16th Independent Spirit Awards (2001)
Best Feature
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Before Night Falls
George Washington
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Requiem for a Dream
Best Director
Ang Lee - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Darren Aronofsky - Requiem for a Dream
Miguel Arteta - Chuck & Buck
Christopher Guest - Best in Show
Julian Schnabel - Before Night Falls
Best Male Lead
Javier Bardem - Before Night Falls
Adrien Brody - Restaurant
Billy Crudup - Jesus’ Son
Hill Harper - The Visit
Mark Ruffalo - You Can Count on Me
Best Female Lead
Ellen Burstyn - Requiem for a Dream
Joan Allen - The Contender
Sanaa Lathan - Love & Basketball
Laura Linney - You Can Count on Me
Kelly Macdonald - Two Family House
Best Supporting Male
Willem Dafoe - Shadow of the Vampire
Cole Hauser - Tigerland
Gary Oldman - The Contender
Giovanni Ribisi - The Gift
Billy Dee Williams - The Visit
Best Supporting Female
Zhang Ziyi - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Pat Caroll - Songcatcher
Jennifer Connelly - Requiem for a Dream
Marcia Gay Harden - Pollock
Lupe Ontiveros - Chuck & Buck
Best Screenplay
You Can Count on Me - Kenneth Lonergan
Chuck & Buck - Mike White
Love & Sex - Valerie Breiman
Two Family House - Raymond De Felitta
Waking the Dead - Robert Dillon
Best Cinematography
Requiem for a Dream - Matthew Libatique
Before Night Falls - Xavier Pérez Grobet and Guillermo Rosas
George Washington - Tim Orr
Hamlet - John de Borman
Shadow of the Vampire - Lou Bogue
Best International Film
Dancer in the Dark • Denmark
In the Mood for Love • Hong Kong/France
Malli • India
A Time for Drunken Horses • Iran
The War Zone • UK
Best Documentary
Dark Days
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Long Night's Journey into Day
Paragraph 175
Sound and Fury
Best First Feature
You Can Count on Me
Boiler Room
Girlfight
Love & Basketball
The Visit
Best Debut Performance
Michelle Rodriguez - Girlfight
Curtis Cotton III, Candace Evanofski, Rachael Handy, Donald Holden and Damian Jewan Lee - George Washington
Rory Culkin - You Can Count on Me
Emmy Rossum - Songcatcher
Mike White - Chuck & Buck
Best First Screenplay
Love & Basketball - Gina Prince-Bythewood
Boiler Room - Ben Younger
George Washington - David Gordon Green
Tigerland - Ross Klavan and Michael McGruther
The Visit - Jordan Walker-Pearlman