# 33rd Independent Spirit Awards

The 33rd Film Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best independent films of 2017, were presented by Film Independent on March 3, 2018. The nominations were announced on November 21, 2017 by actresses Lily Collins and Tessa Thompson. The ceremony was televised in the United States by IFC, taking place inside its usual tent setting on a beach in Santa Monica, California. Nick Kroll and John Mulaney returned to host the ceremony for the second time.

## Winners and nominees

| Best Feature | Best Director |
| Get Out Call Me by Your Name The Florida Project Lady Bird The Rider | Jordan Peele – Get Out Sean Baker – The Florida Project Jonas Carpignano – A Ciambra Luca Guadagnino – Call Me by Your Name Safdie brothers – Good Time Chloé Zhao – The Rider |
| Best Male Lead | Best Female Lead |
| Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name as Elio Perlman Harris Dickinson – Beach Rats as Frankie James Franco – The Disaster Artist as Tommy Wiseau Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out as Chris Washington Robert Pattinson – Good Time as Constantine "Connie" Nikas | Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Mildred Hayes Salma Hayek – Beatriz at Dinner as Beatriz Margot Robbie – I, Tonya as Tonya Harding Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird as Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson Shinobu Terajima – Oh Lucy! as Setsuko Kawashima / Lucy Regina Williams – Life and Nothing More as Regina |
| Best Supporting Male | Best Supporting Female |
| Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Jason Dixon Nnamdi Asomugha – Crown Heights as Carl "KC" King Armie Hammer – Call Me by Your Name as Oliver Barry Keoghan – The Killing of a Sacred Deer as Martin Benny Safdie – Good Time as Nick Nikas | Allison Janney – I, Tonya as LaVona Golden Holly Hunter – The Big Sick as Beth Gardner Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird as Marion McPherson Lois Smith – Marjorie Prime as Marjorie Prime Taliah Lennice Webster – Good Time as Crystal |
| Best Screenplay | Best First 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 | Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani – The Big Sick Kristopher Avedisian, Kyle Espeleta, and Jesse Wakeman – Donald Cried Ingrid Jungermann – Women Who Kill Kogonada – Columbus David Branson Smith and Matt Spicer – Ingrid Goes West |
| Best First Feature | Best Documentary Feature |
| Matt Spicer – Ingrid Goes West Atsuko Hirayanagi – Oh Lucy! Geremy Jasper – Patti Cake$ Kogonada – Columbus Joshua Z Weinstein – Menashe | Faces Places The Departure Last Men in Aleppo Motherland Quest |
| Best Cinematography | Best Editing |
| Sayombhu Mukdeeprom – Call Me by Your Name Thimios Bakatakis – The Killing of a Sacred Deer Elisha Christian – Columbus Hélène Louvart – Beach Rats Joshua James Richards – The Rider | Tatiana S. Riegel – I, Tonya Ronald Bronstein and Benny Safdie – Good Time Walter Fasano – Call Me by Your Name Alex O'Flinn – The Rider Gregory Plotkin – Get Out |
| Best International Film ||
| A Fantastic Woman (Una mujer fantástica) ( Chile) BPM (Beats per Minute) ( France) I Am Not a Witch ( United Kingdom) Lady Macbeth ( United Kingdom) Loveless (Nelyubov) ( Russia) ||

### Films with multiple nominations and awards

Films that received multiple nominations :
| Nominations | Film |
| 6 | Call Me by Your Name |
| 5 | Get Out |
| 5 | Good Time |
| 4 | Columbus |
| 4 | Lady Bird |
| 4 | The Rider |
| 3 | I, Tonya |
| 3 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri |
| 2 | Beach Rats |
| 2 | Beatriz at Dinner |
| 2 | The Big Sick |
| 2 | Dayveon |
| 2 | The Florida Project |
| 2 | Ingrid Goes West |
| 2 | The Killing of a Sacred Deer |
| 2 | Life and Nothing More |
| 2 | The Lovers |
| 2 | Oh Lucy! |
| 2 | Quest |
Films that won multiple awards :
| Awards | Film |
| 2 | Call Me by Your Name |
| 2 | Get Out |
| 2 | I, Tonya |
| 2 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri |

## Special awards
### John Cassavetes Award

* Life and Nothing More
** Dayveon
** A Ghost Story
** Most Beautiful Island
** The Transfiguration

### Robert Altman Award

(The award is given to its film director, casting director, and ensemble cast)
* Mudbound – Dee Rees, Billy Hopkins, Ashley Ingram, Jonathan Banks, Mary J. Blige, Jason Clarke, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Mitchell, Rob Morgan and Carey Mulligan

### Kiehl's Someone to Watch Award

Recognizes a talented filmmaker of singular vision who has not yet received appropriate recognition. The award includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant funded by Kiehl's.
* Justin Chon – Gook
** Amman Abbasi – Dayveon
** Kevin Phillips – Super Dark Times

### The BONNIE Award

The inaugural award recognizes a mid-career female director with a body of work that demonstrates uniqueness of vision and a groundbreaking approach to filmmaking. The award includes a $50,000 unrestricted grant funded by American Airlines.
* Chloé Zhao
** So Yong Kim
** Lynn Shelton

### Piaget Producers Award

Honors emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity and vision required to produce quality, independent films. The award includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant funded by Piaget.
* Summer Shelton – Keep the Change
** Giulia Caruso and Ki Jin Kim – Columbus
** Ben LeClair – The Lovers

### Truer than Fiction Award

Presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features who has not yet received significant recognition. The award includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant.
* Jonathan Olshefski – Quest
** Shevaun Mizrahi – Distant Constellation
** Jeff Unay – The Cage Fighter