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Awards for 2016

Independent Spirit Award

Best Supporting Male

WINNER

Beasts of No Nation: Idris Elba

NOMINEES

Results: Kevin Corrigan
99 Homes: Michael Shannon
Love & Mercy: Paul Dano
Bone Tomahawk: Richard Jenkins

Best Supporting Female

WINNER

Tangerine: Mya Taylor

NOMINEES

James White: Cynthia Nixon
Anomalisa: Jennifer Jason Leigh
Glass Chin: Marin Ireland
H.: Robin Bartlett

Best Director

WINNER

Spotlight: Tom McCarthy

NOMINEES

Beasts of No Nation: Cary Fukunaga
Anomalisa: Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson
It Follows: David Robert Mitchell
Tangerine: Sean Baker
Carol: Todd Haynes

Best Screenplay

WINNER

Spotlight: Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer

NOMINEES

Anomalisa: Charlie Kaufman
The End of the Tour: Donald Margulies
Carol: Phyllis Nagy
Bone Tomahawk: S. Craig Zahler

Best First Screenplay

WINNER

Room: Emma Donoghue

NOMINEES

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl: Jesse Andrews
The Mend: John Magary, Russell Harbaugh, Myna Joseph
Mediterranea: Jonas Carpignano
The Diary of a Teenage Girl: Marielle Heller

Best Cinematography

WINNER

Carol: Edward Lachman

NOMINEES

Beasts of No Nation: Cary Fukunaga
Songs My Brothers Taught Me: Joshua James Richards
It Follows: Mike Gioulakis
Meadowland: Reed Morano

Best Editing

WINNER

Spotlight: Tom McArdle

NOMINEES

It Follows: Julio Perez IV
Dirty Hands: Kristan Sprague
Room: Nathan Nugent
Heaven Knows What: Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie

Best Documentary

WINNER

The Look of Silence: Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sørensen

NOMINEES

(T)ERROR: Lyric R. Cabral, David Felix Sutcliffe, Christopher St. John
Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal: Morgan Neville, Robert Gordon
Heart of a Dog: Laurie Anderson, Dan Janvey
Meru: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Shannon Ethridge
The Russian Woodpecker: Chad Gracia, Ram Devineni, Mike Lerner

Best Female Lead

WINNER

Room: Brie Larson

NOMINEES

The Diary of a Teenage Girl: Bel Powley
Carol: Cate Blanchett
Tangerine: Kitana Kiki Rodriguez
Carol: Rooney Mara

Best First Feature

WINNER

The Diary of a Teenage Girl: Marielle Heller, Miranda Bailey, Anne Carey, Bert Hamelinck, Madeline Samit

NOMINEES

James White: Josh Mond, Max Born, Antonio Campos, Sean Durkin, Melody C. Roscher, Eric Schultz
Dirty Hands: Josef Kubota Wladyka, Elena Greenlee, Márcia Mayer
Mediterranea: Jonas Carpignano, Jason Michael Berman, Chris Columbus, Jon Coplon, Christoph Daniel, Andrew Kortschak, John Lesher, Ryan Andrej Lough, Justin Nappi, Alain Peyrollaz, Gwyn Sannia, Marc Schmidheiny, Victor Shapiro, Ryan Zacarias
Songs My Brothers Taught Me: Chloé Zhao, Mollye Asher, Nina Yang Bongiovi, Angela C. Lee, Forest Whitaker

Best International Film

WINNER

Son of Saul: László Nemes
Hungary

NOMINEES

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence: Roy Andersson
Sweden
Embrace of the Serpent: Ciro Guerra
Colombia
Girlhood: Céline Sciamma
France
Mustang: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Turkey

Best Feature

WINNER

Spotlight: Blye Pagon Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin, Michael Sugar

NOMINEES

Anomalisa: Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman, Dino Stamatopoulos, Rosa Tran
Beasts of No Nation: Daniel Crown, Idris Elba, Cary Fukunaga, Amy Kaufman, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Riva Marker
Carol: Elizabeth Karlsen, Christine Vachon, Stephen Woolley
Tangerine: Sean Baker, Karrie Cox, Marcus Cox, Darren Dean, Shih-Ching Tsou

Best Male Lead

WINNER

Beasts of No Nation: Abraham Attah

NOMINEES

Mississippi Grind: Ben Mendelsohn
James White: Christopher Abbott
The End of the Tour: Jason Segel
Mediterranea: Koudous Seihon

John Cassavetes Award

WINNER

Krisha: Trey Edward Shults, Justin R. Chan, Chase Joliet, Wilson Smith

NOMINEES

Advantageous: Jennifer Phang, Jacqueline Kim, Robert M. Chang, Ken Jeong, Moon Molson, Theresa Navarro
Christmas, Again: Charles Poekel
Heaven Knows What: Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie, Ronald Bronstein, Oscar Boyson, Sebastian Bear-McClard
Out of My Hand: Takeshi Fukunaga, Donari Braxton, Mike Fox

Robert Altman Award

WINNER

Spotlight: Tom McCarthy, Kerry Barden, Paul Schnee, Billy Crudup, Brian d'Arcy James, Paul Guilfoyle, Neal Huff, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo, Liev Schreiber, Jamey Sheridan, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci, Michael Cyril Creighton

Truer Than Fiction Award

WINNER

Incorruptible: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

NOMINEES

A Woman Like Me: Alex Sichel, Elizabeth Giamatti
Among the Believers: Hemal Trivedi, Mohammed Naqvi

Producers Award

WINNER

Mel Eslyn

NOMINEES

Darren Dean
Rebecca Green, Laura D. Smith

Someone to Watch Award

WINNER

King Jack: Felix Thompson

NOMINEES

Songs My Brothers Taught Me: Chloé Zhao
God Bless the Child: Robert Machoian, Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck

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