16th Independent Spirit Awards

The 2000 Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 2000, were announced on March 24, 2001. It was hosted by John Waters.

Nominees and winners

Best Feature

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

• Before Night Falls
• George Washington
• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
• Requiem for a Dream

Best Feature (Under $500,000)

Chuck & Buck

• Bunny
• Everything Put Together
• Groove
• Our Song

Best First Feature

You Can Count on Me

• Boiler Room
• Girlfight
• Love & Basketball
• The Visit

Best Director

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

Javier Bardem – Before Night Falls

• Adrien Brody – Restaurant
• Billy Crudup – Jesus' Son
• Hill Harper – The Visit
• Mark Ruffalo – You Can Count on Me

Best Female Lead

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

Willem Dafoe – Shadow of the Vampire

• Cole Hauser – Tigerland
• Gary Oldman – The Contender
• Giovanni Ribisi – The Gift
• Billy Dee Williams – The Visit

Best Supporting Female

Zhang Ziyi – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

• Pat Carroll – Songcatcher
• Jennifer Connelly – Requiem for a Dream
• Marcia Gay Harden – Pollock
• Lupe Ontiveros – Chuck & Buck

Best 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

Best First Screenplay

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 Cinematography

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

Best Foreign Film

Dancer in the Dark • Denmark

• In the Mood for Love • Hong Kong/France
• The Terrorist • India
• A Time for Drunken Horses • Iran
• The War Zone • UK

Best Documentary Feature

Dark Days

• The Eyes of Tammy Faye
• Long Night's Journey into Day
• Paragraph 175
• Sound and Fury

Best Debut Performance

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

Truer Than Fiction Award

Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale

• Benjamin Smoke
• Just, Melvin: Just Evil
• Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story

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

References

• "Four Independent Films Dominate Spirit Nominations". Los Angeles Times. 2001-01-11. Retrieved 2012-08-19.
• "Requiem, Count, Chuck & Buck in Three-Way Tie at Spirit Noms". ABC News. 2001-01-11. Retrieved 2012-08-19.
• "Chuck and Requiem lead awards race". BBC News. 2001-01-11. Retrieved 2012-08-19.
• "Tiger Takes 3 Spirit Awards". ABC News. 2001-03-24. Retrieved 2012-08-19.
• "Tiger triumph at independent awards". BBC News. 2001-03-25. Retrieved 2012-08-19.

External links

• 2000 Spirit Awards at IMDb