34th Annual Spirit Awards Nominations
2019 marks the 34th year of the Film Independent Spirit Awards, which takes place each year in a beachfront tent next to the world-famous Santa Monica Pier. Each year the ceremony is dedicated to independent filmmakers. This year, Tayarisha Poe’s “We the Animals” leads the pack with 5 nominations and Aubrey Plaza will host.
The full list of nominees is as follows:
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 FEMALE LEAD
- 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”
- Ethan Hawke, “First Reformed”
- Christian Malheiros, “Socrates”
- Joaquin Phoenix, “You Were Never Really Here”
BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
- Kayli Carter, “Private Life”
- Tyne Daly, “A Bread Factory”
- Regina King, “If Beale Street Could Talk”
- Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, “Leave No Trace”
- J. Smith-Cameron, “Nancy”
BEST SUPPORTING MALE
- Raúl 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 SCREENPLAY
- Richard Glatzer (Writer/Story By), Rebecca Lenkiewicz & Wash Westmoreland, “Colette”
- Nicole Holofcener & Jeff Whitty, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
- Tamara Jenkins, “Private Life”
- Boots Riley, “Sorry to Bother You”
- Paul Schrader, “First Reformed”
BEST FIRST FEATURE
- “Hereditary”
- “Sorry to Bother You”
- “The Tale”
- “We the Animals”
- “Wildlife”
BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
- 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 DOCUMENTARY
- “Hale County This Morning, This Evening”
- “Minding the Gap”
- “Of Fathers and Sons”
- “On Her Shoulders”
- “Shirkers”
- “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
- “Burning” (South Korea)
- “The Favourite” (United Kingdom)
- “Happy as Lazzaro” (Italy)
- “Roma” (Mexico)
- “Shoplifters” (Japan)
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD
- “A Bread Factory”
- “En El Septimo Dia”
- “Never Going Back”
- “Socrates”
- “Thunder Road”
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
- Ashley Connor, “Madeline’s Madeline”
- Diego Garcia, “Wildlife”
- Benjamin Loeb, “Mandy”
- Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, “Suspiria”
- Zak Mulligan, “We the Animals”
BEST EDITING
- 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”
- Nick Houy, “Mid90s”
ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD
- “Suspiria”
- TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD
- Alexandria Bombach, “On Her Shoulders”
- Bing Liu, “Minding the Gap”
- RaMell Ross, “Hale County This Morning, This Evening”
SOMEONE TO WATCH
- Alex Moratto, “Socrates”
- Ioana Uricaru, “Lemonade”
- Jeremiah Zagar, “We the Animals”
- PRODUCERS AWARD
- Jonathan Duffy and Kelly Williams
- Gabrielle Nadig
- Shrihari Sathe
BONNIE AWARD
- Debra Granik
- Tamara Jenkins
- Karyn Kusama
The Spirit Awards will air live on IFC on February 23, 2019, at 2 PST/5 EST. Let me know in the comments who you’re rooting for!