16th Independent Spirit Awards

16th Independent Spirit Awards
16th Independent Spirit Awards
Date	March 24, 2001
Site	Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Hosted by	John Waters
Highlights
Best Film	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Most awards	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (3)
Most nominations	Requiem for a Dream (5); Chuck & Buck (5); You Can Count on Me (5)
	← 15th ; Independent Spirit Awards ; 17th →;

Last updated October 27, 2025

The 16th Independent Spirit Awards , honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 2000, were announced on March 24, 2001. It was hosted by John Waters.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

Winners and nominees

Best Feature	Best Director
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Before Night Falls George Washington Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai Requiem for a Dream	Ang Lee – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Darren Aronofsky – Requiem for a Dream Miguel Arteta – Chuck & Buck Christopher Guest – Best in Show Julian Schnabel – Before Night Falls
Best Male Lead	Best Female Lead
Javier Bardem – Before Night Falls Adrien Brody – Restaurant Billy Crudup – Jesus’ Son Hill Harper – The Visit Mark Ruffalo – You Can Count on Me	Ellen Burstyn – Requiem for a Dream Joan Allen – The Contender Sanaa Lathan – Love & Basketball Laura Linney – You Can Count on Me Kelly Macdonald – Two Family House
Best Supporting Male	Best Supporting Female
Willem Dafoe – Shadow of the Vampire Cole Hauser – Tigerland Gary Oldman – The Contender Giovanni Ribisi – The Gift Billy Dee Williams – The Visit	Zhang Ziyi – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Pat Caroll – Songcatcher Jennifer Connelly – Requiem for a Dream Marcia Gay Harden – Pollock Lupe Ontiveros – Chuck & Buck
Best Screenplay	Best First Screenplay
You Can Count on Me – Kenneth Lonergan Chuck & Buck – Mike White Love & Sex – Valerie Breiman Two Family House – Raymond De Felitta Waking the Dead – Robert Dillon	Love & Basketball – Gina Prince-Bythewood Boiler Room – Ben Younger George Washington – David Gordon Green Tigerland – Ross Klavan and Michael McGruther The Visit – Jordan Walker-Pearlman
Best First Feature	Best Debut Performance
You Can Count on Me Boiler Room Girlfight Love & Basketball The Visit	Michelle Rodriguez – Girlfight Curtis Cotton III, Candace Evanofski, Rachael Handy, Donald Holden and Damian Jewan Lee – George Washington Rory Culkin – You Can Count on Me Emmy Rossum – Songcatcher Mike White – Chuck & Buck
Best Cinematography	Best Documentary
Requiem for a Dream – Matthew Libatique Before Night Falls – Xavier Pérez Grobet and Guillermo Rosas George Washington – Tim Orr Hamlet – John de Borman Shadow of the Vampire – Lou Bogue	*Dark Days* The Eyes of Tammy Faye Long Night's Journey into Day Paragraph 175 Sound and Fury
Best International Film
Dancer in the Dark • Denmark In the Mood for Love • Hong Kong/France Malli • India A Time for Drunken Horses • Iran The War Zone • UK

Special awards

John Cassavetes Award

Chuck & Buck

Truer Than Fiction Award

Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale

Producers Award

Paul Mezey – The Ballad of Ramblin’ Jack and Spring Forward

Jim McKay – American Movie and Our Song
Tim Perell –Louis & Frank and The Myth of Fingerprints
Diana E. Williams –The Love Machine and Our Song

Someone to Watch Award

Marc Forster – Everything Put Together

Dan McCormack – Other Voices
Mia Trachinger –Bunny

Films with multiple nominations and awards

Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
5	Chuck & Buck
	Requiem for a Dream
	You Can Count on Me
4	Before Night Falls
4	George Washington
3	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
3	Love & Basketball
2	Girlfight
2	Songcatcher

Films that won multiple awards
Awards	Film
3	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2	Requiem for a Dream
2	You Can Count on Me

References

↑ Munoz, Orenza (January 11, 2001). "Four Independent Films Dominate Spirit Nominations". Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on November 7, 2023. Retrieved November 7, 2023.
↑ Munoz, Lorenza (March 25, 2001). "'Tiger' Wins 3 Independent Spirit Awards". Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on November 7, 2023. Retrieved November 7, 2023.
↑ ABC News (January 13, 2001). "Requiem, Count, Chuck & Buck in Three-Way Tie at Spirit Noms". ABC News . Archived from the original on November 7, 2023. Retrieved November 7, 2023.
↑ ABC News (March 27, 2001). "Tiger Takes 3 Spirit Awards". ABC News . Archived from the original on November 7, 2023. Retrieved November 7, 2023.
↑ "Chuck and Requiem lead awards race". BBC News . January 11, 2001. Archived from the original on November 7, 2023. Retrieved November 7, 2023.
↑ "Tiger triumph at independent awards". BBC News . March 25, 2001. Archived from the original on November 7, 2023. Retrieved November 7, 2023.

External links

Film Independent (July 8, 2020). "16th Spirit Awards ceremony hosted by John Waters - full show (2001) | Film Independent". YouTube . Archived from the original on November 7, 2023. Retrieved November 7, 2023.

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[1] Munoz, Orenza (January 11, 2001). "Four Independent Films Dominate Spirit Nominations". Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on November 7, 2023. Retrieved November 7, 2023.

[2] Munoz, Lorenza (March 25, 2001). "'Tiger' Wins 3 Independent Spirit Awards". Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on November 7, 2023. Retrieved November 7, 2023.

[3] ABC News (January 13, 2001). "Requiem, Count, Chuck & Buck in Three-Way Tie at Spirit Noms". ABC News . Archived from the original on November 7, 2023. Retrieved November 7, 2023.

[4] ABC News (March 27, 2001). "Tiger Takes 3 Spirit Awards". ABC News . Archived from the original on November 7, 2023. Retrieved November 7, 2023.

[5] "Chuck and Requiem lead awards race". BBC News . January 11, 2001. Archived from the original on November 7, 2023. Retrieved November 7, 2023.

[6] "Tiger triumph at independent awards". BBC News . March 25, 2001. Archived from the original on November 7, 2023. Retrieved November 7, 2023.

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