7th Independent Spirit Awards

The 1991 Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 1991, were announced on March 28, 1992.^[1] It was hosted by Buck Henry^[2] in a large tent at Raleigh Studios.^[3]

Nominees and winners

Best Feature

Rambling Rose

• City of Hope
• Hangin' with the Homeboys
• Homicide
• My Own Private Idaho

Best First Feature

Straight Out of Brooklyn

• Chameleon Street
• Poison
• The Rapture
• Slacker

Best Director

Martha Coolidge – Rambling Rose

• Todd Haynes – Poison
• Richard Linklater – Slacker
• Gus Van Sant – My Own Private Idaho
• Joseph Vásquez – Hangin' with the Homeboys

Best Male Lead

River Phoenix – My Own Private Idaho

• Doug E. Doug – Hangin' with the Homeboys
• Robert Duvall – Rambling Rose
• Gary Oldman – Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
• William Russ – Pastime

Best Female Lead

Judy Davis – Impromptu

• Patsy Kensit – Twenty-One
• Mimi Rogers – The Rapture
• Lili Taylor – Bright Angel
• Lily Tomlin – The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

Best Supporting Male

David Strathairn – City of Hope

• William H. Macy – Homicide
• John Malkovich – Queens Logic
• George T. Odom – Straight Out of Brooklyn
• Glenn Plummer – Pastime

Best Supporting Female

Diane Ladd – Rambling Rose

• Sheila McCarthy – Bright Angel
• Deirdre O'Connell – Pastime
• Emma Thompson – Impromptu
• Mary B. Ward – Hangin' with the Homeboys

Best Screenplay

My Own Private Idaho – Gus Van Sant

• Hangin' with the Homeboys – Joseph Vásquez
• Kafka – Lem Dobbs
• Mindwalk – Floyd Byars and Fritjof Capra
• The Rapture – Michael Tolkin

Best Cinematography

Kafka – Walt Lloyd

• Homicide – Roger Deakins
• My Own Private Idaho – Eric Alan Edwards and John J. Campbell
• Pastime – Tom Richmond
• Rambling Rose – Johnny E. Jensen

Best Film Music

My Own Private Idaho – Bill Stafford

• Hangin' with the Homeboys – David Chackler and Joel Sill
• Kiss Me a Killer – Marcos Loya and Nigel Holton
• A Matter of Degrees – Jim Dunbar and Randall Poster
• Straight Out of Brooklyn – Harold Wheeler

Best Foreign Film

An Angel at My Table • Australia/New Zealand/UK

• The Double Life of Veronique • France/Poland/Norway
• Life Is Sweet • UK
• Requiem for Dominic • Austria/France/Romania
• Taxi Blues • Soviet Union

References

External links

• 1991 Spirit Awards at IMDb