34th Independent Spirit Awards (2019)
Best Feature
If Beale Street Could Talk
Eighth Grade
First Reformed
Leave No Trace
You Were Never Really Here
Best Director
Barry Jenkins - If Beale Street Could Talk
Debra Granik - Leave No Trace
Tamara Jenkins - Private Life
Lynne Ramsay - You Were Never Really Here
Paul Schrader - First Reformed
Best Male Lead
Ethan Hawke - First Reformed as Pastor Ernst Toller
John Cho - Searching as David Kim
Daveed Diggs - Blindspotting as Collin Hoskins
Christian Malheiros - Sócrates as Sócrates
Joaquin Phoenix - You Were Never Really Here as Joe
Best Female Lead
Glenn Close - The Wife as Joan Castleman
Toni Collette - Hereditary as Annie Graham
Elsie Fisher - Eighth Grade as Kayla Day
Regina Hall - Support the Girls as Lisa Conroy
Helena Howard - Madeline's Madeline as Madeline
Carey Mulligan - Wildlife as Jeanette Brinson
Best Supporting Male
Richard E. Grant - Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Jack Hock
Raúl Castillo - We the Animals as Paps
Adam Driver - BlacKkKlansman as Detective Philip "Flip" Zimmerman
Josh Hamilton - Eighth Grade as Mark Day
John David Washington - Monsters and Men as Dennis Williams
Best Supporting Female
Regina King - If Beale Street Could Talk as Sharon Rivers
Kayli Carter - Private Life as Sadie Barrett
Tyne Daly - A Bread Factory as Dorothea
Thomasin McKenzie - Leave No Trace as Tom
J. Smith-Cameron - Nancy as Ellen Lynch
Best Screenplay
Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty - Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Richard Glatzer, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, and Wash Westmoreland - Colette
Tamara Jenkins - Private Life
Boots Riley - Sorry to Bother You
Paul Schrader - First Reformed
Best Editing
Joe Bini - You Were Never Really Here
Keiko Deguchi, Brian A. Kates, and Jeremiah Zagar - We the Animals
Luke Dunkley, Nick Fenton, Chris Gill, and Julian Hart - American Animals
Anne Fabini, Alex Hall, and Gary Levy - The Tale
Nick Houy - Mid90s
Best Cinematography
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom - Suspiria
Ashley Connor - Madeline's Madeline
Diego García - Wildlife
Benjamin Loeb - Mandy
Zak Mulligan - We the Animals
Best International Film
Roma (Mexico)
Burning (South Korea)
The Favourite (United Kingdom)
Happy as Lazzaro (Italy)
Shoplifters (Japan)
Best Documentary Feature
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Minding the Gap
Of Fathers and Sons
On Her Shoulders
Shirkers
Best First Feature
Boots Riley - Sorry to Bother You
Ari Aster - Hereditary
Paul Dano - Wildlife
Jennifer Fox - The Tale
Jeremiah Zagar - We the Animals
Best First Screenplay
Bo Burnham - Eighth Grade
Christina Choe - Nancy
Cory Finley - Thoroughbreds
Jennifer Fox - The Tale
Laurie Shephard and Quinn Shephard - Blame