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Jim Stevens


Date: 24 March
Host: John Waters
Location: Santa Monica Beach, Santa Monica, California, USA

While there were no African-American nominees at the 2001 Academy Awards, there were plenty at the 16th Annual Independent Spirit Awards. Among the notables were Jordan Walker-Perlman (The Visit), Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love & Basketball), Candace Evanofski, Curtis Cotton, III, Damian Jewan Lee, Donald Holden, Rachael Handy (all in George Washington), Billy Dee Williams (The Visit), Sanaa Lathan (Love and Basketball) and Hill Harper (The Visit).

The Independent Spirit Awards are the Oscars of independent films, and represent the West Coast's independent film scene.

Here are this year's results:

Best Supporting Female
Winner: Wo hu zang long (2000) - Ziyi Zhang

Other Nominees:
Chuck & Buck (2000) - Lupe Ontiveros
Pollock (2000) - Marcia Gay Harden
Requiem for a Dream (2000) - Jennifer Connelly
Songcatcher (1999) - Pat Carroll


Best Supporting Male
Winner: Shadow of the Vampire (2000) - Willem Dafoe

Other Nominees:
Contender, The (2000) - Gary Oldman
Gift, The (2000) - Giovanni Ribisi
Tigerland (2000) - Cole Hauser
Visit, The (2000/I) - Billy Dee Williams


Best Director
Winner: Wo hu zang long (2000) - Ang Lee

Other Nominees:
Before Night Falls (2000) - Julian Schnabel
Best in Show (2000) - Christopher Guest
Chuck & Buck (2000) - Miguel Arteta
Requiem for a Dream (2000) - Darren Aronofsky


Best Screenplay
Winner: You Can Count on Me (2000) - Ken Lonergan

Other Nominees:
Chuck & Buck (2000) - Mike White (I)
Love & Sex (2000) - Valerie Breiman
Two Family House (2000) - Raymond De Felitta
Waking the Dead (1999) - Robert Dillon (III)


Best First Screenplay
Winner: Love & Basketball (2000) - Gina Prince-Bythewood

Other Nominees:
Boiler Room (2000) - Ben Younger
George Washington (2000) - David Gordon Green
Tigerland (2000) - Ross Klavan (I); Michael McGruther
Visit, The (2000/I) - Jordan Walker Pearlman


Best Cinematography
Winner: Requiem for a Dream (2000) - Matthew Libatique

Other Nominees:
Before Night Falls (2000) - Xavier Pérez Grobet; Guillermo Rosas
George Washington (2000) - Tim Orr (II)
Hamlet (2000/I) - John de Borman
Shadow of the Vampire (2000) - Lou Bogue


Best Documentary
Winner: Dark Days (2000) - Marc Singer

Other Nominees:
Eyes of Tammy Faye, The (2000) - Randy Barbato; Fenton Bailey
Long Night's Journey Into Day (2000) - Frances Reid (II); Deborah Hoffmann (I)
Paragraph 175 (1999) - Robert Epstein; Jeffrey Friedman (I)
Sound and Fury (2000) - Josh Aronson


Best Foreign Film
Winner: Dancer in the Dark (2000) - Lars von Trier - Denmark.

Other Nominees:
In the Mood for Love (2000) - Kar-wai Wong - Hong Kong/France.
Malli (1998) - Santosh Sivan - India.
War Zone, The (1999) - Tim Roth - UK.
Zamani barayé masti asbha (2000) - Bahman Ghobadi - France/Iran.


Best First Feature
Winner: You Can Count on Me (2000) - Ken Lonergan (director); John Hart (V) (producer); Jeff Sharp (producer); Barbara De Fina (producer); Larry Meistrich (producer)

Other Nominees:
Boiler Room (2000) - Ben Younger (director); Suzanne Todd (producer); Jennifer Todd (III) (producer)
Girlfight (2000) - Karyn Kusama (director); Maggie Renzi (producer); Sarah Green (producer); Martha Griffin (producer)
Love & Basketball (2000) - Gina Prince-Bythewood (director); Spike Lee (producer); Sam Kitt (producer)
Visit, The (2000/I) - Jordan Walker Pearlman (director/producer)


Best Male Lead
Winner: Before Night Falls (2000) - Javier Bardem

Other Nominees:
Jesus' Son (1999) - Billy Crudup
Restaurant (1998) - Adrien Brody
Visit, The (2000/I) - Hill Harper
You Can Count on Me (2000) - Mark Ruffalo


Best Debut Performance
Winner: Girlfight (2000) - Michelle Rodriguez

Other Nominees:
Chuck & Buck (2000) - Mike White (I)
George Washington (2000) - Candace Evanofski; Curtis Cotton III; Damian Jewan Lee; Donald Holden; Rachael Handy - For the whole ensemble.
Songcatcher (1999) - Emmy Rossum
You Can Count on Me (2000) - Rory Culkin


Best Feature - Under $500,000
Winner: Chuck & Buck (2000) - Miguel Arteta (director); Matthew Greenfield (producer); Mike White (I) (writer)

Other Nominees:
Bunny (2000/II) - Mia Trachinger (director/writer); Rebecca Sonnenshine (producer); Mia Trachinger (producer)
Everything Put Together (2000) - Marc Forster (director); Sean Furst (producer); Adam Forgash (writer); Catherine Lloyd Burns (writer); Marc Forster (writer)
Groove (2000) - Greg Harrison (III) (director/writer); Danielle Renfrew (producer)
Our Song (2000) - Jim McKay (I) (director/writer/producer); Paul S. Mezey (producer); Diana E. Williams (producer)


Best Feature
Winner: Wo hu zang long (2000) - William Kong; Li-Kong Hsu; Ang Lee

Other Nominees:
Before Night Falls (2000) - Jon Kilik
George Washington (2000) - David Gordon Green; Sacha W. Mueller; Lisa Muskat
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) - Jim Jarmusch; Richard Guay
Requiem for a Dream (2000) - Eric Watson (III); Palmer West


Best Female Lead
Winner: Requiem for a Dream (2000) - Ellen Burstyn

Other Nominees:
Contender, The (2000) - Joan Allen
Love & Basketball (2000) - Sanaa Lathan
Two Family House (2000) - Kelly Macdonald
You Can Count on Me (2000) - Laura Linney


Truer Than Fiction Award
Winner: Once I Was a Cannibal (2000) - David S. Shapiro; Laurie Shapiro

Other Nominees:
Benjamin Smoke (2000) - Jem Cohen; Peter Sillen
Just, Melvin (2000) - James Ronald Whitney
Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story (2000) - Vincent Fremont (I); Shelly Dunn Fremont


Producers Award
Winner: Ballad of Ramblin' Jack, The (2000) - Paul S. Mezey - Also for Spring Forward (1999).

Other Nominees:
American Movie: The Making of Northwestern (1999) - Jim McKay (I) - Also for Our Song (2000).
Louis & Frank (1998) - Tim Perell - Also for Myth of Fingerprints, The (1997).
Love Machine, The (2000) - Diana E. Williams - Also for Our Song (2000).


Someone to Watch Award
Winner: Everything Put Together (2000) - Marc Forster

Other Nominees:
Bunny (2000/II) - Mia Trachinger
Other Voices (2000) - Dan McCormack
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