Independent Spirit Award Nominations!

As always, strange snubs abound. Boosts given to Birdman, Boyhood and Selma as far as the Best Picture race. Very happy to see Jenny Slate nominated! What a fantastic performance! These are, as usual, held the night before the Oscars.

BEST FEATURE:

Birdman

Boyhood

Love Is Strange

Selma

Whiplash

BEST DIRECTOR:

Damien Chazelle - Whiplash

Ava Duvernay - Selma

Alejandro G. Inarritu - Birdman

Richard Linklater - Boyhood

David Zellner - Kumiko The Treasure Hunter

BEST SCREENPLAY:

Big Eyes

Love Is Strange

A Most Violent Year

Nightcrawler

Only Lovers Left Alive

BEST FIRST FEATURE:

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night

Dear White People

Nightcrawler

Obvious Child

She's Lost Control

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY:

Appropriate Behavior

Dear White People

Little Accidents

The One I Love

She's Lost Control

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD:

Blue Ruin

It Felt Like Love

Land Ho!

Man From Reno

Test

BEST FEMALE LEAD:

Marion Cotillard - The Immigrant

Rinko Kikuchi - Kumiko The Treasure Hunter

Julianne Moore - Still Alice

Jenny Slate - Obvious Child

Tilda Swinton - Only Lovers Left Alive

BEST MALE LEAD:

Andre Benjamin - Jimi: All Is By My Side

Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler

Michael Keaton - Birdman

John Lithgow - Love Is Strange

David Oyelowo - Selma

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE:

Patricia Arquette - Boyhood

Jessica Chastain - A Most Violent Year

Carmen Ejogo - Selma

Andrea Suarez Paz - Stand Clear of the Closing Doors

Emma Stone - Birdman

BEST SUPPORTING MALE:

Riz Ahmed - Nightcrawler

Ethan Hawke - Boyhood

Alfred Molina - Love Is Strange

Edward Norton - Birdman

J.K. Simmons - Whiplash

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Birdman

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

The Immigrant

It Felt Like Love

Selma

BEST EDITING:

Boyhood

The Guest

A Most Violent Year

Nightcrawler

Whiplash

BEST DOCUMENTARY:

20,000 Days on Earth

Citizenfour

Stray Dog

The Salt of the Earth

Virunga

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM:

Force Majeure

Ida

Leviathan

Mommy

Norte, the End of History

Under the Skin

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD:

Inherent Vice

SPECIAL DISTINCTION AWARD:

Foxcatcher

18th ANNUAL PIAGET PRODUCERS AWARD:

Chad Burris

Elisabeth Holm

Chris Ohlson

21st ANNUAL KIEKL'S SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD:

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

H.

The Retrieval

20th ANNUAL LENSCRAFTERS TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD:

Approaching the Elephant

Evolution of a Criminal

The Kill Team

The Last Season