16th Independent Spirit Awards

The 16th Annual Independent Spirit Awards were handed out on March 24th, 2001. Here are the nominees, with the winners in bold:

BEST FEATURE

• Before Night Falls
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• George Washington
• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
• Requiem for a Dream

BEST DIRECTOR

• Ang Lee Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Christopher Guest Best in Show
• Darren Aronofsky Requiem for A Dream
• Julian Schnabel Before Night Falls
• Miguel Arteta Chuck & Buck

BEST SCREENPLAY

• Valerie Breiman Love & Sex
• Raymond De Felitta Two Family House
• Robert Dillon Waking the Dead
• Kenneth Lonergan You Can Count on Me
• Mike White Chuck & Buck

BEST FIRST FEATURE

• Boiler Room
• Girlfight
• Love & Basketball
• The Visit
• You Can Count On Me

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY

• David Gordon Green George Washington
• Ross Klavan & Michael McGruther Tigerland
• Gina Prince-Bythewood Love & Basketball
• Jordan Walker-Pearlman The Visit
• Ben Younger Boiler Room

BEST FEATURE - UNDER $500,000

• Bunny
• Chuck & Buck
• Everything Put Together
• Groove
• Our Song

BEST DEBUT PERFORMANCE

• Rory Culkin You Can Count On Me
• Michelle Rodriguez Girlfight
• Emmy Rossum Songcatcher
• Mike White Chuck & Buck
• Ensemble (Candace Evanofski, Curtis Cotton III, Damian Jewan Lee, Donald Holden, Rachael Handy) George Washington

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE

• Pat Carroll Songcatcher
• Jennifer Connelly Requiem For A Dream
• Marcia Gay Harden Pollock
• Lupe Ontiveros Chuck & Buck
• Zhang Ziyi Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

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 FEMALE LEAD

• Joan Allen The Contender
• Ellen Burstyn Requiem for a Dream
• Sanaa Lathan Love & Basketball
• Laura Linney You Can Count on Me
• Kelly MacDonald Two Family House

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 CINEMATOGRAPHER

• Lou Bogue Shadow of the Vampire
• John De Borman Hamlet
• Matthew Libatique Requiem for a Dream
• Tim Orr George Washington
• Xavier Perez Grobet & Guillermo Rosas Before Night Falls

BEST FOREIGN FILM

• Dancer in the Dark Director: Lars Von Trier
• In the Mood for Love Director: Wong Kar-wai
• The Terrorist Director: Santosh Sivan
• A Time for Drunken Horses Director: Bahman Ghobadi
• The War Zone Director: Tim Roth

BEST DOCUMENTARY

• Dark Days Director: Marc Singer
• The Eyes of Tammy Faye Directors: Randy Barbato & Fenton Bailey
• Long Night's Journey Into Day Directors: Frances Reid & Deborah Hoffmann
• Paragraph 175 Directors: Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman
• Sound and Fury Director: Josh Aronson

SPECIAL FILMMAKERS AWARDS

• The Movado Someone To Watch Award
  • Marc Forster, director of Everything Put Together
  • Dan McCormack, director of Other Voices
  • Mia Trachinger, director of Bunny
• The Motorola Producers Award
  • Jim McKay, producer of American Movie and Our Song
  • Paul S. Mezey, producer of The Ballad of Ramblin Jack and Spring Forward
  • Tim Perell, producer of Louis and Frank and Myth of Fingerprints
  • Diana E. Williams, producer of Love Machine and Our Song
• The DirecTV/IFC Truer Than Fiction Award
  • Vincent Fremont and Shelly Dunn Fremont for Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
  • David Shapiro and Laurie Gwen Shapiro for Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
  • James Ronald Whitney for Just, Melvin
  • Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen for Benjamin Smoke.