By Matt Neglia
The Film Independent Spirit Awards have announced their nominations for the best in independent film for 2018. The winners will be announced on February 23rd 2019.
Click below to see the nominations.
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 Screenplay
Colette
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Private Life
Sorry To Bother You
First Reformed
Best First Feature
Hereditary
Sorry To Bother You
The Tale
We The Animals
Wildlife
Best First Screenplay
Eighth Grade
Nancy
Thoroughbreds
The Tale
Blame
Best Cinematography
Madeline’s Madeline
Wildlife
Mandy
Suspiria
We The Animals
Best Editing
You Were Never Really Here
We The Animals
American Animals
The Tale
Mid90s
John Cassavetes Award
A Bread Factory
En El Septimo Dia
Never Going’ Back
Socrates
Thunder Road
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
Raul Castillo – We The Animals
Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman
Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Josh Hamilton – Eighth Grade
John David Washington – Monsters & Men
Best Documentary
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Minding The Gap
Of Fathers & Sons
On Her Shoulders
Shirkers
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Best International Film
Burning
The Favourite
Happy As Lazzaro
Roma
Shoplifters
Someone To Watch
Alex Moratto – Socrates
Ioana Uricaru – Lemonade
Jeremiah Zagar – We The Animals
Producers Award
Jonathan Duffy & Kelly Williams
Gabrielle Nadig
Shrihari Sathe
Bonnie Award
Debra Granik
Tamara Jenkins
Karyn Kusama
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