15th Independent Spirit Awards

The 1999 Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 1999, were announced on March 25, 2000. It was hosted by Jennifer Tilly.

Nominees and winners

Best Feature

Election

• Cookie's Fortune
• The Limey
• The Straight Story
• Sugar Town

Best First Feature (Over $500,000)

Being John Malkovich

• Boys Don't Cry
• Three Seasons
• Twin Falls Idaho
• Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl

Best First Feature (Under $500,000)

The Blair Witch Project

• The City
• Compensation
• Judy Berlin
• Treasure Island

Best Director

Alexander Payne – Election

• Harmony Korine – Julien Donkey-Boy
• Doug Liman – Go
• David Lynch – The Straight Story
• Steven Soderbergh – The Limey

Best Male Lead

Richard Farnsworth – The Straight Story

• John Cusack – Being John Malkovich
• Terence Stamp – The Limey
• David Strathairn – Limbo
• Noble Willingham – The Corndog Man

Best Female Lead

Hilary Swank – Boys Don't Cry

• Diane Lane – A Walk on the Moon
• Janet McTeer – Tumbleweeds
• Susan Traylor – Valerie Flake
• Reese Witherspoon – Election

Best Supporting Male

Steve Zahn – Happy, Texas

• Charles S. Dutton – Cookie's Fortune
• Clark Gregg – The Adventures of Sebastian Cole
• Luis Guzmán – The Limey
• Terrence Howard – The Best Man

Best Supporting Female

Chloë Sevigny – Boys Don't Cry

• Barbara Barrie – Judy Berlin
• Vanessa Martinez – Limbo
• Sarah Polley – Go
• Jean Smart – Guinevere

Best Screenplay

Election – Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor

• Dogma – Kevin Smith
• Guinevere – Audrey Wells
• The Limey – Lem Dobbs
• SLC Punk! – James Merendino

Best First Screenplay

Being John Malkovich – Charlie Kaufman

• The Adventures of Sebastian Cole – Kip Williams
• Boys Don't Cry – Kimberly Peirce and Andy Bienen
• Cookie's Fortune – Anne Rapp
• The Straight Story – John Roach and Mary Sweeney

Best Cinematography

Three Seasons – Lisa Rinzler

• The City – Harlan Bosmajian
• Judy Berlin – Jeffrey Seckendorf
• Julien Donkey-Boy – Anthony Dod Mantle
• Twin Falls Idaho – M. David Mullen

Best Foreign Film

Run Lola Run • Germany

• All About My Mother • Spain
• My Son the Fanatic • UK
• Rosetta • Belgium/France
• Topsy-Turvy • UK

Best Debut Performance

Kimberly J. Brown – Tumbleweeds

• Jessica Campbell – Election
• Jade Gordon – Sugar Town
• Toby Smith – Drylongso
• Chris Stafford – Edge of Seventeen

Truer Than Fiction Award

Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles

• American Hollow
• On the Ropes
• Well-Founded Fear

Producers Award

Pamela Koffler – I'm Losing You

• Eva Kolodner – Boys Don't Cry
• Paul Mezey – The City
• Christine K. Walker – Backroads and Homo Heights

Someone to Watch Award

Cauleen Smith – Drylongso

• Dan Clark – The Item
• Julian Goldberger – Trans
• Lisanne Skyler – Getting to Know You

External links

• 1999 Spirit Awards at IMDb