Coming-of-age drama “Call Me by Your Name” has scored six Spirit Award nominations, with “Good Time” and “Get Out” taking five each.
“Lady Bird” and “The Rider” each earned four noms and “I, Tonya,” “Columbus” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” took three each. Eight titles earned two nominations each — “The Big Sick,” The Killing of a Sacred Deer,” “Beatriz at Dinner,” “Beach Rats,” “Dayveon,” “The Florida Project,” “Oh Lucy” and “Quest.”
The nominations were announced on Tuesday morning by Lily Collins, Tessa Thompson, and Film Independent chief Josh Welsh at the Jeremy Hotel in West Hollywood.
Best feature nominations went to “Call Me by Your Name,” “The Florida Project,” “Get Out,” “Lady Bird” and “The Rider.” Period drama “Mudbound” was awarded the Robert Altman Award, created in 2008 to honor ensemble casts, and was ineligble in the acting categories.
In addition to the top feature category, “Call Me by Your Name” received nominations for Timothee Chalamet as best male lead, Armie Hammer as best male supporting, Luca Guadagnino in the directing category along with editing and cinematography nods. Chalamet plays a 17-year-old and Hammer plays a postgraduate student who comes to stay with his family for the summer.
“Get Out” scored nominations for best feature with Jordan Peele receiving double nominations for directing and screenplay along Daniel Kaluuya for best male lead and Gregory Plotkin for editing. “Get Out” is by far the most commercially successful of the nominated films with worldwide grosses of $253 million worldwide.
By contrast, crime drama “Good Time” has grossed $2 million since August in limited release for A24. Bennie Safdie scored three nominations for directing with brother Josh Safdie, for supporting male actor and for editing with Ronald Bronstein. Robert Pattinson was nominated for best male lead and Taliah Lennice Webster for female supporting.
The ceremony will take place on March 3 — the day before the Academy Awards — in a tent on the beach in Santa Monica, Calif. The show, now in its 33rd year, will be shown on IFC. Nick Kroll and John Mulaney are co-hosting.
Besides Chalamet, Kaluuya and Pattinson, the best male lead nominations included James Franco for “The Disaster Artist” and Harris Dickinson for “Beach Rats.” Female lead nominations went to Salma Hayek for “Beatriz at Dinner,” Frances McDormand for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” Margot Robbie for “I, Tonya,” Saoirse Ronan for “Lady Bird,” Shinobu Terjima for ‘Oh, Lucy!” and Regina Williams for “Life and Nothing More.”
Aside from Webster, the supporting female category contained higher-profile names — Holly Hunter for “The Big Sick,” Allison Janney for “I, Tonya,” Laurie Metcalf for “Lady Bird” and Lois Smith for “Marjorie Prime.” Besides Hammer and Safdie, the supporting male category generated noms for Nnamdi Asomugha for “Crown Heights,” Barry Keoghan for “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” and Sam Rockwell for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri.”
The directing nominations went to Guadagnino, Peele and the Safdie brothers along with Sean Baker for “The Florida Project,” Chloe Zhao for “The Rider” and Jonas Carpignano for Sundance Selects’ Italian Oscar entry “A Ciambra.”
A24 scored the most nominations for a distributor with 17 with five for “Good Time” and four for “Lady Bird.” Sony Classics pulled down 13 nominations, including six for “Call Me by Your Name” and four for “The Rider.”
The Spirit Awards are voted on by members of Film Independent and require that films be produced in the U.S. for less than $20 million. In the last three years, “Moonlight,” “Spotlight,” and “Birdman” have won both the Spirit Award and Oscar best picture trophy.
Here’s the full list of nominations:
BEST FEATURE
Call Me by Your Name
Producers: Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Rodrigo Teixeira, Marco Morabito, James Ivory, Howard Rosenman
The Florida Project
Producers: Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch, Kevin Chinoy, Andrew Duncan, Alex Saks, Francesca Silvestri, Shih-Ching Tsou
Get Out
Producers: Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr., Sean McKittrick, Jordan Peele
Lady Bird
Producers: Eli Bush, Evelyn O’Neill, Scott Rudin
The Rider
Producers: Mollye Asher, Bert Hamelinck, Sacha Ben Harroche, Chloé Zhao
BEST FIRST FEATURE
(Award given to the director and producer)
Columbus
Director: Kogonada
Producers: Danielle Renfrew Behrens, Aaron Boyd, Giulia Caruso, Ki Jin Kim, Andrew Miano, Chris Weitz
Ingrid Goes West
Director: Matt Spicer
Producers: Jared Ian Goldman, Adam Mirels, Robert Mirels, Aubrey Plaza, Tim White, Trevor White
Menashe
Director/Producer: Joshua Z. Weinstein
Producers: Yoni Brook, Traci Carlson, Daniel Finkelman, Alex Lipschultz
Oh Lucy!
Director/Producer: Atsuko Hirayanagi
Producers: Jessica Elbaum, Yukie Kito, Han West
Patti Cake$
Director: Geremy Jasper
Producers: Chris Columbus, Michael Gottwald, Dan Janvey, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Noah Stahl, Rodrigo Teixeira
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
Writer/Director/Producer: Amman Abbasi
Writer: Steven Reneau
Producers: Lachion Buckingham, Alexander Uhlmann
A Ghost Story
Writer/Director: David Lowery
Producers: Adam Donaghey, Toby Halbrooks, James M. Johnston
Life and nothing more
Writer/Director: Antonio Méndez Esparza
Producers: Amadeo Hernández Bueno, Alvaro Portanet Hernández, Pedro Hernández Santos
Most Beautiful Island
Writer/Director/Producer: Ana Asensio
Producers: Larry Fessenden, Noah Greenberg, Chadd Harbold, Jenn Wexler
The Transfiguration
Writer/Director: Michael O’Shea
Producer: Susan Leber
BEST DIRECTOR
Sean 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 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 SCREENPLAY
Kris Avedisian
Story By: 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 CINEMATOGRAPHY
Thimios 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 EDITING
Ronald 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
BEST FEMALE LEAD
Salma 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 LEAD
Timothée 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
Allison Janney
I, Tonya
Laurie Metcalf
Lady Bird
Lois Smith
Marjorie Prime
Taliah Lennice Webster
Good Time
BEST SUPPORTING MALE
Nnamdi 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
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