Independent Spirit Awards 1999
The 14th Independent Spirit Awards ceremony took place on March 20, 1999.
Summary
Bill Condon's James Whale fantasy Gods and Monsters was Best Picture and won two other awards. Competitors included Paul Schrader's The Hunted (Affliction) with six nominations and no award and Darren Aronofsky's experimental film Pi with three nominations and one award. Pi was beaten as best debut film by the satire The Opposite of Sex , which won another award and two nominations. Wes Anderson beat Paul Schrader , Todd Solondz, and Todd Haynes and became best director. Thomas Vinterbergs won with his Dogma 95 film Das Fest (Festen) over four strong competitors for the best foreign film: John Boorman (nominated for the second time), Shohei Imamura , Takeshi Kitano and Walter Salles .
Winners and nominees
Best movie
Gods and Monsters - Paul Colichman , Gregg Fienberg , Mark R. Harris
- Claire Dolan - Ann Ruark
- The Hunted (Affliction) - Linda Reisman
- Velvet Gold Mine - Christine Vachon
- The time of youth (A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries) - Ismail Merchant
Best debut film
The Opposite of Sex - The Opposite of Sex - Don Roos , David Kirkpatrick , Michael Besman
- Buffalo '66 - Vincent Gallo , Chris Hanley
- Mainly Beverly Hills (Slums of Beverly Hills) - Tamara Jenkins , Michael Nozik , Stan Wlodkowski
- High Art - Lisa Cholodenko , Dolly Hall , Jeffrey Levy-Hinte , Susan A. Stover
- Pi - Darren Aronofsky , Eric Watson
Best Actor
Ian McKellen - Gods and Monsters
- Dylan Baker - Happiness
- Nick Nolte - The Hunted (Affliction)
- Sean Penn - Hurlyburly
- Courtney B. Vance - Blind Faith (Blind Faith)
Best main actress
- Katrin Cartlidge - Claire Dolan
- Christina Ricci - The Opposite of Sex - The opposite of sex
- Robin Tunney - Niagara, Niagara
- Alfre Woodard - The Summer That Changed Everything (Down in the Delta)
Best supporting actor
Bill Murray - Rushmore
- James Coburn - The Hunted (Affliction)
- Charles S. Dutton - Blind Faith (Blind Faith)
- Gary Farmer - Smoke Signals
- Philip Seymour Hoffman - Happiness
The best supporting actress
Lynn Redgrave - Gods and Monsters
- Stockard Channing - Baby Blues (The Baby Dance)
- Patricia Clarkson - High Art
- Lisa Kudrow - The Opposite of Sex - The opposite of sex
- Joely Richardson - A Heavenly Garden (Under Heaven)
Best screen debut
- Andrea Hart - Miss Monday
- Anthony Roth Costanzo - The time of youth (A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries)
- Sonja Sohn - Slam
- Saul Williams - Slam
Best director
Wes Anderson - Rushmore
- Todd Haynes - Velvet Gold Mine
- Lodge Kerrigan - Claire Dolan
- Paul Schrader - The Hunted (Affliction)
- Todd Solondz - Happiness
Best script
Don Roos - The Opposite of Sex - The opposite of sex
- Bill Condon - Gods and Monsters
- David Mamet - The Invisible Trap (The Spanish Prisoner)
- Frank Military - Blind Faith (Blind Faith)
- Paul Schrader - The Hunted (Affliction)
Best screenplay debut
- Sherman Alexie - Smoke Signals
- Lisa Cholodenko - High Art
- Tamara Jenkins - Mainly Beverly Hills (Slums of Beverly Hills)
- Matthew Weiss - Niagara, Niagara
Best camera
Maryse Alberti - Velvet Gold Mine
- Matthew Libatique - Pi
- Tami Reiker - High Art
- Paul Sarossy - The Hunted (Affliction)
- Malik Hassan Sayeed - White Lines - In The Vicious Cycle Of Crime (Belly)
Producers Award
- Margot Bridger - Meshugge
- Gill Holland - Dear Jesse
- Andrea Sperling - Desert Blue
Truer Than Fiction Award
Barbara Sonneborn - We regret to inform you (Regret to Inform)
- Vicky Funari - Paulina
- Tim Kirkman - Dear Jesse
- Julia Loktev - The Impact (Moment of Impact)
- Kyra Thompson - Dying to Tell the Story
Best foreign film
The feast (feasts) - Thomas Vinterberg
- The eel (Unagi) - Shohei Imamura
- Central do Brasil - Walter Salles
- The General (The General) - John Boorman
- Hana-Bi - Fire Flower - Takeshi Kitano
Someone to Watch Award
David D. Williams - Thirteen
- Tony Barbieri - One
- Lynn Hershman-Leeson - Passionate Calculation (Conceiving Ada)
- Eric Pedal - Snow