12 Years A Slave Rewarded At The Indie Spirit Awards

Dallas Buyers Club & more score gongs

12-Years-A-Slave-Rewarded-Indie-Spirit-Awards

by James White |
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Held as usual the day before the Academy Awards, the Independent Spirit Awards can sometimes be an Oscar pointer, but naturally this year omits some of the bigger budgeted studio films such as Gravity and American Hustle. On a waterlogged afternoon, however, it was 12 Years A Slave that triumphed, taking home five prizes.

Slave won Feature, Director for Steve McQueen, Screenplay for John Ridley, Supporting Female for Lupita Nyong'o and Cinematography for Sean Bobbitt. Male acting-wise, it was still Dallas Buyers Club’s day, with Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto continuing the run many say will take them to the stage of the Dolby Theater for the Oscars this evening.

Hosted by Patton Oswalt, who provided typically funny banter to fit between the awards, the show also saw wins for Cate Blanchett, Nebraska writer Bob Nelson,** Short Term 12** editor Nat Sanders and the Best First Feature prize for Fruitvale Station. Check out the full list of winners below.

**Best Feature
**

**12 Years A Slave
**

All Is Lost

Frances Ha

Inside Llewyn Davis

Nebraska

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Best Director
 **

**Steve McQueen, *****12 Years A Slave
***

Shane Carruth, *Upstream Color
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J.C. Chandor, *All Is Lost
*

Jeff Nichols, Mud

Alexander Payne, Nebraska

**Best Female Lead
**

**Cate Blanchett, **Blue Jasmine

Julie Delpy, Before Midnight

Gaby Hoffmann, *Crystal Fairy
*

Brie Larson, Short Term 12

Shailene Woodley, The Spectacular Now

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Best Male Lead
 **

**Matthew McConaughey, **Dallas Buyers Club

Bruce Dern, Nebraska

Chiwetel Ejiofor, *12 Years A Slave
*

Oscar Isaac,* Inside Llewyn Davis
*

Michael B. Jordan,* Fruitvale Station
*

Robert Redford, All Is Lost

**Best Screenplay
 **

**John Ridley, *****12 Years A Slave

***

Woody Allen, Blue Jasmine

Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke & Richard Linklater, *Before Midnight
*

Nicole Holofcener,* Enough Said
*

Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, *The Spectacular Now
*

**Best Supporting Female
 **

**Lupita Nyong'o, *****12 Years a Slav*e

Melonie Diaz, F*ruitvale Station
*

Sally Hawkins, *Blue Jasmine
*

Yolonda Ross, Go For Sisters

June Squibb, Nebraska

Best Supporting Male

**Jared Leto, ***Dallas Buyers Club

*Michael Fassbender, 12 Years A Slave

Will Forte, Nebraska

James Gandolfini, Enough Said

Keith Stanfield, Short Term 12

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Best First Screenplay **

Bob Nelson, Nebraska

Lake Bell, In A World

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, *Don Jon
*

Jill Soloway, *Afternoon Delight
*

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Best Cinematography
**

**Sean Bobbitt, *****12 Years A Slave
***

Benoit Debie, Spring Breakers

Bruno Delbonnel, *Inside Llewyn Davis
*

Frank G. Demarco, *All Is Lost *

Matthias Grunsky, *Computer Chess

*

**Best Editing **

**Nat Sanders, *****Short Term 12

**

*Shane Carruth & David Lowery, Upstream Color

Jem Cohen & Marc Vives, Museum Hours

Frank G. Demarco, All Is Lost

Matthias Grunsky, *Computer Chess
*

**Best Documentary
**

20 Feet From Stardom**, Director/Producer: Morgan Neville, Producers: Gil Friesen & Caitrin Rogers
**

After Tiller, Directors/Producers: Martha Shane & Lana Wilson

Gideon’s Army, Director/Producer: Dawn Porter, Producer: Julie Goldman

The Act of Killing, Director/Producer: Joshua Oppenheimer, Producers: Joram Ten Brink, Christine Cynn, Anne Köhncke, Signe Byrge Sørensen, Michael Uwemedimo

The Square, Director: Jehane Noujaim, Producer: Karim Amer

**Best International Film
 **

Blue is the Warmest Color** (France)
**

A Touch Of Sin (China)

Gloria (Chile)

*The Great Beauty *(Italy)

*The Hunt *(Denmark)

**Best First Feature 
 **

Fruitvale Station**
**

Blue Caprice

Concussion

Una Noche

Wadjda

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John Cassavetes Award **

This is Martin Bonner

Computer Chess

Crystal Fairy

Museum Hours

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Pit Stop*

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