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Here is the list of all the BAFTA winners from last night...



BEST FILM
1917

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
1917

DIRECTOR
Sam Mendes, 1917

LEADING ACTOR
Joaquin Phoenix, Joker

LEADING ACTRESS
Renée Zellweger, Judy

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Laura Dern, Marriage Story

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Parasite

DOCUMENTARY
For Sama

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Parasite

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Jojo Rabbit

CINEMATOGRAPHY
1917

EDITING
Ford v Ferrari

PRODUCTION DESIGN
1917

COSTUME DESIGN
Little Women

MAKEUP AND HAIR
Bombshell

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
1917

SOUND
1917

SCORE
Joker

BRITISH SHORT FILM
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (if You're a Girl)

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
Grandad was a Romantic

RISING STAR AWARD
Michael Ward

OUTSTANDING BRITISH CONTRIBUTION TO CINEMA
Andy Serkis

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"Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream it takes over as the number one hormone. It bosses the enzymes, directs the pineal gland, plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to Film is more Film." - Frank Capra



The IFC Film Independent Spirit Awards are this Saturday. For years they have been holding their ceremony the day before the Oscars. Most years it is an alternative choice to Oscar's Best Picture and a place for lots of those annual Academy "snubs" to get some glory. But in addition to the usual suspects it often highlights some truly smaller films that don't get very much recognition.

Their ceremony is also much looser and funnier than the Oscars, though that isn't a difficult bar to clear. Here is one of the promos featuring this year's host, Aubrey Plaza, with Bill Murray standing in for Willem Dafoe...



As an predictor for the Oscars they are not very useful. They started handing out their awards in 1985 and their first Best Feature was Martin Scorsese's After Hours, which gives you an idea of how far away they were from the Oscars at their inception (Out of Africa won the Oscar that year). The two bodies did match in the Independent Spirit Award's second year when Oliver Stone's Platoon went on to Academy glory, but there were twenty-five years in between that matching and Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist winning both prizes. There was a very strange four year period this decade when the two voting bodies matched with the top awards going to 12 Years a Slave, Birdman, Spotlight, and Moonlight, but that was an anomaly. Many years there is very little overlap even in nominees, much less victors. The only one of the five Spirit Award nominees for Best Picture this year is Marriage Story and Renée Zellweger is the only acting nominee to be on both ballots.

Predictive tool or not it's usually a good show.


The 2020 Independent Spirit Award nominees are...

BEST FEATURE
Clemency
The Farewell
A Hidden Life
Marriage Story
Uncut Gems


BEST DIRECTOR
Robert Eggers, The Lighthouse
Alma Har'el, Honey Boy
Julius Onah, Luce
Benny & Josh Safdie, Uncut Gems
Lorene Scafaria, Hustlers

BEST FEMALE LEAD
Karen Allen, Colewell
Hong Chau, Driveways
Elizabeth Moss, Her Smell
Mary Kay Place, Diane
Alfre Woodars, Clemency
Renée Zellweger, Judy

BEST MALE LEAD
Chris Galust, Give Me Liberty
Kelvin Harrison Jr., Luce
Robert Pattinson, The Lighthouse
Adam Sandler, Uncut Gems
Matthias Schoenaerts, The Mustang

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers
Taylor Russell, Waves
Zhao Shuzhen, The Farewell
Lauren "Lolo" Spencer, Give Me Liberty
Octavia Spencer, Luce

BEST SUPPORTING MALE
Willem Dafoe, The Lighthouse
Noah Jupe, Honey Boy
Shia Labeouf, Honey Boy
Jonathan Majors, The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Wendell Pierce, Burning Cane

BEST SCREENPLAY
Clemency, Chinonye Chukwu
High Flying Bird, Tarell Alvin McCraney
Marriage Story, Noah Baumbach
To Dust, Jason Begue & Shawn Snyder
Uncut Gems, Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie & Josh Safdie

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Honey Boy, Natasha Braier
Hustlers, Todd Banhazl
The Lighthouse, Jarin Blaschke
Midsommar, Pawel Pogorzelski
The Third Wife, Chananun Chotrungroj

BEST EDITING
Give Me Liberty, Kirill Mikhanovsky
The Lighthouse, Louise Ford
Sword of Trust, Tyler L. Cook
The Third Wife, Julie Béziau
Uncut Gems, Ronald Bronstein & Benny Safdie

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
Invisible Life
Les Misérables
Parasite
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Retalbo
The Souvenier


BEST DOCUMENTARY
American Factory
Apollo 11
For Sama
Honeyland
Island of the Hungry Ghosts


BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Blow the Man Down, Danielle Krudy & Bridget Savage Cole
Driveways, Hannah Bos & Paul Thureen
Greener Grass, Jocelyn DeBoer & Dawn Luebbe
See You Yesterday, Fredrica Bailey & Stefon Bristol
The Vast of Night, James Montague & Craig W. Sanger

BEST FIRST FEATURE
Booksmart
The Climb
Diane
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
The Mustang
See You Yesterday


JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD
Burning Cane
Colewell
Give Me Liberty
Premature
Wild Nights with Emily