‘Call Me By Your Name’ Leads Independent Spirit Award Nominations

Film Independent have announced the nominations for their Independent Spirit Awards 2018. The nominees were revealed at an event hosted by actresses Lily Collins and Tessa Thompson at an event in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Nov 21.

Call Me By Your Name walked away with winning 6 nominations — included in categories for Best Feature, Director, Editing, Cinematography, Actor for Timothée Chalamet and Supporting Actor for Armie Hammer. Jordan Peele’s Get Out and the Safdie Brothers’ Good Time both left with 5 nods each, while Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird scored 4 nominations. Based on the films just mentioned, and the other two nominated for Best Feature, – Sean Baker’s The Florida Project and Chloé Zhao’s The Rider – this is the year to celebrate auteur filmmaking.

Nick Kroll and John Mulaney host the 33rd Independent Spirit Awards on March 3, 2018 live on IFC.

Check out the full list of nominations below:

Best Feature
Call Me by Your Name
The Florida Project 
Get Out   
Lady Bird  
The Rider     

Best First Feature
Columbus
Ingrid Goes West
Menashe
Oh Lucy!
Patti Cake$

John Cassavetes Award: (films made for under $500,000)
Dayveon
A Ghost Story
Life And Nothing More
Most Beautiful Island
The Transfiguration

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: director, casting director, and ensemble cast

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

Inaugural Bonnie Award: 
Bonnie Tiburzi Caputo joined American Airlines in 1973 at age 24, becoming the first female pilot to fly for a major U.S. airline. In her honor, the inaugural Bonnie Award will recognize a mid-career female director with a $50,000 unrestricted grant, sponsored by American Airlines.

So Yong Kim
Lynn Shelton
Chloé Zhao

22nd Jeep Truer Than Fiction Award:
The 23rd annual Truer Than Fiction Award, funded by the Jeep brand, is presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features who has not yet received significant recognition. The award includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant funded by the Jeep brand.

Shevaun Mizrahi, Director of Distant Constellation        
Jonathan Olshefski, Director of Quest       
Jeff Unay, Director of The Cage Fighter

23rd Annual Kiehl’s Someone to Watch Award:
The 24th annual Someone to Watch Award, funded by Kiehl’s Since 1851, 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 Since 1851.

Amman Abbasi, Director of Dayveon
Justin Chon, Director of Gook
Kevin Phillips, Director of Super Dark Times

20th Annual Piaget Producers Award:
The 21st annual Producers Award, funded by Piaget, 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.

Giulia Caruso & Ki Jin Kim
Ben LeClair
Summer Shelton