Oooh! A good omen, perhaps? For four years running, the Indie Spirit award winner for Best Feature has also won Best Picture the next day at the Oscars. I'm in luck if it happens again this year. Funny, you wouldn't think that a movie that made $175 million at the box office would qualify as an independent film, but thank to the Spirits budget rules, it does. They also gave Lady Bird a prize here in screenplay, but I still think the film may get nothing tomorrow. Or maybe we'll see some sort of crazy four way split, with Lady Bird wining screenplay, Three Billboards the acting prizes, Guillermo del Toro for directing and then Get Out for Picture? Could a movie win Best Picture and nothing else? The last time it happened was 1932, with Grand Hotel. Maybe it's time for a crazy record to be broken.
2018 INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARD WINNERS:
- BEST FEATURE: Get Out
- BEST DIRECTOR: Jordan Peele – Get Out
- BEST FEMALE LEAD: Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- BEST MALE LEAD: Timothee Chalamet – Call Me By Your Name
- BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE: Allison Janney – I, Tonya
- BEST SUPPORTING MALE: Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- BEST SCREENPLAY: Lady Bird
- BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY: The Big Sick
- BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Call Me By Your Name
- BEST EDITING: I, Tonya
- BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM: A Fantastic Woman
- BEST DOCUMENTARY: Faces Places
- BEST FIRST FEATURE: Ingrid Goes West
- JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD: Life and Nothing More
- ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD: Mudbound