2016 Indie Spirit Awards Winners & My Picks

• My picks are in PINK. Will update as I see them. 
• Winners are in BOLD
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• Best Feature
• Anomalisa
  Beasts of No Nation
  Carol
  Spotlight
  Tangerine
  Best Director
  Sean Baker, Tangerine
  Cary Joji Fukunaga, Beasts of No Nation
  Todd Haynes, Carol
  Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson, Anomalisa
  Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
  David Robert Mitchell, It Follows
• Best Screenplay
  Charlie Kaufman, Anomalisa
  Donald Margulies, The End of the Tour
  Phyllis Nagy, Carol
  Tom McCarthy & Josh Singer, Spotlight
  S. Craig Zahler, Bone Tomahawk
  Best First Feature
  The Diary of a Teenage Girl
  James White
  Manos Sucias
  Mediterranea
  Songs My Brothers Taught Me
  Best First Screenplay
  Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
  Joseph Carpignano, Mediterranea
  Emma Donoghue, Room
  Marielle Heller, The Diary of a Teenage Girl
  John Magary, Russell Harbaugh, Myna Joseph, The Mend
• Best Male Lead
  Christopher Abbott, James White
  Abraham Attah, Beasts of No Nation
  Ben Mendelsohn, Mississippi Grind
  Jason Segel, The End of the Tour
  Koudous Seihon, Mediterranea
  Best Female Lead
  Cate Blanchett, Carol
  Brie Larson, Room
  Rooney Mara, Carol
  Bel Powley, The Diary of A Teenage Girl
  Kitana Kiki Rodriquez, Tangerine
• Best Supporting Male
  Kevin Corrigan, Results
  Paul Dano, Love & Mercy
  Idris Elba, Beasts of No Nation
  Richard Jenkins, Bone Tomahawk
  Michael Shannon, 99 Homes
  Best Supporting Female
  Robin Bartlett, H.
  Marin Ireland, Glass Chin
  Jennifer Jason Leigh, Anomalisa
  Cynthia Nixon, James White
  Mya Taylor, Tangerine
• Best Documentary
  (T)error
  Best of Enemies
  Heart of Dog
  The Look of Silence
  Meru
  The Russian Woodpecker
  Best International Film
  Embrace the Serpent
  Girlhood
  Mustang
  Son of Saul
• Best Cinematography
  Beasts of No Nation
  Carol
  It Follows
  Meadlowland
  Songs My Brothers Taught Me
  Best Editing
  Beasts of No Nation
  Heaven Knows What
  It Follows
  Room
  Spotlight
  John Cassavetes Award (Best Feature Under $500,000)
  Advantageous
  Christmas, Again
  Heaven Knows What
  Krisha
  Out of My Hand
  Robert Altman Award (Best Ensemble)
  Spotlight
  Kiehl’s Someone to Watch Award
  Chloe Zhoa
  Felix Thompson
  Robert Machoian & Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck