# 16th Independent Spirit Awards

The 16th Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 2000, were announced on March 24, 2001. It was hosted by John Waters.

## Winners and nominees

| Best Feature | Best Director |
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Before Night Falls George Washington Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai Requiem for a Dream | Ang Lee – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Darren Aronofsky – Requiem for a Dream Miguel Arteta – Chuck & Buck Christopher Guest – Best in Show Julian Schnabel – Before Night Falls |
| Best Male Lead | Best Female Lead |
| Javier Bardem – Before Night Falls Adrien Brody – Restaurant Billy Crudup – Jesus’ Son Hill Harper – The Visit Mark Ruffalo – You Can Count on Me | Ellen Burstyn – Requiem for a Dream Joan Allen – The Contender Sanaa Lathan – Love & Basketball Laura Linney – You Can Count on Me Kelly Macdonald – Two Family House |
| Best Supporting Male | Best Supporting Female |
| Willem Dafoe – Shadow of the Vampire Cole Hauser – Tigerland Gary Oldman – The Contender Giovanni Ribisi – The Gift Billy Dee Williams – The Visit | Zhang Ziyi – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Pat Caroll – Songcatcher Jennifer Connelly – Requiem for a Dream Marcia Gay Harden – Pollock Lupe Ontiveros – Chuck & Buck |
| Best Screenplay | Best First Screenplay |
| You Can Count on Me – Kenneth Lonergan Chuck & Buck – Mike White Love & Sex – Valerie Breiman Two Family House – Raymond De Felitta Waking the Dead – Robert Dillon | Love & Basketball – Gina Prince-Bythewood Boiler Room – Ben Younger George Washington – David Gordon Green Tigerland – Ross Klavan and Michael McGruther The Visit – Jordan Walker-Pearlman |
| Best First Feature | Best Debut Performance |
| You Can Count on Me Boiler Room Girlfight Love & Basketball The Visit | Michelle Rodriguez – Girlfight Curtis Cotton III, Candace Evanofski, Rachael Handy, Donald Holden and Damian Jewan Lee – George Washington Rory Culkin – You Can Count on Me Emmy Rossum – Songcatcher Mike White – Chuck & Buck |
| Best Cinematography | Best Documentary |
| Requiem for a Dream – Matthew Libatique Before Night Falls – Xavier Pérez Grobet and Guillermo Rosas George Washington – Tim Orr Hamlet – John de Borman Shadow of the Vampire – Lou Bogue | Dark Days The Eyes of Tammy Faye Long Night's Journey into Day Paragraph 175 Sound and Fury |
| Best International Film ||
| Dancer in the Dark • Denmark In the Mood for Love • Hong Kong/France Malli • India A Time for Drunken Horses • Iran The War Zone • UK ||

## Special awards

John Cassavetes Award
Chuck & Buck
* Bunny
* Everything Put Together
* Groove
* Our Song
Truer Than Fiction Award
Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
* Benjamin Smoke
* Just, Melvin: Just Evil
* Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
Producers Award
Paul Mezey – The Ballad of Ramblin’ Jack and Spring Forward
* Jim McKay – American Movie and Our Song
* Tim Perell – Louis & Frank and The Myth of Fingerprints
* Diana E. Williams – The Love Machine and Our Song
Someone to Watch Award
Marc Forster – Everything Put Together
* Dan McCormack – Other Voices
* Mia Trachinger – Bunny

## Films with multiple nominations and awards

Films that received multiple nominations :
| Nominations | Film |
| 5 | Chuck & Buck |
| 5 | Requiem for a Dream |
| 5 | You Can Count on Me |
| 4 | Before Night Falls |
| 4 | George Washington |
| 3 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
| 3 | Love & Basketball |
| 2 | Girlfight |
| 2 | Songcatcher |
Films that won multiple awards :
| Awards | Film |
| 3 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
| 2 | Requiem for a Dream |
| 2 | You Can Count on Me |