Here are your Film Independent Spirit Awards winners
The Film Independent Spirit Awards, which recognizes achievement in films with budgets less than $20 million, gave out its awards on Saturday, aka Oscars Eve.
Here are the films that were recognized at the ceremony in Santa Monica, Calif.
BEST FEATURE
WINNER: Spotlight
Anomalisa
Beasts of No Nation
Carol
Tangerine
BEST FIRST FEATURE
WINNER: The Diary of a Teenage Girl
James White
Manos Sucias
Mediterranea
Songs My Brothers Taught Me
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
WINNER: Carol
Beasts of No Nation
It Follows
Meadowland
Songs My Brothers
Taught Me
BEST EDITING
WINNER: Spotlight
Heaven
Knows What
Room
It Follows
Manos Sucias
BEST DIRECTOR
WINNER: Tom McCarthy for Spotlight
Sean Baker for Tangerine
Cary Joji Fukunaga for Beasts of No Nation
Todd Haynes for Carol
Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman for Anomalisa
David Robert Mitchell for It Follows
BEST SCREENPLAY
WINNER: Spotlight
Anomalisa
The End of the Tour
Carol
Bone Tomahawk
BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
WINNER: Room
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Mediterranea
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
The Mend
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD (Given to the best feature made for under $500,000)
WINNER: Krisha
Advantageous
Christmas, Again
Heaven Knows What
Out of My Hand
BEST MALE LEAD
WINNER: Abraham Attah in Beasts of No Nation
Christopher Abbott in James White
Ben Mendelsohn in Mississippi Grind
Jason Segel in The End of the Tour
Koudous Seihon in Mediterranea
BEST FEMALE LEAD
WINNER: Brie Larson in Room
Cate Blanchett in Carol
Rooney Mara in Carol
Bel Powley in The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Kitana Kiki Rodriguez in Tangerine
BEST SUPPORTING MALE
WINNER: Idris Elba in Beasts of No Nation
Kevin Corrigan in Results
Paul Dano in Love and Mercy
Richard Jenkins in Bone Tomahawk
Michael Shannon in 99 Homes
BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
WINNER: Mya Taylor in Tangerine
Robin Barlett in H.
Marin Ireland in Glass Chin
Jennifer Jason Leigh in Anomalisa
Cynthia Nixon in James White
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
WINNER: Son of Saul (Hungary)
Embrace of the Serpent (Colombia)
Girlhood (France)
Mustang (France, Turkey)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Sweden)
Son of Saul (Hungary)
BEST DOCUMENTARY
WINNER: The Look of Silence
(T)error
Best of Enemies
Heart of a Dog
Meru
The Russian Woodpecker
