Nominations Announced on 11/21/17!
Awards Presented on 3/3/2018
The Spirit Awards, hosted by Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, air Saturday, March 3
Best Feature
- Call Me By Your Name
- The Florida Project
- Get Out – WINNER!
- Lady Bird
- The Rider
Best First Feature
- Columbus
- Ingrid Goes West – WINNER!
- Menashe
- Oh Lucy!
- Patti Cake$
John Cassavetes Award (for best film made for under $500,000)
- Dayveon
- A Ghost Story
- Life and Nothing More – WINNER!
- Most Beautiful Island
- The Transfiguration
Best Director
- Sean Baker (The Florida Project)
- Jonas Carpignano (A Ciambra)
- Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name)
- Jordan Peele (Get Out) – WINNER!
- Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie (Good Time)
- Chloé Zhao (The Rider)
Best Female Lead
- Salma Hayek (Beatriz at Dinner)
- Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) – WINNER!
- Margot Robbie (I, Tonya)
- Saiorse Ronan (Lady Bird)
- Shinobu Terajima (Oh Lucy!)
- Regina Williams (Life and Nothing More)
Best Male Lead
- Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) – WINNER!
- 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)
- Allison Janney (I, Tonya) – WINNER!
- 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)
- Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outisde Ebbing, Missouri) – WINNER!
- Benny Safdie (Good Time)
Best Screenplay
- Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) – WINNER!
- Azazel Jacobs (The Lovers)
- Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outisde Ebbing, Missouri)
- Jordan Peele (Get Out)
- Mike White (Beatriz at Dinner)
Best First Screenplay
- Kris Avedisian, Kyle Espeleta (story by), and Jesse Wakeman (story by) (Donald Cried)
- Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick) – WINNER!
- Ingrid Jungermann (Women Who Kill)
- Kogonada (Columbus)
- David Branson Smith and Matt Spicer (Ingrid Goes West)
Best Cinematography
- Thimios Bakatakis (The Killing of a Sacred Deer)
- Elisha Christian (Columbus)
- Hélène Louvart (Beach Rats)
- Sayombhu Mukdeeprom (Call Me By Your Name) – WINNER!
- Joshua James Richards (The Rider)
Best Editing
- Ronald Bronstein and Benny Safdie (Good Time)
- Walter Fasano (Call Me By Your Name)
- Alex O’Flinn (The Rider)
- Gregory Plotkin (Get Out)
- Tatiana S. Riegel (I, Tonya) – WINNER!
Best International Feature
- BPM (Beats Per Minute) (France)
- A Fantastic Woman (Chile) – WINNER!
- I Am Not a Witch (UK)
- Lady Macbeth (UK)
- Loveless (Russia)
Best Documentary
- The Departure
- Faces Places – WINNER!
- Last Men in Aleppo
- Motherland
- Quest
Robert Altman Award (for best ensemble casting)
- Mudbound
Kiehl’s Someone to Watch Award
- Amman Abbasi (Dayveon)
- Justin Chon (Gook) – WINNER!
- Kevin Phillips (Super Dark Times)
Piaget Producers Award
- Giulia Caruso and Ki Jin Kim (Columbus)
- Ben LeClair (The Lovers, Woodshock)
- Summer Shelton (Keep the Change) – WINNER!
Jeep Truer Than Fiction Award
- The Cage Fighter
- Distant Constellation
- Quest – WINNER!
American Airlines Bonnie Award
- So Yong Kim
- Lynn Shelton
- Chloé Zhao – WINNER!