Independent Spirit Awards nominations announced

We The Animals Photo: Zak Mulligan

Coming of age drama We The Animals, directed by Jeremiah Zagar leads the nominations for the Independent Spirit Awards, announced today, with five nods.

The awards, which champion independent film, also saw Scotland's Lynne Ramsay pick up four nominations for You Were Never Really Here, matching Bo Burnham's Eighth Grade and Paul Schrader's First Reformed.

The Robert Altman award, which recognises a director, casting director and ensemble cast, will go to Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria remake.

The awards ceremony will take place on February 23.

Best Feature

• Eighth Grade
• First Reformed
• If Beale Street Could Talk
• Leave No Trace
• You Were Never Really Here

Best First Feature

• Hereditary
• Sorry To Bother You
• The Tale
• We The Animals
• Wildlife

Best Female Lead

• Glenn Close, The Wife
• Toni Collette, Hereditary
• Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade
• Regina Hall, Support The Girls
• Helena Howard, Madeline’s Madeline
• Carey Mulligan, Wildlife

Best Male Lead

• John Cho, Searching
• Daveed Diggs, Blindspotting
• Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
• Christian Malheiros, Socrates
• Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here

Best Director

• Debra Granik, Leave No Trace
• Barry Jenkins, If Beale Street Could Talk
• Tamara Jenkins, Private Life
• Lynne Ramsay, You Were Never Really Here
• Paul Schrader, First Reformed

Best Documentary

• Hale County This Morning, This Evening
• Minding The Gap
• Of Fathers And Sons
• On Her Shoulders
• Shirkers
• Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Best Supporting Male

• Raúl Castillo, We The Animals
• Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman
• Richard E Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
• Josh Hamilton, Eighth Grade
• John David Washington, Monsters And Men

Best Screenplay

• Richard Glatzer (Writer/Story By), Rebecca Lenkiewicz & Wash Westmoreland, Colette
• Nicole Holofcener & Jeff Whitty, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
• Tamara Jenkins, Private Life
• Boots Riley, Sorry To Bother You
• Paul Schrader, First Reformed

Robert Altman Award

• Suspiria

Best First Screenplay

• Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade
• Christina Choe, Nancy
• Cory Finley, Thoroughbreds
• Jennifer Fox, The Tale
• Quinn Shephard (Writer/Story By) and Laurie Shephard (Story By), Blame

Best Editing

• Joe Bini, You Were Never Really Here
• Keiko Deguchi, Brian A. Kates & Jeremiah Zagar, We The Animals
• Luke Dunkley, Nick Fenton, Chris Gill & Julian Hart, American Animals
• Anne Fabini, Alex Hall and Gary Levy, The Tale

Bonnie Award - A $50,000 (£39,000) grant given to a mid-career female director

• Debra Granik
• Tamara Jenkins
• Karyn Kusama

Best International Film

• Burning (South Korea)
• The Favourite (UK)
• Happy As Lazzaro (Italy)
• Roma (Mexico)
• Shoplifters (Japan)

John Cassavetes Award - given to the best feature made for less than ($500,000) £390,000

• A Bread Factory
• En El Septimo Dia
• Never Goin’ Back
• Socrates
• Thunder Road

Best Supporting Female

• Kayli Carter, Private Life
• Tyne Daly, A Bread Factory
• Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
• Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, Leave No Trace
• J Smith-Cameron, Nancy

Best Cinematography

• Ashley Connor, Madeline’s Madeline
• Diego Garcia, Wildlife
• Benjamin Loeb, Mandy
• Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Suspiria
• Zak Mulligan, We The Animals

Producers Award

• Jonathan Duffy and Kelly Williams
• Gabrielle Nadig
• Shrihari Sathe

Someone To Watch Award

• Alex Moratto, director of Sócrates
• Ioana Uricaru. director of Lemonade
• Jeremiah Zagar, director of We The Animals

Truer Than Fiction Award

• Alexandria Bombach, director of On Her Shoulders
• Bing Liu, director of Minding The Gap
• RaMell Ross, director of Hale County This Morning, This Evening