2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards Nominations Announced

The nominations for the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards were announced today by actors Tessa Thompson and Lily Collins at a press conference streamed live on Facebook. Scroll down to see the full list of nominees.

Best Feature

Call Me by Your Name
94%

The Florida Project
96%

Get Out
98%

Lady Bird
99%

The Rider
97%

Best Director

Sean Baker

The Florida Project
96%

Jonas Carpignano

A Ciambra
90%

Luca Carpignano

Call Me by Your Name
94%

Jordan Peele

Get Out
98%

Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie

Good Time
92%

Chloé Zhao

The Rider
97%

Best Screenplay

Greta Gerwig

Lady Bird
99%

Azazel Jacobs

The Lovers
82%

Martin McDonagh

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
91%

Jordan Peele

Get Out
98%

Mike White

Beatriz at Dinner
75%

Best First Feature

Columbus
97%

Ingrid Goes West
85%

Menashe
96%

Oh Lucy!
98%

Patti Cake$
85%

Best First Screenplay

Kris Avedisian

Donald Cried
89%

Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani

The Big Sick
98%

Ingrid Jungermann

Women Who Kill
93%

Kogonada

Columbus
97%

David Branson Smith, Matt Spicer

Ingrid Goes West
85%

Best Male Lead

Call Me by Your Name

Harris Dickinson

Beach Rats

James Franco

The Disaster Artist

Daniel Kaluuya

Get Out

Robert Pattinson

Good Time

Best Female Lead

Salma Hayek

Beatriz at Dinner

Frances McDormand

Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

Margot Robbie

I, Tonya

Saoirse Ronan

Lady Bird

Shinobu Terajima

Oh Lucy! 

Regina Williams

 Life and nothing more

Best Supporting Male

Nnamdi Asomugha

Crown Heights

Armie Hammer

Call Me by Your Name 

Barry Keoghan

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Sam Rockwell

Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri   

Ben Safdie

Good Time

Best Supporting Female

Holly Hunter

The Big Sick

Allison Janney

I, Tonya

Laurie Metcalf

Lady Bird

Lois Smith

Marjorie Prime

Good Time

Best Cinematography

Thimios Bakatakis

The Killing of a Sacred Deer
80%

Elisha Christian

Columbus
97%

Hélène Louvart

Beach Rats
85%

Sayombhu Mukdeeprom

Call Me by Your Name
94%

Joshua James Richards

The Rider
97%

Best International Film

BPM (Beats Per Minute)
99%

A Fantastic Woman
94%

I Am Not a Witch
96%

Lady Macbeth
88%

Loveless
95%

Best Documentary

The Departure
100%

Faces Places
99%

Last Men in Aleppo
97%

Motherland
93%

Quest
98%

Best Editing

Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie

Good Time
92%

Walter Fasano

Call Me by Your Name
94%

Alex O’Flinn

The Rider
97%

Gregory Plotkin

Get Out
98%

Tatiana S. Riegel

I, Tonya
90%

John Cassavetes Award (Best Feature under $500,000)

Dayveon
71%

A Ghost Story
90%

Life and Nothing More
93%

Most Beautiful Island
94%

The Transfiguration
85%

Robert Altman Award (Best Ensemble)

Mudbound
97%

Truer Than Fiction Award

Shevaun Mizrahi

Distant Constellation
84%

Jonathan Olshefski

Quest
98%

Jeff Unay

The Cage Fighter
94%

Someone to Watch Award

Dayveon

Justin Chon

Gook

Super Dark Times

Bonnie Award

•  So Yong Kim
• Lynn Shelton
• Chloé Zhao

Piaget Producers Award

• Giulia Caruso & Ki Jin Kim
• Ben LeClair
• Summer Shelton