2016 Spirit Awards

“Spotlight” took home top honors at the 2016 Spirit Awards, winning best feature, best director, best screenplay, best editing and best ensemble. Below find a complete list of the afternoon’s winners:

Best Feature

• Anomalisa
• Beasts of No Nation
• Carol
• Spotlight — WINNER
• Tangerine

Best Director

• Sean Baker, Tangerine
• Cary Joji Fukunaga, Beasts of No Nation
• Todd Haynes, Carol
• Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson, Anomalisa
• Tom McCarthy, Spotlight — WINNER
• David Robert Mitchell, It Follows

Best Screenplay

• Charlie Kaufman, Anomalisa
• Donald Margulies, The End of the Tour
• Phyllis Nagy, Carol
• Tom McCarthy & Josh Singer, Spotlight — WINNER
• S. Craig Zahler, Bone Tomahawk

Best First Feature

• The Diary of a Teenage Girl — WINNER
• James White
• Manos Sucias
• Mediterranea
• Songs My Brothers Taught Me

Best First Screenplay

• Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
• Jonas Carpignano, Mediterranea
• Emma Donoghue, Room — WINNER
• Marielle Heller, The Diary of a Teenage Girl
• John Magary, Russell Harbaugh, Myna Joseph, The Mend

Best Male Lead

• Christopher Abbott, James White
• Abraham Attah, Beasts of No Nation — WINNER
• Ben Mendelsohn, Mississippi Grind
• Jason Segel, The End of the Tour
• Koudous Seihon, Mediterranea

Best Female Lead

• Cate Blanchett, Carol
• Brie Larson, Room — WINNER
• Rooney Mara, Carol
• Bel Powley, The Diary of A Teenage Girl
• Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Tangerine

Best Supporting Male

• Kevin Corrigan, Results
• Paul Dano, Love & Mercy
• Idris Elba, Beasts of No Nation — WINNER
• Richard Jenkins, Bone Tomahawk
• Michael Shannon, 99 Homes

Best Supporting Female

• Robin Bartlett, H.
• Marin Ireland, Glass Chin
• Jennifer Jason Leigh, Anomalisa
• Cynthia Nixon, James White
• Mya Taylor, Tangerine — WINNER

Best Documentary

• (T)error
• Best of Enemies
• Heart of a Dog
• The Look of Silence — WINNER
• Meru
• The Russian Woodpecker

Best International Film

• A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
• Embrace of the Serpent
• Girlhood
• Mustang
• Son of Saul — WINNER

Best Cinematography

• Beasts of No Nation
• Carol — WINNER
• It Follows
• Meadlowland
• Songs My Brothers Taught Me

Best Editing

• Heaven Knows What
• It Follows
• Manos Sucias
• Room
• Spotlight — WINNER

John Cassavetes Award (Best Feature Under $500,000)

• Advantageous
• Christmas, Again
• Heaven Knows What
• Krisha — WINNER
• Out of My Hand

Robert Altman Award (Best Ensemble)

• Spotlight

Kiehl’s Someone to Watch Award

• Chloe Zhao
• Felix Thompson — WINNER
• Robert Machoian & Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck

Piaget Producers Award

• Darren Dean
• Mel Eslyn — WINNER
• Rebecca Green and Laura D. Smith