29th Independent Spirit Awards

29th Independent Spirit Awards
Date	March 1, 2014
Site	U.S.
Hosted by	Patton Oswalt
Highlights
Best Film	12 Years a Slave
Most awards	12 Years a Slave (5)
Most nominations	12 Years a Slave (7)
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The 29th Independent Spirit Awards announced its nominees on November 27, 2013.^[1] The winners were announced on March 1, 2014.^[2] It was hosted by Patton Oswalt.

Winners and nominees[]

Best Feature	Best Director
12 Years a Slave All Is Lost Frances Ha Inside Llewyn Davis Nebraska	Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave Shane Carruth – Upstream Color J. C. Chandor – All Is Lost Jeff Nichols – Mud Alexander Payne – Nebraska
Best Male Lead	Best Female 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	Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine Julie Delpy – Before Midnight Gaby Hoffmann – Crystal Fairy Brie Larson – Short Term 12 Shailene Woodley – The Spectacular Now
Best Supporting Male	Best Supporting Female
Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave Will Forte – Nebraska James Gandolfini – Enough Said Lakeith Stanfield – Short Term 12	Lupita Nyong'o – 12 Years a Slave Melonie Diaz – Fruitvale Station Sally Hawkins – Blue Jasmine Yolonda Ross – Go for Sisters June Squibb – Nebraska
Best Screenplay	Best First Screenplay
John Ridley – 12 Years a Slave Woody Allen – Blue Jasmine Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, and Richard Linklater – Before Midnight Nicole Holofcener – Enough Said Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber – The Spectacular Now	Bob Nelson – Nebraska Lake Bell – In a World... Joseph Gordon-Levitt – Don Jon Jill Soloway – Afternoon Delight Michael Starrbury – The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
Best First Feature	Best Documentary Feature
Fruitvale Station, Director: Ryan Coogler; Producers: Nina Yang Bongiovi, Forest Whitaker Blue Caprice, Director/Producer: Alexandre Moors; Producers: Kim Jackson, Brian O’Carroll, Isen Robbins, Will Rowbotham, Ron Simons, Aimee Schoof, Stephen Tedeschi Concussion, Director: Stacie Passon, Producer: Rose Troche Una Noche, Director/Producer: Lucy Mulloy, Producers: Sandy Pérez Aguila, Maite Artieda, Daniel Mulloy, Yunior Santiago Wadjda, Director: Haifaa Al Mansour, Producers: Gerhard Meixner, Roman Pau	20 Feet from Stardom – Director/Producer: Morgan Neville, Producers: Gil Friesen and Caitrin Rogers The Act of Killing – Director/Producer: Joshua Oppenheimer, Producers: Joram Ten Brink, Christine Cynn, , Signe Byrge Sørensen, and Michael Uwemedimo After Tiller – Directors/Producers: Martha Shane and Lana Wilson Gideon's Army – Director/Producer: Dawn Porter, Producer: Julie Goldman The Square – Director: Jehane Noujaim, Producer: Karim Amer
Best Cinematography	Best Editing
Sean Bobbitt – 12 Years a Slave Benoît Debie – Spring Breakers Bruno Delbonnel – Inside Llewyn Davis Frank G. DeMarco – All Is Lost Matthias Grunsky – Computer Chess	Nat Sanders – Short Term 12 Shane Carruth & David Lowery – Upstream Color Jem Cohen & Marc Vives – Museum Hours Jennifer Lame – Frances Ha – Una Noche
Best International Film
Blue Is the Warmest Colour (France) – Director: Abdellatif Kechiche Gloria (Chile) – Director: Sebastián Lelio The Great Beauty (Italy) – Director: Paolo Sorrentino The Hunt (Denmark) – Director: Thomas Vinterberg A Touch of Sin (China) – Director: Jia Zhang-Ke

Films with multiple nominations and awards[]

Films that received multiple nominations

Nominations	Film
7	12 Years a Slave
6	Nebraska
4	All Is Lost
3	Blue Jasmine
	Fruitvale Station
	Inside Llewyn Davis
	Short Term 12
2	Before Midnight
	Dallas Buyers Club
	Enough Said
	Frances Ha
	The Spectacular Now
	Una Noche
	Upstream Color

Films that won multiple awards

Awards	Film
5	12 Years a Slave
2	Dallas Buyers Club

Special awards[]

John Cassavetes Award[]

This Is Martin Bonner – Writer/Director: Chad Hartigan, Producer: Cherie Saulter

• Computer Chess – Writer/Director: Andrew Bujalski, Producers: Houston King and
• Crystal Fairy – Writer/Director: Sebastiàn Silva, Producers: Juan de Dios Larraín and Pablo Larraín
• Museum Hours – Writer/Director: Jem Cohen, Producers: Paolo Calamita and Gabriele Kranzelbinder
• Pit Stop – Writer/Director: Yen Tan, Writer: David Lowery, Producers: Jonathan Duffy, James M. Johnston, Eric Steele, and Kelly Williams

19th Annual Stella Artois Truer Than Fiction Award[]

Jason Osder – Let the Fire Burn

• Kalyanee Mam – A River Changes Course
• Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez – Manakamana

17th Annual Piaget Producers Award[]

Toby Halbrooks & James M. Johnston

• Jacob Jaffke
• Andrea Roa
• Frederick Thornton

20th Annual Someone to Watch Award[]

Newlyweeds – Director: Shaka King

• The Foxy Merkins – Director: Madeline Olnek
• My Sister's Quinceañera – Director: Aaron Douglas Johnston

Robert Altman Award[]

• Mud — Jeff Nichols, Francine Maisler, Joe Don Baker, Stuart Greer, Jacob Lofland, Matthew McConaughey, Ray McKinnon, Sam Shepard, Tye Sheridan, Sarah Paulson, Michael Shannon, Paul Sparks, Bonnie Sturdivant and Reese Witherspoon

References[]

External links[]

• List of nominees