2017 Awards Season: Independent Spirit Awards Winners

March 3, 2018

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

• Get Out

BEST FIRST FEATURE

• Matt Spicer for Ingrid Goes West

BEST DIRECTOR

• Jordan Peele for Get Out

BEST SCREENPLAY

• Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY

• Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani for The Big Sick

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD
(Given to the best feature made for under $500,000)

• Life and Nothing More

BEST FEMALE LEAD

• Frances McDormand in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

BEST MALE LEAD

• Timothée Chalamet in Call Me by Your Name

BEST SUPPORTING MALE

• Sam Rockwell in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE

• Allison Janney in I, Tonya

BEST DOCUMENTARY

• Faces Places

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

• A Fantastic Woman (Chile)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Sayombhu Mukdeeprom for Call Me by Your Name

BEST EDITING

• Tatiana S. Riegel for I, Tonya

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD (Given to one film's director, casting director and ensemble cast)

• Mudbound

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

• Justin Chon for Gook

Truer Than Fiction Award is presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features who has not yet received significant attention.

• Jonathan Olshefski for Quest

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.

- C.S.Strowbridge

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