13th Independent Spirit Awards

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The 13th Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 1997, were announced on March 21, 1998. It was hosted by John Turturro.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Nominees and winners

Best Feature	Best Director
The Apostle Chasing Amy Loved Ulee's Gold Waiting for Guffman	Robert Duvall – The Apostle Larry Fessenden – Habit Victor Nuñez – Ulee's Gold Paul Schrader – Touch Wim Wenders – The End of Violence
Best Male Lead	Best Female Lead
Robert Duvall – The Apostle Peter Fonda – Ulee's Gold Christopher Guest – Waiting for Guffman Philip Baker Hall – Hard Eight John Turturro – Box of Moonlight	Julie Christie – Afterglow Stacy Edwards – In the Company of Men Alison Folland – All Over Me Lisa Harrow – Sunday Robin Wright Penn – Loved
Best Supporting Male	Best Supporting Female
Jason Lee – Chasing Amy Efrain Figueroa – Star Maps Samuel L. Jackson – Hard Eight Ajay Naidu – SubUrbia Roy Scheider – The Myth of Fingerprints	Debbi Morgan – Eve's Bayou Farrah Fawcett – The Apostle Amy Madigan – Loved Miranda Richardson – The Apostle Patricia Richardson – Ulee's Gold
Best Screenplay	Best First Screenplay
Chasing Amy – Kevin Smith The Apostle – Robert Duvall Touch – Paul Schrader Ulee's Gold – Victor Nuñez Waiting for Guffman – Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy	In the Company of Men – Neil LaBute The Bible and Gun Club – Daniel J. Harris Critical Care – Steven Schwartz Hard Eight – Paul Thomas Anderson Star Maps – Miguel Arteta
Best First Feature	Best Debut Performance
Eve's Bayou The Bible and Gun Club Hard Eight In the Company of Men Star Maps	Aaron Eckhart – In the Company of Men Tyrone Burton, Eddie Cutanda and Phuong Duong – Squeeze Lysa Flores – Star Maps Darling Narita – Bang Douglas Spain – Star Maps
Best Cinematography	Best International Film
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love – Declan Quinn The Bible and Gun Club – Alex Vendler Habit – Frank G. DeMarco Hard Eight – Robert Elswit Sunday – Michael F. Barrow and John Foster	The Sweet Hereafter • Canada Happy Together • Hong Kong Mouth to Mouth • Spain Nenette and Boni • France Underground • Yugoslavia/France/Germany

Films that received multiple nominations

Nominations	Film
7	The Apostle
6	Star Maps
5	Hard Eight
5	Ulee's Gold
4	In the Company of Men
4	Loved
3	The Bible and Gun Club
	Chasing Amy
	Habit
	Waiting for Guffman
2	Eve's Bayou
	Sunday
	Touch

Films that won multiple awards

Awards	Film
3	The Apostle
2	Chasing Amy
	Eve's Bayou
	In the Company of Men

Special awards

Truer Than Fiction Award

Fast, Cheap & Out of Control

Colors Straight Up
Family Name
Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
Soul in the Hole

Producers Award

Scott Macauley and Robin O'Hara – Habit

Margot Bridger – Arresting Gena & The Delta
Lisa Onodera – Picture Bride & Forbidden City U.S.A.
Richard Raddon – Shooting Lilly & The Making of '...And God Spoke'
Susan A. Stover – High Art & River of Grass

Someone to Watch Award

Scott Saunders – The Headhunter's Sister

Erin Dignam – Loved
Tim Blake Nelson – Eye of God

External links

1997 Spirit Awards at IMDb

Independent Spirit Awards

Current categories

Retired categories

Ceremonies

(years are of film release; ceremonies are the following year)

References

^ "Duvall's "Apostle" Nabs Most Nominations for 13th Independent Spirit Awards". indieWire. 1998-01-09. Retrieved 2012-08-16.
^ ""The Apostle" Takes Top Prizes at 13th Independent Spirit Awards". indieWire. 1998-03-21. Retrieved 2012-08-16.
^ "'Apostle' Takes Top Honors at Independent Spirit Awards". Los Angeles Times. 1998-03-22. Retrieved 2012-08-16.