30th Independent Spirit Awards

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and in bold.

Best Feature

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Boyhood

Love Is Strange

Selma

Whiplash

Best First Feature

Nightcrawler

Dear White People

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

Obvious Child

She's Lost Control

John Cassavetes Award

Land Ho!

Blue Ruin

It Felt Like Love

Man From Reno

Test

Best Male Lead

Michael Keaton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

André 3000 – Jimi: All Is by My Side

Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler

John Lithgow – Love Is Strange

David Oyelowo – Selma

Best Female Lead

Julianne Moore – Still Alice

Marion Cotillard – The Immigrant

Rinko Kikuchi – Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

Jenny Slate – Obvious Child

Tilda Swinton – Only Lovers Left Alive

Best Supporting Male

J. K. Simmons – Whiplash

Riz Ahmed – Nightcrawler

Ethan Hawke – Boyhood

Alfred Molina – Love Is Strange

Edward Norton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Best Supporting Female

Patricia Arquette – Boyhood

Jessica Chastain – A Most Violent Year

Carmen Ejogo – Selma

Andrea Suarez Paz – Stand Clear of the Closing Doors

Emma Stone – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Best Director

Richard Linklater – Boyhood

Damien Chazelle – Whiplash

Ava DuVernay – Selma

Alejandro G. Iñárritu – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

David Zellner – Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

Best Screenplay

Dan Gilroy – Nightcrawler

Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski – Big Eyes

J. C. Chandor – A Most Violent Year

Jim Jarmusch – Only Lovers Left Alive

Ira Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias – Love Is Strange

Best First Screenplay

Justin Simien – Dear White People

Desiree Akhavan – Appropriate Behavior

Sara Colangelo – Little Accidents

Justin Lader – The One I Love

Anja Marquardt – She's Lost Control

Best Cinematography

Emmanuel Lubezki – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Darius Khondji – The Immigrant

Sean Porter – It Felt Like Love

Lyle Vincent – A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

Bradford Young – Selma

Best Editing

Tom Cross – Whiplash

Sandra Adair – Boyhood

John Gilroy – Nightcrawler

Ron Patane – A Most Violent Year

Adam Wingard – The Guest

Best International Film

Ida (Poland) – Paweł Pawlikowski

Force Majeure (Sweden) – Ruben Östlund

Leviathan (Russia) – Andrey Zvyagintsev

Mommy (Canada) – Xavier Dolan

Norte, the End of History (Philippines) – Lav Diaz

Under the Skin (United Kingdom) – Jonathan Glazer

Best Documentary

Citizenfour – Laura Poitras

20,000 Days on Earth – Ian Forsyth and Jane Pollard

Stray Dog – Debra Granik

The Salt of the Earth – Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and Wim Wenders

Virunga – Orlando von Einsiedel

Robert Altman Award

(The award is given to its film director, casting director, and ensemble cast)

Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson

Special Distinction Award

Foxcatcher – Bennett Miller, Anthony Bregman, Megan Ellison, Jon Kilik, E. Max Frye, Dan Futterman, Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, Channing Tatum