Luca Guadagnino’s acclaimed gay romance, “Call Me by Your Name,” emerged as the frontrunner at the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards when nominations were announced yesterday. It received six nods for Best Feature, Best Director, Best Male Lead (Timothée Chalamet), Best Supporting Male (Armie Hammer), Best Cinematography (Sayombhu Mukdeeprom) and Best Editing (Walter Fasano). Followed close behind is Jordan Peele’s timely hit, “Get Out,” and Benny & Josh Safdie’s “Good Time,” each receiving five nominations apiece. “Get Out” has the edge with nominations in both the Best Feature and Best Director categories, while “Good Time” was shut out of the running for the top prize. The other three Best Feature contenders are Sean Baker’s “The Florida Project,” Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird” and Chloé Zhao’s little-seen “The Rider.” Zhao also earned a Directing nomination alongside Baker and Jonas Carpignano for the Italian drama, “A Ciambra.” Nick Kroll and John Mulaney will return as hosts of the live broadcast on Saturday, March 3rd, on IFC. The cast of Dee Rees’ “Mudbound,” along with casting directors Billy Hopkins and Ashley Ingram, have already been announced as the recipients of this year’s Robert Altman Award for Best Ensemble. Below is the complete list of nominees… BEST FEATURE“Call Me by Your Name”“The Florida Project”“Get Out”“Lady Bird”“The Rider” BEST FIRST FEATURE“Columbus”“Ingrid Goes West”“Menashe”“Oh Lucy!”“Patti Cake$” BEST DIRECTORSean Baker, “The Florida Project”Jonas Carpignano, “A Ciambra”Luca Guadagnino, “Call Me by Your Name”Jordan Peele, “Get Out”Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, “Good Time”Chloé Zhao, “The Rider” BEST FEMALE LEADSalma Hayek, “Beatriz at Dinner”Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”Margot Robbie, “I, Tonya”Saoirse Ronan, “Lady Bird”Shinobu Terajima, “Oh Lucy!”Regina Williams, “Life and nothing more” BEST MALE LEADTimothée Chalamet, “Call Me by Your Name”Harris Dickinson, “Beach Rats”James Franco, “The Disaster Artist”Daniel Kaluuya, “Get Out”Robert Pattinson, “Good Time” BEST SUPPORTING FEMALEHolly Hunter, “The Big Sick”Allison Janney, “I, Tonya”Laurie Metcalf, “Lady Bird”Lois Smith, “Marjorie Prime”Taliah Lennice Webster, “Good Time” BEST SUPPORTING MALENnamdi Asomugha, “Crown Heights”Armie Hammer, “Call Me by Your Name”Barry Keoghan, “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”Benny Safdie, “Good Time” JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD – Given to the best feature made for under $500,000. (Award given to the writer, director and producer. Executive Producers are not awarded.)“Dayveon”“A Ghost Story”“Life and nothing more”“Most Beautiful Island”“The Transfiguration” BEST SCREENPLAYGreta Gerwig, “Lady Bird”Azazel Jacobs, “The Lovers”Martin McDonagh, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”Jordan Peele, “Get Out”Mike White, “Beatriz at Dinner” BEST FIRST SCREENPLAYKris Avedisian, Kyle Espeleta, Jesse Wakeman, “Donald Cried”Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani, “The Big Sick”Ingrid Jungermann, “Women Who Kill”Kogonada, “Columbus”David Branson Smith, Matt Spicer, “Ingrid Goes West” BEST CINEMATOGRAPHYThimios Bakatakis, “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”Elisha Christian, “Columbus”Hélène Louvart, “Beach Rats”Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, “Call Me by Your Name”Joshua James Richards, “The Rider” BEST EDITINGRonald Bronstein, 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” ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD – Given to one film’s director, casting director and ensemble cast “Mudbound”Director: Dee ReesCasting Directors: Billy Hopkins, Ashley IngramEnsemble Cast: Jonathan Banks, Mary J. Blige, Jason Clarke, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Mitchell, Rob Morgan, Carey Mulligan BEST DOCUMENTARY“The Departure”“Faces Places”“Last Men in Aleppo”“Motherland”“Quest” BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM“BPM (Beats Per Minute)”“A Fantastic Woman”“I Am Not a Witch”“Lady Macbeth”“Loveless” BONNIE AWARDSo Yong KimLynn SheltonChloé Zhao JEEP TRUER THAN FICTION AWARDShevaun Mizrahi, “Distant Constellation”Jonathan Olshefski, “Quest”Jeff Unay, “The Cage Fighter” KIEHL’S SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARDAmman Abbasi, “Dayveon”Justin Chon, “Gook”Kevin Phillips, “Super Dark Times” PIAGET PRODUCERS AWARDGiulia Caruso & Ki Jin KimBen LeClairSummer Shelton For more info on the Film Independent Spirit Awards, visit the official site.
