2017 - Awards Season: Independent Spirit Awards - Nominations

November 22, 2017

Call Me by Your Name

The Independent Spirit Awards nominations were announced yesterday and thus the 2017 Awards Season begins. The movie with the most nominations is Call Me by Your Name, which opens on Friday. This is amazingly good timing. It’s not the only film that should get a financial boost.

The categories and nominees are...

BEST FEATURE

BEST FIRST FEATURE

BEST DIRECTOR

BEST SCREENPLAY

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD
(Given to the best feature made for under $500,000)

BEST FEMALE LEAD

BEST MALE LEAD

BEST SUPPORTING MALE

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE

BEST DOCUMENTARY

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

BEST EDITING

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD (Given to one film's director, casting director and ensemble cast)

Also announced were the nominees for the three Filmmaker Grant Awards.

Piaget Producers Award

Acura Someone to Watch Award

Truer Than Fiction Award is presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features who has not yet received significant attention.

Notes and Reactions...

  • Financially, this is an interesting list. The film with the most nominations, Call Me by Your Name, opens this Friday. Two of the films tearing up the theater average chart, Lady Bird and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, both earned multiple nominations. So did Good Times and Beach Rats, which just hit the home market.
  • Get Out picked up five nominations. On the one hand, it is arguably the best wide release of the year, so it is not a surprise it did so well. On the other hand, it is a horror movie and these rarely find success during Awards Season.
  • My favorite movie on this list, perhaps of the year, is The Big Sick, so I’m happy it got some recognition. That said, two nominations isn’t enough.

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