14th Independent Spirit Awards

The 1998 Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 1998, were announced on March 20, 1999. It was hosted by Queen Latifah.

Nominees and winners

Best Feature

Gods and Monsters

• Affliction
• Claire Dolan
• A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
• Velvet Goldmine

Best First Feature

The Opposite of Sex

• Buffalo '66
• High Art
• π
• Slums of Beverly Hills

Best Director

Wes Anderson – Rushmore

• Todd Haynes – Velvet Goldmine
• Lodge Kerrigan – Claire Dolan
• Paul Schrader – Affliction
• Todd Solondz – Happiness

Best Male Lead

Ian McKellen – Gods and Monsters

• Dylan Baker – Happiness
• Nick Nolte – Affliction
• Sean Penn – Hurlyburly
• Courtney B. Vance – Blind Faith

Best Female Lead

Ally Sheedy – High Art

• Katrin Cartlidge – Claire Dolan
• Christina Ricci – The Opposite of Sex
• Robin Tunney – Niagara, Niagara
• Alfre Woodard – Down in the Delta

Best Supporting Male

Bill Murray – Rushmore

• James Coburn – Affliction
• Charles S. Dutton – Blind Faith
• Gary Farmer – Smoke Signals
• Philip Seymour Hoffman – Happiness

Best Supporting Female

Lynn Redgrave – Gods and Monsters

• Stockard Channing – The Baby Dance
• Patricia Clarkson – High Art
• Lisa Kudrow – The Opposite of Sex
• Joely Richardson – Under Heaven

Best Screenplay

The Opposite of Sex – Don Roos

• Affliction – Paul Schrader
• Blind Faith – Frank Military
• Gods and Monsters – Bill Condon
• The Spanish Prisoner – David Mamet

Best First Screenplay

π – Darren Aronofsky

• High Art – Lisa Cholodenko
• Niagara, Niagara – Matthew Weiss
• Slums of Beverly Hills – Tamara Jenkins
• Smoke Signals – Sherman Alexie

Best Cinematography

Velvet Goldmine – Maryse Alberti

• Affliction – Paul Sarossy
• Belly – Malik Hassan Sayeed
• High Art – Tami Reike
• π – Matthew Libatique

Best Foreign Film

The Celebration • Denmark

• Central Station • Brazil
• The Eel • Japan
• Fireworks • Japan
• The General • Ireland

Best Debut Performance

Evan Adams – Smoke Signals

• Anthony Roth Costanzo – A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
• Andrea Hart – Miss Monday
• Sonja Sohn – Slam
• Saul Williams – Slam

Truer Than Fiction Award

Regret to Inform

• Dear Jesse
• Dying to Tell the Story
• Moment of Impact
• Paulina

Producers Award

Susan A. Stover

• Margot Bridger
• Gill Holland
• Andrea Sperling

Someone to Watch Award

David D. Williams – Thirteen

• Tony Barbieri – One
• Lynn Hershman Leeson – Conceiving Ada
• Eric Tretbar – Snow

References

• ""Affliction" Tops Spirit Award Nominations; "Monster," "Art," and "Sex" Also Nab Numerous Nods". indieWire. 1999-01-08. Retrieved 2012-08-17. 
• "'Gods' a Monster of a Hit at Indie Awards". Los Angeles Times. 1999-03-21. Retrieved 2012-08-17. 
• "An Easy Spirit". Entertainment Weekly. 1999-04-02. Retrieved 2012-08-17. 

External links

• 1998 Spirit Awards at IMDb

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