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 BEST FEATURE

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First Cow

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Minari

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Nomadland WINNER

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 BEST FIRST FEATURE

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I Carry You with Me

The Forty-Year-Old Version

Miss Juneteenth

Nine Days

Sound of Metal WINNER

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 BEST DIRECTOR

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Lee Isaac Chung (Minari)

Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) 

Eliza Hittman (Never Rarely Sometimes Always)

Kelly Reichardt (First Cow) 

Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) WINNER

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 BEST MALE LEAD

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Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal) WINNER

Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)

Adarsh Gourav (The White Tiger) 

Rob Morgan (Bull) 

Steven Yeun (Minari)

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 BEST FEMALE LEAD

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Nicole Beharie (Miss Juneteenth) 

Viola Davis (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)

Sidney Flanigan (Never Rarely Sometimes Always)

Julia Garner (The Assistant)

Frances McDormand (Nomadland)

Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman) WINNER

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 BEST SUPPORTING MALE

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Colman Domingo (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)

Orion Lee (First Cow)

Paul Raci (Sound of Metal) WINNER

Glynn Turman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)

Benedict Wong (Nine Days)

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 BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE

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Alexis Chikaeze (Miss Juneteenth)

Yeri Han (Minari)

Valerie Mahaffey (French Exit) 

Talia Ryder (Never Rarely Sometimes Always)

Yuh-jung Youn (Minari) WINNER

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 BEST SCREENPLAY

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Bad Education (Mike Makowsky) 

Half of It (Alice Wu)

Minari (Lee Isaac Chung) 

Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman)

Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell) WINNER

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 BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY

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The Assistant (Kitty Green)

Lapsis (Noah Hutton)

Miss Juneteenth (Channing Godfrey Peoples)

Palm Springs (Andy Siara) WINNER

Straight Up (James Sweeney)

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 BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

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The Assistant (Michael Latham)

Bull (Shabier Kirchner)

Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Hélène Louvart) 

Nomadland (Joshua James Richards) WINNER

She Dies Tomorrow (Jay Keitel) 

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 BEST EDITING

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I Carry You with Me (Enat Sidi)

The Invisible Man (Andy Canny)

Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Scott Cummings)

Nomadland (Chloé Zhao) WINNER

Residue (Merawi Gerima) 

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 BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

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Bacurau (Brazil)

The Disciple (France)

Night of the Kings (Ivory Coast) 

Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (Hungary) 

Quo Vadis, Aida? (Bosnia and Herzegovina)  WINNER

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 BEST DOCUMENTARY

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Collective (Alexander Nanau)

Crip Camp (Jim LeBrecht, Nicole Newnham) WINNER

Dick Johnson is Dead (Kirsten Johnson)

The Mole Agent (Maite Alberdi)

Time (Garrett Bradley)

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  TRUER THAN FICTION

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Landfall (Cecilia Aldarondo)

Pier Kids (Elegance Bratton) WINNER

Stray (Elizabeth Lo)

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 JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD

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The Killing of Two Lovers 

La Leyenda Negra 

Lingua Franca

Residue WINNER

Saint Frances

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 ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD

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One Night in Miami 

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 PIAGET PRODUCERS AWARD

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Lucas Joaquin

Gerry Kim WINNER

Kara Durrett

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 SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD 

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David Midell (The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain) 

Ekwa Msangi (Farewell Amor) WINNER

Annie Silverstein (Bull)

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The 36th Independent Spirit Awards were broadcast live on IFC and livestreamed on AMC+ on Thursday, April 22, 2021 at 10pm ET and 7pm PT.

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