Before Awards Feeder delivers its final Oscar predictions later today, some news about the winners of the 29th Independent Spirit Awards!
It was 12 Years A Slave‘s time to shine by picking up five awards at the ceremony, which celebrates the best in independent film of the past year. Steve McQueen’s harrowing slavery drama won Best Feature, Best Director, Best Supporting Female (Lupita Nyong’o), Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography.
For the other acting categories, Oscar frontrunners Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto picked up Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor gongs for their respective turns in Dallas Buyers Club, while Oscar near-lock Cate Blanchett continued her unstoppable rampage through the awards season by picking up yet another Best Actress prize for Blue Jasmine.
Fruitvale Station, directed by Ryan Coogler and starring future Fantastic Four member Michael B. Jordan, was awarded the Best First Feature prize, writer Bob Nelson won Best First Screenplay for Alexander Payne’s Nebraska, controversial French romance Blue Is The Warmest Colour walked away with Best International Film, and even the excellent Short Term 12 got recognised for Best Editing.
A full list of winners (highlighted in bold) are below:
Best Feature All is Lost Frances Ha Inside Llewyn Davis Nebraska 12 Years a Slave Best Director J.C. Chandor, “All is Lost” Jeff Nichols, “Mud” Alexander Payne, “Nebraska” Steve McQueen, “12 Years a Slave” Shane Carruth, “Upstream Color” Best First Feature Blue Caprice Concussion Fruitvale Station Una Noche Wadjda Best Screenplay Before Midnight Blue Jasmine Enough Said The Spectacular Now 12 Years a Slave Best First Screenplay Afternoon Delight Don Jon In a World The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pet Nebraska Best Female Lead Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine” Julie Delpy, “Before Midnight” Gaby Hoffman, “Crystal Fairy” Brie Larson, “Short Term 12” Shailene Woodley, “The Spectacular Now” Best Male Lead Bruce Dern, “Nebraska” Oscar Isaac, “Inside Llewyn Davis” Michael B. Jordan, “Fruitvale Station” Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club” Robert Redford, “All is Lost” Chiwetel Ejiofor, “12 Years a Slave” Best Supporting Female Melonie Diaz, “Fruitvale Station” Sally Hawkins, “Blue Jasmine” Lupita Nyong’o, “12 Years a Slave” Yolonda Ross, “Go For Sisters” June Squibb, “Nebraska” Best Supporting Male Michael Fassbender, “12 Years a Slave” Will Forte, “Nebraska” James Gandolfini, “Enough Said” Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club” Keith Stanfield, “Short Term 12” Best Cinematography All is Lost Computer Chess Inside Llewyn Davis Spring Breakers 12 Years a Slave Best Editing Frances Ha Museum Hours Short Term 12 Una Noche Upstream Color Best Documentary The Act of Killing After Tiller Gideon’s Army The Square 20 Feet from Stardom Best International Film Blue is the Warmest Color Gloria The Great Beauty The Hunt A Touch of Sin Robert Altman Award Mud John Cassavetes Award Computer Chess Crystal Fairy Museum Hours Pit Stop This is Martin Bonner Piaget Producers Award Toby Halbrooks & James M. Johnston Jacob Jaffke Andrea Roa Frederick Thornton Someone to Watch Award Aaron Douglas Johnston, “My Sisters Quinceañera” Shaka King, “Newlyweeds” Madeline Olnek, “The Foxy Merkins” Truer Than Fiction Award Kalyanee Mam, “A River Changes Course” Jason Osder, “Let the Fire Burn” Stephanie Spray & Pacho Valez, “Manakamana”