Independent Spirit Awards 1993
The eighth Independent Spirit Awards ceremony took place on March 27, 1993.
Summary
Robert Altman's bitter satire on Hollywood , The Player , was nominated for Best Picture, but no other award. Quentin Tarantino's first feature film, Reservoir Dogs, won three nominations, but was defeated in the competition for best director ( Carl Franklin won) and best debut film. Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant received three nominations, but only won lead actor Harvey Keitel . Jim Jarmusch's taxi driver ballad Night on Earth received the camera award, but otherwise no nominations. Neil Jordan , nominated for the second time for the best foreign film, won for The Crying Game and relegated the heavyweights of world cinema like Nikita Sergejewitsch Michalkow and Zhang Yimou to their places.
Winners and nominees
Best movie
The Player - David Brown , Michael Tolkin , Nick Wechsler
- Bad Lieutenant - Mary Kane , Edward R. Pressman
- Gas Food Lodging - William Ewart , Daniel Hassid , Seth Willenson
- Mississippi Masala - Mira Nair , Michael Nozik
- One False Move - Ben Myron
Best debut film
Waterdance - Neal Jimenez , Michael Steinberg , Gale Anne Hurd , Marie Cantin , Guy Riedel
- Laws of Gravity - Nick Gomez , Bob Gosse , Larry Meistrich
- My New Gun - Stacy Cochran , Michael Flynn
- Reservoir Dogs - Wild Dogs (Reservoir Dogs) - Quentin Tarantino , Lawrence Bender
- Swoon - Tom Kalin , Christine Vachon
Best Actor
Harvey Keitel - Bad Lieutenant
- Craig Chester - Swoon
- Laurence Fishburne - Beyond the White Line (Deep Cover)
- Peter Greene - Laws of Gravity
- Michael Rapaport - Zebrahead
Best main actress
Fairuza Balk - Gas Food Lodging
- Edie Falco - Laws of Gravity
- Catherine Keener - Johnny Suede
- Sheryl Lee - Twin Peaks - The Movie (Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me)
- Cynda Williams - One False Move
Best supporting actor
Steve Buscemi - Reservoir Dogs - Wild Dogs (Reservoir Dogs)
- William Forsythe - Waterdance
- Jeff Goldblum - Beyond the White Line (Deep Cover)
- Wesley Snipes - Waterdance
- David Strathairn - Passion Fish
The best supporting actress
- Brooke Adams - Gas Food Lodging
- Sara Gilbert - Poison Ivy - The Deadly Embrace (Poison Ivy)
- Karen Sillas - Simple Men
- Danitra Vance - Manny and Dan - Live and Die in the Bronx (Jumpin 'at the Boneyard)
Best director
Carl Franklin - One False Move
- Allison Anders - Gas Food Lodging
- Abel Ferrara - Bad Lieutenant
- Tom Kalin - Swoon
- Quentin Tarantino - Reservoir Dogs - Wild Dogs (Reservoir Dogs)
Best script
- Allison Anders - Gas Food Lodging
- Keith Gordon - Special Forces IQ (A Midnight Clear)
- Paul Schrader - Light Sleeper
- Billy Bob Thornton - One False Move
Best camera
Frederick Elmes - Night on Earth
- Jon Jost - All the Vermeers in New York (All the Vermeers in New York)
- Ellen Kuras - Swoon
- Edward Lachman - Light Sleeper
- Jean de Segonzac - Laws of Gravity
Best film score
Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks - The Movie (Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me)
- Jon A. English - All the Vermeers in New York (All the Vermeers in New York)
- Taj Mahal - Zebrahead
- Maureen McElheron - The Tune
- Terry Plumeri , Peter Haycock , Derek Holt - One False Move
Best foreign film
- Danzón - María Novaro
- Red Lantern (Da hong deng long gao gao gua) - Zhang Yimou
- Urga - Nikita Sergejewitsch Michalkow