Independent Spirit Awards: 2001

Independent Spirit Award

Date:	24 March
Host:	John Waters (I)
Location:	Santa Monica Beach, Santa Monica, California, USA

Best Supporting Male


Winner:
	Shadow of the Vampire (2000) - Willem Dafoe
Other Nominees:
	The Contender (2000) - Gary Oldman The Gift (2000) - Giovanni Ribisi The Visit (2000/I) - Billy Dee Williams Tigerland (2000) - Cole Hauser

Best Supporting Female


Winner:
	Wo hu cang long (2000) - Ziyi Zhang
Other Nominees:
	Chuck & Buck (2000) - Lupe Ontiveros Pollock (2000) - Marcia Gay Harden Requiem for a Dream (2000) - Jennifer Connelly Songcatcher (2000) - Pat Carroll (I)

Best Director


Winner:
	Wo hu cang long (2000) - Ang Lee
Other Nominees:
	Before Night Falls (2000) - Julian Schnabel Best in Show (2000) - Christopher Guest (I) Chuck & Buck (2000) - Miguel Arteta Requiem for a Dream (2000) - Darren Aronofsky

Best Screenplay


Winner:
	You Can Count on Me (2000) - Kenneth Lonergan
Other Nominees:
	Chuck & Buck (2000) - Mike White (I) Love & Sex (2000) - Valerie Breiman Two Family House (2000) - Raymond De Felitta Waking the Dead (2000) - Robert Dillon (III)

Best First Screenplay


Winner:
	Love & Basketball (2000) - Gina Prince-Bythewood
Other Nominees:
	Boiler Room (2000) - Ben Younger George Washington (2000) - David Gordon Green The Visit (2000/I) - Jordan Walker-Pearlman Tigerland (2000) - Ross Klavan; Michael McGruther

Best Cinematography


Winner:
	Requiem for a Dream (2000) - Matthew Libatique
Other Nominees:
	Before Night Falls (2000) - Xavier P�rez Grobet; Guillermo Rosas George Washington (2000) - Tim Orr (II) Hamlet (2000) - John de Borman Shadow of the Vampire (2000) - Lou Bogue

Best Documentary


Winner:
	Dark Days (2000) - Marc Singer (II)
Other Nominees:
	Long Night's Journey Into Day (2000) - Frances Reid (II); Deborah Hoffmann (I) Paragraph 175 (2000) - Rob Epstein (I); Jeffrey Friedman (I) Sound and Fury (2000) - Josh Aronson The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2000) - Randy Barbato; Fenton Bailey

Best Foreign Film


Winner:
	Dancer in the Dark (2000) - Lars von Trier - Denmark.
Other Nominees:
	Fa yeung nin wa (2000) - Kar Wai Wong - Hong Kong/France. Malli (1998) - Santosh Sivan - India. The War Zone (1999) - Tim Roth (I) - UK. Zamani barayé masti asbha (2000) - Bahman Ghobadi - France/Iran.

Best Female Lead


Winner:
	Requiem for a Dream (2000) - Ellen Burstyn
Other Nominees:
	Love & Basketball (2000) - Sanaa Lathan The Contender (2000) - Joan Allen (I) Two Family House (2000) - Kelly Macdonald You Can Count on Me (2000) - Laura Linney

Best First Feature


Winner:
	You Can Count on Me (2000) - Kenneth Lonergan (director); John Hart (V) (producer); Jeff Sharp (II) (producer); Barbara De Fina (producer); Larry Meistrich (producer)
Other Nominees:
	Boiler Room (2000) - Ben Younger (director); Suzanne Todd (I) (producer); Jennifer Todd (I) (producer) Girlfight (2000) - Karyn Kusama (director); Maggie Renzi (producer); Sarah Green (I) (producer); Martha Griffin (producer) Love & Basketball (2000) - Gina Prince-Bythewood (director); Spike Lee (producer); Sam Kitt (producer) The Visit (2000/I) - Jordan Walker-Pearlman (director/producer)

Best Debut Performance


Winner:
	Girlfight (2000) - Michelle Rodriguez (I)
Other Nominees:
	Chuck & Buck (2000) - Mike White (I) George Washington (2000) - Candace Evanofski; Curtis Cotton III; Damian Jewan Lee; Donald Holden; Rachael Handy - For the whole ensemble. Songcatcher (2000) - Emmy Rossum You Can Count on Me (2000) - Rory Culkin

Best Feature


Winner:
	Wo hu cang long (2000) - William Kong (I); Li-Kong Hsu; Ang Lee
Other Nominees:
	Before Night Falls (2000) - Jon Kilik George Washington (2000) - David Gordon Green; Sacha W. Mueller; Lisa Muskat Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) - Jim Jarmusch; Richard Guay Requiem for a Dream (2000) - Eric Watson (III); Palmer West

Best Feature - Under $500,000


Winner:
	Chuck & Buck (2000) - Miguel Arteta (director); Matthew Greenfield (producer); Mike White (I) (writer)
Other Nominees:
	Bunny (2000) - Mia Trachinger (director/writer); Rebecca Sonnenshine (producer); Mia Trachinger (producer) Everything Put Together (2000) - Marc Forster (director/writer); Sean Furst (producer); Adam Forgash (writer); Catherine Lloyd Burns (writer) Groove (2000) - Greg Harrison (III) (director/writer); Danielle Renfrew (producer) Our Song (2000) - Jim McKay (I) (director/writer/producer); Paul S. Mezey (producer); Diana E. Williams (producer)

Best Male Lead


Winner:
	Before Night Falls (2000) - Javier Bardem
Other Nominees:
	Jesus' Son (1999) - Billy Crudup Restaurant (1998) - Adrien Brody The Visit (2000/I) - Hill Harper You Can Count on Me (2000) - Mark Ruffalo


Winner:
	Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale (2000) - David S. Shapiro; Laurie Shapiro
Other Nominees:
	Benjamin Smoke (2000) - Jem Cohen; Peter Sillen Just, Melvin: Just Evil (2000) - James Ronald Whitney Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story (2000) - Vincent Fremont; Shelly Dunn Fremont


Winner:
	The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack (2000) - Paul S. Mezey - Also for Spring Forward (1999).
Other Nominees:
	American Movie (1999) - Jim McKay (I) - Also for Our Song (2000). Louis & Frank (1998) - Tim Perell - Also for The Myth of Fingerprints (1997). The Love Machine (2000) - Diana E. Williams - Also for Our Song (2000).


Winner:
	Everything Put Together (2000) - Marc Forster
Other Nominees:
	Bunny (2000) - Mia Trachinger Other Voices (2000) - Dan McCormack