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Spirit Awards honour Get Out

Jordan Peele takes Best Film and Best Director

by Amber Wilkinson

Get Out won Best Director and Best Film at the Independent Spirit Awards

Get Out has been named the best feature at the 33rd Independent Spirit Awards, while Jordan Peele also won Best Director. The ceremony is held the day before the Oscars, where Peele's horror satire on racism and white privilege has also been nominated by Best Picture.

The Best First Feature award wen tot Matt Spicer's Ingrid Goes West, which focuses on a social media stalker. The John Cassavetes Award, which honours films on a rock bottom budget, went to Life And Nothing More, which maps out the relationship between a single mum and her teenage son.

In a night, which saw awards spread among the big-hitters of the year, Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird took home the Best Screenplay Award, while The Big Sick was named Best First Screenplay.

Timothée Chalamet was named best lead actor for his role in Call Me By Your Name, which also took home the cinematography prize, while Frances McDorman was named Best Actor for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Her co-star Sam Rockwell won Best Supporting Actor, while the Best Supporting Actress prize went to Allison Janney in I, Tonya.

The full list of winners and nominees is below:

Best Feature

Best First Feature (Award Given To The Director And Producer)

Columbus
WINNER: Ingrid Goes West
Menashe
Oh Lucy!
Patti Cake$

John Cassavetes Award – Given To The Best Feature Made For Under $500,000

Dayveon
A Ghost Story
WINNER: Life And Nothing More
Most Beautiful Island
The Transfiguration

Best Director

Sean Baker, The Florida Project
Jonas Carpignano, A Ciambra
Luca Guadagnino, Call Me By Your Name
WINNER: Jordan Peele, Get Out
Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, Good Time
Chloé Zhao, The Rider

Best Screenplay

WINNER:: Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Azazel Jacobs, The Lovers
Martin Mcdonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Jordan Peele, Get Out
Mike White, Beatriz At Dinner

Best First Screenplay

Kris Avedisian, Story By: Kyle Espeleta, Jesse Wakeman, Donald Cried
WINNER: Emily V Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick
Ingrid Jungermann, Women Who Kill
Kogonada, Columbus
David Branson Smith, Matt Spicer, Ingrid Goes West

Best Cinematography

Thimios Bakatakis, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer
Elisha Christian, Columbus
Hélène Louvart, Beach Rats
WINNER: Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Call Me By Your Name
Joshua James Richards, The Rider

Best Editing

Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie, Good Time
Walter Fasano, Call Me By Your Name
Alex O’flinn, The Rider
Gregory Plotkin, Get Out
WINNER: Tatiana S Riegel, I, Tonya

Best Female Lead

Salma Hayek, Beatriz At Dinner
WINNER: Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Shinobu Terajima, Oh Lucy!
Regina Williams, Life And Nothing More

Best Male Lead

WINNER: Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
Harris Dickinson, Beach Rats
James Franco, The Disaster Artist
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
Robert Pattinson, Good Time

Best Supporting Female

Holly Hunter, The Big Sick
WINNER: Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Lois Smith, Marjorie Prime
Taliah Lennice Webster, Good Time

Best Supporting Male

Nnamdi Asomugha, Crown Heights
Armie Hammer, Call Me By Your Name
Barry Keoghan, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer
WINNER: Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Benny Safdie, Good Time

Robert Altman Award – Given To One Film’s Director, Casting Director And Ensemble Cast

Mudbound

Best Documentary

The Departure, Lana Wilson
WINNER: Faces Places, Directed By Agnés Varda, Jr, Produced By Rosalie Varda
Last Men In Aleppo, Directed By Feras Fayyad, Produced By Kareem Abeed, Søeren Steen Jespersen, Stefan Kloos
Motherland, Directed By Ramona S. Diaz, Produced By Rey Cuerdo
Quest, Directed By Jonathan Olshefski, Produced By Sabrina Schmidt Gordon

Best International Film