The Lost Daughter Wins Best Feature at 37th Film Independent Spirit Awards

The Lost Daughter has won Best Feature at the 37th Film Independent Spirit Awards. The film also picked up wins for Best Director and Best Screenplay for Maggie Gyllenhaal. Elsewhere, Simon Rex (Red Rocket) and Taylour Paige (Zola) took home Best Male Lead and Best Female Lead, respectively, while Troy Kotsur (CODA) and Ruth Negga (Passing) scored wins for Best Supporting Male and Best Supporting Female, respectively.

Fran Kranz’s Mass was honoured with the Robert Altman Award, which goes to a film’s director, casting directors, and cast, while Shiva Baby won the John Cassavetes Award for the best feature made for under $500,000. Summer of Soul and Drive My Car continued their awards season dominance with wins for Best Documentary and Best International Film, respectively.

Winners in bold below.

Best Feature

  • A Chiara
  • C’mon C’mon
  • The Lost Daughter
  • The Novice
  • Zola

Best First Feature

  • 7 Days
  • Hollers
  • Queen Glory
  • Test Pattern
  • Wild Indian

Best Director

  • Mike Mills – C’mon C’mon
  • Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Lost Daughter
  • Lauren Hadaway – The Novice
  • Ninja Thyberg – Pleasure
  • Janicza Bravo – Zola

Best Male Lead

  • Clifton Collins, Jr. – Jockey
  • Frankie Faison – The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
  • Michael Greyeyes – Wild Indian
  • Udo Kier – Swan Song
  • Simon Rex – Red Rocket

Best Supporting Male

  • Colman Domingo – Zola
  • Meeko Gattuso – Queen Glory
  • Troy Kotsur – CODA
  • Will Patton – Sweet Thing
  • Chaske Spencer – Wild Indian

Best Female Lead

  • Isabelle Fuhrman – The Novice
  • Brittany S. Hall – Test Pattern
  • Patti Harrison – Together Together
  • Taylour Paige – Zola
  • Kali Reis – Catch the Fair One

Best Supporting Female

  • Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter
  • Amy Forsyth – The Novice
  • Ruth Negga – Passing
  • Revika Anne Reustle – Pleature
  • Suzanna Son – Red Rocket

Robert Altman Award:
Mass
(Director: Fran Kranz; Casting Directors: Henry Russell Bergstein and Allison Estrin; Cast: Kagen Albright, Reed Birney, Michelle N. Carter, Ann Dowd, Jason Isaacs, Martha Plimpton and Breeda Wool)

Best Screenplay

  • C’mon C’mon
  • The Lost Daughter
  • Swan Song
  • Together Together
  • Zola

Best First Screenplay

  • Cicada
  • Mass
  • Pig
  • Test Pattern
  • Wild Indian

John Cassavetes Award (Given to the best feature made for under $500,000)

  • Cryptozoo
  • Jockey
  • Shiva Baby
  • Sweet Thing
  • This is Not a War Story

Best Editing

  • A Chiara
  • The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
  • The Novice
  • The Nowhere Inn
  • Zola

Best Cinematography

  • A Chiara
  • Blue Bayou
  • The Humans
  • Passing
  • Zola

Best Documentary

  • Ascension
  • Flee
  • In the Same Breath
  • Procession
  • Summer of Soul

Best International Film

  • Compartment No. 6 (Finland)
  • Drive My Car (Japan)
  • Parallel Mothers (Spain)
  • Petite Maman (France)
  • Prayers for the Stolen (Mexico)

Producers Award (Honors emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity and vision required to produce quality independent films)

Brad Becker-Parton
Pin-Chun Liu
Lizzie Shapiro

Someone to Watch Award

Alex Camilleri, Luzzu
Michael Sarnoski, Pig
Gillian Wallace Horvat, I Blame Society


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Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.