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 BEST FEATURE

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All of Us Strangers

American Fiction

May December

Passages

Past Lives WINNER

We Grown Now 

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 BEST FIRST FEATURE

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All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

Chronicles of a Wandering Spirit

Earth Mama

A Thousand and One WINNER

Upon Entry 

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 BEST DIRECTOR

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Andrew Haigh (All of Us Strangers)

Todd Haynes (May December) 

William Oldroyd (Eileen) 

Celine Song (Past Lives) WINNER

Ira Sachs (Passages) 

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 BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE

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Jessica Chastain (Memory) 

Greta Lee (Past Lives)

Trace Lysette (Monica) 

Natalie Portman (May December) 

Judy Reyes (Birth/Rebirth)

Franz Rogowski (Passages) 

Andrew Scott (All of Us Strangers)

Teyana Taylor (A Thousand and One) 

Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction) WINNER

Teo Yoo (Past Lives) 

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 BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE

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Erika Alexander (American Fiction)

Sterling K. Brown (American Fiction)

Noah Galvin (Theater Camp) 

Anne Hathaway (Eileen)

Charles Melton (May December) 

Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers) WINNER

Catalina Saavedra (Rotting in the Sun)

Ben Whishaw (Passages) 

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 BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE

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Marshawn Lynch (Bottoms)

Atibon Nazaire (Mountains)

Tia Nomore (Earth Mama)

Dominic Sessa (The Holdovers) WINNER

Anaita Wali Zada (Fremont)

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 BEST SCREENPLAY

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American Fiction (Cord Jefferson) WINNER

Birth/Rebirth (Laura Moss, Brendan J. O’Brien)

Bottoms (Emma Seligman, Rachel Sennott) 

Past Lives (Celine Song)

The Holdovers (David Hemingson) 

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 BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY

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Chronicles of a Wandering Saint (Tomás Gómez Bustillo) 

May December (Samy Burch; Story by Samy Burch, Alex Mechanik) WINNER

The Starling Girl (Laurel Parmet) 

Theater Camp (Noah Galvin, Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman, Ben Platt)

Upon Entry (Alejandro Rojas & Juan Sebastián Vásquez) 

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 BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

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All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Jomo Fray)

Chronicles of a Wandering Spirit (Pablo Lozano)

The Holdovers (Eigil Bryld) WINNER

Monica (Katelin Arizmendi) 

We Grown Now (Pat Scola) 

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 BEST EDITING

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How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Daniel Garber) WINNER

Rotting in the Sun (Santiago Cendejas, Gabriel Díaz, Sofía Subercaseaux)

Theater Camp (Jon Philpot) 

Upon Entry (Emanuele Tiziani)

We Grown Now (Stephanie Filo) 

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 BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

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Anatomy of a Fall (France) WINNER

Godland (Denmark/Iceland)

Mami Wata (Nigeria) 

Tótem (Mexico) 

The Zone of Interest (Poland/UK/USA)  

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 BEST DOCUMENTARY

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Bye Bye Tiberias (Lina Soualem)

Four Daughters (Kaouther Ben Hania) WINNER

Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson) 

Kokomo City (D. Smith)

The Mother of All Lies (Asmae El Moudir)

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  TRUER THAN FICTION

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Joonam (Sierra Urich)

Lakota Nation vs. United States (Jesse Short Bull, Laura Tomaselli)

unseen (Set Hernandez) WINNER

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 JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD

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The Artifice Girl 

Cadejo Blanco 

Fremont WINNER

Rotting in the Sun 

The Unknown Country

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 ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD

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Showing Up

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PRODUCERS AWARD

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Rachael Fung

Graham Swon

Monique Walton WINNER

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 SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD 

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Joanna Arnow (The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed) 

Laura Moss (Birth/Rebirth) 

Monica Sorelle (Mountains) WINNER

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The 39th Independent Spirit Awards took place on the Santa Monica beach on February 25. The Indies were streamed on Film Independent’s YouTube channel and IMDb.com.

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