Awards - Independent Spirit Awards - 1995-2004

Best Feature

• Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, Ross Katz)
• In America (Arthur Lappin, Jim Sheridan)
• Long way home (Alain de la Mata, Scott Macaulay, Robin O'Hara, Peter Sollett)
• American Splendor (Ted Hope)
• Shattered Glass (Craig Baumgarten, Tove Christensen, Gaye Hirsch, Adam Merims)

Best First Feature

• Monster (Mark Damon, Patty Jenkins, Donald Kushner, Clark Peterson, Charlize Theron, Brad Wyman)
• Bomb the System (Adam Bhala Lough, Ben Rekhi, Sol Tryon)
• Streets of Legend (Joey Curtis, Fredric King)
• House of Sand and Fog (Michael London, Вадим Перельман)
• Thirteen (Catherine Hardwicke, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, Michael London)

Best Director

• Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation)
• Gus Van Sant (Elephant)
• Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini (American Splendor)
• Jim Sheridan (In America)
• Peter Sollett (Long way home)

Best Male Lead

• Bill Murray (Lost in Translation)
• Ben Kingsley (House of Sand and Fog)
• Paul Giamatti (American Splendor)
• Lee Pace (Soldier's Girl)
• Peter Dinklage (The Station Agent)

Best Female Lead

• Charlize Theron (Monster)
• Agnes Bruckner (Blue Car)
• Samantha Morton (In America)
• Elisabeth Moss (Virgin)
• Zooey Deschanel (All the Real Girls)

Best Supporting Male

• Djimon Hounsou (In America)
• Alessandro Nivola (Laurel Canyon)
• Peter Sarsgaard (Shattered Glass)
• Judah Friedlander (American Splendor)
• Troy Garity (Soldier's Girl)

Best Supporting Female

• Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog)
• Frances McDormand (Laurel Canyon)
• Patricia Clarkson (Pieces of April)
• Hope Davis (The Secret Lives of Dentists)
• Sarah Bolger (In America)

Best Debut Performance

• Nikki Reed (Thirteen)
• Anna Kendrick (Camp)
• Judy Marte (Long way home)
• Victor Rasuk (Long way home)
• Janice Richardson (Anne B. Real)

Best Screenplay

• Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation)
• Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy (A Mighty Wind)
• Peter Hedges (Pieces of April)
• Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini (American Splendor)
• Billy Ray (Shattered Glass)

Best First Screenplay

• Tom McCarthy (The Station Agent)
• Karen Moncrieff (Blue Car)
• Catherine Hardwicke, Nikki Reed (Thirteen)
• Peter Sollett, Eva Vives (Long way home)
• Patty Jenkins (Monster)

Best Cinematography

• Declan Quinn (In America)
• Harris Savides (Elephant)
• Mandy Walker (Shattered Glass)
• M. David Mullen (Northfork)
• Derek Cianfrance (Streets of Legend)

Best Documentary Feature

• The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (Errol Morris)
• Mayor of the Sunset Strip (George Hickenlooper)
• OT: Our Town (Scott Hamilton Kennedy)
• Power Trip (Paul Devlin)
• My Architect (Nathaniel Kahn)

Best International Film

• Whale Rider (Niki Caro)
• Lilja 4-ever (Lukas Moodysson)
• The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan)
• City of God (Fernando Meirelles)
• The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet)

Special Distinction Award

• 21 Grams (Guillermo Arriaga, Benicio Del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Sean Penn, Robert Salerno, Naomi Watts)

John Cassavetes Award

• Robert May, Tom McCarthy, Mary Jane Skalski, Kathryn Tucker (The Station Agent)
• Lisa France, Josselyne Herman Saccio, Antonio Macia, Luis Moro, Jeanine Rohn (Anne B. Real)
• Julie Asato, Ernesto Foronda, Justin Lin, Fabian Marquez (Better Luck Tomorrow)
• Alexis Alexanian, Peter Hedges, John S. Lyons, Gary Winick (Pieces of April)
• Deborah Kampmeier, Sarah Schenck (Virgin)

Truer than Fiction Award

• Lost Boys of Sudan (Megan Mylan, Jon Shenk)
• Flag Wars (Linda Goode Bryant, Laura Poitras)
• The Same River Twice (Robb Moss)
• My Architect (Nathaniel Kahn)

Someone to Watch Award

• Andrew Bujalski (Funny Ha Ha)
• Ryan Eslinger (Madness and Genius)
• Ben Coccio (Zero Day)

Producers Award

• Mary Jane Skalski (The Station Agent)
• Mary Jane Skalski (The Jimmy Show)
• Lauren Moews (Cabin Fever)
• Lauren Moews (Briar Patch)
• Callum Greene, Anthony Katagas (Happy Here and Now)
• Callum Greene, Anthony Katagas (Homework)

Best Feature

• Far from Heaven (Jody Allen, Christine Vachon)
• Secretary (Andrew Fierberg, Amy Hobby, Steven Shainberg)
• Lovely & Amazing (Anthony Bregman, Eric d'Arbeloff, Ted Hope)
• The Good Girl (Matthew Greenfield)
• Tully (Hilary Birmingham, Anne Sundberg)

Best First Feature

• The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (Peter Care)
• Interview with the Assassin (Neil Burger)
• Paid in Full (Charles Stone III)
• Manito (Eric Eason)
• Roger Dodger (Dylan Kidd)

Best Director

• Todd Haynes (Far from Heaven)
• Joe Carnahan (Narc)
• Bernard Rose (Ivansxtc)
• Gus Van Sant (Gerry)
• Nicole Holofcener (Lovely & Amazing)

Best Male Lead

• Derek Luke (Antwone Fisher)
• Jeremy Renner (Dahmer)
• Danny Huston (Ivansxtc)
• Graham Greene (Skins)
• Campbell Scott (Roger Dodger)

Best Female Lead

• Julianne Moore (Far from Heaven)
• Maggie Gyllenhaal (Secretary)
• Jennifer Aniston (The Good Girl)
• Catherine Keener (Lovely & Amazing)
• Parker Posey (Personal Velocity: Three Portraits)

Best Supporting Male

• Dennis Quaid (Far from Heaven)
• John C. Reilly (The Good Girl)
• Peter Weller (Ivansxtc)
• Ray Liotta (Narc)
• Alan Arkin (13 Conversations About One Thing)

Best Supporting Female

• Emily Mortimer (Lovely & Amazing)
• Viola Davis (Antwone Fisher)
• Juliette Lewis (Hysterical Blindness)
• Jacqueline Kim (Charlotte Sometimes)
• Julianne Nicholson (Tully)

Best Debut Performance

• Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
• Artel Great (Dahmer)
• America Ferrera (Real Women Have Curves)
• Raven Goodwin (Lovely & Amazing)
• Bob Burrus (Tully)

Best Screenplay

• Mike White (The Good Girl)
• Dylan Kidd (Roger Dodger)
• Jill Sprecher, Karen Sprecher (13 Conversations About One Thing)
• Nicole Holofcener (Lovely & Amazing)
• Hilary Birmingham, Matt Drake (Tully)

Best First Screenplay

• Erin Cressida Wilson (Secretary)
• Laura Cahill (Hysterical Blindness)
• Neil Burger (Interview with the Assassin)
• Burr Steers (Igby Goes Down)
• Heather Juergensen, Jennifer Westfeldt (Kissing Jessica Stein)

Best Cinematography

• Edward Lachman (Far from Heaven)
• Harris Savides (Gerry)
• Alex Nepomniaschy (Narc)
• Richard Rutkowski (Interview with the Assassin)
• Ellen Kuras (Personal Velocity: Three Portraits)

Best Documentary Feature

• Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore)
• Devil's Playground (Lucy Walker)
• How to Draw a Bunny (John W. Walter)
• Stevie (Steve James)
• The Cockettes (Bill Weber, David Weissman)

Best International Film

• And Your Mother Too (Alfonso Cuarón)
• Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk)
• Time Out (Laurent Cantet)
• Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass)
• The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)

John Cassavetes Award

• Alexis Alexanian, Rebecca Miller, Lemore Syvan, Gary Winick (Personal Velocity: Three Portraits)
• Marc Ambrose, Eric Byler (Charlotte Sometimes)
• Lisa Enos, Bernard Rose (Ivansxtc)
• Greg O'Connor, Michael A. Robinson, Alex Smith, Andrew J. Smith (The Slaughter Rule)
• David Jacobson, Larry Rattner (Dahmer)

Truer than Fiction Award

• Love and Diane (Jennifer Dworkin)
• Spellbound (Jeffrey Blitz)
• The Trials of Henry Kissinger (Eugene Jarecki)
• Stone Reader (Mark Moskowitz)

Someone to Watch Award

• Przemyslaw Reut (Paradox Lake)
• Eric Eason (Manito)
• Eitan Gorlin (The Holy Land)

Producers Award

• Effie Brown (Real Women Have Curves)
• Effie Brown (Stranger Inside)
• Eden Wurmfeld (Kissing Jessica Stein)
• Eden Wurmfeld (Fanci's Persuasion)
• Allen Bain, Jesse Scolaro (Manito)
• Allen Bain, Jesse Scolaro (Cry Funny Happy)

Best Feature

• Memento (Jennifer Todd, Suzanne Todd)
• Waking Life (Tommy Pallotta, Jonah Smith, Anne Walker-McBay, Palmer West)
• Things Behind the Sun (Robin Alper, Daniel Hassid, Doug Mankoff)
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Pamela Koffler, Katie Roumel, Christine Vachon)
• L.I.E. (Rene Bastian, Michael Cuesta, Linda Moran)

Best First Feature

• In the Bedroom (Todd Field)
• Inside a Skinhead (Henry Bean)
• Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)
• The Anniversary Party (Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh)
• Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)

Best Director

• Christopher Nolan (Memento)
• Richard Linklater (Waking Life)
• Michael Cuesta (L.I.E.)
• John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
• Cheryl Dunye (Stranger Inside)

Best Male Lead

• Tom Wilkinson (In the Bedroom)
• Brian Cox (L.I.E.)
• Jake Gyllenhaal (Donnie Darko)
• John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
• Ryan Gosling (Inside a Skinhead)

Best Female Lead

• Sissy Spacek (In the Bedroom)
• Kerry Washington (Lift)
• Kim Dickens (Things Behind the Sun)
• Molly Parker (The Center of the World)
• Tilda Swinton (The Deep End)

Best Supporting Male

• Steve Buscemi (Ghost World)
• Don Cheadle (Things Behind the Sun)
• Billy Kay (L.I.E.)
• Garrett Morris (Jackpot)
• John C. Reilly (The Anniversary Party)

Best Supporting Female

• Carrie-Anne Moss (Memento)
• Davenia McFadden (Stranger Inside)
• Tamara Tunie (The Caveman's Valentine)
• Summer Phoenix (Inside a Skinhead)
• Uma Thurman (Tape)

Best Debut Performance

• Paul Dano (L.I.E.)
• Ana Reeder (Acts of Worship)
• Clint Jordan (Virgil Bliss)
• Hilary Howard, Anthony Leslie, Mitchell Riggs (Kaaterskill Falls)
• Yolonda Ross (Stranger Inside)

Best Screenplay

• Christopher Nolan (Memento)
• Henry Bean (Inside a Skinhead)
• Milo Addica, Will Rokos (Monster's Ball)
• Richard Linklater (Waking Life)
• Robert Festinger, Todd Field (In the Bedroom)

Best First Screenplay

• Daniel Clowes, Terry Zwigoff (Ghost World)
• Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Anniversary Party)
• Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko)
• John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
• Gerald Cuesta, Michael Cuesta, Stephen M. Ryder (L.I.E.)

Best Cinematography

• Peter Deming (Mulholland Drive)
• Frank G. DeMarco (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
• W. Mott Hupfel III (The American Astronaut)
• Giles Nuttgens (The Deep End)
• Wally Pfister (Memento)

Best Documentary Feature

• Dogtown and Z-Boys (Stacy Peralta)
• Scratch (Doug Pray)
• Go Tigers! (Kenneth A. Carlson)
• Promises (Carlos Bolado, B.Z. Goldberg, Justine Shapiro)
• LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton (Deborah Dickson, Susan Froemke, Albert Maysles)

Best International Film

• Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
• Amores Perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
• Together (Lukas Moodysson)
• Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer)
• Lumumba (Raoul Peck)

John Cassavetes Award

• Mark Polish, Michael Polish (Jackpot)
• Nadia Leonelli, Rosemary Rodriguez, Fredrik Sundwall (Acts of Worship)
• Josh Apter, Peter Olsen (Kaaterskill Falls)
• Joe Maggio, John Maggio (Virgil Bliss)
• Tracey E. Edmonds, Michael McQuarn, Patrik-Ian Polk (Punks)

Truer than Fiction Award

• Hybrid (Monteith McCollum)
• Children Underground (Edet Belzberg)
• The Mark of Cain (Alix Lambert)
• Promises (Carlos Bolado, B.Z. Goldberg, Justine Shapiro)
• Trembling Before G-d (Sandi Simcha Dubowski)

Someone to Watch Award

• Debra Eisenstadt (Daydream Believer)
• Michael Gilio (Kwik Stop)
• David Maquiling (Too Much Sleep)
• DeMane Davis, Khari Streeter (Lift)

Producers Award

• Rene Bastian, Linda Moran (Martin & Orloff)
• Rene Bastian, Linda Moran (L.I.E.)
• Nadia Leonelli (Acts of Worship)
• Nadia Leonelli (Perfume)
• Adrienne Gruben (Treasure Island)
• Adrienne Gruben (Olympia)
• Jasmine Kosovic (Just One Time)
• Jasmine Kosovic (The Adventures of Sebastian Cole)

Best Feature

• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Li-Kong Hsu, William Kong, Ang Lee)
• George Washington (David Gordon Green, Sacha W. Mueller, Lisa Muskat)
• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Richard Guay, Jim Jarmusch)
• Before Night Falls (Jon Kilik)
• Requiem for a Dream (Eric Watson, Palmer West)

Best First Feature

• You Can Count on Me (Barbara De Fina, John Hart, Kenneth Lonergan, Larry Meistrich, Jeffrey Sharp)
• Girlfight (Sarah Green, Martha Griffin, Karyn Kusama, Maggie Renzi)
• Boiler Room (Jennifer Todd, Suzanne Todd, Ben Younger)
• The Visit (Jordan Walker-Pearlman)
• Love & Basketball (Sam Kitt, Spike Lee, Gina Prince-Bythewood)

Best First Feature - Under $500,000

• Chuck & Buck (Miguel Arteta, Matthew Greenfield, Mike White)
• Bunny (Rebecca Sonnenshine, Mia Trachinger)
• Groove (Greg Harrison, Danielle Renfrew Behrens)
• Our Song (Jim McKay, Paul Mezey, Diana E. Williams)
• Everything Put Together (Catherine Lloyd Burns, Adam Forgash, Marc Forster, Sean Furst)

Best Director

• Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
• Christopher Guest (Best in Show)
• Julian Schnabel (Before Night Falls)
• Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream)
• Miguel Arteta (Chuck & Buck)

Best Male Lead

• Javier Bardem (Before Night Falls)
• Billy Crudup (Jesus' Son)
• Adrien Brody (Restaurant)
• Mark Ruffalo (You Can Count on Me)
• Hill Harper (The Visit)

Best Female Lead

• Ellen Burstyn (Requiem for a Dream)
• Sanaa Lathan (Love & Basketball)
• Joan Allen (The Contender)
• Laura Linney (You Can Count on Me)
• Kelly Macdonald (Two Family House)

Best Supporting Male

• Willem Dafoe (Shadow of the Vampire)
• Gary Oldman (The Contender)
• Billy Dee Williams (The Visit)
• Cole Hauser (Tigerland)
• Giovanni Ribisi (The Gift)

Best Supporting Female

• Ziyi Zhang (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
• Lupe Ontiveros (Chuck & Buck)
• Jennifer Connelly (Requiem for a Dream)
• Marcia Gay Harden (Pollock)
• Pat Carroll (Songcatcher)

Best Debut Performance

• Mike White (Chuck & Buck)
• Michelle Rodriguez (Girlfight)
• Rory Culkin (You Can Count on Me)
• Curtis Cotton III, Candace Evanofski, Rachael Handy, Donald Holden, Damian Jewan Lee (George Washington)
• Emmy Rossum (Songcatcher)

Best Screenplay

• Kenneth Lonergan (You Can Count on Me)
• Mike White (Chuck & Buck)
• Raymond De Felitta (Two Family House)
• Valerie Breiman (Love & Sex)
• Robert Dillon (Waking the Dead)

Best First Screenplay

• Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love & Basketball)
• David Gordon Green (George Washington)
• Jordan Walker-Pearlman (The Visit)
• Ben Younger (Boiler Room)
• Ross Klavan, Michael McGruther (Tigerland)

Best Cinematography

• Matthew Libatique (Requiem for a Dream)
• Tim Orr (George Washington)
• Xavier Grobet, Guillermo Rosas (Before Night Falls)
• John de Borman (Hamlet)
• Lou Bogue (Shadow of the Vampire)

Best Documentary Feature

• Dark Days (Marc Singer)
• Long Night's Journey Into Day (Deborah Hoffmann, Frances Reid)
• Sound and Fury (Josh Aronson)
• Paragraph 175 (Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman)
• The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato)

Best International Film

• Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
• In the Mood for Love (Kar-wai Wong)
• The War Zone (Tim Roth)
• Theeviravaathi: The Terrorist (Santosh Sivan)
• A Time for Drunken Horses (Bahman Ghobadi)

Truer than Fiction Award

• Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale (Laurie Gwen Shapiro, David Shapiro)
• Benjamin Smoke (Jem Cohen, Peter Sillen)
• Just, Melvin: Just Evil (James Ronald Whitney)
• Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story (Shelly Dunn Fremont, Vincent Fremont)

Someone to Watch Award

• Marc Forster (Everything Put Together)
• Mia Trachinger (Bunny)
• Dan McCormack (Other Voices)

Producers Award

• Paul Mezey (The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack)
• Paul Mezey (Spring Forward)
• Jim McKay (American Movie)
• Jim McKay (Our Song)
• Diana E. Williams (The Love Machine)
• Diana E. Williams (Our Song)
• Tim Perell (Louis & Frank)
• Tim Perell (The Myth of Fingerprints)

Best Feature

• Election (Albert Berger, David Gale, Keith Samples, Ron Yerxa)
• The Limey (John Hardy, Scott Kramer)
• Cookie's Fortune (Robert Altman, Ernst Etchie Stroh)
• The Straight Story (Neal Edelstein, Mary Sweeney)
• Sugar Town (Daniel Hassid)

Best First Feature - Over $500,000

• Being John Malkovich (Steve Golin, Spike Jonze, Vincent Landay, Sandy Stern, Michael Stipe)
• Boys Don't Cry (John Hart, Eva Kolodner, Kimberly Peirce, Jeffrey Sharp, Christine Vachon)
• Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (Wai-Chung Chan, Joan Chen)
• Twin Falls Idaho (Marshall Persinger, Michael Polish, Rena Ronson, Steven J. Wolfe)
• Ba mùa (Tony Bui, Jason Kliot, Joana Vicente)

Best First Feature - Under $500,000

• The Blair Witch Project (Robin Cowie, Gregg Hale, Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez)
• Compensation (Marc Arthur Chéry, Zeinabu Irene Davis)
• Judy Berlin (Rocco Caruso, Eric Mendelsohn)
• The City (Paul Mezey, David Riker)
• Treasure Island (Adrienne Gruben, Scott King)

Best Director

• Alexander Payne (Election)
• David Lynch (The Straight Story)
• Harmony Korine (Julien Donkey-Boy)
• Doug Liman (Go)
• Steven Soderbergh (The Limey)

Best Male Lead

• Richard Farnsworth (The Straight Story)
• Terence Stamp (The Limey)
• Noble Willingham (The Corndog Man)
• David Strathairn (Limbo)
• John Cusack (Being John Malkovich)

Best Female Lead

• Hilary Swank (Boys Don't Cry)
• Diane Lane (A Walk on the Moon)
• Janet McTeer (Tumbleweeds)
• Reese Witherspoon (Election)
• Susan Traylor (Valerie Flake)

Best Supporting Male

• Steve Zahn (Happy, Texas)
• Luis Guzmán (The Limey)
• Charles S. Dutton (Cookie's Fortune)
• Clark Gregg (The Adventures of Sebastian Cole)
• Terrence Howard (The Best Man)

Best Supporting Female

• Chloë Sevigny (Boys Don't Cry)
• Sarah Polley (Go)
• Barbara Barrie (Judy Berlin)
• Vanessa Martinez (Limbo)
• Jean Smart (Guinevere)

Best Debut Performance

• Kimberly J. Brown (Tumbleweeds)
• Toby Smith (Drylongso)
• Jessica Campbell (Election)
• Edge of Seventeen
• Jade Gordon (Sugar Town)

Best Screenplay

• Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor (Election)
• Lem Dobbs (The Limey)
• Audrey Wells (Guinevere)
• Kevin Smith (Dogma)
• James Merendino (SLC Punk!)

Best First Screenplay

• Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich)
• Anne Rapp (Cookie's Fortune)
• Andy Bienen, Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry)
• John Roach, Mary Sweeney (The Straight Story)
• Tod Williams (The Adventures of Sebastian Cole)

Best Cinematography

• Lisa Rinzler (Ba mùa)
• Jeffrey Seckendorf (Judy Berlin)
• Harlan Bosmajian (The City)
• Anthony Dod Mantle (Julien Donkey-Boy)
• M. David Mullen (Twin Falls Idaho)

Best International Film

• Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer)
• My Son the Fanatic (Udayan Prasad)
• Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh)
• Rosetta (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
• All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar)

Truer than Fiction Award

• Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles (Owsley Brown)
• American Hollow (Rory Kennedy)
• Well-Founded Fear (Michael Camerini, Shari Robertson)
• On the Ropes (Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen)

Someone to Watch Award

• Cauleen Smith (Drylongso)
• Lisanne Skyler (Getting to Know You)
• Julian Goldberger (Trans)
• Dan Clark (The Item)

Producers Award

• Pamela Koffler (I'm Losing You)
• Christine K. Walker (Backroads)
• Christine K. Walker (Homo Heights)
• Paul Mezey (The City)
• Eva Kolodner (Boys Don't Cry)

Best Feature

• Gods and Monsters (Paul Colichman, Gregg Fienberg, Mark R. Harris)
• A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (Ismail Merchant)
• Claire Dolan (Ann Ruark)
• Affliction (Linda Reisman)
• Velvet Goldmine (Christine Vachon)

Best First Feature

• The Opposite of Sex (Michael Besman, David Paul Kirkpatrick, Don Roos)
• Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo, Chris Hanley)
• Pi (Darren Aronofsky, Eric Watson)
• High Art (Lisa Cholodenko, Dolly Hall, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, Susan A. Stover)
• Slums of Beverly Hills (Tamara Jenkins, Michael Nozik, Stan Wlodkowski)

Best Director

• Wes Anderson (Rushmore)
• Todd Haynes (Velvet Goldmine)
• Lodge Kerrigan (Claire Dolan)
• Paul Schrader (Affliction)
• Todd Solondz (Happiness)

Best Male Lead

• Ian McKellen (Gods and Monsters)
• Courtney B. Vance (Blind Faith)
• Nick Nolte (Affliction)
• Sean Penn (Hurlyburly)
• Dylan Baker (Happiness)

Best Female Lead

• Ally Sheedy (High Art)
• Katrin Cartlidge (Claire Dolan)
• Alfre Woodard (Down in the Delta)
• Robin Tunney (Niagara, Niagara)
• Christina Ricci (The Opposite of Sex)

Best Supporting Male

• Bill Murray (Rushmore)
• James Coburn (Affliction)
• Charles S. Dutton (Blind Faith)
• Gary Farmer (Smoke Signals)
• Philip Seymour Hoffman (Happiness)

Best Supporting Female

• Lynn Redgrave (Gods and Monsters)
• Lisa Kudrow (The Opposite of Sex)
• Patricia Clarkson (High Art)
• Stockard Channing (The Baby Dance)
• Joely Richardson (Under Heaven)

Best Debut Performance

• Evan Adams (Smoke Signals)
• Anthony Roth Costanzo (A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries)
• Saul Williams (Slam)
• Andrea Hart (Miss Monday)
• Sonja Sohn (Slam)

Best Screenplay

• Don Roos (The Opposite of Sex)
• Paul Schrader (Affliction)
• Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters)
• Frank Military (Blind Faith)
• David Mamet (The Spanish Prisoner)

Best First Screenplay

• Darren Aronofsky (Pi)
• Lisa Cholodenko (High Art)
• Tamara Jenkins (Slums of Beverly Hills)
• Matthew Weiss (Niagara, Niagara)
• Sherman Alexie (Smoke Signals)

Best Cinematography

• Maryse Alberti (Velvet Goldmine)
• Paul Sarossy (Affliction)
• Tami Reiker (High Art)
• Matthew Libatique (Pi)
• Sayeed Malik Hassan (Belly)

Best International Film

• The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg)
• The General (John Boorman)
• The Eel (Shôhei Imamura)
• Central Station (Walter Salles)
• Fireworks (Takeshi Kitano)

Truer than Fiction Award

• Regret to Inform (Barbara Sonneborn)
• Dear Jesse (Tim Kirkman)
• Moment of Impact (Julia Loktev)
• Dying to Tell the Story (Kyra Thompson)
• Paulina (Vicky Funari)

Someone to Watch Award

• David D. Williams (Thirteen)
• Lynn Hershman-Leeson (Conceiving Ada)
• Tony Barbieri (One)
• Eric Tretbar (Snow)

Producers Award

• Susan A. Stover (High Art)
• Susan A. Stover (The Sticky Fingers of Time)
• Margot Bridger (Arresting Gena)
• Margot Bridger (The Delta)
• Andrea Sperling (The Doom Generation)
• Andrea Sperling (Nowhere)
• Gill Holland (Hurricane)
• Gill Holland (Spring Forward)

Best Feature

• The Apostle (Rob Carliner)
• Chasing Amy (Scott Mosier)
• Ulee's Gold (Sam Gowan, Peter Saraf)
• Loved (Philippe Caland)
• Waiting for Guffman (Karen Murphy)

Best First Feature

• Eve's Bayou (Caldecot Chubb, Samuel L. Jackson, Kasi Lemmons)
• In the Company of Men (Mark Archer, Neil LaBute, Stephen Pevner)
• Star Maps (Miguel Arteta, Matthew Greenfield)
• The Bible and Gun Club (Daniel J. Harris)
• Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson, Robert Jones, John S. Lyons)

Best Director

• Robert Duvall (The Apostle)
• Larry Fessenden (Habit)
• Victor Nunez (Ulee's Gold)
• Paul Schrader (Touch)
• Wim Wenders (The End of Violence)

Best Male Lead

• Robert Duvall (The Apostle)
• John Turturro (Box of Moon Light)
• Peter Fonda (Ulee's Gold)
• Philip Baker Hall (Hard Eight)
• Christopher Guest (Waiting for Guffman)

Best Female Lead

• Julie Christie (Afterglow)
• Alison Folland (All Over Me)
• Robin Wright (Loved)
• Stacy Edwards (In the Company of Men)
• Lisa Harrow (Sunday)

Best Supporting Male

• Jason Lee (Chasing Amy)
• Efrain Figueroa (Star Maps)
• Samuel L. Jackson (Hard Eight)
• Ajay Naidu (SubUrbia)
• Roy Scheider (The Myth of Fingerprints)

Best Supporting Female

• Debbi Morgan (Eve's Bayou)
• Amy Madigan (Loved)
• Farrah Fawcett (The Apostle)
• Miranda Richardson (The Apostle)
• Patricia Richardson (Ulee's Gold)

Best Debut Performance

• Aaron Eckhart (In the Company of Men)
• Tyrone Burton, Eddie Cutanda, Phuong Duong (Squeeze)
• Darling Narita (Bang)
• Douglas Spain (Star Maps)
• Lysa Flores (Star Maps)

Best Screenplay

• Kevin Smith (Chasing Amy)
• Robert Duvall (The Apostle)
• Victor Nunez (Ulee's Gold)
• Paul Schrader (Touch)
• Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy (Waiting for Guffman)

Best First Screenplay

• Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men)
• Steven Schwartz (Critical Care)
• Paul Thomas Anderson (Hard Eight)
• Miguel Arteta (Star Maps)
• Daniel J. Harris (The Bible and Gun Club)

Best Cinematography

• Declan Quinn (Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love)
• Robert Elswit (Hard Eight)
• Alex Vendler (The Bible and Gun Club)
• Frank G. DeMarco (Habit)
• Michael F. Barrow, John Foster (Sunday)

Best International Film

• The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
• Mouth to Mouth (Manuel Gómez Pereira)
• Nenette and Boni (Claire Denis)
• Happy Together (Kar-wai Wong)
• Underground (Emir Kusturica)

Truer than Fiction Award

• Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (Errol Morris)
• Soul in the Hole (Danielle Gardner)
• Family Name (Macky Alston)
• Colors Straight Up (Michèle Ohayon)
• Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (Kirby Dick)

Someone to Watch Award

• Scott Saunders (The Headhunter's Sister)
• Tim Blake Nelson (Eye of God)
• Erin Dignam (Loved)

Producers Award

• Scott Macaulay, Robin O'Hara (Habit)
• Margot Bridger (Arresting Gena)
• Margot Bridger (The Delta)
• Lisa Onodera (Forbidden City, U.S.A.)
• Lisa Onodera (Picture Bride)
• Richard Raddon (Shooting Lily)
• Susan A. Stover (High Art)
• Susan A. Stover (River of Grass)
• Richard Raddon (The Making of '...And God Spoke')

Best Feature

• Fargo (Ethan Coen)
• Dead Man (Demetra J. MacBride)
• The Funeral (Mary Kane)
• Lone Star (R. Paul Miller, Maggie Renzi)
• Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz)

Best First Feature

• Sling Blade (David L. Bushell, Brandon Rosser, Billy Bob Thornton)
• Big Night (Jonathan Filley, Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci)
• Manny & Lo (Marlen Hecht, Lisa Krueger, Dean Silvers)
• I Shot Andy Warhol (Mary Harron, Tom Kalin, Christine Vachon)
• Trees Lounge (Steve Buscemi, Chris Hanley, Brad Wyman)

Best Director

• Joel Coen (Fargo)
• Abel Ferrara (The Funeral)
• Robert M. Young (Caught)
• David O. Russell (Flirting with Disaster)
• Todd Solondz (Welcome to the Dollhouse)

Best Male Lead

• William H. Macy (Fargo)
• Chris Penn (The Funeral)
• Stanley Tucci (Big Night)
• Chris Cooper (Lone Star)
• Tony Shalhoub (Big Night)

Best Female Lead

• Frances McDormand (Fargo)
• Scarlett Johansson (Manny & Lo)
• Renée Zellweger (The Whole Wide World)
• Maria Conchita Alonso (Caught)
• Catherine Keener (Walking and Talking)

Best Supporting Male

• Benicio Del Toro (Basquiat)
• Gary Farmer (Dead Man)
• Kevin Corrigan (Walking and Talking)
• Richard Jenkins (Flirting with Disaster)
• Matthew Faber (Welcome to the Dollhouse)

Best Supporting Female

• Elizabeth Peña (Lone Star)
• Lily Tomlin (Flirting with Disaster)
• Mary Kay Place (Manny & Lo)
• Lili Taylor (Girls Town)
• Queen Latifah (Set It Off)

Best Debut Performance

• Heather Matarazzo (Welcome to the Dollhouse)
• Brendan Sexton III (Welcome to the Dollhouse)
• Jeffrey Wright (Basquiat)
• Arie Verveen (Caught)
• Jena Malone (Bastard Out of Carolina)

Best Screenplay

• Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (Fargo)
• Jim Jarmusch (Dead Man)
• John Sayles (Lone Star)
• David O. Russell (Flirting with Disaster)
• Nicholas St. John (The Funeral)

Best First Screenplay

• Joseph Tropiano, Stanley Tucci (Big Night)
• Suzan-Lori Parks (Girl 6)
• Steve Buscemi (Trees Lounge)
• Lisa Krueger (Manny & Lo)
• Michael Scott Myers (The Whole Wide World)

Best Cinematography

• Roger Deakins (Fargo)
• Bill Pope (Bound)
• Robby Müller (Dead Man)
• Rob Sweeney (Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day)
• Ken Kelsch (The Funeral)

Best International Film

• Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh)
• Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
• Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
• Lamerica (Gianni Amelio)
• Chungking Express (Kar-wai Wong)

Truer than Fiction Award

• When We Were Kings (Leon Gast)
• Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern (Steven Ascher, Jeanne Jordan)
• Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky)
• Looking for Richard (Al Pacino)
• The Celluloid Closet (Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman)

Someone to Watch Award

• Larry Fessenden (Habit)
• Chris Smith (American Job)
• Joe Brewster (The Keeper)

Best Feature

• Leaving Las Vegas (Lila Cazès, Annie Stewart)
• Safe (Christine Vachon, Lauren Zalaznick)
• The Secret of Roan Inish (Sarah Green, Maggie Renzi)
• The Addiction (Fernando Sulichin)
• Living in Oblivion (Michael Griffiths, Marcus Viscidi)

Best First Feature

• The Brothers McMullen (Edward Burns, Dick Fisher)
• Kids (Larry Clark, Cary Woods)
• Little Odessa (James Gray, Paul Webster)
• Picture Bride (Kayo Hatta, Diane Mei Lin Mark, Lisa Onodera)
• River of Grass (Kelly Reichardt)

Best Director

• Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas)
• John Sayles (The Secret of Roan Inish)
• Todd Haynes (Safe)
• Michael Almereyda (Nadja)
• Ulu Grosbard (Georgia)

Best Male Lead

• Sean Penn (Dead Man Walking)
• Tim Roth (Little Odessa)
• Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas)
• Jimmy Smits (My Family)
• Kevin Spacey (Swimming with Sharks)

Best Female Lead

• Elisabeth Shue (Leaving Las Vegas)
• Jennifer Jason Leigh (Georgia)
• Julianne Moore (Safe)
• Elina Löwensohn (Nadja)
• Lili Taylor (The Addiction)

Best Supporting Male

• Benicio Del Toro (The Usual Suspects)
• Max Perlich (Georgia)
• David Morse (The Crossing Guard)
• Harold Perrineau (Smoke)
• James Le Gros (Living in Oblivion)

Best Supporting Female

• Mare Winningham (Georgia)
• Celia Weston (Dead Man Walking)
• Chloë Sevigny (Kids)
• Jennifer Lopez (My Family)
• Vanessa Redgrave (Little Odessa)

Best Debut Performance

• Justin Pierce (Kids)
• Gabriel Casseus (New Jersey Drive)
• Lisa Donaldson (River of Grass)
• Jason Andrews (Rhythm Thief)
• Rose McGowan (The Doom Generation)

Best Screenplay

• Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects)
• Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas)
• Todd Haynes (Safe)
• John Sayles (The Secret of Roan Inish)
• Tom DiCillo (Living in Oblivion)

Best First Screenplay

• Paul Auster (Smoke)
• Steve McLean (Post Cards from America)
• Harmony Korine (Kids)
• James Gray (Little Odessa)
• Kelly Reichardt (River of Grass)

Best Cinematography

• Declan Quinn (Leaving Las Vegas)
• Tom Richmond (Little Odessa)
• Newton Thomas Sigel (The Usual Suspects)
• Jim Denault (Nadja)
• Elliot Davis (The Underneath)

Best International Film

• Before the Rain (Milcho Manchevski)
• Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
• I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov)
• The City of Lost Children (Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
• Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami)

Special Distinction Award

• Samuel Fuller

Someone to Watch Award

• Christopher Munch (Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day)
• Jennifer Montgomery (Art for Teachers of Children)
• Rafal Zielinski (Fun)
• Tim McCann (Desolation Angels)
• Kelly Reichardt (River of Grass)

Best Feature

• Pulp Fiction (Lawrence Bender)
• Bullets Over Broadway (Robert Greenhut)
• Wes Craven's New Nightmare (Marianne Maddalena)
• Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (Robert Altman)
• Eat Drink Man Woman (Ted Hope, Li-Kong Hsu, James Schamus)

Best First Feature

• Spanking the Monkey (David O. Russell, Dean Silvers)
• Clean, Shaven (Lodge Kerrigan)
• Clerks (Scott Mosier, Kevin Smith)
• I Like It Like That (Lane Janger, Darnell Martin)
• Suture (Scott McGehee, Michèle Pétin, David Siegel)

Best Director

• Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)
• John Dahl (Red Rock West)
• Alan Rudolph (Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle)
• Ang Lee (Eat Drink Man Woman)
• Roman Polański (Death and the Maiden)

Best Male Lead

• Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction)
• Jon Seda (I Like It Like That)
• Campbell Scott (Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle)
• William H. Macy (Oleanna)
• Sihung Lung (Eat Drink Man Woman)

Best Female Lead

• Linda Fiorentino (The Last Seduction)
• Luna Lauren Velez (I Like It Like That)
• Karen Sillas (What Happened Was...)
• Jennifer Jason Leigh (Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle)
• Jacqueline Wu (Eat Drink Man Woman)

Best Supporting Male

• Chazz Palminteri (Bullets Over Broadway)
• Nicholas Turturro (Federal Hill)
• Eric Stoltz (Pulp Fiction)
• Giancarlo Esposito (Fresh)
• Larry Pine (Vanya on 42nd Street)

Best Supporting Female

• Dianne Wiest (Bullets Over Broadway)
• V.S. Brodie (Go Fish)
• Kelly Lynch (The Beans of Egypt, Maine)
• Carla Gallo (Spanking the Monkey)
• Brooke Smith (Vanya on 42nd Street)

Best Debut Performance

• Sean Nelson (Fresh)
• Jeff Anderson (Clerks)
• Renée Zellweger (Love and a .45)
• Alicia Witt (Fun)
• Jeremy Davies (Spanking the Monkey)

Best Screenplay

• Roger Avary, Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)
• Woody Allen, Douglas McGrath (Bullets Over Broadway)
• John Dahl, Rick Dahl (Red Rock West)
• Randy Sue Coburn, Alan Rudolph (Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle)
• Ang Lee, James Schamus, Hui-Ling Wang (Eat Drink Man Woman)

Best First Screenplay

• David O. Russell (Spanking the Monkey)
• Paul Zehrer (Blessing)
• Kevin Smith (Clerks)
• James Bosley (Fun)
• Tom Noonan (What Happened Was...)

Best Cinematography

• John Thomas (Barcelona)
• Greg Gardiner (Suture)
• Alexander Gruszynski (I Like It Like That)
• Jong Lin (Eat Drink Man Woman)
• Stevan Larner (The Beans of Egypt, Maine)

Best International Film

• Three Colours: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
• Ladybird Ladybird (Ken Loach)
• The Boys of St. Vincent (John N. Smith)
• Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (François Girard)
• The Blue Kite (Zhuangzhuang Tian)

Special Distinction Award

• Hoop Dreams (Peter Gilbert, Steve James, Frederick Marx)

Someone to Watch Award

• Lodge Kerrigan (Clean, Shaven)

Friends of Independence Award

• Samuel Goldwyn Jr.