5th Independent Spirit Awards (1990)

Best Feature

	Sex, Lies, and Videotape
	Drugstore Cowboy
	Heat and Sunlight
	Mystery Train
	True Love

Best Director

	Steven Soderbergh - Sex, Lies, and Videotape
	Jim Jarmusch - Mystery Train
	Charles Lane - Sidewalk Stories
	Nancy Savoca - True Love
	Gus Van Sant - Drugstore Cowboy

Best Actor

	Matt Dillon - Drugstore Cowboy
	Nicolas Cage - Vampire's Kiss
	Charles Lane - Sidewalk Stories
	Randy Quaid - Parents
	James Spader - Sex, Lies, and Videotape

Best Actress

	Andie MacDowell - Sex, Lies, and Videotape
	Youki Kudoh - Mystery Train
	Kelly Lynch - Drugstore Cowboy
	Winona Ryder - Heathers
	Annabella Sciorra - True Love

Best Supporting Actor

	Max Perlich - Drugstore Cowboy
	Steve Buscemi - Mystery Train
	Scott Coffey - Shag
	Gary Farmer - Powwow Highway
	Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Mystery Train

Best Supporting Actress

	Laura San Giacomo - Sex, Lies, and Videotape
	Bridget Fonda - Shag
	Heather Graham - Drugstore Cowboy
	Mare Winningham - Miracle Mile
	Mary Woronov - Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills

Best Screenplay

	Drugstore Cowboy - Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost
	84 Charlie Mopic - Patrick S. Duncan
	Heathers - Daniel Waters
	Miracle Mile - Steve De Jarnatt
	Mystery Train - Jim Jarmusch

Best Cinematography

	Drugstore Cowboy - Robert Yeoman
	Earth Girls Are Easy - Oliver Stapleton
	Mystery Train - Robby Müller
	Powwow Highway - Toyomichi Kurita
	Talking to Strangers - Robert Tregenza

Best Foreign Film

	My Left Foot • Ireland/UK
	Distant Voices, Still Lives • UK
	Hanussen • Hungary/West Germany/Austria
	High Hopes • UK
	Rouge • Hong Kong

Best First Feature

	Heathers
	84 Charlie Mopic
	Powwow Highway
	Sidewalk Stories
	Talking to Strangers