By Creative Media Times
The Film Independent Spirit Awards unveiled 2018’s list of nominees, providing an early look at how the awards season is shaping up leading to the academy awards.
At the top of this list are “Eighth Grade,” “First Reformed,” “If Beale Street Could Talk,” “Leave No Trace” and “You Were Never Really Here” all of which received best picture nominations.
“We The Animals,” from director Jeremiah Zagar and based on the novel of the same name by Justin Torres, received the most nominations with five.
This summer’s documentary hit “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” received documentary nomination along with Minding the Gap, Of Fathers and Sons, Hale County, On Her Shoulders and Shirkers.
The nominees were announced at Los Angeles’ W Hotel by Crazy Rich Asians actress Gemma Chan and Saturday Night Live alumna Molly Shannon.
The 34th Spirit Awards ceremony will be held on their usual home at the beach in Santa Monica and will air on IFC at 2 p.m. PT on Feb. 23.
Check out the list below for the full list of nominees:
Best Feature
Eighth Grade
First Reformed
If Beale Street Could Talk
Leave No Trace
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 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, Sócrates
Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really There
Best First Feature
Hereditary
Sorry to Bother You
The Tale
We the Animals
Wildlife
Robert Altman Award
Suspiria
The Bonnie Award
Debra Granki
Tamara Jenkins
Karyn Kusama
The Producers Award
Jonathan Duffy and Kelly Williams
Gabrielle Nadig
Shrihari Sathe
The Someone to Watch Award
Alex Moratto, Sócrates
Ioana Uricaru, Lemonade
Jeremiah Zager, We the Animals
The Truer Than Fiction Award
Alexandria Bombach, On Her Shoulders
Bing Liu, Minding the Gap
RaMell Ross, Hale County This Morning, This Evening
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
Smith-Cameron, Nancy
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
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 Cinematography
Ashley Connor, Madeline’s Madeline
Diego Garcia, Wildlife
Benjamin Loeb, Mandy
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Suspiria
Zak Mulligan, We the Animals
Best Editing
Joe Bini, You Were Never Really There
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
Nick Houy, Mid90s
Best International Film
Burning (South Korea)
The Favourite (United Kingdom)
Happy as Lazzaro (Italy)
Roma (Mexico)
Shoplifters (Japan)
Best Documentary
Hale Country This Morning, This Evening
Minding the Gap
Of Fathers and Sons
On Her Shoulders
Shirkers
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
John Cassavetes Award
A Bread Factory
En El Séptimo Día
Never Goin’ Back
Socrates
Thunder Road
