29th Independent Spirit Awards

29th Independent Spirit Awards
29th Independent Spirit Awards
Awarded for	Best in independent film
Date	March 1, 2014
Site	Santa Monica Pier; Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Hosted by	Patton Oswalt
Highlights
Best Feature	12 Years a Slave
Most awards	12 Years a Slave (5)
Most nominations	12 Years a Slave (7)
	← 28th; Independent Spirit Awards; 30th →;

The 29th Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best independent films of 2013, were presented on March 1, 2014.^[1] The nominations were announced on November 27, 2013.^[2] The ceremony was hosted by Patton Oswalt.^[3]

Winners and nominees

Best Feature	Best Director
12 Years a Slave All Is Lost Frances Ha Inside Llewyn Davis Nebraska	Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave Shane Carruth – Upstream Color J. C. Chandor – All Is Lost Jeff Nichols – Mud Alexander Payne – Nebraska
Best Male Lead	Best Female Lead
*Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club* as Ron Woodroof** Bruce Dern – Nebraska as Woodrow "Woody" Grant Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave as Solomon Northup Oscar Isaac – Inside Llewyn Davis as Llewyn Davis Michael B. Jordan – Fruitvale Station as Oscar Grant III Robert Redford – All Is Lost as Our Man	*Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine* as Jeanette "Jasmine" Francis** Julie Delpy – Before Midnight as Céline Gaby Hoffmann – Crystal Fairy as Crystal Fairy Brie Larson – Short Term 12 as Grace Howard Shailene Woodley – The Spectacular Now as Aimee Finecky
Best Supporting Male	Best Supporting Female
*Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club* as Rayon** Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave as Edwin Epps Will Forte – Nebraska as David Grant James Gandolfini – Enough Said as Albert Lakeith Stanfield – Short Term 12 as Marcus	*Lupita Nyong'o – 12 Years a Slave* as Patsey** Melonie Diaz – Fruitvale Station as Sophina Mesa Sally Hawkins – Blue Jasmine as Ginger Yolonda Ross – Go for Sisters as Fontayne June Squibb – Nebraska as Kate Grant
Best Screenplay	Best First Screenplay
John Ridley – 12 Years a Slave Woody Allen – Blue Jasmine Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, and Richard Linklater – Before Midnight Nicole Holofcener – Enough Said Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber – The Spectacular Now	Bob Nelson – Nebraska Lake Bell – In a World... Joseph Gordon-Levitt – Don Jon Jill Soloway – Afternoon Delight Michael Starrbury – The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
Best First Feature	Best Documentary Feature
Fruitvale Station – Director: Ryan Coogler; Producers: Nina Yang Bongiovi and Forest Whitaker Blue Caprice – Director/Producer: Alexandre Moors; Producers: Kim Jackson, Brian O'Carroll, Isen Robbins, Will Rowbotham, Aimee Schoof, Ron Simons, and Stephen Tedeschi Concussion – Director: Stacie Passon; Producer: Rose Troche Una Noche – Director/Producer: Lucy Mulloy; Producers: Sandy Pérez Aguila, Maite Artieda, Daniel Mulloy, and Yunior Santiago Wadjda – Director: Haifaa al-Mansour; Producers: Gerhard Meixner and Roman Pau	20 Feet from Stardom – Director/Producer: Morgan Neville; Producers: Gil Friesen and Caitrin Rogers The Act of Killing – Director/Producer: Joshua Oppenheimer; Producers: Joram Ten Brink, Christine Cynn, Anne Köhncke, Signe Byrge Sørensen, and Michael Uwemedimo After Tiller – Directors/Producers: Martha Shane and Lana Wilson Gideon's Army – Director/Producer: Dawn Porter; Producer: Julie Goldman The Square – Director: Jehane Noujaim; Producer: Karim Amer
Best Cinematography	Best Editing
Sean Bobbitt – 12 Years a Slave Benoît Debie – Spring Breakers Bruno Delbonnel – Inside Llewyn Davis Frank G. DeMarco – All Is Lost Matthias Grunsky – Computer Chess	Nat Sanders – Short Term 12 Shane Carruth and David Lowery – Upstream Color Jem Cohen and Marc Vives – Museum Hours Jennifer Lame – Frances Ha Cindy Lee – Una Noche
Best International Film
Blue Is the Warmest Colour (France) – Director: Abdellatif Kechiche Gloria (Chile) – Director: Sebastián Lelio The Great Beauty (Italy) – Director: Paolo Sorrentino The Hunt (Denmark) – Director: Thomas Vinterberg A Touch of Sin (China) – Director: Jia Zhangke

Films with multiple nominations and awards

Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
7	12 Years a Slave
6	Nebraska
4	All Is Lost
3	Blue Jasmine
	Fruitvale Station
	Inside Llewyn Davis
	Short Term 12
2	Before Midnight
	Dallas Buyers Club
	Enough Said
	Frances Ha
	The Spectacular Now
	Una Noche
	Upstream Color

Films that won multiple awards
Awards	Film
5	12 Years a Slave
2	Dallas Buyers Club

Special awards

John Cassavetes Award

This Is Martin Bonner – Writer/Director: Chad Hartigan; Producer: Cherie Saulter

Computer Chess – Writer/Director: Andrew Bujalski; Producers: Houston King and Alex Lipschultz
Crystal Fairy – Writer/Director: Sebastián Silva; Producers: Juan de Dios Larraín and Pablo Larraín
Museum Hours – Writer/Director: Jem Cohen; Producers: Paolo Calamita and Gabriele Kranzelbinder
Pit Stop – Writer/Director: Yen Tan; Writer: David Lowery; Producers: Jonathan Duffy, James M. Johnston, Eric Steele, and Kelly Williams