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16th Independent Spirit Awards

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Date
  
24 March 2001

Other ceremonies
  
2000, 2002

The 2000 Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 2000, were announced on March 24, 2001. It was hosted by John Waters.

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Best Feature

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

  • Before Night Falls
  • George Washington
  • Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
  • Requiem for a Dream

    • Best Feature (Under $500,000)

    Chuck & Buck

  • Bunny
  • Everything Put Together
  • Groove
  • Our Song

    • Best First Feature

    You Can Count on Me

  • Boiler Room
  • Girlfight
  • Love & Basketball
  • The Visit

    • Best Director

    Ang Lee – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

  • Darren Aronofsky – Requiem for a Dream
  • Miguel Arteta – Chuck & Buck
  • Christopher Guest – Best in Show
  • Julian Schnabel – Before Night Falls

    • 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 Female Lead

    Ellen Burstyn – Requiem for a Dream

  • Joan Allen – The Contender
  • Sanaa Lathan – Love & Basketball
  • Laura Linney – You Can Count on Me
  • Kelly Macdonald – Two Family House

    • 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 Supporting Female

    Zhang Ziyi – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

  • Pat Carroll – Songcatcher
  • Jennifer Connelly – Requiem for a Dream
  • Marcia Gay Harden – Pollock
  • Lupe Ontiveros – Chuck & Buck

    • Best Screenplay

    You Can Count on Me – Kenneth Lonergan

  • Chuck & Buck – Mike White
  • Love & Sex – Valerie Breiman
  • Two Family House – Raymond De Felitta
  • Waking the Dead – Robert Dillon

    • Best First Screenplay

    Love & Basketball – Gina Prince-Bythewood

  • Boiler Room – Ben Younger
  • George Washington – David Gordon Green
  • Tigerland – Ross Klavan and Michael McGruther
  • The Visit – Jordan Walker-Pearlman

    • Best Cinematography

    Requiem for a Dream – Matthew Libatique

  • Before Night Falls – Xavier Pérez Grobet and Guillermo Rosas
  • George Washington – Tim Orr
  • Hamlet – John de Borman
  • Shadow of the Vampire – Lou Bogue

    • Best Foreign Film

    Dancer in the Dark • Denmark

  • In the Mood for Love • Hong Kong/France
  • The Terrorist • India
  • A Time for Drunken Horses • Iran
  • The War Zone • UK

    • Best Documentary Feature

    Dark Days

  • The Eyes of Tammy Faye
  • Long Night's Journey into Day
  • Paragraph 175
  • Sound and Fury

    • Best Debut Performance

    Michelle Rodriguez – Girlfight

  • Curtis Cotton III, Candace Evanofski, Rachael Handy, Donald Holden and Damian Jewan Lee – George Washington
  • Rory Culkin – You Can Count on Me
  • Emmy Rossum – Songcatcher
  • Mike White – Chuck & Buck

    • Truer Than Fiction Award

    Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale

  • Benjamin Smoke
  • Just, Melvin: Just Evil
  • Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story

    • Producers Award

    Paul Mezey – The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack and Spring Forward

  • Jim McKay – American Movie and Our Song
  • Tim Perell – Louis & Frank and The Myth of Fingerprints
  • Diana E. Williams – The Love Machine and Our Song

    • Someone to Watch Award

    Marc Forster – Everything Put Together

  • Dan McCormack – Other Voices
  • Mia Trachinger – Bunny

    • References

    16th Independent Spirit Awards Wikipedia
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