2017 Awards Season: Independent Spirit Awards Winners

March 3, 2018

Get Out

The Independent Spirit Awards were handed out tonight, and Get Out was the big winner, sort of. It earned two Awards, including the two most prestigious, awards. However, it wasn’t the only film to pick up two awards tonight.

The categories and winners 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 winners for the three Filmmaker Grant Awards.

Piaget Producers Award

  • Summer Shelton for Keep the Change
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...

  • Get Out won Best Picture and Best Director. Interestingly, the Best Picture winner here has gone on to win Best Picture at the Oscars four years in a row. Maybe this film will be the big winner at tomorrow’s Oscars. It is still a long shot, but this does improve its chances.
  • Call Me by Your Name; I, Tonya; and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri also picked up two awards each. All three of them are practically guaranteed to win at least one Oscar on Sunday.
  • The Big Sick was my favorite movie of 2017, so I’m very happy Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani won for Best First Screenplay.

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Filed under: Awards Season, Get Out, I, Tonya, Call Me by Your Name, The Big Sick, Mudbound, Una mujer fantástica, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Gook, Ingrid Goes West, Lady Bird, Visages villages, Justin Chon, Greta Gerwig, Allison Janney, Frances McDormand, Tatiana S. Riegel, Sam Rockwell, Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Matt Spicer, Jordan Peele, Kumail Nanjiani, Timothée Chalamet, Emily V. Gordon, Jonathan Olshefski