2018 Independent Spirit Nominations

The Spirit Award nominations were released today! A lot of these movies haven't been released near me yet but I have been fortunate enough to see a few. Here's a list of the nominations, followed by my thoughts. 

Best Feature
“Call Me By Your Name”
“The Florida Project”
“Get Out”
“Lady Bird”
“The Rider”
I've only see Get Out and The Florida Project, and both are worthy noms. The Rider is the only film I'm unfamiliar with. I was hoping to see Ingrid Goes West here. I figured that, Three Billboards, or I,Tonya would be here.

Best Director
Jonas Carpignano, “A Ciambra” 
Luca Gudagnino, “Call Me By Your Name”
Jordan Peele, “Get Out”
Benny and Josh Safdie, “Good Time"
Chloé Zhao, “The Rider”
No Greta Gerwig is surprising with how popular Lady Bird is. I was hoping to see Dee Rees for Mudbound (assuming it qualified?)

Best First Feature:
“Columbus”
“Ingrid Goes West”
Manahse”
“Oh Lucy”
“Patti Cake$”
There's Ingrid Goes West!

Best Female Lead
Salma Hayek, “Beatriz at Dinner”
Francis McDormand, “Three Billboards”
Margot Robbie, “I, Tonya”
Saiorse Ronin, “Lady Bird”
Shinobu Terajima, “Oh Lucy”
Regina Williams, “Life And Nothing More”
Nearly every review I've read for Beatriz at Dinner has been lukewarm at best so I'm kind of surprised to see it here. It's too bad Aubrey Plaza couldn't make it in for Ingrid. Or Brooklynn Prince for her fantastic performance in The Florida Project. I haven't seen any of the these, but aside from Beatriz I'll try to seek out all of them.

Best Male Lead
Timothee Chalamet, “Call Me By Your Name”
Harris Dicksinon, “Beach Rats”
James Franco, “The Disaster Artist”
Daniel Kaluuya, “Get Out”
Robert Pattinson, “Good Time”
I'm so happy for Kaluuya and it's nice to see Franco in there for one of my most anticipated films. 

Best Supporting Female:
Holly Hunter, “The Big Sick”
Allison Janney, “I Tonya”
Laurie Metcalf, “Lady Bird”
Louis Smith, “Marjorie Prime”
Taliah Lennice Webster, “Good Time”
Hunter was great in The Big Sick, that's the only one of these I've seen. I'l definitely check out the others. 

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”
Bennie Safdie, “Good Time”
My theater just got The Killing of a Sacred Deer so I'll have that to check out soon. 

Best Screenplay
“Lady Bird”
“The Lovers”
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
“Get Out”
“Beatriz at Dinner”

Best First Screenplay
“Donald Cried”
“The Big Sick”
“Woman Who Kill”
“Columbus”
“Ingrid Goes West”

Best Cinematography
“The Killing of a Sacred Deer”
“Colombus”
“Beach Rats”
“Call Me By Your Name”
“The Rider

Best Editing
“Good Time”
“Call Me By Your Name”
“The Rider”
“Get Out”
“I, Tonya”

John Cassavetes Award
“A Ghost Story”
“Dayveon”
“Life and Nothing”
“Most Beautiful Island”
“Transfiguration”

Robert Altman Award
“Mudbound”

Best Documentary
“The Departure”
“Faces Places”
“Last Men in Aleppo”
“Motherland”
“Quest”

Best International Film
“A Fantastic Woman”
“BPM”
“Lady Macbeth”
“I Am Not a Witch”
“Loveless”
Lady Macbeth is in my Netflix queue, so I should see this soon. 

Annual Kiehl’s Someone to Watch Award
Amman Abassi, “Dayveon”
Justin Chon, “Gook”