30th Independent Spirit Awards

{{Infobox film awards

| number = 30

| award = Independent Spirit Awards

| awarded_for = Best in independent film

| date = February 21, 2015

| site = Santa Monica Pier
Santa Monica, California, U.S.

| host = Fred Armisen
Kristen Bell

| free_award_type = Best Feature

| free_award = Birdman

| most_wins = Birdman (3)

| most_nominations = Birdman (6)

| channel = IFC

| last = 29th

| next = 31st

}}

The 30th Film Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best independent films of 2014, were presented by Film Independent on February 21, 2015.{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2015/02/spirit-awards-winners-2015-film-independent-spirit-award-winner-list-1201378468/ |title='Birdman' Wins Best Feature At Spirit Awards; Richard Linklater Best Director — Winners List |author=The Deadline Team |date=February 21, 2015 |work=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=February 21, 2015}}{{cite web|url= https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/2015-film-independent-spirit-awards-winners-announced-300039414.html |title= 2015 Film Independent Spirit Awards Winners Announced |author= Film Independent |work= PR Newswire |date= February 21, 2015 |access-date= December 7, 2023 |archive-date= December 7, 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20231207140724/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/2015-film-independent-spirit-awards-winners-announced-300039414.html |url-status=live}}{{cite web|url= https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/congratulations-to-the-2015-film-independent-spirit-award-winners/ |title= Congratulations to the 2015 Film Independent Spirit Award Winners! |work= Independent Spirit Awards |date= February 23, 2015 |access-date= October 1, 2023 |archive-date= October 1, 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20231001140248/https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/congratulations-to-the-2015-film-independent-spirit-award-winners/ |url-status=live}}{{cite web|url= https://variety.com/2015/film/news/spirit-award-winners-list-indie-1201438558/ |title= Spirit Award Winners 2015: Updated List |author=Variety Staff|work= Variety |date= February 21, 2015 |access-date= January 15, 2024 |archive-date= January 15, 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240115113236/https://variety.com/2015/film/news/spirit-award-winners-list-indie-1201438558/ |url-status=live}} The nominations were announced on November 25, 2014.{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2014/11/film-independent-spirit-awards-nominations-2015-list-1201295941/ |title=Film Independent Spirit Award Nominations 2015 – Full List |author=The Deadline Team |date=November 25, 2014 |work=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=November 25, 2014}} The ceremony was hosted by Fred Armisen and Kristen Bell, and aired live for the first time on IFC.{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2015/01/kristen-bell-fred-armisen-spirit-awards-hosts-1201349975/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150122113850/http://deadline.com/2015/01/kristen-bell-fred-armisen-spirit-awards-hosts-1201349975/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 22, 2015 |title=Kristen Bell & Fred Armisen To Host Spirit Awards |last=Hipes |first=Patrick |date=January 14, 2015 |work=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=January 14, 2015}}

Winners and nominees

File:Richard Linklater.jpg, Best Director winner]]

File:Michael Keaton Face.jpg, Best Male Lead winner]]

File:Julianne Moore (15011443428).jpg, Best Female Lead winner]]

File:JK Simmons 2009.jpg, Best Supporting Male winner]]

File:Patricia Arquette 2015.jpg, Best Supporting Female winner]]

File:Dan Gilroy 2014.jpg, Best Screenplay winner]]

Best Male Lead !Best Female Lead
class="wikitable" !Best Feature !Best Director
*Birdman* Boyhood Love Is Strange Selma Whiplash \| Richard Linklater – Boyhood Damien Chazelle – Whiplash Ava DuVernay – Selma Alejandro G. Iñárritu – Birdman David Zellner – Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
*Michael Keaton – Birdman* as Riggan Thomson** André 3000 – Jimi: All Is by My Side as Jimi Hendrix Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler as Louis "Lou" Bloom John Lithgow – Love Is Strange as Ben Hull David Oyelowo – Selma as Martin Luther King Jr. \| *Julianne Moore – Still Alice* as Dr. Alice Howland** Marion Cotillard – The Immigrant as Ewa Cybulska Rinko Kikuchi – Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter as Kumiko Jenny Slate – Obvious Child as Donna Stern Tilda Swinton – Only Lovers Left Alive as Eve
Best Supporting Male !Best Supporting Female
*J. K. Simmons – Whiplash* as Terence Fletcher** Riz Ahmed – Nightcrawler as Rick Ethan Hawke – Boyhood as Mason Evans Sr. Alfred Molina – Love Is Strange as George Garea Edward Norton – Birdman as Mike Shiner \| *Patricia Arquette – Boyhood* as Olivia Evans** Jessica Chastain – A Most Violent Year as Anna Morales Carmen Ejogo – Selma as Coretta Scott King Andrea Suarez Paz – Stand Clear of the Closing Doors as Mariana Emma Stone – Birdman as Sam Thomson
Best Screenplay !Best First Screenplay
Dan Gilroy – Nightcrawler Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski – Big Eyes J. C. Chandor – A Most Violent Year Jim Jarmusch – Only Lovers Left Alive Ira Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias – Love Is Strange \| Justin Simien – Dear White People Desiree Akhavan – Appropriate Behavior Sara Colangelo – Little Accidents Justin Lader – The One I Love Anja Marquardt – She's Lost Control
Best First Feature !Best Documentary Feature
*Nightcrawler* Dear White People A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Obvious Child She's Lost Control \| Citizenfour – Laura Poitras 20,000 Days on Earth – Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard The Salt of the Earth – Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and Wim Wenders Stray Dog – Debra Granik Virunga – Orlando von Einsiedel
Best Cinematography !Best Editing
Emmanuel Lubezki – Birdman Darius Khondji – The Immigrant Sean Porter – It Felt Like Love Lyle Vincent – A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Bradford Young – Selma \| Tom Cross – Whiplash Sandra Adair – Boyhood John Gilroy – Nightcrawler Ron Patane – A Most Violent Year Adam Wingard – The Guest
colspan="2"\| Best International Film
colspan="2"\| Ida (Denmark / France / Poland / United Kingdom) – Paweł Pawlikowski Force Majeure (France / Norway / Sweden) – Ruben Östlund Leviathan (Russia) – Andrey Zvyagintsev Mommy (Canada) – Xavier Dolan Norte, the End of History (Philippines) – Lav Diaz Under the Skin (Switzerland / United Kingdom) – Jonathan Glazer

=Films with multiple nominations and awards=

class="wikitable"

|+Films that received multiple nominations

!Nominations

!Film

style="text-align:center;"| 6

| Birdman

rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"| 5

| Boyhood

Nightcrawler

Selma

rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| 4

| Love Is Strange

Whiplash

style="text-align:center;"| 3

| A Most Violent Year

rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;"| 2

| A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

The Immigrant

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

Obvious Child

Only Lovers Left Alive

She's Lost Control

class="wikitable"

|+Films that won multiple awards

!Awards

!Film

style="text-align:center;"| 3

| Birdman

rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"| 2

| Boyhood

Nightcrawler

Whiplash

Special awards

=[[Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award|John Cassavetes Award]]=

Land Ho!

=[[Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award|Robert Altman Award]]=

(The award is given to its film director, casting director, and ensemble cast)

Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson, Cassandra Kulukundis, Josh Brolin, Hong Chau, Benicio del Toro, Martin Donovan, Jena Malone, Joanna Newsom, Joaquin Phoenix, Sasha Pieterse, Eric Roberts, Maya Rudolph, Martin Short, Serena Scott Thomas, Katherine Waterston, Michael Kenneth Williams, Owen Wilson, and Reese Witherspoon

=Kiehl's Someone to Watch Award=

Recognizes a talented filmmaker of singular vision who has not yet received appropriate recognition. The award includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant funded by Kiehl's since 1851.

Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia – H.

Ana Lily Amirpour – A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Chris Eska – The Retrieval

=Piaget Producers Award=

Honors emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity and vision required to produce quality, independent films. The award includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant funded by Piaget.

Chris Ohlson

Chad Burris
Elisabeth Holm

=Truer than Fiction Award=

Presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features who has not yet received significant recognition. The award includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant funded by LensCrafters.

Dan Krauss – The Kill Team

Sara Dosa – The Last Season
Darius Clark Monroe – Evolution of a Criminal
Amanda Rose Wilder – Approaching the Elephant

=Special Distinction Award=

(The award is given to its film director, producers, and ensemble cast for its uniqueness of "vision, honesty of direction and screenwriting, superb acting and achievement on every level of filmmaking")

Foxcatcher – Bennett Miller (director/producer), E. Max Frye (writer), Dan Futterman (writer), Anthony Bregman (producer), Megan Ellison (producer), Jon Kilik (producer), Steve Carell (cast), Mark Ruffalo (cast), and Channing Tatum (cast)

References

2014

Independent Spirit Awards