The Farewell is Independent Spirits Best Feature

Best Feature winner The Farewell

The Independent Spirit Awards have once again taken an independent direction, showing support for the underdogs in this year's awards race. Lulu Wang was over the moon when her film The Farewell took Best Feature. She used her speech to call out the idea that women need encouragement to make films, saying that in fact what they need is to be hired.

Uncut Gems was the night's other big winner, taking Best Director for Benny and Josh Safdie and Best Actor for Adam Sandler. In a speech that delighted the audience, Sandler compared being snubbed by the Oscars as being left out of the Best Looking category in his high school yearbook but winning Best Personality instead.

Those awards in full:-

Best Feature

• The Farewell

Best Director

• Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie, Uncut Gems

Best Female Lead

• Renée Zellweger, Judy

Best Male Lead

• Adam Sandler, Uncut Gems

Best Supporting Female

• Zhao Shuzhen, The Farewell

Best Supporting Male

• Willem Dafoe, The Lighthouse

Best Screenplay

• Noah Baumbach, Marriage Story

Best Editing

• Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie, Uncut Gems

Best Documentary Feature

• American Factory

Best Cinematography

• Jarin Blaschke, The Lighthouse

Best First Feature

• Booksmart

Best First Screenplay

• Fredrica Bailey, Stefon Bristol, See You Yesterday

John Cassavetes Award

• Give Me Liberty

Robert Altman Award

• Marriage Story

Best International Film

• Parasite, South Korea

Producers Award

• Mollye Asher

Someone to Watch Award

• Rashaad Ernesto Green, Premature

Truer than Fiction award

• Nadia Shihab, Jaddoland

Bonnie Award

• Kelly Reichardt