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| If Beale Street Could Talk |
Barry Levinson's If Beale Street Could Talk won the best feature award at the Independent Spirit Awards last night. The film, which tells the story of a pregnant woman trying to prove her lover's innocence, also won the best director award and saw Regina Hall pick up the best supporting actress gong - a feat she'll be hoping to repeat at tomorrow's Oscars.
Boots Riley won the award for best first feature for his comedy Sorry To Bother You, while Bo Burnham picked up the best first screenplay for Eighth Grade.
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| Richard E Grant and Melissa McCarthy in Can You Ever Forgive Me? |
Ethan Hawke was named best actor for his role as a troubled priest in Paul Schrader's First Reformed, while Glenn Close took home the best actress award for her role as a woman in the shadow of her husband in The Wife. Richard E Grant, was named best supporting actor for his role in forgery comedy drama Can You Ever Forgive Me. Like Hall, all three stars will doubtless be hoping to repeat the achievement at tomorrow's Oscars.
No such anticipation for Morgan Neville's Won't You Be My Neighbor - which took home the best documentary accolade - as the film about US children's TV presenter Fred Rogers hasn't been short-listed by the Academy.
The best international film award went to Alfonso Cuaron's Roma , which is in the running for multiple Oscars, including best film and best cinematography.
The Spirit Awards, which were hosted by Aubrey Plaza, are voted on by Film Independent’s 6200 members. To be eligible, movies must be produced in the US for less than $20 million.
The full list of winners is below:
Best Feature
- Eighth Grade
- First Reformed
- WINNER: If Beale Street Could Talk
- Leave No Trace
- You Were Never Really Here
Best First Feature
- Hereditary
- WINNER: Sorry To Bother You
- The Tale
- We The Animals
- Wildlife
Best Female Lead
- WINNER: Glenn Close, The Wife
- Toni Collette, Hereditary
- Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade
- Regina Hall, Support The Girls
- Helena Howard, Madeline’s Madeline
- Carey Mulligan, Wildlife
Best Male Lead
- John Cho, Searching
- Daveed Diggs, Blindspotting
- WINNER: Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
- Christian Malheiros, Socrates
- Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here
Best Director
- Debra Granik, Leave No Trace
- WINNER: Barry Jenkins, If Beale Street Could Talk
- Tamara Jenkins, Private Life
- Lynne Ramsay, You Were Never Really Here
- Paul Schrader, First Reformed
Best Documentary
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening
- Minding The Gap
- Of Fathers And Sons
- On Her Shoulders
- Shirkers
- WINNER: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Best Supporting Male
- Raúl Castillo, We The Animals
- Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman
- WINNER: Richard E Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Josh Hamilton, Eighth Grade
- John David Washington, Monsters And Men
Best Screenplay
- Richard Glatzer (Writer/Story By), Rebecca Lenkiewicz & Wash Westmoreland, Colette
- WINNER: Nicole Holofcener & Jeff Whitty, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Tamara Jenkins, Private Life
- Boots Riley, Sorry To Bother You
- Paul Schrader, First Reformed
Robert Altman Award
- WINNER: Suspiria
Best First Screenplay
- WINNER: Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade
- Christina Choe, Nancy
- Cory Finley, Thoroughbreds
- Jennifer Fox, The Tale
- Quinn Shephard (Writer/Story By) and Laurie Shephard (Story By), Blame
Best Editing
- WINNER: Joe Bini, You Were Never Really Here
- Keiko Deguchi, Brian A. Kates & Jeremiah Zagar, We The Animals
- Luke Dunkley, Nick Fenton, Chris Gill & Julian Hart, American Animals
- Anne Fabini, Alex Hall and Gary Levy, The Tale
Bonnie Award - A $50,000 (£39,000) grant given to a mid-career female director
- WINNER: Debra Granik
- Tamara Jenkins
- Karyn Kusama
Best International Film
- Burning (South Korea)
- The Favourite (UK)
- Happy As Lazzaro (Italy)
- WINNER: Roma (Mexico)
- Shoplifters (Japan)
John Cassavetes Award - given to the best feature made for less than ($500,000) £390,000
- A Bread Factory
- WINNER: En El Septimo Dia
- Never Goin’ Back
- Socrates
- Thunder Road
Best Supporting Female
- Kayli Carter, Private Life
- Tyne Daly, A Bread Factory
- WINNER: Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
- Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, Leave No Trace
- J Smith-Cameron, Nancy
Best Cinematography
- Ashley Connor, Madeline’s Madeline
- Diego Garcia, Wildlife
- Benjamin Loeb, Mandy
- WINNER: Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Suspiria
- Zak Mulligan, We The Animals
Producers Award
- Jonathan Duffy and Kelly Williams
- Gabrielle Nadig
- WINNER: Shrihari Sathe
Someone To Watch Award
- WINNER: Alex Moratto, director of Socrates
- Ioana Uricaru. director of Lemonade
- Jeremiah Zagar, director of We The Animals
Truer Than Fiction Award
- Alexandria Bombach, director of On Her Shoulders
- WINNER: Bing Liu, director of Minding The Gap
- RaMell Ross, director of Hale County This Morning, This Evening
