Actors Ethan Hawke and Glenn Close and the film “If Beale Street Could Talk” took top honors during the 34th annual Film Independent Spirit awards honoring the best in independent film productions.
Hawke won Best Male Lead for “First Reformed” and Oscar favorite Glenn Close took Best Female Lead for “The Wife.”
“Beale Street,” an adaptation of a novel by writer James Baldwin, won three awards: Best Feature film, Best Director for Barry Jenkins and Best Supporting Female Actor for Regina King.
The ceremony, hosted by actress-comedian Aubrey Plaza, was held Saturday in a tent next to the Santa Monica Pier.
The winner of the Spirit Award for Best Feature Film has gone on to the win the Best-Picture Oscar in four of the past five years, however, none of this year’s Spirit Award feature nominees was nominated for the Academy Award.
Here is a complete list of the winners:
BEST FEATURE
“If Beale Street Could Talk” (Producers: Dede Gardner, Barry Jenkins, Jeremy Kleiner, Sara Murphy, Adele Romanski)
BEST DIRECTOR
Barry Jenkins, “If Beale Street Could Talk”
BEST FEMALE LEAD
Glenn Close, “The Wife”
BEST MALE LEAD
Ethan Hawke, “First Reformed”
BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
Regina King, “If Beale Street Could Talk”
BEST SUPPORTING MALE
Richard E. Grant, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
BEST SCREENPLAY
Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
BEST EDITING
Joe Bini, “You Were Never Really Here”
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” (Directors: Morgan Neville; Producer: Caryn Capotosto, Nicholas Ma)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, “Suspiria”
BEST FIRST FEATURE
“Sorry to Bother You” (Director: Boots Riley; Producers: Nina Yang Bongiovi, Jonathan Duffy, Charles D. King, George Rush, Forest Whitaker, Kelly Williams)
BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Bo Burnham, “Eighth Grade”
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD
“En El Septimo Dia” (Director: Jim McKay; Producers: Alex Bach, Lindsey Cordero, Caroline Kaplan, Michael Stipe)
ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD
“Suspiria” (Director: Luca Guadagnino; Casting Directors: Avy Kaufman, Stella Savino; Ensemble Cast: Malgosia Bela, Ingrid Caven, Lutz Ebersdorf, Elena Fokina, Mia Goth, Jessica Harper, Dakota Johnson, Gala Moody, Chloe Grace Moretz, Fabrizia Sacchi, Renee Soutendijk, Tilda Swinton, Sylvie Testud, Angela Winkler)
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
“Roma”, Mexico (Director: Alfonso Cuaron)
PRODUCERS AWARD
Shrihari Sathe
SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD
Alex Moratto, “Socrates”
TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD
Bing Liu, “Minding the Gap”
BONNIE AWARD
Debra Granik, director of “Leave No Trace”