Independent Spirit Awards 1995
The tenth presentation of the Independent Spirit Awards took place on March 25, 1995.
Summary
As in the previous year, one Ang Lee film was nominated for six awards and won none: Eat Drink Man Woman (Yin shi nan nu) . Also empty-handed was Alan Rudolph for Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle) , this movie was nominated five times. The big winner was Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction with four awards, including two (direction and screenplay) for Tarantino himself. The Best Director Award he won against big-name competitors: Roman Polanski for The Death and the Maiden (Death and the Maiden) (the only nomination for this film), Alan Rudolph, John Dahl and Woody Allen , whose black comedy Bullets Over Broadway nominated for four awards was and won two. Among the newcomers, David O. Russell beat Kevin Smith 's Clerks with Spanking the Monkey . The award for the best foreign film went to Krzysztof Kieślowski , who has already been nominated, for his last film Drei Farben: Rot (Trois couleurs: Rouge) .
Winners and nominees
Best movie
Pulp Fiction - Lawrence Bender
- Bullets Over Broadway - Robert Greenhut
- Eat Drink Man Woman (Yin shi nan nu) - Ted Hope , Hsu Li-Kong , James Schamus
- Freddy's New Nightmare (New Nightmare) - Marianne Maddalena
- Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle - Robert Altman
Best debut film
Spanking the Monkey - David O. Russell , Dean Silvers
- Clean, Shaven - Lodge Kerrigan
- Clerks. - Kevin Smith , Scott Mosier
- Life Is Trouble - Darnell Martin , Lane Janger
- Suture - David Siegel , Scott McGehee , Michèle Pétin
Best Actor
Samuel L. Jackson - Pulp Fiction
- Sihung Lung - Eat Drink Man Woman (Yin shi nan nu)
- William H. Macy - Oleanna
- Campbell Scott - Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
- Jon Seda - Life Is Trouble
Best main actress
Linda Fiorentino - The Last Seduction (The Last Seduction)
- Jennifer Jason Leigh - Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
- Karen Sillas - What Happened Was ...
- Lauren Velez - Life Is Trouble
- Wu Qianlian - Eat Drink Man Woman (Yin shi nan nu)
Best supporting actor
Chazz Palminteri - Bullets Over Broadway
- Giancarlo Esposito - Fresh
- Larry Pine - Vanja on 42nd Street (Vanya on 42nd Street)
- Eric Stoltz - Pulp Fiction
- Nicholas Turturro - Zoff in Federal Hill (Federal Hill)
The best supporting actress
Dianne Wiest - Bullets Over Broadway
- VS Brodie - Go Fish
- Carla Gallo - Spanking the Monkey
- Kelly Lynch - Hopeless (The Beans of Egypt, Maine)
- Brooke Smith - Vanja on 42nd Street (Vanya on 42nd Street)
Best screen debut
- Jeff Anderson - Clerks - The slow keepers (Clerks.)
- Jeremy Davies - Spanking the Monkey
- Alicia Witt - Fun - Mordsspaß (Fun)
- Renée Zellweger - Love and a .45
Best director
Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction
- John Dahl - Red Rock West
- Ang Lee - Eat Drink Man Woman (Yin shi nan nu)
- Roman Polanski - The Death and the Maiden (Death and the Maiden)
- Alan Rudolph - Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Best script
Quentin Tarantino , Roger Avary - Pulp Fiction
- Woody Allen , Douglas McGrath - Bullets Over Broadway
- Randy Sue Coburn , Alan Rudolph - Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle)
- John Dahl , Rick Dahl - Red Rock West
- Hui-Ling Wang , James Schamus , Ang Lee - Eat Drink Man Woman (Yin shi nan nu)
Best screenplay debut
David O. Russell - Spanking the Monkey
- James Bosley - Fun - murder of fun (Fun)
- Tom Noonan - What Happened Was ...
- Kevin Smith - Clerks - The Shopkeepers (Clerks.)
- Paul Zehrer - Blessing
Best camera
John Thomas - Barcelona
- Greg Gardiner - Suture
- Alexander Gruszynski - Life Is Trouble
- Stevan Larner - Prospect (The Beans of Egypt, Maine)
- Jong Lin - Eat Drink Man Woman (Yin shi nan nu)
Best foreign film
Three colors: red (Trois couleurs: Rouge) - Krzysztof Kieślowski
- The blue dragon (Lan feng zheng) - Tian Zhuangzhuang
- Ladybird, Ladybird - Ken Loach
- The Victims of St. Vincent - Cry For Help (The Boys of St. Vincent) - John N. Smith
- 32 variations on Glenn Gould (Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould) - François Girard