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.