AND LAURA D. SMITH ESLYNMEL DEAN DARREN The award includes a$25,000 unrestricted grant funded by Piaget. resources demonstrate the creativity, tenacity and vision required to produce quality, independent films. The Producers Award, now inits 19thyear, honors emerging producers who, despite highly limited

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GOD BLESS THE CHILD The finalists are: