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2015 Film Independent Spirit Awards

The 2015 Annual Film Independent Spirit Awards will be held Saturday, February 21, 2015.

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Best Feature

Nominees:

Birdman (2014)

Boyhood (2014/I)

Love Is Strange (2014)

Selma (2014)

Whiplash (2014)

Best Director

Nominees:

Damien Chazelle for Whiplash (2014)

Ava DuVernay for Selma (2014)

Alejandro González Iñárritu for Birdman (2014)

Richard Linklater for Boyhood (2014/I)

David Zellner for Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014)

Best First Feature

Nominees:

Dear White People (2014): Justin Simien, Effie Brown, Ann Le, Julia Lebedev, Angel Lopez, Lena Waithe

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014): Ana Lily Amirpour, Justin Begnaud, Sina Sayyah

Nightcrawler (2014): Dan Gilroy, Jennifer Fox, Tony Gilroy, Jake Gyllenhaal, David Lancaster, Michel Litvak

Obvious Child (2014): Gillian Robespierre, Elisabeth Holm

She's Lost Control (2014): Anja Marquardt, Mollye Asher, Kiara Jones

Best Female Lead

Nominees:

Marion Cotillard for The Immigrant (2013)

Rinko Kikuchi for Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014)

Julianne Moore for Still Alice (2014)

Jenny Slate for Obvious Child (2014)

Tilda Swinton for Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

Best Male Lead

Nominees:

André Benjamin for Jimi: All Is by My Side (2013)

Jake Gyllenhaal for Nightcrawler (2014)

Michael Keaton for Birdman (2014)

John Lithgow for Love Is Strange (2014)

David Oyelowo for Selma (2014)

Best Supporting Female

Nominees:

Patricia Arquette for Boyhood (2014/I)

Jessica Chastain for A Most Violent Year (2014)

Carmen Ejogo for Selma (2014)

Emma Stone for Birdman (2014)

for Stand Clear of the Closing Doors (2013)

Best Supporting Male

Nominees:

Riz Ahmed for Nightcrawler (2014)

Ethan Hawke for Boyhood (2014/I)

Alfred Molina for Love Is Strange (2014)

Edward Norton for Birdman (2014)

J.K. Simmons for Whiplash (2014)

Best Screenplay

Nominees:

Big Eyes (2014): Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski

Love Is Strange (2014): Ira Sachs, Mauricio Zacharias

A Most Violent Year (2014): J.C. Chandor

Nightcrawler (2014): Dan Gilroy

Only Lovers Left Alive (2013): Jim Jarmusch

Best First Screenplay

Nominees:

Appropriate Behavior (2014): Desiree Akhavan

Dear White People (2014): Justin Simien

Little Accidents (2014): Sara Colangelo

She's Lost Control (2014): Anja Marquardt

The One I Love (2014): Justin Lader

Best Cinematography

Nominees:

Birdman (2014): Emmanuel Lubezki

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014): Lyle Vincent

It Felt Like Love (2013): Sean Porter

Selma (2014): Bradford Young

The Immigrant (2013): Darius Khondji

Best International Film

Nominees:

Ida (2013): Pawel Pawlikowski

Leviathan (2014): Andrey Zvyagintsev

Mommy (2014/I): Xavier Dolan

Norte, the End of History (2013): Lav Diaz

Force Majeure (2014): Ruben Östlund

Under the Skin (2013/I): Jonathan Glazer

Best Documentary

Nominees:

20,000 Days on Earth (2014): Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard, Dan Bowen, James Wilson

Citizenfour (2014): Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Dirk Wilutzky

Stray Dog (2014): Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini

The Salt of the Earth (2014): Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders, David Rosier

Virunga (2014): Orlando von Einsiedel, Joanna Natasegara

John Cassavetes Award

Nominees:

Blue Ruin (2013): Jeremy Saulnier, Richard Peete, Vincent Savino, Anish Savjani

It Felt Like Love (2013): Eliza Hittman, Shrihari Sathe, Laura Wagner

Land Ho! (2014): Aaron Katz, Martha Stephens, Christina Jennings, Mynette Louie, Sara Murphy

Man from Reno (2014): Dave Boyle, Joel Clark, Michael Lerman, Ko Mori

Test (2013/I): Chris Mason Johnson, Chris Martin

Truer Than Fiction Award

Nominees:

Approaching the Elephant (2014): Amanda Wilder

Evolution of a Criminal (2014): Darius Clark Monroe

The Kill Team (2013): Dan Krauss

The Last Season (2014): Sara Dosa

Someone to Watch Award

Nominees:

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014): Ana Lily Amirpour

H. (2014/I): Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia

The Retrieval (2013): Chris Eska

Producers Award

Nominees:

Chad Burris

Elisabeth Holm

Chris Ohlson

Robert Altman Award

WINNER

Inherent Vice (2014): Paul Thomas Anderson, Cassandra Kulukundis, Josh Brolin, Martin Donovan, Jena Malone, Joanna Newsom, Joaquin Phoenix, Eric Roberts, Maya Rudolph, Martin Short, Serena Scott Thomas, Benicio Del Toro, Katherine Waterston, Michael Kenneth Williams, Owen Wilson, Reese Witherspoon

Best Editing

Nominees:

Boyhood (2014/I): Sandra Adair

Whiplash (2014): Tom Cross

Nightcrawler (2014): John Gilroy

A Most Violent Year (2014): Ron Patane

The Guest (2014/I): Adam Wingard

Special Distinction Award

WINNER

Foxcatcher (2014): Bennett Miller, Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, E. Max Frye, Dan Futterman, Anthony Bregman, Megan Ellison, Jon Kilik