Independent Spirit Awards 1986
The first Independent Spirit Awards ceremony took place in 1986 in Los Angeles .
Summary
Two films dominate: Martin Scorsese's After Hours (After Hours) was Best Picture and won the Best Director Award and three nominations, Ethan and Joel Coen's first film Blood Simple won the Best Director Award along with Scorsese and the award for best lead actor and also three other nominations . Geraldine Pages choice for best actress for A Trip to Bountiful - Travel to Happiness (The Trip to Bountiful) was at the Oscars confirmed. Best foreign film was not Akira Kurosawa's late work Ran , but the Brazilian-American co-production Kiss of the Spider Woman (Kiss of the Spider Woman) .
Winners and nominees
Best movie
After Hours (After Hours) - Robert F. Cole Berry , Griffin Dunne , Amy Robinson
- Menacing whispers (Smooth Talk) - Martin Rosen
- Blood Simple - Ethan Coen
- A Trip to Bountiful - The Trip to Bountiful - Sterling Van Wagenen , Horton Foote
Best director
Joel Coen - Blood Simple
Martin Scorsese - The Time After Midnight (After Hours)
- Joyce Chopra - Menacing Whisper (Smooth Talk)
- Peter Masterson - A Trip to Bountiful - Reise ins Glück (The Trip to Bountiful)
Best Actor
- Rubén Blades - Crossover Dreams
- Tom Bower - Wild Rose
- Treat Williams - Menacing Whispers (Smooth Talk)
Best main actress
Geraldine Page - A Trip to Bountiful - Reise ins Glück (The Trip to Bountiful)
- Rosanna Arquette - The Time After Midnight (After Hours)
- Laura Dern - Menacing Whisper (Smooth Talk)
- Lori Singer - Diamond Fever (Trouble in Mind)
Best script
Horton Foote - A Trip to Bountiful - Reise ins Glück (The Trip to Bountiful)
- Joel Coen , Ethan Coen - Blood Simple
- Tom Cole - Menacing Whisper (Smooth Talk)
- Joseph Minion - The Time After Midnight (After Hours)
Best camera
Toyomichi Kurita - Diamond Fever (Trouble in Mind)
- Michael Ballhaus - The time after midnight (After Hours)
- Michael G. Chin - Dim Sum - Something for the Heart (Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart)
- Barry Sonnenfeld - Blood Simple
Best foreign film
Kiss of the Spider Woman (Kiss of the Spider Woman) - Héctor Babenco
- The Professional Killer (The Hit) - Stephen Frears
- Ran - Akira Kurosawa
- The Real Life of Alice in Wonderland (Dreamchild) - Gavin Millar