Independent Spirit Awards 1992
The seventh Independent Spirit Awards ceremony took place in 1992.
Summary
The best film was Martha Coolidge's The Lust of the Beautiful Rose (Rambling Rose) , which received two other awards. The strongest competition was Gus Van Sant's My Private Idaho , who was nominated for six awards and won three. Martha Coolidge won the Best Director Award to Gus Van Sant and the two newcomers Richard Linklater and Todd Haynes , whose films Marauders (Slacker) and Poison were nominated for the best debut film, but did not win. Jane Campion won the prize for the best foreign film for the second year in a row, she again defeated Mike Leigh , but also Krzysztof Kieślowski with The Two Lives of Veronica (La double vie de Véronique) .
Winners and nominees
Best movie
The Lust of the Beautiful Rose (Rambling Rose) - Renny Harlin
- Hangin 'Out - 4 Homeboys on the Road (Hangin' with the Homeboys) - Richard Brick
- Homicide - Homicide - Michael Hausman , Edward R. Pressman
- My Private Idaho (My Own Private Idaho) - Laurie Parker
- City of Hope (City of Hope) - Sarah Green , Maggie Renzi
Best debut film
Straight Out of Brooklyn - Matty Rich
- Douglas Street - The Chameleon (Chameleon Street) - Wendell B. Harris Jr.
- Dark Enlightenment (The Rapture) - Michael Tolkin , Karen Koch , Nancy Tenenbaum , Nick Wechsler
- Poison - Todd Haynes , Christine Vachon
- Marauder (Slacker) - Richard Linklater
Best Actor
River Phoenix - My Private Idaho (My Own Private Idaho)
- Doug E. Doug - Hangin 'Out - 4 Homeboys on the move (Hangin' with the Homeboys)
- Robert Duvall - The Pleasure of the Beautiful Rose (Rambling Rose)
- Gary Oldman - Rosenkranz und Güldenstern (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead)
- William Russ - His Last Game (Pastime)
Best main actress
Judy Davis - In Love With Chopin (Impromptu)
- Patsy Kensit - Twenty-One
- Mimi Rogers - Dark Enlightenment (The Rapture)
- Lili Taylor - An Unbelievable Mission (Bright Angel)
- Lily Tomlin - The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
Best supporting actor
David Strathairn - City of Hope (City of Hope)
- William H. Macy - Homicide - Homicide
- John Malkovich - Born in Queens (Queens Logic)
- George T. Odom - Straight Out of Brooklyn
- Glenn Plummer - His Last Game (Pastime)
The best supporting actress
Diane Ladd - The Lust of the Beautiful Rose (Rambling Rose)
- Sheila McCarthy - A Mission Infernal (Bright Angel)
- Deirdre O'Connell - His Last Game (Pastime)
- Emma Thompson - In Love With Chopin (Impromptu)
- Mary B. Ward - Hangin 'Out - 4 Homeboys on the move (Hangin' with the Homeboys)
Best director
Martha Coolidge - The Lust of the Beautiful Rose (Rambling Rose)
- Todd Haynes - Poison
- Richard Linklater - Marauder (Slacker)
- Gus Van Sant - My Private Idaho (My Own Private Idaho)
- Joseph B. Vasquez - Hangin 'Out - 4 Homeboys on the way (Hangin' with the Homeboys)
Best script
Gus Van Sant - My Private Idaho (My Own Private Idaho)
- Floyd Bryars , Fritjof Capra - Turning Time (Mindwalk)
- Lem Dobbs - Kafka
- Michael Tolkin - Dark Enlightenment (The Rapture)
- Joseph B. Vasquez - Hangin 'Out - 4 Homeboys on the way (Hangin' with the Homeboys)
Best camera
- Roger Deakins - Homicide - Homicide (Homicide)
- Eric Alan Edwards , John J. Campbell - My Private Idaho (My Own Private Idaho)
- Johnny E. Jensen - The Lust of the Beautiful Rose (Rambling Rose)
- Tom Richmond - His Last Game (Pastime)
Best film score
Bill Stafford - My Private Idaho (My Own Private Idaho)
- David Chackler , Joel Sill - Hangin 'Out - 4 Homeboys on the move (Hangin' with the Homeboys)
- Jim Dunbar , Randall Poster - A Matter of Degrees
- Marcos Loya , Nigel Holton - Kiss Me a Killer - Deadly Desires (Kiss Me a Killer)
- Harold Wheeler - Straight Out of Brooklyn
Best foreign film
An Angel at my Table - Jane Campion
- Life is Sweet - Mike Leigh
- Requiem for Dominik - Robert Dornhelm
- Taxi Blues (Taksi-Blyuz) - Pawel Lungin
- The Two Lives of Veronica (La double vie de Véronique) - Krzysztof Kieślowski