The annual awards honoring independent film will be handed out Saturday in a tent on the Santa Monica, California,
Aubrey Plaza will be hosting this year's show which includes fewer Oscar contenders than usual.
The top nominees are Bo Burnham's coming-of-age tale 'Eighth Grade,' Lynne Ramsey's existentialist thriller 'You Were Never Really Here,' Paul Schrader's religious drama 'First Reformed' and Jeremiah Zagar's lyrical 'We the Animals.'
While the Oscars feature no women nominated for best director, the Spirits have three: Ramsey, Tamara Jenkins ('Private Life') and Debra Granik ('Leave No Trace').
The Spirits' best-picture winner has often predicted Oscar, including Moonlight, 'Spotlight, Birdman and 12 Years a Slave.
But last year Jordan Peele's Get Out took the Spirits' top honor before Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water won at the Academy Awards.
A casual, oceanside precursor to Sunday's Oscars, the Spirit Awards will this year surely differ.
Chloe Grace Moretz brightens up the red carpet
None of the best picture nominees are up for the same award at the Oscars. And none of this year's nominees pack anything like the box-office punch of Get Out, which grossed $255 million worldwide on a $4.5 million budget.
Up for best film are:'Leave No Trace, Eight Grade, You Were Never Really Here and Barry Jenkins' If Beale Street Could Talk.
The Spirit Awards limit nominees to films with budgets pf $20 million and under, eliminating bigger budget contenders like Black Panther and A Star Is Born. They also focus on American movies, limiting Oscar nominees like Roma and The Favourite, which are both nominated for best international film.
Winners are chosen by Film Independent, which includes critics, filmmakers, actors, festival programmers, past winners and nominees, and members of its board
Winners of the 2019 Film Independent Spirit Awards
Squeaking in just before the Oscars, Aubrey Plaza hosted the 2019 Film Independent Spirit Awards.
The Spirit Awards are a decidedly chiller affair than many in awards season, taking place on a beach during the day. If Beale Street Could Talk took Best Feature, and Barry Jenkins won Best Director for the James Baldwin adaptation.
Boots Riley won Best First Feature for Sorry to Bother You, and he called out what he sees as the impending US-backed coup in Venezuela during his acceptance speech. Ethan Hawke, Glenn Close, Regina King, and Richard E.
Grant won the top acting awards. And as it’s been throughout the year, Won’t You Be Me Neighbor? won Best Documentary. Of course, the true winner of the night was Glenn Close’s dog, Sir Pippin of Beanfield, who walked up to accept Close’s award with her.
Best Feature
If Beale Street Could Talk
Best Director
Barry Jenkins, If Beale Street Could Talk
Best First Feature
Sorry to Bother You
Best Male Lead
Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
Best Female Lead
Glenn Close, The Wife
Best Supporting Female
Actor Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Best Supporting
Male Actor Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Best Cinematography
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Suspiria
Best Screenplay
Nicole Holofcener & Jeff Whitty, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Best First Screenplay
Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade
Best Editing
Joe Bini, You Were Never Really Here
Best Documentary
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Best International Film
Roma (Mexico)
Piaget Producers Award
Shrihari Sathe
The Someone to Watch Award
Alex Moratto, Sócrates
The Bonnie Award
Debra Granik
Robert Altman Award
Suspiria
John Cassavetes Award
En el Séptimo Día
Film Independent Spirit Awards
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