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4th Independent Spirit Awards

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Date
  
25 March 1989

Other ceremonies
  
1988, 1990

The 1988 Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 1988, were announced on March 25, 1989 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles. It was hosted by Buck Henry.

Contents

Best Feature

Stand and Deliver

  • Hairspray
  • Patti Rocks
  • The Thin Blue Line
  • Torch Song Trilogy

    • Best First Feature

    Mystic Pizza

  • Border Radio
  • The Chocolate War
  • The Prince of Pennsylvania
  • The Wash

    • Best Director

    Ramón Menéndez – Stand and Deliver

  • David Burton Morris – Patti Rocks
  • Errol Morris – The Thin Blue Line
  • Oliver Stone – Talk Radio
  • John Waters – Hairspray

    • Best Male Lead

    Edward James Olmos – Stand and Deliver

  • Eric Bogosian – Talk Radio
  • Harvey Fierstein – Torch Song Trilogy
  • Chris Mulkey – Patti Rocks
  • James Woods – The Boost

    • Best Female Lead

    Jodie Foster – Five Corners

  • Ricki Lake – Hairspray
  • Nobu McCarthy – The Wash
  • Julia Roberts – Mystic Pizza
  • Meg Ryan – Promised Land

    • Best Supporting Male

    Lou Diamond Phillips – Stand and Deliver

  • Ernest Borgnine – Spike of Bensonhurst
  • Divine – Hairspray
  • John Lone – The Moderns
  • John Turturro – Five Corners

    • Best Supporting Female

    Rosana De Soto – Stand and Deliver

  • Bonnie Bedelia – The Prince of Pennsylvania
  • Debbie Harry – Hairspray
  • Amy Madigan – The Prince of Pennsylvania
  • Patti Yasutake – The Wash

    • Best Screenplay

    Stand and Deliver – Ramón Menéndez and Tom Musca

  • Five Corners – John Patrick Shanley
  • Hairspray – John Waters
  • The Moderns – Alan Rudolph and Jon Bradshaw
  • Patti Rocks – John Jenkins, Karen Landry, David Burton Morris and Chris Mulkey

    • Best Cinematography

    The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Sven Nykvist

  • The Moderns – Toyomichi Kurita
  • Patti Rocks – Gregory Cummins
  • Stand and Deliver – Tom Richmond
  • Talk Radio – Robert Richardson

    • Best Foreign Film

    Wings of Desire • West Germany

  • Bagdad Cafe • West Germany
  • The Kitchen Toto • UK
  • A World Apart • UK
  • Yeelen • Mali

    • References

    4th Independent Spirit Awards Wikipedia
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