Best Feature
| Election (Paramount) Produced by
Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa, David Gale & Keith Samples | Other Nominees: |
The Limey (Artisan) Produced by John Hardy & Scott Kramer | The Straight Story
(Touchstone) Produced by Mary Sweeney & Neal Edelstein | Sugar Town (October) Produced by Daniel
Hassid | Cookie's Fortune (October) Produced by Robert Altman & Etchie Stroh |
Best First Feature (Over
$500,000)
| Being John Malkovich (USA Films) Directed by Spike Jonze Produced by Michael Stipe,
Sandy Stern, Steve Golin & Vincent Landay | Other Nominees: | Boys
Don't Cry (Fox Searchlight) Directed by Kimberly Peirce Produced by Jeffrey Sharp, John Hart, Eva Kolodner & Christine
Vachon | Three Seasons (October) Directed by Tony Bui Produced by Jason Kliot, Joana Vincente & Tony
Bui | Twin Falls Idaho (Sony Pictures Classics) Directed by Michael Polish Produced by Marshall
Persinger, Rena Ronson & Steven J. Wolfe | Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (Sony Pictures Classics) Directed
by Joan Chen Produced by Joan Chen & Alice Chan |
Best First Feature (Under $500 000)
| The
Blair Witch Project (Artisan) Directed by Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez Produced by Gregg Hale & Robin
Cowie | Other Nominees: | La Ciudad (The City)
(Zeitgeist) Directed by David Riker Produced by David Riker & Paul S. Mezey | Compensation Directed
by Zeinabu Irene Davis Produced by Zeinabu Irene Davis & Marc Arthur Chery | Judy Berlin Directed by
Eric Mendelsohn Produced by Rocco Caruso | Treasure Island Directed by Scott King Produced by
Adrienne Gruben |
Best Director Alexander Payne, Election (Paramount)Other Nominees:
Harmony Korine, julien donkey-boy (Fine Line) Doug Liman, Go (Columbia) David Lynch, The Straight
Story (Touchstone) Steven Soderbergh, The Limey (Artisan) |
Best Male Lead Richard Farnsworth,
The Straight Story (Touchstone)Other Nominees: John Cusack, Being John Malkovich (USA Films)
Terence Stamp, The Limey (Artisan) David Strathairn, Limbo (Screen Gems) Noble Willingham, The Corndog
Man |
Best Female Lead Hilary Swank, Boys Don't Cry (Fox Searchlight)Other
Nominees: Diane Lane, A Walk On The Moon (Miramax) Janet McTeer, Tumbleweeds (Fine Line) Susan
Traylor, Valerie Flake Reese Witherspoon, Election (Paramount) |
Best Female Supporting Chloë
Sevigny, Boys Don't Cry (Fox Searchlight)Other Nominees: Barbara Barrie, Judy Berlin Vanessa
A. Martinez, Limbo (Screen Gems) Sarah Polley, Go (Columbia) Jean Smart, Guinevere (Miramax) |
Best Male
Supporting Steve Zahn, Happy, Texas (Miramax)Other Nominees: Charles S. Dutton,
Cookie's Fortune (October) Luis Guzman, The Limey (Artisan) Terrence Howard, The Best Man
(Universal) Clark Gregg, The Adventures Of Sebastian Cole (Paramount Classics) |
Best Debut Performance
Kimberly J. Brown, Tumbleweeds (Fine Line)Other Nominees: Jessica Campbell, Election
(Paramount) Jade Gordon, Sugar Town (October) Toby Smith, Drylongso Chris Stafford, Edge of
Seventeen (Strand) |
Best Screenplay Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor, Election (Paramount)Other
Nominees: Lem Dobbs, The Limey (Artisan) James Merendino, SLC Punk! (Sony Pictures Classics) Kevin
Smith, Dogma (Lions Gate) Audrey Wells, Guinevere (Miramax) |
Best First Screenplay Charlie Kaufman,
Being John Malkovich (USA Films)Other Nominees: Kimberly Peirce & Andy Bienen, Boys Don't Cry
(Fox Searchlight) Anne Rapp, Cookie's Fortune (October) John Roach & Mary Sweeney, The Straight Story
(Touchstone) Tod Williams, The Adventures Of Sebastian Cole (Paramount Classics) |
Best Cinematography Lisa
Rinzler, Three Seasons (October)Other Nominees: Harlan Bosmajian, La Ciudad (The City)
(Zeitgeist) Anthony Dod Mantle, julien donkey-boy (Fine Line) M. David Mullen, Twin Falls Idaho (Sony
Pictures Classics) Jeffrey Seckendorf, Judy Berlin |
Best Foreign Film
| Run Lola Run (Sony
Pictures Classics) Directed by Tom Tykwer [Germany] | Other Nominees: |
All About My Mother (Sony Pictures Classics) Directed by Pedro Almodóvar [Spain] | My Son
The Fanatic (Miramax) Directed by Udayan Prasad [England] | Rosetta (USA Films) Directed by Luc
and Jean-Pierre Dardenne [Belgium-France] | Topsy-Turvy (USA Films) Directed by Mike Leigh
[England] |
Truer Than Fiction Award
| Night Waltz: The Music Of Paul Bowles Directed by
Owsley Brown | Other Nominees: | American Hollow Directed by
Rory Kennedy | On The Ropes Directed by Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgan | Well
Founded Fear Directed by Michael Camerini and Shari Robertson |
Movado Someone To Watch Award Cauleen
Smith, director of DrylongsoOther Nominees: Dan Clark, director of The Item Julian
Goldberger, director of Trans Lisanne Skyler, director of Getting To Know You |
Motorola Producers
Award Pam Koffler, I'm Losing You (Strand) and Office Killer (Miramax)Other
Nominees: Eva Kolodner, Boys Don't Cry (Fox Searchlight) and Hide And Seek Paul Mezey, La Ciudad (The
City) (Zeitgeist) Christine Walker, Backroads and Homo Heights |
IFP Nominating Committee Sherman
Alexie Bill Condon Frederick Elmes Mali Finn Geoffrey Gilmore Vondie Curtis Hall Jeff Kleeman Elvis
Mitchell Lisa Onodera Renee Zellweger | |