The 2015 Independent Spirit Awards will be held on Saturday, February 21st. Here are the nominees:
BEST FEATURE
NOMINEES:
* Birdman
* Boyhood
* Love is Strange
* Selma
* Whiplash
BEST FIRST FEATURE
NOMINEES:
* Justin Simien & Effie Brown & Ann Le & Julia Lebedev & Angel Lopez & Lena Waithe for Dear White People
* Ana Lily Amirpour & Justin Begnaud & Sina Sayyah for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
* Dan Gilroy & Jennifer Fox & Tony Gilroy & Jake Gyllenhaal & David Lancaster & Michel Litvak for Nightcrawler
* Gillian Robespierre & Elisabeth Holm for Obvious Child
* Anja Marquardt & Mollye Asher & Kiara Jones for She’s Lost Control
BEST DIRECTOR
NOMINEES:
* Damien Chazelle for Whiplash
* Ava DuVernay for Selma
* Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for Birdman
* Richard Linklater for Boyhood
* David Zellner for Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
BEST FEMALE LEAD
NOMINEES:
* Marion Cotillard for The Immigrant
* Rinko Kikuchi for Kumiko the Treasure Hunter
* Julianne Moore for Still Alice
* Jenny Slate for Obvious Child
* Tilda Swinton for Only Lovers Left Alive
BEST MALE LEAD
NOMINEES:
* Andre Benjamin for Jimi: All Is by My Side
* Jake Gyllenhaal for Nightcrawler
* Michael Keaton for Birdman
* John Lithgow for Love Is Strange
* David Oyelowo for Selma
BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
NOMINEES:
* Patricia Arquette for Boyhood
* Jessica Chastain for A Most Violent Year
* Carmen Ejogo for Selma
* Emma Stone for Birdman
* Andrea Suarez Paz for Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
BEST SUPPORTING MALE
NOMINEES:
* Riz Ahmed for Nightcrawler
* Ethan Hawke for Boyhood
* Alfred Molina for Love Is Strange
* Edward Norton for Birdman
* J.K. Simmons for Whiplash
BEST SCREENPLAY
NOMINEES:
* Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski for Big Eyes
* Ira Sachs & Mauricio Zacharias for Love is Strange
* J.C. Chandor for A Most Violent Year
* Dan Gilroy for Nightcrawler
* Jim Jarmusch for Only Lovers Left Alive
BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
NOMINEES:
* Desiree Akhavan for Appropriate Behavior
* Justin Simien for Dear White People
* Sara Colangelo for Little Accidents
* Anja Marquardt for She’s Lost Control
* Justin Lader for The One I Love
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
NOMINEES:
* Emmanuel Lubezki for Birdman
* Lyle Vincent for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
* Sean Porter for It Felt Like Love
* Bradford Young for Selma
* Darius Khondji for The Immigrant
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
NOMINEES:
* Pawel Pawlikowski for Ida
* Andrey Zvyagintsev for Leviathan
* Xavier Dolan for Mommy
* Lav Diaz for Norte, the End of History
* Ruben Ostlund for Force Majeure
* Jonathan Glazer for Under the Skin
BEST DOCUMENTARY
NOMINEES:
* Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard & Dan Bowen & James Wilson for 20,000 Days on Earth
* Laura Poitras & Mathilde Bonnefoy & Dirk Wilutzky for Citizenfour
* Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini for Stray Dog
* Juliano Ribeiro Salgado & Wim Wenders & David Rosier for The Salt of the Earth
* Orlando von Einsiedel & Joanna Natasegara for Virunga
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD
NOMINEES:
* Jeremy Saulnier & Richard Peete & Vincent Savino & Anish Savjani for Blue Ruin
* Eliza Hittman & Shrihari Sathe & Laura Wagner for It Felt Like Love
* Aaron Katz & Martha Stephens & Christina Jennings & Mynette Louie & Sara Murphy for Land Ho!
* Dave Boyle & Joel Clark & Michael Lerman & Ko Mori for Man from Reno
* Chris Mason Johnson & Chris Martin for Test
TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD
NOMINEES:
* Amanda Wilder for Approaching the Elephant
* Darius Clark Monroe for Evolution of a Criminal
* Dan Krauss for The Kill Team
* Sara Dosa for The Last Season
SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD
NOMINEES:
* Ana Lily Amirpour for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
* Rania Attieh & Daniel Garcia for H.
* Chris Eska for The Retrieval
PRODUCERS AWARD
NOMINEES:
* Chad Burris
* Elisabeth Holm
* Chris Ohlson
ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD
WINNER:
* Paul Thomas Anderson & Cassandra Kulukundis & Josh Brolin & Martin Donovan & Jena Malone & Joanna Newsom & Joaquin Phoenix & Eric Roberts & Maya Rudolph & Martin Short & Serena Scott Thomas & Benicio Del Toro & Katherine Waterston & Michael Kenneth Williams & Owen Wilson & Reese Witherspoon for Inherent Vice
BEST EDITING
NOMINEES:
* Sandra Adair for Boyhood
* Tom Cross for Whiplash
* John Gilroy for Nightcrawler
* Ron Patane for A Most Violent Year
* Adam Wingard for The Guest
SPECIAL DISTINCTION AWARD
WINNER:
* Bennett Miller & Steve Carell & Channing Tatum & Mark Ruffalo & E. Max Frye & Dan Futterman & Anthony Bregman & Megan Ellison & Jon Kilik for Foxcatcher
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