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12th Independent Spirit Awards

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Date
  
22 March 1997

Other ceremonies
  
1996, 1998

The 1996 Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 1996, were announced on March 22, 1997. It was hosted by Samuel L. Jackson.

Contents

Best Feature

Fargo

  • Dead Man
  • The Funeral
  • Loved
  • Welcome to the Dollhouse

    • Best First Feature

    Sling Blade

  • Big Night
  • I Shot Andy Warhol
  • Manny & Lo
  • Trees Lounge

    • Best Director

    Joel Coen – Fargo

  • Abel Ferrara – The Funeral
  • David O. Russell – Flirting with Disaster
  • Todd Solondz – Welcome to the Dollhouse
  • Robert M. Young – Caught

    • Best Male Lead

    William H. Macy – Fargo

  • Chris Cooper – Lone Star
  • Chris Penn – The Funeral
  • Tony Shalhoub – Big Night
  • Stanley Tucci – Big Night

    • Best Female Lead

    Frances McDormand – Fargo

  • María Conchita Alonso – Caught
  • Scarlett Johansson – Manny & Lo
  • Catherine Keener – Walking and Talking
  • Renée Zellweger – The Whole Wide World

    • Best Supporting Male

    Benicio del Toro – Basquiat

  • Kevin Corrigan – Walking and Talking
  • Matthew Faber – Welcome to the Dollhouse
  • Gary Farmer – Dead Man
  • Richard Jenkins – Flirting with Disaster

    • Best Supporting Female

    Elizabeth Peña – Lone Star

  • Mary Kay Place – Manny & Lo
  • Queen Latifah – Set It Off
  • Lili Taylor – Girls Town
  • Lily Tomlin – Flirting with Disaster

    • Best Screenplay

    Fargo – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

  • Dead Man – Jim Jarmusch
  • Flirting with Disaster – David O. Russell
  • The Funeral – Nicholas St. John
  • Lone Star – John Sayles

    • Best First Screenplay

    Big Night – Joseph Tropiano and Stanley Tucci

  • Girl 6 – Suzan-Lori Parks
  • Manny & Lo – Lisa Krueger
  • Trees Lounge – Steve Buscemi
  • The Whole Wide World – Michael Scott Myers

    • Best Cinematography

    Fargo – Roger Deakins

  • Bound – Bill Pope
  • Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day – Rob Sweeney
  • Dead Man – Robby Müller
  • The Funeral – Ken Kelsch

    • Best Foreign Film

    Secrets & Lies • UK

  • Breaking the Waves • Denmark
  • Chungking Express • Hong Kong
  • Lamerica • Italy
  • Trainspotting • UK

    • Best Debut Performance

    Heather Matarazzo – Welcome to the Dollhouse

  • Jena Malone – Bastard Out of Carolina
  • Brendan Sexton III – Welcome to the Dollhouse
  • Arie Verveen – Caught
  • Jeffrey Wright – Basquiat

    • Truer Than Fiction Award

    When We Were Kings

  • The Celluloid Closet
  • Looking for Richard
  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
  • Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern

    • Someone to Watch Award

    Larry Fessenden – Habit

  • Joe Brewster – The Keeper
  • Chris Smith – American Job

    • References

    12th Independent Spirit Awards Wikipedia
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