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15th Independent Spirit Awards

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Date
  
25 March 2000

Other ceremonies
  
1999, 2001

The 1999 Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 1999, were announced on March 25, 2000. It was hosted by Jennifer Tilly.

Contents

Best Feature

Election

  • Cookie's Fortune
  • The Limey
  • The Straight Story
  • Sugar Town

    • Best First Feature (Over $500,000)

    Being John Malkovich

  • Boys Don't Cry
  • Three Seasons
  • Twin Falls Idaho
  • Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl

    • Best First Feature (Under $500,000)

    The Blair Witch Project

  • The City
  • Compensation
  • Judy Berlin
  • Treasure Island

    • Best Director

    Alexander Payne – Election

  • Harmony Korine – Julien Donkey-Boy
  • Doug Liman – Go
  • David Lynch – The Straight Story
  • Steven Soderbergh – The Limey

    • Best Male Lead

    Richard Farnsworth – The Straight Story

  • John Cusack – Being John Malkovich
  • Terence Stamp – The Limey
  • David Strathairn – Limbo
  • Noble Willingham – The Corndog Man

    • Best Female Lead

    Hilary Swank – Boys Don't Cry

  • Diane Lane – A Walk on the Moon
  • Janet McTeer – Tumbleweeds
  • Susan Traylor – Valerie Flake
  • Reese Witherspoon – Election

    • Best Supporting Male

    Steve Zahn – Happy, Texas

  • Charles S. Dutton – Cookie's Fortune
  • Clark Gregg – The Adventures of Sebastian Cole
  • Luis Guzmán – The Limey
  • Terrence Howard – The Best Man

    • Best Supporting Female

    Chloë Sevigny – Boys Don't Cry

  • Barbara Barrie – Judy Berlin
  • Vanessa Martinez – Limbo
  • Sarah Polley – Go
  • Jean Smart – Guinevere

    • Best Screenplay

    Election – Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor

  • Dogma – Kevin Smith
  • Guinevere – Audrey Wells
  • The Limey – Lem Dobbs
  • SLC Punk! – James Merendino

    • Best First Screenplay

    Being John Malkovich – Charlie Kaufman

  • The Adventures of Sebastian Cole – Kip Williams
  • Boys Don't Cry – Kimberly Peirce and Andy Bienen
  • Cookie's Fortune – Anne Rapp
  • The Straight Story – John Roach and Mary Sweeney

    • Best Cinematography

    Three Seasons – Lisa Rinzler

  • The City – Harlan Bosmajian
  • Judy Berlin – Jeffrey Seckendorf
  • Julien Donkey-Boy – Anthony Dod Mantle
  • Twin Falls Idaho – M. David Mullen

    • Best Foreign Film

    Run Lola Run • Germany

  • All About My Mother • Spain
  • My Son the Fanatic • UK
  • Rosetta • Belgium/France
  • Topsy-Turvy • UK

    • Best Debut Performance

    Kimberly J. Brown – Tumbleweeds

  • Jessica Campbell – Election
  • Jade Gordon – Sugar Town
  • Toby Smith – Drylongso
  • Chris Stafford – Edge of Seventeen

    • Truer Than Fiction Award

    Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles

  • American Hollow
  • On the Ropes
  • Well-Founded Fear

    • Producers Award

    Pamela Koffler – I'm Losing You

  • Eva Kolodner – Boys Don't Cry
  • Paul Mezey – The City
  • Christine K. Walker – Backroads and Homo Heights

    • Someone to Watch Award

    Cauleen Smith – Drylongso

  • Dan Clark – The Item
  • Julian Goldberger – Trans
  • Lisanne Skyler – Getting to Know You

    • References

    15th Independent Spirit Awards Wikipedia
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