The Feeling that the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (Joanna Arnow)
Good One (India Donaldson)
Janet Planet(Annie Baker)
Problemista(Julio Torres)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Fire Inside(Rina Yang)
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Dinh Duy Hung)
Janet Planet (Maria von Hausswolff)
La Cocina(Juan Pablo Ramírez)
Nickel Boys (Jomo Fray) WINNER
BEST EDITING
The Apprentice (Olivier Bugge Coutté & Olivia Neergaard-Holm)
Didi (Arielle Zakowski)
Jazzy (Laura Colwell & Vanara Taing)
Nightbitch (Anne McCabe)
September 5(Hansjörg Weissbrich) WINNER
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
All We Imagine as Light (France/India/Netherlands/Luxembourg)
Black Dog(China)
Flow (Latvia/France/Belgium) WINNER
Green Border(Poland/France/Czech Republic/Belgium)
Hard Truths (UK)
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Gaucho Gaucho (Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw)
Hummingbirds (Silvia Del Carmen Castaños & Estefanía “Beba” Contreras)
No Other Land (Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal & Rachel Szor) WINNER
Patrice: The Movie (Ted Passon)
Soundtracks to a Coup d’Etat (Johan Grimonprez)
TRUER THAN FICTION
Frida (Carla Gutiérrez)
A Photographic Memory (Rachel Elizabeth Seed) WINNER
Sugarcane (Julian Brave NoiseCat & Emily Kassie)
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD
Big Boys
Ghostlight
Girls Will Be Girls WINNER
Jazzy
The People’s Joker
ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD
His Three Daughters
PRODUCERS AWARD
Alex Coco
Sarah Winshall WINNER
Zoë Worth
SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD
Nicholas Colia (Griffin in Summer)
Sarah Friedland (Familiar Touch) WINNER
Pham Thien An (Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell)
The 40th Independent Spirit Awards took place on the Santa Monica beach on February 22. The Indies were streamed on Film Independent YouTube channels and IMDb.com.