33rd Independent Spirit Awards

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The 33rd Film Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best independent films of 2017, were presented by Film Independent on March 3, 2018.^[1]^[2] The nominations were announced on November 21, 2017 by actresses Lily Collins and Tessa Thompson.^[3]^[4] The ceremony was televised in the United States by IFC, taking place inside its usual tent setting on a beach in Santa Monica, California. Nick Kroll and John Mulaney returned to host the ceremony for the second time.^[5]

Winners and nominees

Best Feature	Best Director
Get Out Call Me by Your Name The Florida Project Lady Bird The Rider	Jordan Peele – Get Out Sean Baker – The Florida Project Jonas Carpignano – A Ciambra Luca Guadagnino – Call Me by Your Name Safdie brothers – Good Time Chloé Zhao – The Rider
Best Male Lead	Best Female Lead
*Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name* as Elio Perlman** Harris Dickinson – Beach Rats as Frankie James Franco – The Disaster Artist as Tommy Wiseau Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out as Chris Washington Robert Pattinson – Good Time as Constantine "Connie" Nikas	*Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri* as Mildred Hayes** Salma Hayek – Beatriz at Dinner as Beatriz Margot Robbie – I, Tonya as Tonya Harding Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird as Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson Shinobu Terajima – Oh Lucy! as Setsuko Kawashima / Lucy Regina Williams – Life and Nothing More as Regina
Best Supporting Male	Best Supporting Female
*Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri* as Jason Dixon** Nnamdi Asomugha – Crown Heights as Carl "KC" King Armie Hammer – Call Me by Your Name as Oliver Barry Keoghan – The Killing of a Sacred Deer as Martin Benny Safdie – Good Time as Nick Nikas	*Allison Janney – I, Tonya* as LaVona Golden** Holly Hunter – The Big Sick as Beth Gardner Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird as Marion McPherson Lois Smith – Marjorie Prime as Marjorie Prime Taliah Lennice Webster – Good Time as Crystal
Best Screenplay	Best First 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	Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani – The Big Sick Kristopher Avedisian, Kyle Espeleta, and Jesse Wakeman – Donald Cried Ingrid Jungermann – Women Who Kill Kogonada – Columbus David Branson Smith and Matt Spicer – Ingrid Goes West
Best First Feature	Best Documentary Feature
Matt Spicer – Ingrid Goes West Atsuko Hirayanagi – Oh Lucy! Geremy Jasper – Patti Cake$ Kogonada – Columbus Joshua Z Weinstein – Menashe	Faces Places The Departure Last Men in Aleppo Motherland Quest
Best Cinematography	Best Editing
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom – Call Me by Your Name Thimios Bakatakis – The Killing of a Sacred Deer Elisha Christian – Columbus Hélène Louvart – Beach Rats Joshua James Richards – The Rider	Tatiana S. Riegel – I, Tonya Ronald Bronstein and Benny Safdie – Good Time Walter Fasano – Call Me by Your Name Alex O'Flinn – The Rider Gregory Plotkin – Get Out
Best International Film
A Fantastic Woman (Una mujer fantástica) ( Chile) BPM (Beats per Minute) ( France) I Am Not a Witch ( United Kingdom) Lady Macbeth ( United Kingdom) Loveless (Nelyubov) ( Russia)

Films with multiple nominations and awards

Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
6	Call Me by Your Name
5	Get Out
5	Good Time
4	Columbus
	Lady Bird
	The Rider
3	I, Tonya
3	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2	Beach Rats
	Beatriz at Dinner
	The Big Sick
	Dayveon
	The Florida Project
	Ingrid Goes West
	The Killing of a Sacred Deer
	Life and Nothing More
	The Lovers
	Oh Lucy!
	Quest

Films that won multiple awards
Awards	Film
2	Call Me by Your Name
	Get Out
	I, Tonya
	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Special awards

John Cassavetes Award

Life and Nothing More
- Dayveon
- A Ghost Story
- Most Beautiful Island
- The Transfiguration

Robert Altman Award

(The award is given to its film director, casting director, and ensemble cast)

Mudbound – Dee Rees, Billy Hopkins, Ashley Ingram, Jonathan Banks, Mary J. Blige, Jason Clarke, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Mitchell, Rob Morgan and Carey Mulligan

Kiehl's Someone to Watch Award

Recognizes a talented filmmaker of singular vision who has not yet received appropriate recognition. The award includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant funded by Kiehl's.

Justin Chon – Gook
- Amman Abbasi – Dayveon
- Kevin Phillips – Super Dark Times

The BONNIE Award

The inaugural award recognizes a mid-career female director with a body of work that demonstrates uniqueness of vision and a groundbreaking approach to filmmaking. The award includes a $50,000 unrestricted grant funded by American Airlines.

Chloé Zhao
- So Yong Kim
- Lynn Shelton

Piaget Producers Award

Honors emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity and vision required to produce quality, independent films. The award includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant funded by Piaget.

Summer Shelton – Keep the Change
- Giulia Caruso and Ki Jin Kim – Columbus
- Ben LeClair – The Lovers

Truer than Fiction Award

Presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features who has not yet received significant recognition. The award includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant.

Jonathan Olshefski – Quest
- Shevaun Mizrahi – Distant Constellation
- Jeff Unay – The Cage Fighter

References

^ Nyren, Erin (March 3, 2018). "2018 Independent Spirit Awards: Winners List (Updating Live)". Variety. Retrieved March 4, 2018.
^ Derschowitz, Jessica (March 3, 2018). "Independent Spirit Awards winners 2018: See the full list". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 4, 2018.
^ Sharf, Zach (November 21, 2017). "2018 Independent Spirit Award Nominations: 'Get Out' and 'Call Me by Your Name' Dominate". IndieWire. Retrieved March 4, 2018.
^ Warren, Matt (October 26, 2017). "Lily Collins and Tessa Thompson to Reveal Spirit Awards Nominees November 21". Film Independent. Retrieved November 14, 2017.
^ Fuster, Jeremy (November 14, 2017). "Nick Kroll and John Mulaney Return to Host 2018 Spirit Awards". TheWrap. Retrieved November 15, 2017.