Saturday, February 25, 2017

Independent Spirit Award Winners!


BEST FEATURE: MOONLIGHT
BEST DIRECTOR: BARRY JENKINS - MOONLIGHT
BEST MALE LEAD: CASEY AFFLECK - MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
BEST FEMALE LEAD: ISABELLE HUPPERT - ELLE
BEST SUPPORTING MALE: BEN FOSTER - HELL OR HIGH WATER
BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE: MOLLY SHANNON - OTHER PEOPLE
BEST SCREENPLAY: MOONLIGHT - BARRY JENKINS AND TARELL ALVIN MCCRANEY
BEST FIRST FEATURE: THE WITCH
BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY: THE WITCH - ROBERT EGGERS
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: MOONLIGHT
BEST EDITING: MOONLIGHT
BEST DOCUMENTARY: O.J.: MADE IN AMERICA
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM: TONI ERDMANN
ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD: MOONLIGHT
20TH ANNUAL PIAGET PRODUCERS AWARD: JORDANA MOLLICK
23RD ANNUAL KIEHL'S SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD: ANNA ROSE HOLMER - THE FITS
22ND TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD: NANFU WANG
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD: SPA NIGHT


A fun, breezy ceremony that wasn't as political as expected. Nick Kroll and John Mulaney did a good job as hosts. Their joke about Steve Bannon looking like Nick Offerman drowned was hilarious. It's nice that most of the winners were actual indies and not $15m movies featuring big stars taking pay cuts. A24 cleaned up tonight. Molly Shannon's speech was terrific, and Casey Affleck improved a lot. Imagine a Molly Shannon Oscar speech. God damn it, I wish more people saw Other People. And, of course, I'm very happy The Witch won something this season.

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