Hanya tepat sehari sebelum Academy Awards, ajang penghargaan untuk insan perfilman independen Amerika Serikat, Independent Spirit Awards 2018, menggelar perhelatan untuk memberi anugerah kepada para pemenang.

Berlangsung di Santa Monica, California. pada Sabtu, 3 Maret waktu setempat (Minggu, 4 Maret waktu Indonesia), Independent Spirit Awards ke-33 telah memilih film thriller-horor fenomenal Get Out sebagai Best Feature. Tidak hanya itu, Jordan Peele, sang sutradaranya, menyabet gelar Best Director.

Acara dipandu dua komedian, Nick Kroll dan John Mulaney, yang kembali setelah menjadi host untuk tahun sebelumnya. Dalam  monolog pembuka, Kroll dan Mulaney menyempatkan untuk mengalamatkan peristiwa yang terjadi di ranah Hollywood akhir-akhir ini, termasuk isu pelecehan seksual yang dilakukan Harvey Weinstein. Tidak hanya Weinstein, nama-nama lain seperti Brett Ratner, Kevin Spacey dan Woody Allen juga tidak luput disebut-sebut.

Pemenang lain, dan juga menjadi favorit banyak orang sebagaimana Get Out dan Peele adalah Timothée Chalamet yang meraih piala Best Male Lead untuk perannya dalam Call Me By Your Name. Bintang berusia 22 tahun ini mengalahkan para pesaingnya seperti Daniel Kaluuya, James Franco, Robert Pattinson, dan pendatang baru Harris Dickinson. Nama Chalamet terangkat karena membintangi dua film prestisius dan frontrunner Oscar, yaitu Call Me By Your Name dan Lady Bird. 

Call Me By Your Name juga menyabet piala lain, yaitu untuk kategori Best Cinematography, yang diberikan kepada sinematografer asal Thailand Sayombhu Mukdeeprom yang beberapa kali berkolaborasi bersama auteur kenamaan negara Gajah Putih, Apichatpong Weerasethakul. 

Untuk piala Best Female Lead diberikan kepada Frances McDormand berkat akting gemilangnya dalam Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Sedang kategori bintang pendukung para pemenangnya adalah Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) dan Allison Janney (I, Tonya).

Sementara itu, film berbahasa asing terbaik adalah film asal Chili karya Sebastián Lelio, A Fantastic Woman.

Jordan Peele menerima piala Best Director (Sumber: ew.com)

Berikut para pemenang untuk Independent Spirit Awards 2018 (dikutip dari Variety.com):

BEST FEATURE

• “Call Me by Your Name”
• “The Florida Project”
• “Get Out” (WINNER)
• “Lady Bird”
• “The Rider”

BEST FIRST FEATURE

• “Columbus”
• “Ingrid Goes West” (WINNER)
• “Menashe”
• “Oh Lucy!”
• “Patti Cake$”

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD 

• “Dayveon”
• “A Ghost Story”
• “Life and Nothing More” (WINNER)
• “Most Beautiful Island”
• “The Transfiguration”

 BEST DIRECTOR

• Sean Baker, “The Florida Project”
• Jonas Carpignano, “A Ciambra”
• Luca Guadagnino, “Call Me by Your Name”
• Jordan Peele, “Get Out” (WINNER)
• Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, “Good Time”
• Chloé Zhao, “The Rider”

BEST SCREENPLAY

• Greta Gerwig, “Lady Bird” (WINNER)
• Azazel Jacobs, “The Lovers”
• Martin McDonagh, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
• Jordan Peele, “Get Out”
• Mike White, “Beatriz at Dinner”

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY

• Kris Avedisian, Story By: Kyle Espeleta, Jesse Wakeman, “Donald Cried”
• Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani, “The Big Sick” (WINNER)
• Ingrid Jungermann, “Women Who Kill”
• Kogonada, “Columbus”
• David Branson Smith, Matt Spicer, “Ingrid Goes West”

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Thimios Bakatakis, “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”
• Elisha Christian, “Columbus”
• Hélène Louvart, “Beach Rats”
• Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, “Call Me by Your Name” (WINNER)
• Joshua James Richards, “The Rider”

BEST EDITING

• Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie, “Good Time”
• Walter Fasano, “Call Me by Your Name”
• Alex O’Flinn, “The Rider”
• Gregory Plotkin, “Get Out”
• Tatiana S. Riegel, “I, Tonya” (WINNER)

BEST FEMALE LEAD

• Salma Hayek, “Beatriz at Dinner”
• Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” (WINNER)
• Margot Robbie, “I, Tonya”
• Saoirse Ronan, “Lady Bird”
• Shinobu Terajima, “Oh Lucy!”
• Regina Williams, “Life and Nothing More”

BEST MALE LEAD

• Timothée Chalamet, “Call Me by Your Name” (WINNER)
• Harris Dickinson, “Beach Rats”
• James Franco, “The Disaster Artist”
• Daniel Kaluuya, “Get Out”
• Robert Pattinson, “Good Time”

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE

• Holly Hunter, “The Big Sick”
• Allison Janney, “I, Tonya” (WINNER)
• Laurie Metcalf, “Lady Bird”
• Lois Smith, “Marjorie Prime”
• Taliah Lennice Webster, “Good Time”

BEST SUPPORTING MALE

• Nnamdi Asomugha, “Crown Heights”
• Armie Hammer ,”Call Me by Your Name”
• Barry Keoghan, “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”
• Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” (WINNER)
• Benny Safdie, “Good Time”

 ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD 

“Mudbound”
Director: Dee Rees
Casting Directors: Billy Hopkins, Ashley Ingram
Ensemble Cast: Jonathan Banks, Mary J. Blige, Jason Clarke, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Mitchell, Rob Morgan, Carey Mulligan

BEST DOCUMENTARY 

• ‘The Departure,” Lana Wilson
• “Faces Places,” directed by Agnés Varda, JR, produced by Rosalie Varda (WINNER)
• “Last Men in Aleppo,” directed by Feras Fayyad, produced by Kareem Abeed, Søeren Steen Jespersen, Stefan Kloos
• “Motherland,” directed by Ramona S. Diaz, produced by Rey Cuerdo
• “Quest,” directed by Jonathan Olshefski, produced by Sabrina Schmidt Gordon

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM 

• “BPM (Beats Per Minute),” Robin Campillo, France
• “A Fantastic Woman,” Sebastián Lelio, Chile (WINNER)
• “I Am Not a Witch,” Rungano Nyoni, Zambia
• “Lady Macbeth,” William Oldroyd, U.K.
• “Loveless,” Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia

BONNIE AWARD 

• So Yong Kim
• Lynn Shelton
• Chloé Zhao (WINNER)

JEEP TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD 

• Shevaun Mizrahi, Director of “Distant Constellation”
• Jonathan Olshefski, Director of “Quest” (WINNER)
• Jeff Unay, Director of “The Cage Fighter”

KIEHL’S SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD 

• Amman Abbasi, Director of “Dayveon”
• Justin Chon, Director of “Gook” (WINNER)
• Kevin Phillips, Director of “Super Dark Times”

PIAGET PRODUCERS AWARD 

• Giulia Caruso & Ki Jin Kim
• Ben LeClair
• Summer Shelton