36th Independent Spirit Awards (2021)
Best Feature
Nomadland
First Cow
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Minari
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Best Director
Chloé Zhao - Nomadland
Lee Isaac Chung - Minari
Emerald Fennell - Promising Young Woman
Eliza Hittman - Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Kelly Reichardt - First Cow
Best Male Lead
Riz Ahmed - Sound of Metal as Ruben Stone
Chadwick Boseman - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Levee Green (posthumous)
Adarsh Gourav - The White Tiger as Balram Halwai
Rob Morgan - Bull as Abe
Steven Yeun - Minari as Jacob Yi
Best Female Lead
Carey Mulligan - Promising Young Woman as Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas
Nicole Beharie - Miss Juneteenth as Turquoise Jones
Viola Davis - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Ma Rainey
Sidney Flanigan - Never Rarely Sometimes Always as Autumn Callahan
Julia Garner - The Assistant as Jane
Frances McDormand - Nomadland as Fern
Best Supporting Male
Paul Raci - Sound of Metal as Joe
Colman Domingo - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Cutler
Orion Lee - First Cow as King-Lu
Glynn Turman - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Toledo
Benedict Wong - Nine Days as Kyo
Best Supporting Female
Youn Yuh-jung - Minari as Soon-ja
Alexis Chikaeze - Miss Juneteenth as Kai Jones
Yeri Han - Minari as Monica Yi
Valerie Mahaffey - French Exit as Madame Reynaud
Talia Ryder - Never Rarely Sometimes Always as Skylar
Best Screenplay
Emerald Fennell - Promising Young Woman
Lee Isaac Chung - Minari
Eliza Hittman - Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Mike Makowsky - Bad Education
Alice Wu - The Half of It
Best Editing
Chloé Zhao - Nomadland
Andy Canny - The Invisible Man
Scott Cummings - Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Merawi Gerima - Residue
Enat Sidi - I Carry You with Me
Best Cinematography
Joshua James Richards - Nomadland
Jay Keitel - She Dies Tomorrow
Shabier Kirchner - Bull
Michael Latham - The Assistant
Hélène Louvart - Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Best International Film
Quo Vadis, Aida? (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Bacurau (Brazil)
The Disciple (India)
Night of the Kings (Ivory Coast)
Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (Hungary)
Best Documentary Feature
Crip Camp
Collective
Dick Johnson Is Dead
The Mole Agent
Time
Best First Feature
Darius Marder - Sound of Metal
Radha Blank - The Forty-Year-Old Version
Heidi Ewing - I Carry You with Me
Edson Oda - Nine Days
Channing Godfrey Peoples - Miss Juneteenth
Best First Screenplay
Andy Siara - Palm Springs
Kitty Green - The Assistant
Noah Hutton - Lapsis
Channing Godfrey Peoples - Miss Juneteenth
James Sweeney - Straight Up