'Manchester By the Sea' and 'Moonlight' Lead the Independent Spirit Award Nominations

The Indie Spirit awards honored expected Oscar nominees Manchester By the Sea and Moonlight, but also threw their weight behind films that aren't expected to get a lot of attention anywhere else, like American Honey, the Sundance indie that not a lot of people will hear of, even after its success with this awards group. Other films to get attention here were Molly Shannon's Other People, Jackie (this one is expected to go further, at least for Natalie Portman) and Chronic, with Tim Roth. I particularly liked seeing OJ: Made in America, nominated in documentary- I'm hoping it will make it at the Oscars too, but I'm still not sure if they will consider it more of a television event, given that it aired and was seemingly edited, in parts. As always, the Indie Spirits air the night before the Oscars in February.

2016 INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS NOMINATIONS

Best Feature

“American Honey”
“Chronic”
“Jackie”
“Manchester by the Sea”
“Moonlight”


Best Director

Andrea Arnold (“American Honey”)
Barry Jenkins (“Moonlight”)
Pablo Larrain (“Jackie”)
Jeff Nichols (“Loving”)
Kelly Reichardt (“Certain Women”)


Best First Feature

“The Childhood of a Leader”
“The Fits”
“Other People”
“Swiss Army Man”
“The Witch”


Best Male Lead

Casey Affleck (“Manchester by the Sea”)
David Harewood (“Free in Deed”)
Viggo Mortensen (“Captain Fantastic”)
Jesse Plemons (“Other People”)
Tim Roth (“Chronic”)


Best Female Lead

Annette Bening (“20th Century Women”)
Isabelle Huppert (“Elle”)
Sasha Lane (“American Honey”)
Ruth Negga (“Loving”)
Natalie Portman (“Jackie”)


Best Supporting Male

Ralph Fiennes (“A Bigger Splash”)
Ben Foster (“Hell or High Water”)
Lucas Hedges (“Manchester by the Sea”)
Shia LaBeouf (“American Honey”)
Craig Robinson (“Morris from America”)


Best Supporting Female

Edwina Findley (“Free in Deed”)
Paulina Garcia (“Little Men”)
Lily Gladstone (“Certain Women”)
Riley Keough (“American Honey”)
Molly Shannon (“Other People”)


Best Screenplay

“Hell or High Water”
“Little Men”
“Manchester by the Sea”
“Moonlight”
“20th Century Women”


Best First Screenplay

“Barry”
“Christine”
“Jean of the Joneses”
“Other People”
“The Witch”


Best International Film

“Aquarius”
“Chevalier”
“My Golden Days”
“Toni Erdmann”
“Under the Shadow”


Best Documentary Feature

“13th”
“Cameraperson”
“I Am Not Your Negro”
“O.J.: Made in America”
“Sonita”
“Under the Sun”


Best Cinematography

“American Honey”
“Childhood”
“Free in Deed”
“Eyes of My Mother”
“Moonlight”


Best Editing

“Hell or High Water”
“Jackie”
“Manchester by the Sea”
“Moonlight”
“Swiss Army Man”


John Cassavetes Award

“Free in Deed”
“Hunter Gatherer”
“Lovesong”
“Nakom”
“Spa Night”


Robert Altman Award

“Moonlight”


Piaget Producers Award

Lisa Kjerulff
Jordana Mollick
Melody C. Roscher
Craig Shilowich


Truer Than Fiction Award

Kristi Jacobson (“Solitary”)
Sara Jordeno (“Kiki”)
Nanfu Wang (“Holligan Sparrow”)


Someone to Watch Award

Andrew Ahn (“Spa Night”)
Claire Carre (“Embers”)
Anna Rose Holmer (“The Fits”)
Ingrid Jungermann (“Women Who Kill”)

'Jackie' gets nods for Feature, Director and Actress