This morning, the nominations for the 34th Film Independent Spirit Awards were announced at a press conference in Los Angeles. That means two things: 1) Awards Season 2019 has started; 2) I get to start a new spreadsheet. It's the little things in life.
As you will probably know by now, the Film Independent Spirit Awards recognise films made wholly or partly outside the traditional studio system (although there is becoming an increasingly wide overlap between these and the more 'mainstream' awards).
Below is a selection of nominations:
Best Feature
Eighth Grade
First Reformed
If Beale Street Could Talk
Leave No Trace
You Were Never Really Here
Best Director
Debra Granik (Leave No Trace)
Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk)
Tamara Jenkins (Private Life)
Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here)
Paul Schrader (First Reformed)
Best Male Lead
Johh Cho (Searching)
Daveed Diggs (Blindspotting)
Ethan Hawke (First Reformed)
Christian Malheiros (Socrates)
Joaquin Phoenix (You Were Never Really Here)
Best Female Lead
Toni Collette (Hereditary)
Glenn Close (The Wife)
Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade)
Regina Hall (Support The Girls)
Helena Howard (Madeline's Madeline)
Carey Mulligan (Wildfire)
Best Supporting Male
Raul Castillo (We The Animals)
Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman)
Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
Josh Hamilton (Eighth Grade)
John David Washington (Monsters And Men)
Best Supporting Female
Kayli Carter (Private Life)
Tyne Daly (A Bread Factory, Part One)
Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk)
Thomasin McKenzie (Leave No Trace)
J. Smith-Cameron (Nancy)
A very even spread of films getting multiple nominations this year, with Eighth Grade, First Reformed, We The Animals, and You Were Never Really Here with four nominations each.
A few eyebrows may have been raised for the lack of nominations for Roma and The Favourite- they were not eligible for any other categories than Best International Film as the films do not contain 'significant American content'. Considering one's about a family in Mexico City and the other is about eighteenth-century England, they may have a point...
The Film Independent Spirit Awards will be handed out on Saturday 23rd February 2019 (the day before the Academy Awards).
The next Awards Season update is just under three weeks away, when the Golden Globe nominations will be announced on 6th December.
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