15th Independent Spirit Awards | |
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Date | March 25, 2000 |
Site | Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
Hosted by | Jennifer Tilly |
Highlights | |
Best Film | Election [1] |
Most awards | Election (3) |
Most nominations | Boys Don't Cry (5) The Limey (5) |
The 15th Independent Spirit Awards , honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 1999, were announced on March 25, 2000. It was hosted by Jennifer Tilly. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Richard Farnsworth – The Straight Story
Chloë Sevigny – Boys Don't Cry
Being John Malkovich – Charlie Kaufman
Three Seasons – Lisa Rinzler
Kimberly J. Brown – Tumbleweeds
Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles
Pamela Koffler – I'm Losing You
Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 American biographical film directed by Kimberly Peirce, and co-written by Peirce and Andy Bienen. The film is a dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena, an American trans man who attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska but falls victim to a brutal hate crime perpetrated by two male acquaintances. The film co-stars Chloë Sevigny as Teena's girlfriend, Lana Tisdel.
Tumbleweeds is a 1999 American comedy-drama film directed by Gavin O'Connor. He co-wrote the screenplay with his then-wife Angela Shelton, and inspired by her memories of a childhood spent on the road with her serial-marrying mother. It stars Janet McTeer, Kimberly J. Brown and Jay O. Sanders.
The 4th Florida Film Critics Circle Awards, given on 9 January 2000, honoured the best in film for 1999.
The 3rd Toronto Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 1999, were held on 16 December 1999.
The 3rd Online Film Critics Society Awards, honoring the best in film for 1999, were given in 2000.
The 71st National Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 1999, were announced on 7 December 1999 and given on 18 January 2000.
The 65th New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 1999, were announced on 16 December 1999 and presented on 9 January 2000 by the New York Film Critics Circle.
The 25th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 1999, were announced on December 11, 1999 and awarded on January 19, 2000.
The 12th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, given on 13 March 2000, honored the finest achievements in 1999 filmmaking.
The 5th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 24, 2000, honoring the finest achievements of 1999 filmmaking.
The 5th Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards honored the best in film for 1999.
The Political Film Society Award for human rights is given out each year to a film that deals with struggle for human rights in both fictional and non-fictional stories. This award has been handed out by the Society since 1987. Depending on the number of films that qualify, as few as one film has been nominated for this award before but as many as fourteen have been nominated in years past.
The 24th Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 9 to September 18, 1999. The festival opened with Atom Egoyan's Felicia's Journey and closed with Onegin by Martha Fiennes. A total of 318 films were screened in the 13 programmes.
The 4th Golden Satellite Awards, given by the International Press Academy, were awarded on January 16, 2000.
The Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography is one of the annual awards given out by Film Independent, a non-profit organization dedicated to independent film and independent filmmakers, since 1985.
The 34th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 8 January 2000, honored the best filmmaking of 1999.
The 21st London Film Critics Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2000, were announced by the London Film Critics Circle on 15 February 2001.
Susan Traylor is an American actress. She was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her performance in Valerie Flake (1999). Traylor's starring role in Valerie Flake also won the inaugural best feature award at The Women's Image Network Awards.
First Cow is a 2019 American drama film directed by Kelly Reichardt, from a screenplay by Reichardt and Jonathan Raymond based on Raymond's 2004 novel The Half-Life. It stars John Magaro, Orion Lee, Toby Jones, Ewen Bremner, Scott Shepherd, Gary Farmer and Lily Gladstone. It also features René Auberjonois in one of his final film roles.