33rd Independent Spirit Awards

33rd Independent Spirit Awards
33rd Independent Spirit Awards
Awarded for	Best in independent film
Date	March 3, 2018
Site	Santa Monica Pier; Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Hosted by	Nick Kroll; John Mulaney
Highlights
Best Feature	Get Out
Most awards	Call Me by Your Name, Get Out, I, Tonya, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2)
Most nominations	Call Me by Your Name (6)
Television coverage
Channel	IFC
	← 32nd; Independent Spirit Awards; 34th →;

The 33rd Film Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best independent films of 2017, were presented by Film Independent on March 3, 2018.^[1]^[2] The nominations were announced on November 21, 2017 by actresses Lily Collins and Tessa Thompson.^[3]^[4] The ceremony was televised in the United States by IFC, taking place inside its usual tent setting on a beach in Santa Monica, California. Nick Kroll and John Mulaney returned to host the ceremony for the second time.^[5]

Winners and nominees

Best Feature	Best Director
Get Out Call Me by Your Name The Florida Project Lady Bird The Rider	Jordan Peele – Get Out Sean Baker – The Florida Project Jonas Carpignano – A Ciambra Luca Guadagnino – Call Me by Your Name Safdie brothers – Good Time Chloé Zhao – The Rider
Best Male Lead	Best Female Lead
*Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name* as Elio Perlman** Harris Dickinson – Beach Rats as Frankie James Franco – The Disaster Artist as Tommy Wiseau Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out as Chris Washington Robert Pattinson – Good Time as Constantine "Connie" Nikas	*Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri* as Mildred Hayes** Salma Hayek – Beatriz at Dinner as Beatriz Margot Robbie – I, Tonya as Tonya Harding Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird as Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson Shinobu Terajima – Oh Lucy! as Setsuko Kawashima / Lucy Regina Williams – Life and Nothing More as Regina
Best Supporting Male	Best Supporting Female
*Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri* as Jason Dixon** Nnamdi Asomugha – Crown Heights as Carl "KC" King Armie Hammer – Call Me by Your Name as Oliver Barry Keoghan – The Killing of a Sacred Deer as Martin Benny Safdie – Good Time as Nick Nikas	*Allison Janney – I, Tonya* as LaVona Golden** Holly Hunter – The Big Sick as Beth Gardner Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird as Marion McPherson Lois Smith – Marjorie Prime as Marjorie Prime Taliah Lennice Webster – Good Time as Crystal
Best Screenplay	Best First Screenplay
Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird Azazel Jacobs – The Lovers Martin McDonagh – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Jordan Peele – Get Out Mike White – Beatriz at Dinner	Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani – The Big Sick Kristopher Avedisian, Kyle Espeleta, and Jesse Wakeman – Donald Cried Ingrid Jungermann – Women Who Kill Kogonada – Columbus David Branson Smith and Matt Spicer – Ingrid Goes West
Best First Feature	Best Documentary Feature
Matt Spicer – Ingrid Goes West Atsuko Hirayanagi – Oh Lucy! Geremy Jasper – Patti Cake$ Kogonada – Columbus Joshua Z Weinstein – Menashe	Faces Places The Departure Last Men in Aleppo Motherland Quest
Best Cinematography	Best Editing
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom – Call Me by Your Name Thimios Bakatakis – The Killing of a Sacred Deer Elisha Christian – Columbus Hélène Louvart – Beach Rats Joshua James Richards – The Rider	Tatiana S. Riegel – I, Tonya Ronald Bronstein and Benny Safdie – Good Time Walter Fasano – Call Me by Your Name Alex O'Flinn – The Rider Gregory Plotkin – Get Out
Best International Film
A Fantastic Woman (Una mujer fantástica) ( Chile) BPM (Beats per Minute) ( France) I Am Not a Witch ( United Kingdom) Lady Macbeth ( United Kingdom) Loveless (Nelyubov) ( Russia)

Films with multiple nominations and awards

Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
6	Call Me by Your Name
5	Get Out
5	Good Time
4	Columbus
	Lady Bird
	The Rider
3	I, Tonya
3	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2	Beach Rats
	Beatriz at Dinner
	The Big Sick
	Dayveon
	The Florida Project
	Ingrid Goes West
	The Killing of a Sacred Deer
	Life and Nothing More
	The Lovers
	Oh Lucy!
	Quest

Films that won multiple awards
Awards	Film
2	Call Me by Your Name
	Get Out
	I, Tonya
	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Special awards

John Cassavetes Award

Life and Nothing More
- Dayveon
- A Ghost Story
- Most Beautiful Island
- The Transfiguration

Robert Altman Award

(The award is given to its film director, casting director, and ensemble cast)

Mudbound – Dee Rees, Billy Hopkins, Ashley Ingram, Jonathan Banks, Mary J. Blige, Jason Clarke, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Mitchell, Rob Morgan and Carey Mulligan

Kiehl's Someone to Watch Award

Recognizes a talented filmmaker of singular vision who has not yet received appropriate recognition. The award includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant funded by Kiehl's.

Justin Chon – Gook
- Amman Abbasi – Dayveon
- Kevin Phillips – Super Dark Times

The BONNIE Award

The inaugural award recognizes a mid-career female director with a body of work that demonstrates uniqueness of vision and a groundbreaking approach to filmmaking. The award includes a $50,000 unrestricted grant funded by American Airlines.

Chloé Zhao
- So Yong Kim
- Lynn Shelton

Piaget Producers Award

Honors emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity and vision required to produce quality, independent films. The award includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant funded by Piaget.

Summer Shelton – Keep the Change
- Giulia Caruso and Ki Jin Kim – Columbus
- Ben LeClair – The Lovers

Truer than Fiction Award

Presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features who has not yet received significant recognition. The award includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant.

Jonathan Olshefski – Quest
- Shevaun Mizrahi – Distant Constellation
- Jeff Unay – The Cage Fighter

References

^ Nyren, Erin (March 3, 2018). "2018 Independent Spirit Awards: Winners List (Updating Live)". Variety. Retrieved March 4, 2018.
^ Derschowitz, Jessica (March 3, 2018). "Independent Spirit Awards winners 2018: See the full list". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 4, 2018.
^ Sharf, Zach (November 21, 2017). "2018 Independent Spirit Award Nominations: 'Get Out' and 'Call Me by Your Name' Dominate". IndieWire. Retrieved March 4, 2018.
^ Warren, Matt (October 26, 2017). "Lily Collins and Tessa Thompson to Reveal Spirit Awards Nominees November 21". Film Independent. Retrieved November 14, 2017.
^ Fuster, Jeremy (November 14, 2017). "Nick Kroll and John Mulaney Return to Host 2018 Spirit Awards". TheWrap. Retrieved November 15, 2017.

External links

Official website

[1] Nyren, Erin (March 3, 2018). "2018 Independent Spirit Awards: Winners List (Updating Live)". Variety. Retrieved March 4, 2018.

[2] Derschowitz, Jessica (March 3, 2018). "Independent Spirit Awards winners 2018: See the full list". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 4, 2018.

[3] Sharf, Zach (November 21, 2017). "2018 Independent Spirit Award Nominations: 'Get Out' and 'Call Me by Your Name' Dominate". IndieWire. Retrieved March 4, 2018.

[4] Warren, Matt (October 26, 2017). "Lily Collins and Tessa Thompson to Reveal Spirit Awards Nominees November 21". Film Independent. Retrieved November 14, 2017.

[5] Fuster, Jeremy (November 14, 2017). "Nick Kroll and John Mulaney Return to Host 2018 Spirit Awards". TheWrap. Retrieved November 15, 2017.

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