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FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

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    Independent Spirit Award

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    Best Cinematography

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Kafka

      6.8 (11K)
      Walt Lloyd
    • [object Object]

      Homicide

      6.9 (8.7K)
      Roger Deakins
    • [object Object]

      My Own Private Idaho

      6.9 (65K)
      Eric Alan Edwards
      John J. Campbell
    • [object Object]

      Rambling Rose

      6.5 (5.8K)
      Johnny E. Jensen
    • [object Object]

      Pastime

      6.6 (431)
      Tom Richmond

    Best Director

    • Martha Coolidge at an event for Material Girls (2006)
      Winner
      • Martha Coolidge
      • Rambling Rose
    • Todd Haynes
      • Todd Haynes
      • Poison
    • Richard Linklater at an event for Me and Orson Welles (2008)
      • Richard Linklater
      • Slacker
    • Gus Van Sant
      • Gus Van Sant
      • My Own Private Idaho
      • Joseph B. Vasquez
      • Hangin' with the Homeboys

    Best Feature

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Rambling Rose

      6.5 (5.8K)
      Renny Harlin
    • [object Object]

      City of Hope

      7.2 (2.9K)
      Sarah Green
      Maggie Renzi
    • [object Object]

      Hangin' with the Homeboys

      6.9 (1.6K)
      Richard Brick
    • [object Object]

      Homicide

      6.9 (8.7K)
      Michael Hausman
      Edward R. Pressman
    • [object Object]

      My Own Private Idaho

      6.9 (65K)
      Laurie Parker

    Best Female Lead

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Impromptu

      6.8 (5.8K)
      Judy Davis
    • [object Object]

      Twenty-One

      5.2 (566)
      Patsy Kensit
    • [object Object]

      The Rapture

      6.3 (6.3K)
      Mimi Rogers
    • [object Object]

      Bright Angel

      5.5 (791)
      Lili Taylor
    • [object Object]

      The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

      7.4 (318)
      Lily Tomlin

    Best Film Music

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      My Own Private Idaho

      6.9 (65K)
      Bill Stafford
    • [object Object]

      Hangin' with the Homeboys

      6.9 (1.6K)
      David Chackler
      Joel Sill
    • [object Object]

      Kiss Me a Killer

      4.3 (140)
      Marcos Loya
      Nigel Holton
    • [object Object]

      A Matter of Degrees

      5.2 (131)
      Jim Dunbar
      Randall Poster
    • [object Object]

      Straight Out of Brooklyn

      5.8 (702)
      Harold Wheeler

    Best First Feature

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Straight Out of Brooklyn

      5.8 (702)
      Matty Rich(director/producer)
    • [object Object]

      Chameleon Street

      6.9 (1.3K)
      Wendell B. Harris Jr.(director/producer)
    • [object Object]

      Poison

      6.3 (5.3K)
      Todd Haynes(director)
      Christine Vachon(producer)
    • [object Object]

      The Rapture

      6.3 (6.3K)
      Michael Tolkin(director)
      Karen Koch(producer)
      Nancy Tenenbaum(producer)
      Nick Wechsler(producer)
    • [object Object]

      Slacker

      7.0 (25K)
      Richard Linklater(director/producer)

    Best Foreign Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      An Angel at My Table

      7.4 (9.2K)
      Jane Campion
      New Zealand.
    • [object Object]

      The Double Life of Véronique

      7.6 (56K)
      Krzysztof Kieslowski
      France/Poland/Norway.
    • [object Object]

      Life Is Sweet

      7.4 (12K)
      Mike Leigh
      UK.
    • [object Object]

      Requiem for Dominic

      7.0 (100)
      Robert Dornhelm
      Austria/France/Romania.
    • [object Object]

      Taxi Blues

      7.3 (2.1K)
      Pavel Lungin
      Soviet Union/France.

    Best Male Lead

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      My Own Private Idaho

      6.9 (65K)
      River Phoenix
    • [object Object]

      Hangin' with the Homeboys

      6.9 (1.6K)
      Doug E. Doug
    • [object Object]

      Rambling Rose

      6.5 (5.8K)
      Robert Duvall
    • [object Object]

      Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

      7.3 (25K)
      Gary Oldman
    • [object Object]

      Pastime

      6.6 (431)
      William Russ

    Best Screenplay

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      My Own Private Idaho

      6.9 (65K)
      Gus Van Sant
    • [object Object]

      Mindwalk

      7.6 (3.4K)
      Floyd Byars
      Fritjof Capra
    • [object Object]

      Kafka

      6.8 (11K)
      Lem Dobbs
    • [object Object]

      The Rapture

      6.3 (6.3K)
      Michael Tolkin
    • [object Object]

      Hangin' with the Homeboys

      6.9 (1.6K)
      Joseph B. Vasquez

    Best Supporting Female

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Rambling Rose

      6.5 (5.8K)
      Diane Ladd
    • [object Object]

      Bright Angel

      5.5 (791)
      Sheila McCarthy
    • [object Object]

      Pastime

      6.6 (431)
      Deirdre O'Connell
    • [object Object]

      Impromptu

      6.8 (5.8K)
      Emma Thompson
    • [object Object]

      Hangin' with the Homeboys

      6.9 (1.6K)
      Mary B. Ward

    Best Supporting Male

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      City of Hope

      7.2 (2.9K)
      David Strathairn
    • [object Object]

      Homicide

      6.9 (8.7K)
      William H. Macy
    • [object Object]

      Queens Logic

      5.7 (1.9K)
      John Malkovich
    • [object Object]

      Straight Out of Brooklyn

      5.8 (702)
      George T. Odom
    • [object Object]

      Pastime

      6.6 (431)
      Glenn Plummer

    Also known as

    • Film Independent's Spirit Awards
    • FINDIE Awards ("Friends of Independents")
    • Independent Spirit Awards

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