33rd Annual Spirit Awards Nominations

2018 marks the 33rd year of the Spirit Awards, which takes place each year in a beachfront tent next to the world famous Santa Monica Pier. The awards each year are dedicated to independent film makers and the nominations for this year’s awards have just dropped. Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name leads the pack with 6 nominations.

The full list of nominees is as follows:

 

BEST FEATURE

• Call Me by Your Name
  Producers: Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Rodrigo Teixeira, Marco Morabito, James Ivory, Howard Rosenman
• The Florida Project
  Producers: Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch, Kevin Chinoy, Andrew Duncan, Alex Saks, Francesca Silvestri, Shih-Ching Tsou
• Get Out
  Producers: Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr., Sean McKittrick, Jordan Peele
• Lady Bird
  Producers: Eli Bush, Evelyn O’Neill, Scott Rudin
• The Rider
  Producers: Mollye Asher, Bert Hamelinck, Sacha Ben Harroche, Chloé Zhao

BEST FIRST FEATURE

• Columbus
  Director: Kogonada
  Producers: Danielle Renfrew Behrens, Aaron Boyd, Giulia Caruso, Ki Jin Kim, Andrew Miano, Chris Weitz
• Ingrid Goes West
  Director: Matt Spicer
  Producers: Jared Ian Goldman, Adam Mirels, Robert Mirels, Aubrey Plaza, Tim White, Trevor White
• Menashe
  Director/Producer: Joshua Z. Weinstein
  Producers: Yoni Brook, Traci Carlson, Daniel Finkelman, Alex Lipschultz
• Oh Lucy!
  Director/Producer: Atsuko Hirayanagi
  Producers: Jessica Elbaum, Yukie Kito, Han West
• Patti Cake$
  Director: Geremy Jasper
  Producers: Chris Columbus, Michael Gottwald, Dan Janvey, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Noah Stahl, Rodrigo Teixeira

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD 

• Dayveon
  Writer/Director/Producer: Amman Abbasi
  Writer: Steven Reneau
  Producers: Lachion Buckingham, Alexander Uhlmann
• A Ghost Story
  Writer/Director: David Lowery
  Producers: Adam Donaghey, Toby Halbrooks, James M. Johnston
• Life and nothing more
  Writer/Director: Antonio Méndez Esparza
  Producers: Amadeo Hernández Bueno, Alvaro Portanet Hernández, Pedro Hernández Santos
• Most Beautiful Island
  Writer/Director/Producer: Ana Asensio
  Producers: Larry Fessenden, Noah Greenberg, Chadd Harbold, Jenn Wexler
• The Transfiguration
  Writer/Director: Michael O’Shea
  Producer: Susan Leber

BEST DIRECTOR

• Sean Baker
  The Florida Project
• Jonas Carpignano
  A Ciambra
• Luca Guadagnino
  Call Me by Your Name
• Jordan Peele
  Get Out
• Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie
  Good Time
• Chloé Zhao
  The Rider

BEST SCREENPLAY

• Greta Gerwig
  Lady Bird
• Azazel Jacobs
  The Lovers
• Martin McDonagh
  Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Jordan Peele
  Get Out
• Mike White
  Beatriz at Dinner

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY

• Kris Avedisian
  Story By: Kyle Espeleta, Jesse Wakeman
  Donald Cried
• Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani
  The Big Sick
• Ingrid Jungermann
  Women Who Kill
• Kogonada
  Columbus
• David Branson Smith, Matt Spicer
  Ingrid Goes West

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Thimios Bakatakis
  The Killing of a Sacred Deer
• Elisha Christian
  Columbus
• Hélène Louvart
  Beach Rats
• Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
  Call Me by Your Name
• Joshua James Richards
  The Rider

BEST EDITING

• Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie
  Good Time
• Walter Fasano
  Call Me by Your Name
• Alex O’Flinn
  The Rider
• Gregory Plotkin
  Get Out
• Tatiana S. Riegel
  I, Tonya

BEST FEMALE LEAD

• Salma Hayek
  Beatriz at Dinner
• Frances McDormand
  Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Margot Robbie
  I, Tonya
• Saoirse Ronan
  Lady Bird
• Shinobu Terajima
  Oh Lucy!
• Regina Williams
  Life and nothing more

BEST MALE LEAD

• Timothée Chalamet
  Call Me by Your Name
• Harris Dickinson
  Beach Rats
• James Franco
  The Disaster Artist
• Daniel Kaluuya
  Get Out
• Robert Pattinson
  Good Time

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE

• Holly Hunter
  The Big Sick
• Allison Janney
  I, Tonya
• Laurie Metcalf
  Lady Bird
• Lois Smith
  Marjorie Prime
• Taliah Lennice Webster
  Good Time

BEST SUPPORTING MALE

• Nnamdi Asomugha
  Crown Heights
• Armie Hammer
  Call Me by Your Name
• Barry Keoghan
  The Killing of a Sacred Deer
• Sam Rockwell
  Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Benny Safdie
  Good Time

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD

• Mudbound
  Director: Dee Rees
  Casting Directors: Billy Hopkins, Ashley Ingram
  Ensemble Cast: Jonathan Banks, Mary J. Blige, Jason Clarke, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Mitchell, Rob Morgan, Carey Mulligan

BEST DOCUMENTARY 

• The Departure
  Director/Producer: Lana Wilson
• Faces Places
  Directors: Agnés Varda, JR
  Producer: Rosalie Varda
• Last Men in Aleppo
  Director: Feras Fayyad
  Producers: Kareem Abeed, Søeren Steen Jespersen, Stefan Kloos
• Motherland
  Director/Producer: Ramona S. Diaz
  Producer: Rey Cuerdo
• Quest
  Director: Jonathan Olshefski
  Producer: Sabrina Schmidt Gordon

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

• BPM (Beats Per Minute)
  France
  Director: Robin Campillo
• A Fantastic Woman
  Chile
  Director: Sebastián Lelio
• I Am Not a Witch
  Zambia
  Director: Rungano Nyoni
• Lady Macbeth
  U.K.
  Director: William Oldroyd
• Loveless
  Russia
  Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev

BONNIE AWARD

• So Yong Kim
  Lynn Shelton
  Chloé Zhao

JEEP TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD 

• Shevaun Mizrahi
  Director of Distant Constellation
• Jonathan Olshefski
  Director of Quest
• Jeff Unay
  Director of The Cage Fighter

KIEHL’S SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD 

• Amman Abbasi
  Director of Dayveon
• Justin Chon
  Director of Gook
• Kevin Phillips
  Director of Super Dark Times

PIAGET PRODUCERS AWARD 

• Giulia Caruso & Ki Jin Kim
• Ben LeClair
• Summer Shelton

The awards will take place Saturday, March 3rd and will be hosted once again by Nick Kroll and John Mulaney.