Awards season is well underway, as the 2017 Independent Spirit Awards nominations were announced today. As major studios have steered away from awards fare, this formerly low profile awards show has grown to become a significant bellwether for future Oscar success. Things are looking good for "Call Me by Your Name" then, which lead all films with 6 nominations. Following right behind were "Get Out" and "Good Time" with 5 each. Will the Spirits continue their trend of predicting Best Picture winner at the Academy Awards? Let the speculation begin. Here are this year's Spirit Awards nominees:
Best Feature
Call Me By Your Name
Get Out
The Florida Project
Lady Bird
The Rider
Best Director
Sean Baker – The Florida Project
Jonas Carpignano- A Ciambra
Luca Gudagnino – Call Me By Your Name
Jordan Peele – Get Out
Benny Safdie/Joshua Safdie – Good Time
Chloé Zhao – The Rider
Best Female Lead
Salma Hayek – Beatriz at Dinner
Francis McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie – I, Tonya
Saiorse Ronin – Lady Bird
Shinobu Terajima – Oh Lucy
Regina Williams – Life And Nothing
Best Male Lead
Timothee 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 Female
Holly Hunter – The Big Sick
Alison Janney – I, Tonya
Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird
Lois Smith – Marjorie Prime
Talia Webster – Good Time
Best Supporting Male
Nnamdi Asomugha – Crown Heights
Armie Hammer -Call Me By Your Name
Barry Keoghan – Killing of a Sacred Deer
Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Ben Safdie – Good Time
Best Screenplay
Greta 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 Feature
Columbus
Ingrid Goes West
Menashe
Oh Lucy
Patty Cake$
John Cassavetes Award
A Ghost Story
Dayveon
Life and Nothing
Most Beautiful Island
Transfiguration
Best First Screenplay
Donald Cried
The Big Sick
Woman Who Kill
Columbus
Ingrid Goes West
Best Cinematography
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Columbus
Beach Rats
Call Me By Your Name
The Rider
Best Editing
Good Time
Call Me By Your Name
The Rider
Get Out
I, Tonya
Best Documentary
The Departure
Faces Places
Last Men in Aleppo
Motherland
Quest
Best International Film
A Fantastic Woman
BPM
Lady Macbeth
Not A Witch
Loveless
Robert Altman Award
Mudbound
Piaget Producers Award
Giulia Caruso & Ki Jin Kim
Ben LeClair
Summer Shelton
Kiehls Someone to Watch Award
Abbasi Bros – Dayveon
Justin Chon – Gook Film
Kevin Phillips – Super Dark Times
Truer Than Fiction Award
Shevaun Mizrahi - Distant Constellation
Jonathan Olshefski - Quest
Jeff Unay - The Cage Fighter