Todd Haynes' 'Carol' is the big favorite at the Independent Spirit Awards, the independent film awards, and is confirmed as a firm contender for the Oscars.
The film receives up to six nominations, best film, best direction, Double Nomination for Best Actress with Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, best script and best photography. His rivals in the main category are 'Anomalisa', 'Beasts of No Nation,' Tangerine 'and' Spotlight ', the latter already winner of the Robert Altman Award.
Independent Spirit Awards nominations
BEST FILM
Anomalisa
Beasts of No Nation
Carol
Spotlight
Tangerines
BEST DIRECTION
Cary Joji Fukunaga - Beasts of No Nation
Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson - Anomalisa
David Robert Mitchell - It Follows
Sean Baker - Tangerine
Todd Haynes - Carol
Tom McCarthy - Spotlight
BEST LEADING ACTRESS
Bel Powley - Diary of a Teenage Girl
Brie Larson - Room
Cate Blanchett - Carol
Kitana Kiki Rodriguez - Tangerine
Rooney Mara - Carol
BEST LEADING ACTOR
Abraham Attah - Beasts of No Nation
Ben Mendelsohn - Mississippi Grind
Christopher Abbott - James White
Jason Segel - The End of the Tour
Kudos Seihon - Mediterranea
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Cynthia Nixon - James White
Jennifer Jason Leigh - Anomalisa
Marin Ireland - Glass Chin
Mya Taylor - Tangerine
Robin Bartlett - H.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Idris Elba - Beasts of No Nation
Kevin Corrigan - Results
Michael Shannon - 99 Homes
Paul Dano - Love & Mercy
Richard Jenkins - Bone Tomahawk
BEST SCREENPLAY
Charlie Kaufman - Anomalisa
Donald Marguiles - The End of the Tour
Phyllis Nagy - Carol
S. Craig Zahler - Bone Tomahawk
Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer - Spotlight
BEST PHOTOGRAPH
Cary Joji Fukunaga - Beasts of No Nation
Ed Lachman - Carol
Joshua James Richards - Songs My Brothers Taught Me
Michael Gioulakis - It Follows
Reed Morano - Meadowland
BEST ASSEMBLY
Julio C. Perez IV - It Follows
Kristan Sprague - Dirty Hands
Nathan Nugent - Room
Ronald Bronstein and Benny Safdie - Heaven Knows What
Tom McArdle - Spotlight
BEST PREMIUM OPERA
James white
Dirty hands
Mediterranean
Songs My Brothers Taught Me
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
BEST FIRST SCRIPT
Emma Donoghue - Room
Jesse Andrews - Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
John Magary, Russell Harbaugh, and Myna Joseph - The Mend
Jonas Carpignano - Mediterranea
Marielle Heller - The Diary of a Teenage Girl
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
(T) error
Best of Enemies
Heart of a dog
Meru
The Look of Silence
The Russian Woodpecker
BEST FOREIGN FILM
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
Embrace of the serpent
Girlhood
Mustang
Son of Saul
JOHN CASSAVETTES AWARD (To a movie with less than $ 500.000 in budget)
Advantageous
christmas again
Heaven Knows What
Krisha
Out of my mind
ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD
To the director, casting director and cast of Spotlight