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Source: Toronto International Film Festival

‘Uncut Gems’

Uncut Gems and The Lighthouse have emerged as the top contenders for this year’s Film Independent Spirit Awards with five nods apiece while A24 leads the distributor pack on 18 nominations.

Adam Sandler from Uncut Gems will face off against The Lighthouse’s Robert Pattinson and others for best lead male and the Safdie brothers and Robert Eggers are among the best director nominees for each film, respectively.

Other best feature nominees announced on Thursday (21) are A Hidden Life, Clemency, The Farewell and Marriage Story. 

Features that earned multiple citations included Give Me Liberty and Honey Boy with four each, and Clemency, Hustlers, The Last Black Man In San Francisco, Luce, Marriage Story and The Third Wife on three each. 

The nominees for best international film were Brazil’s Invisible Life, South Korea’s Parasite, France’s Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, Peru’s Retablo, and the UK’s The Souvenir. 

Among distributors, Neon films garnered 10 nods and Amazon Studios eight. 

Spirit Awards winners, selected by Film Independent members, will be announced at the organisation’s awards ceremony on February 8 2020 in Santa Monica.

Full list of 2020 Film Independent Spirit Award nominations:

BEST FEATURE

  • A Hidden Life
  • Clemency
  • The Farewell
  • Marriage Story
  • Uncut Gems

BEST FIRST FEATURE

  • Booksmart
  • The Climb
  • Diane
  • The Last Black Man in San Francisco
  • The Mustang
  • See You Yesterday

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD

  • Burning Cane
  • Colewell
  • Give Me Liberty
  • Premature
  • Wild Nights With Emily 

BEST DIRECTOR

  • Alma Har’el, Honey Boy
  • Lorene Scafaria, Hustlers
  • Julius Onah, Luce
  • Robert Eggers, The Lighthouse
  • Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, Uncut Gems

BEST SCREENPLAY

  • Noah Baumbach, Marriage Story
  • Jason Begue, Shawn Snyder, To Dust
  • Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, Uncut Gems
  • Chinonye Chukwu, Clemency
  • Tarell Alvin McCraney, High Flying Bird 

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY

  • Fredrica Bailey, Stefon Bristol, See You Yesterday
  • Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen, Driveways
  • Bridget Savage Cole, Danielle Krudy, Blow the Man Down
  • Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe, Greener Grass
  • James Montague, Craig W. Sanger, The Vast of Night

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

  • Todd Banhazl, Hustlers
  • Jarin Blaschke, The Lighthouse
  • Natasha Braier, Honey Boy
  • Chananun Chotrungroj, The Third Wife
  • Pawel Pogorzelski, Midsommar

BEST EDITING

  • Julie Béziau, The Third Wife
  • Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie, Uncut Gems
  • Tyler L Cook, Sword of Trust
  • Louise Ford, The Lighthouse
  • Kirill Mikhanovsky, Give Me Liberty

BEST FEMALE LEAD

  • Karen Allen, Colewell
  • Hong Chau, Driveways
  • Elisabeth Moss, Her Smell
  • Mary Kay Place, Diane
  • Alfre Woodard, Clemency
  • Renée Zellweger, Judy

BEST MALE LEAD

  • Chris Galust, Give Me Liberty
  • Kelvin Harrison Jr, Luce
  • Robert Pattinson, The Lighthouse
  • Matthias Schoenaerts, The Mustang
  • Adam Sandler, Uncut Gems

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE

  • Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers
  • Taylor Russell, Waves
  • Lauren ‘Lolo’ Spencer, Give Me Liberty
  • Octavia Spencer, Luce
  • Zhao Shuzhen, The Farewell

BEST SUPPORTING MALE

  • Willem Dafoe, The Lighthouse
  • Noah Jupe, Honey Boy
  • Shia LaBeouf, Honey Boy
  • Jonathan Majors, The Last Black Man In San Francisco
  • Wendell Pierce, Burning Cane

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD

Marriage Story

BEST DOCUMENTARY

  • American Factory
  • Apollo 11
  • For Sama
  • Honeyland
  • Island Of The Hungry Ghosts

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

  • Invisible Life, Brazil
  • Les Misérables, France
  • Parasite, South Korea
  • Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, France
  • Retablo, Peru
  • The Souvenir, United Kingdom 

BONNIE AWARD

  • Marielle Heller
  • Kelly Reichardt
  • Lulu Wang

PRODUCERS AWARD

  • Mollye Asher
  • Krista Parris
  • Ryan Zacarias

SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD

  • Rashaad Ernesto Green, director of Premature
  • Ash Mayfair, director of The Third Wife
  • Joe Talbot, director of The Last Black Man in San Francisco

TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD

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