SANTA MONICA—Let get ready for awards season, because the 34th Annual Spirit Awards revealed its nominees for 2019 on November 16 with the film “We the Animals” earned a total of 5 nominations including Best Feature.
Other films picking up multiple nominations included “Eighth Grade,” “You Were Never Really Here” and “First Reformed,” which each earned 4 nominations apiece. Vying for the Best Feature prize are “First Reformed,” “Eighth Grade,” “If Beale Street Could Talk,” “You Were Never Really Here” and “Leave No Trace.” A list of this year’s nominees can be viewed below:
Best First Feature
-“Hereditary”
-“The Tale”
-“Sorry To Bother You”
-“We the Animals”
-“Wildlife”
Best Director
-Barry Jenkins “If Beale Street Could Talk”
-Tamara Jenkins “Private Life”
-Paul Schrader “First Reformed”
-Lynne Ramsay “You Were Never Really Here”
-Debra Granik “Leave No Trace”
Best Screenplay
-Boots Riley “Sorry To Bother You”
-Paul Schrader “First Reformed”
-Tamara Jenkins “Private Life”
-Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
-Richard Glatzer, Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Wash Westmoreland “Colette”
Best First Screenplay
-Christina Choe “Nancy”
-Jennifer Fox “The Tale”
-Cory Finley “Thoroughbreds”
-Bo Burnham “Eighth Grade”
-Quinn Shephard and Laurie Shephard “Blame”
Best Female Lead
-Glenn Close “The Wife”
-Toni Collette “Hereditary”
-Regina King “Support the Girls”
-Elsie Fisher “Eighth Grade”
-Carey Mulligan “Wildlife”
-Helena Howard “Madeleine’s Madeline”
Best Male Lead
-Daveed Diggs “Blindspotting”
-John Cho “Searching”
-Christian Malheiros “Socrates”
-Joaquin Phoenix “You Were Never Really Here”
-Ethan Hawke “First Reformed”
Best Supporting Male
-Raul Castillo “We the Animals”
-Richard E. Grant “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
-John David Washington “Monsters and Men”
-Josh Hamilton “Eighth Grade”
-Adam Driver “BlackKlansman”
Best Supporting Female
-Regina King “If Beale Street Could Talk”
-Tyne Daly “A Bread Factory”
-Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie “Leave No Trace”
-J. Smith-Cameron “Nancy”
-Kayli Carter “Private Life”
Best Documentary
-“Hale County This Morning, This Evening”
-“On Her Shoulders”
-“Shirkers”
-“Of Fathers and Sons”
-“Minding the Gap”
-“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
Best International Film
-“Burning” (South Korea)
-“The Favourite (United Kingdom)
-“Shoplifters” (Japan)
-“Roma” (Mexico)
-“Happy as Lazzaro” (Italy)
Best Cinematography
-Diego Garcia “Wildlife”
-Ashley Connor “Madeline’s Madeline”
-Sayombhu Mukdeeprom “Suspiria”
-Zak Mulligan “We the Animals”
-Benjamin Loeb “Mandy”
Best Editing
-Joe Bini “You Were Really Never Here”
-Nick Houy “Mid90s”
-Anne Fabi, Alex Hall and Gary Levy “The Tale”
-Keiko Deguchi, Brian A. Kates and Jeremiah Zagar “We the Animals”
-Luke Dunkley, Nick Fenton, Chris Gill and Julian Hart “American Animals”
The ceremony will be hosted on February 23, 2019, and will be held on a beach in Santa Monica. A host for the ceremony has not been announced.
